Pontardawe Indoor Bowls Club

New Season Update

With the new season just under 2 months away preparation is well underway with new internal fixtures being completed and the club championship fixtures are already published, and the club are looking forward to competing in the Welsh Premier League after gaining promotion last season after 18 years away from the top division the club will play against the following sides, Cardiff,Islwyn, Port Talbot, Heatherton, Llanelli, Cynon Valley and Merthyr

Any news sides looking to join the club can message us via Facebook, we have leagues on the following days

MONDAY AFTERNOON TRIPLES 1PM TILL 3PM And 3PM TILL 5PM

TUESDAY EVENING FOURS 6PM TILL 8PM

THURSDAY AFTERNOON TRIPLES 2PM TILL 4PM

THURSDAY EVENING FOURS 6PM TILL 8PM

Yesterday afternoon Ponty indoor bowls club welcomed the Welsh Disability Mixed team to pontardawe for a 4 rink game.

Everyone enjoyed the afternoon and the spread laid on by ponty member Steve Vincent after the game.

This was a great honour for the club to host a Welsh team.

Pontardawe Indoor Bowls club welcomed Llanelli IBC to Parc Ynysderw yesterday afternoon in a clash of the two unbeaten sides a tough game was expected.
This was the second championship game of the new 2022-2023 season.
The opening 5 ends went the way of the away side who held a very slender 5 shot lead. At the halfway point llanelli were 2 shots up with the scores standing at 40-42.

Ponty continued to push on with the scores still very tight until the last 4 ends across the green where the visitors pushed on to run out winners by 110 shots to 88 and take away 18 points.

The rink of Haydn Rees, Leyton Thomas, Len Smith and Simon Ace were top rink for the home side with a 22-13 victory.
We have now got a busy week ahead with three game the first being on Friday 25th November against a Welsh Disability side, then on Saturday we host Dinefwr in the Welsh Merit League with a 10am start and the on Sunday 27th November we host Radnorshire in the preliminary round of the Welsh Cup with the winners having another home game against Blaenau Gwent on Sunday 11th December
Our next Championship match is an away game against Dinefwr on 10th December
Rink Scores
Rink 1: Peter Gwyn Jones, Anthony Owen, Paul John, Steve Allen 12-27
Rink 2: Geoff Brown, Nigel Davies, Steve Davies, Meurig Evans (Capt) 9-20
Rink 3: Ray Griffiths, Daniel Dowdeswell, Paul Rees, Keith Edwards 14-17
Rink 4: Brian Thomas, Jeff Thomas, Carwyn Young, Alun Jones 15-19
Rink 5: Haydn Rees, Leyton Thomas, Len Smith, Simon Ace 22-13
Rink 6: Brian Williams, Tony Loveless, Wynne Bowen, Clive Evans 16-14

Overall Score Pontardawe (4) 88-110 (18) LLanelli

Pontardawe Indoor Bowls club welcomed local rivels Earlswood to Parc Ynysderw yesterday afternoon.
This was the first championship game of the new 2022-2023 season. With Pontardawe fielding a host of new players making their debut and a few players coming back after several years away from the club, ponty were looking to make a good start at home on our new blue carpet.

The opening 5 ends went the way of the home side who held a 20 shot lead and they continued their good start and at the halfway point the scores stood at 75-41.

Ponty continued to push on and won by 55 shots and gaining a very good 20 points to kick start our league campaign.
The rink of Peter G Jones, Leighton Thomas, Clive Evans and Meurig Evans led the way with a massive 44-5 Victory.

We have now got a few weeks off our next game is a Welsh Merit league fixture against Merthyr Away. This is the first time in a number of years that Ponty have entered this league, with a good number of names to be selected from everyone will have an opportunity to play weekend bowls for the stadium.

Our next Championship match is another home fixture against Llanelli which will be a tough game for both sides.
Rink Scores
Steve Vincent, Randall Roberts, Paul Rees *, Keith Edwards 26-17
Dean Curtis *, Tony Loveless, Joe Phillips, Haydn Bowen 23-17
Haydn Rees, Steve Cooper *, Steve Davies, Daniel Dowdeswell 13-25
Regan Ace, Gareth Evans, Paul John *, Steve Allen 22-16
Peter G Jones, Leighton Thomas, Clive Evans, Meurig Evans 44-5
Chris Harris, Anthony Owen *, Carwyn Young , Alun Jones (Capt) 22-15
 New Cap
Overall Score Pontardawe (20) 150-95 (2) Earlswood

Well done to the club who beat sully yesterday by 10 shots in the Welsh cup, onto the semi finals now

Pontardawe host Heatherton tomorrow in our opening home game of the new indoor season, we are looking to bounce back after a very disappointing result against Dinefwr last Saturday

Match starts at 14.00

Club Championship news

Today's opening championship fixture against Pembroke at home has been postponed by the opposing team.

We look forward to next week now with an away trip to Dinefwr

We are back open, the stadium is open for roll ups and a full league programme will start on Monday 27th September

We welcome any new old or existing members this season,

Given the latest relaxation of the COVID-19 rules we are expecting to run a normal League programme commencing on Monday 27th September 2021. All club finals held from the 2019/2020 will be held during the first month of the new season.
If you could let me know if your teams are entering that would be great any news teams or players would be welcome at the club

With the recent announcement from the Welsh Government the leisure centre will be closed, as they don't have a reopening date. The committee has taken the tough decision to not playing any leagues for the 2020-2021 season, the health and wellbeing is at the forefront of our decision, I know that this is not the news that we all wanted to hear but we believe this is the correct decision to be made.

As a committee we would like to wish all our members a happy xmas and new year, Stay safe and we look forward to welcoming you all back for the 2021-2022 season, if you could let us know if your teams will be entering next season that would be great so we can start planning ready for the next season.

Signed the committee