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ABINGTON HAS A county champion! Robin Adams has won the Northamptonshire men's 2-wood singles, and in sensational fashion!

 

On Saturday 25th July, Adams qualified for the national championships at Leamington Spa by knocking out Desborough Town's Adrian Harris 15-13 and Richard Lemon of Northampton Express 15-10. But unlike so many of his clubmates in recent years he went one better in Sunday's final, beating Matt Pownall of Northampton West End, with two ends to spare.

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Three high-profile opponents felled in a matter of moments. Adams' bowling blitz has been rewarded with a rare - for our club - golden ticket to England's premier bowling event. The men's 2-wood will be held at Bowls England HQ over the 12th and 13th August. And our man will be there!

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24/07/2026: ABINGTON ARE INTO the last eight of the Northamptonshire county Top Club tournament, thanks to an excellent win over Northampton Express.​​ The pairs, triples and fours were all on target to claim a big scalp. Abington will be at home again for the quarter-final next Tuesday 28th July.

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But there won't be a next time for the men's Monday Triples League B-team, who came a cropper in the Knockout Trophy quarter-finals. Defeat at Heyford, also of Division 3, came despite two winning rinks. At the very least, early exposure to a notoriously wet and heavy green could prove an effective warm-up for Monday's more important league match at the same venue.

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21/07/2026: IT'S NEVER OVER until all the woods have been played. Abington's Triples League 'A' and 'B' sides proved that with late comebacks in this week's fixtures.​

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​​​​​​​ With only a handful of ends remaining on each rink, both were on the verge of a highly damaging defeat to an immediate rival for their league position. The A-team were set to lose ground on Earls Barton A in the battle for 1st Division survival, while the B-team, away at Carlsberg's green in Far Cotton, faced tumbling from top spot in Division 3, out of the promotion positions altogether.

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Yet, both triumphed. Tony O'Leary's rink found an additional nine shots over the final five ends to transform the As' crumb of comfort into a liferaft, finishing 25-9. At the same time, Iain Walker's trio finally hit a similar scoring vein, recovering respectability on their rink score and helping deliver a seven-shot aggregate win for Abington, despite two losing rinks to one success. On a night where Kettering Lodge suddenly came to life for their best result so far, it may prove vital.

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Similarly, the difference between the situation at 14 ends and the result at 16 for the Bs was night and day, both in terms of the match, and potentially for the season as a whole. Top result of the night was skipped by Rob Archer, but this had looked extremely unlikely when they managed only one shot in the first seven ends, to 10 against. Their remarkable fightback to finish 17-13 up transformed the match as a whole, but a word of praise also for Terry Brown's rink. who scored a six on the very last end. If it had gone the other way, Abington would have lost to a side who came into the game breathing down their necks in the league table. In this league's format, you can make a difference even amidst personal defeat.

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Everyone will need to play their part if the C-team are to complete a dramatic turnaround of their own. In their case, that would mean the campaign as a whole. For the second week running, the Cs failed to register a single point. While it wasn't a thrashing like last week's trip to Northampton West End, this one will have hurt more in being precisely what their clubmates battled hard to avoid, a defeat to a league rival. Byfield taking all five leaves Abington 'C' adrift by almost twice that in the relegation mire of Division 2.

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*THE WOMEN'S league team resumed winning ways at the delayed start of the second half of their campaign. Postponements and a couple of defeats had sent Abington down from 3rd to 7th (of 8) ahead of last Friday's fixture against Harpole, but a rise back up the table is more than achievable. And they made a good start to the venture with what can only be described as a mauling. 45 shots to 11 unsurprisingly earned all four points and a scaling of the first rung of the ladder, as they moved up to 6th.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​