Wellington Bowling Club are out to convince the world their sport isn’t all about old people in white clothes showing that they can still bend down. On Sunday (June 16th) WBC is hosting a Fun Bowls Competition at their green and clubhouse near the Sports Centre. The event is open to all; members, non-members, beginners …
Wellington 180: Bishops Lydeard 181-6 Wellington slipped one place to fifth in the Somerset Division of WEPL following this four wicket defeat at Bishops Lydeard last weekend when the Red and Blacks should have made more runs first up and delivered a wayward bowling performance to see that 32 wides were given to the home …
Wellington fencer Jessica Gundry won gold at the British Youth Championships in Sheffield to become the British U18 Girls Epee Champion. Eight young fencers from Wellington Swords travelled north to represent the South West over the bank holiday weekend. Jessica won all six of her 1st round poule fights to be seeded N0.1 overall, thus …
Wellington Tennis Club has started the season with newly painted courts, a new Chairman and a new coach. At a presentation this week, Chairman Sue Rackley and members of the club presented outgoing Tone Leisure coach, Jon Warren, with a gifts in acknowledgement of his service to both junior and senior sections. Jon is taking up …
Wellington 157: Frome 114 Wellington cricketers made it four WEPL Somerset Division wins out of four to make it to fourth-place in the division. C.Dredge with 1-20 in 10 overs and M.Sanger with 1-23 in 10 overs applied the brakes well after Paul Short and Leo Goodman-Jones had started well; this 23 run offering was …
WELLINGTON completed their home programme with a hard-earned O-O draw with fellow bottom-of-the-table strugglers Westbury United at the Playing Field on Saturday. Playing their fourth game in only eight days, another spirited display ensured Wellington ended a run of defeats and set them up well for three away games to finish the season. Both sides …
Wellington’s penultimate match of the season was a total cliffhanger. With five minutes to go Bude led by two points before Will McKegney snatched victory from the opposition’s grip with a penalty five minutes from the end. The sides were level 10-10 at half-time with Mickey Norman and Ali Taylor scoring tries for Wellington and …
Bideford stayed on course for the play-offs with a workmanlike 22-12 win. at home. Wellington were lively and mobile – and a much different side from the one Bideford defeated 22-8 earlier in the season. And it was Wellington who went ahead with a chip-chase try from left wing Ben Gamlin. Bideford leveled with a …
Wellington Town Ladies played their first floodlit match of the season last week. The girls drew 0-0 against Ilminster reserves. Meanwhile, enjoy the photos.
Wellington beat Truro 51-24. This match had an end of season feel for both sides, writes Paul Waygood, as neither were in danger of relegation or promotion and therefore played with freedom in a quest to just win the contest. The home side took the early lead after five minutes when they were denied the …
WELLINGTON began life after the departure of manager Jamie Ward with a morale-boosting 3-1 victory in their Good Friday local derby at Elmore. Ward had left the club two days earlier to take over at Evo-Stik Southern League side Tiverton Town and, to make matters worse, Wellington were without a string of players either unavailable or …
