Hat-trick of singles wins leave Greens feeling good

Monday 18th January 2010, 2:29PM GMT.

Lucy Beere guides the marker in placing the jack. Lyndsay Greechan looks on. (Pictures by Peter Frankland, 0902666)

THREE singles wins on the bounce, one after the other in the final session of the weekend, left Guernsey bowls feeling good about itself at close of play at the Hougue du Pommier centre yesterday.

Jersey enjoyed the upper hand over the first three sessions of the re-arranged Channel Islands Championships, but the Sarnians were dominant in the singles, Lucy Beere winning her first CI crown, Gary Pitschou adding another title to his array, and Lianna Bichard claiming the women’s under-25 singles.

And all this after Todd Priaulx had edged out Jamie Macdonald 21-19 in the men’s under-25s earlier in the day.

After this, Guernsey bowls could operate under the slogan ‘We do it better alone’.

That, though, was not strictly the case with Beere.

On Saturday the 27-year-old had won the women’s pairs in tandem with Jan Lawrence in spectacular fashion.

They thumped Margaret Le Marquand and Pat de Gruchy 34-2, winning all but one end.