LUCY BEERE, one of Guernsey’s leading exponents of the art of lawn bowls, found her defeat in the quarter-finals of the Atlantic women’s singles championship to be a defining moment in her sporting career.

GUERNSEY’S bowlers played five matches in the Atlantic championships in Cyprus yesterday, but there was only one victory to cheer, Lucy Beere notching up a fine 21-14 win over Spain’s Peta Rhodes.

DESPITE fine wins in the singles from Matt Le Ber and Lucy Beere in the Atlantic bowls championships in Cyprus yesterday, Guernsey were in danger of entering the record books for all the wrong reasons.

FAVOURITE Lucy Beere slipped to a surprising 10-shot defeat to Gwen de la Mare in the De Putron Singles quarter-finals.

ALISON MERRIEN lost her De Putron Ladies Singles crown on Saturday when, still recovering from her recent illness, she was unable to keep pace with her closest rival Lucy Beere.

MOUTH-WATERING it promised to be and it did not disappoint.

GUERNSEY’S Commonwealth Games squad has increased by two after confirmation that Lucy Beere and Gayle Lloyd will be able to compete in Delhi.

HAVING won the Le Quesne Trophy two years in succession, Guernsey’s men bowlers lost the inter-insular clash, by agonising four shots at Grainville, Jersey.

GUERNSEY’S hopes of holding on to the British Isles women’s indoor singles title that Ali Merrien has won three times in four years were dashed in Perth yesterday where Lucy Beere was outplayed by Scottish champion Julie Forrest.

IN THE sport of lawn bowls – or at least its indoor version – Guernsey are the kings of single-handed competition, while Jersey are better at team events.