Hovingham & District
Kirkbymoorside Bowling Club
Hovingham League Winners 2024
Kirkbymoorside Bowling Club
Waltham Cup Runners Up 2024
The Hovingham & District League is a flat green bowls league based in the Ryedale District of North Yorkshire. Matches are played on Thursday evenings from April till August. Clubs also compete for the Waltham Cup. There are 7 teams from 6 clubs - Kirkbymoorside, Pickering, Sessay, Settrington, Swinton, & Thirsk (2 Teams). FULL LEAGUE FIXTURES & RESULTS 2025:
KIRKBYMOORSIDE --- MATCH SCORES & SUMMARIES 2025
THURSDAY MAY 1st 2025 -
KIRKBYMOORSIDE (68) 8 v 2 (30) THIRSK-B
Kirkbymoorside bowling club got their Hovingham and District Bowls Lleague campaign and defence of their crown for the last 3 seasons off to a winning start by beating Thirsk B by a total of 38 shots. One rink won 35-10, one rink won 22-10 and one rink lost by 1 shot with the score at 11-12.
THURSDAY MAY 15th 2025 -
THIRSK-A (46) 3 v 7 (52) KIRKBYMOORSIDE
In the second match of the season the game started off as a cagey affair with both teams not giving too many shots away and the scores at 5 ends across the boards was KMS 9 shots to Thirsk A's 11 shots. Over the next 5 ends across the 3 rinks KMS picked up 14 shots as against Thirsk 11 shots with the scores at 10 ends KMS 23 - 22 Thirsk-A. The game then started to swing in the favour of Thirsk-A when they picked up 22 shots as against KMS 14 shots. Thirsk-A went into a 7 shot lead after 15 ends across the 3 boards with the scores at KMS 37 - 44 Thirsk-A. Going into the latter stages of the game rink one KMS was 9-14 down with 3 ends to play, Thirsk scored another two singles to go into the last end 16-9 up, on the last end KMS scored 3 shots but losing by 4 shots KMS 12-16 Thirsk-A. Rink two at 15 ends KMS were 4 shots down but did well to score a 1,2 &1 over the last 3 ends to tie their game at KMS 15- 15 Thirsk-A. Rink 3 finished off their game quite strong to score well with a 1,5 & 2 to win by a margin of 10 shots with the score at KMS 25-15 Thirsk-A.
THURSDAY MAY 22nd 2025 -
KIRKBYMOORSIDE (69) 8 v 2 (29) SWINTON
On a beautiful late Spring evening in a top of the table clash, the green at Kirkbymoorside was in excellent condition and has never been so fast at this time year, and saw the jacks being sent off the green on the opening end, across all three rinks. Kirkbymoorside stormed off at blistering pace and were 22 -7 shots up after 5 ends. At 10 ends there was no let up in the pace and Kirkbymoorside extended their lead to 47-12. At 15 ends Kirkbymoorside put the game out of sight extending their lead to 59-24. At the close of the game at 18 ends kirkbymoorside took victory by a 40 shots margin.
THURSDAY MAY 29th 2025 -
SETTRINGTON (20) 0 v 10 (35) KIRKBYMOORSIDE
Kirkbymoorside bowling club maintained their lead at the top of the Hovingham and District Bowls League with an away victory over Settrington bowling club. The match was a cagey affair for the first 11 ends across the two rinks with the score at Kirkbymoorside 16 v Settrington 15. On a tricky bowling surface and after Kirkbymoorside settled and found the run of the green, over the last seven ends of the game Kirkbymoorside dug in deep and scored 19 shots as against 5 shots for Settrington.
THURSDAY JUNE 5th 2025 -
SESSAY (30) 0 v 10 (81) KIRKBYMOORSIDE
On a mild, sunny evening, the green at Sessay bowling club started out a little heavy, and pushy, but the rinks were running true. Kirkbymoorside built early leads across all 3 rinks. Towards the latter stages of the match Sessay began to pull some shots back across 2 rinks, but were unable to close the gap from the early leads and Kirkbymoorside closed the match with a strong win.
Next match: Home to Pickering - Thursday June 12th 2025
