Etherow IBC welcomed short mat bowlers from around Stockport this weekend to participate in, and watch, the annual Bernie Fennell and Mike Biggs knock-out cup finals. The Stockport Metro Indoor Bowling League (SMIBL) competitions which have run throughout the course of the 2024\/25 short mat season, saw 39 of the 46 teams in the league battle against each other over three rounds before the top teams came together to play the semi-final and final this weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The semi-finalists for the Bernie Fennell competition were Poynton A who knocked out Davenport Golf Club B with a score of 59 to 53 and Woodley A who knocked out Davenport Golf Club A with a score of 60 – 37. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the lower division’s Mike Biggs cup, the semi-finalists were Etherow A who knocked out Brinnington C with a score of 59 – 43 and St Albans C who beat Etherow B 55 – 48.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The final of the Mike Biggs cup saw Etherow A take a convincing win against St Albans C after a score of 60 points to 40.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The higher division’s Bernie Fennell trophy was taken by Woodley A after an all-square 48 across finish saw the event go down to nail-biting tie break ends which saw each pair play two ends to allow Woodley to claim victory and the trophy for the 2024\/25 season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All the results for both competitions can be found on the SMIBL results website: Mike Biggs Knockout<\/a> and Bernie Fennell Knockout<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Etherow IBC welcomed short mat bowlers from around Stockport this weekend to participate in, and watch, the annual Bernie Fennell and Mike Biggs knock-out cup finals. The Stockport Metro Indoor Bowling League (SMIBL) competitions which have run throughout the course of the 2024\/25 short mat season, saw 39 of the 46 teams in the league […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[11,13],"class_list":["post-780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-competitions","tag-short-mat"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":781,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780\/revisions\/781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etherow-ibc.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}