2024/5 indoors season cup competitions

The indoors bowling season is now over as regards the Club's involvement and it was a highly successful one, the Club winning two of the three competitions for which we entered teams and reaching the knockout stages in the third. Read on...

1. The John Ash Trophy (matches played at Five Rivers, Salisbury; 8/9 February)

Update: WINNERS! You may have already read about this via the news link on the home page; if not, the story is available right here, too: just click to read. The Andover Advertiser also picked up on the story - again, just click to read.

 

2. The Hamblin Trophy (matches played at Riverside, Winchester, with a 6.30 start time), in which Andover are the double defending champions.

Update: WINNERS! We have published a news story on a magnificent 37-32 win in the final tie against Banister Park; if you haven't already seen it, it's of course available right here too: click to read! Once again, the Advertiser covered our success, and you can read how they did so on its website.

Full results in the competition can be found at the links at the bottom of the page.

 

3. The Moreton Cup (matches played at Longmeadow, Whitchurch) - 2 teams (Andover Lions & Andover Eagles)

This is an open competition with no specification as to the composition of the teams. The full rules can be found here but essentially this year the Moreton Cup featured four groups of four teams, with the knock-out stages after the group stage was complete taking place in February and March 2025.

Andover entered two teams: Eagles qualified for the quarter finals as group winners and were joined by Lions who qualified in second place in their group. However, both side's runs came sadly to an end at the quarter final stage.

Full results and fixtures for all the teams in the competition, plus all the league tables, can be viewed in the links at the bottom of the page. The final will be between Eastleigh Rail and Cove; Whitchurch and Atherley will face off for third place.