Indoors season cup competitions
The 2024/25 indoors bowling season was an extremely successful one for the Club, since we won the John Ash Trophy, successfully defended our Hamblin Trophy and were double quarter-finalists in the Moreton Cup.
That's a lot of success to live up to; and we'll be doing our level best to do so in the 2025/26 season, bearing in mind that the competition will have improved in the meantime as other Clubs seek to catch us up.
1. The Hamblin Trophy (matches played at Riverside, Winchester, with a 6.30 start time)
This competition has nine entrants this season, organised in a single league. Results are as follows:
Andover 25 v 24 Fleming Park
The current table can be found in the links at the bottom of the page.
2. The Moreton Cup (matches played at Longmeadow, Whitchurch) - 2 teams (Andover Lions & Andover Eagles)
Seventeen teams have entered this year's competition, divided into four groups, three with four teams and one with five. This is an open competition with no specification as to the composition of the teams. Lions have been drawn in Group 2 alongside Atherley, Aldermaston and Kingsclere; while Eagles are matched with Oakley, Yateley and Newbury in Group 3. The winners and runners up of each group go forward to the quarter finals with the competition then becoming a knockout. Each match takes place over 18 ends with each team constituted of two rinks of four; five points are awarded for each match: two for each winning four and one for the overall highest number of shots.
Here are the fixtures and results, with the ponts won in the brackets:
Andover Lions
2 Nov: Lions 23 v 42 Oakley (2-3)
30 Nov: Lions v Yateley
25 Jan: Lions v Newbury
Andover Eagles
19 Oct: Eagles 28 v 34 Atherley (2-3)
23 Nov: Eagles v Aldermaston
18 Jan: Eagles v Kngsclere
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.
3. The John Ash Trophy (matches played at Five Rivers, Salisbury; date - in 2026 - TBC)