NYSMBA | Northern Championships

Competitions

THE NORTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS

These Championships are organised by the Northern England Short Mat Bowling Association (NESMBA)

The NESMBA is a grouping of several of the northern counties (currently 7) originally set up in 1990. At this time the ESMBA recognised four Zones (South West, Central, Eastern and Northern) but the idea failed to be developed by them and soon fell out of favour. Of the four, the Northern Zone survived (now renamed) and is run by its own committee. With no official role to fulfil as far as the ESMBA is concerned, the NESMBA now fulfills two functions. Firstly to organise the local northern Inter-County League and secondly the annual Northern Championships.
North Yorkshire participates fully in both of these.

These Championships (4 disciplines) are held over a single weekend at Barnard Castle in Co. Durham
(Prior to 2001 they were held in Newton Aycliffe).

North Yorkshire players qualify via participation in our County Championships.

Each county is allocated 4 places in each discipline by default but extra places may be allocated should any county not take up their default allocation.

The County Shield
(donated in 1997 by Melvin Bourne – Chairman)

Awarded to the county accumulating the most points over the weekend.
Points are allocated per discipline. Winner=4 Runner-up=3 Losing SF=2 Losing QF=1
(but only the top 4 qualifiers from each county are counted)

North Yorkshire were the Shield runners up in
2003, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
We have only won the Shield once – in 2011

NORTHERN CHAMPIONSHIPS MARCH 2019 Substitutions to the qualifiers are only allowable according to the rules in the NYSMBA Substitution Policy
DISCIPLINE	PLACES	QUALIFIERS FROM HEATS	RESULT IN FINALS (only results of first 4 in each discipline go towards County Shield)
SINGLES	4	1 – D Newsome 2 – F Boatman 3 – G Whitehead 4 – D Agar	1 – Last 16 2 – Finalist 3 – did not qualify 4 – Quarter finalist
PAIRS	5	1 – D Langdon & J Clark (sub) 2 – L Lambert & M Jackson 3 – Ji Newsome & J Rudd 4 – D Herbert & D Edwards 5 – R Green & P Lawry	1 – Last 16 2 – Quarter finalists 3 – Finalists 4 – did not qualify 5 – did not qualify
TRIPLES	5	1 – D Herbert D Edwards P Williamson 2 – F Boatman S Duffin J Rudd 3 – N Flynn R Green D Brown 4 – Jo, Ji Newsome & D Smith 5 – C Barthram J Rhodes H Robertson	1 – Last 16 2 – Last 16 3 – did not qualify 4 – Last 16 5 – did not qualify
FOURS	6	1 – F Boatman S Duffin J Rudd N Flynn 2 – D Langdon D Newsome J Clark & D Agar (3 subs) 3 – A Mather D Hunton D Brown K Hughes 4 – G&A Whitehead L Tranmer J Newsome 5 – R Haynes S Holtby M Jackson P Whitcombe 6 – A & P Banthorpe B Simmonite G Fletcher (sub)	1 – Quarter finalists 2 – Quarter finalists 3 – Quarter finalists 4 – Last 16 5 – Finalists 6 – Quarter finalists

North Yorkshire successes in past NESMBA Championships
2019 Fours RU	2019 Singles RU	2019 Pairs RU
2018 Triples winners	2017 Fours RU	2017 Pairs RU	2017 Singles winner	2016 Pairs winners	2015 Fours winners	2014 Fours RU
2013 Fours winners Fours RU	2012 Pairs RU Jo Newsome S Conroy	2011 Fours winners	2011 Triples RU	2011 Pairs RU	2011 Singles RU	2011 County Shield winners
2010 Singles winner	2009 Fours RU	2009 Triples RU	2009 Singles winner	2008 Triples RU	2008 Fours winners	2007 Singles winner
2006 Singles RU	2003 Singles winner	2002 Fours winners	1999 Fours RU A Barningham+3	1998 Pairs winners J & K Calvert	1998 Pairs RU A & D Johnson	1996 Singles RU F Wood