Islip - Away. Saturday 21st February 2026. Match Result

Website updated 24-Feb-2026

After having to alter the date of this fixture ‘away’ to Islip twice before, at their request, we finally got to play the match against them on Saturday 21st February 2026.

For the first time in any of our matches Islip chose not to score the first two ends at only 1 shot ( which gives the visiting teams a couple of ends to get used to the mat ) but to launch straight in to normal scoring.

This worked out to be a great advantage to them on the number two mat, where they scored 4 in the first end against Saxons ‘B’. After this set-back, Saxons worked hard to win five of the next seven ends, albeit by only 1 shot each time, so that half way through the match the score was almost even, at 5 – 6.
In the second half of the match, from end nine to sixteen, each team won four ends. But having found their stride Saxons scored big wins by 4 shots in the eleventh end followed by 5 shots in the twelfth, at which point they were in the lead for the first time. This took them just far enough ahead to close out the game as winners, 16 shots to 13.

On the other mat, Saxons ‘A’ quite quickly started to outscore their opposition, with great scores of 6 shots in both the fourth and fifth end. Islip did win a few ends but never by more than 2 shots, and struggled to make much of an indentation in the lead Saxons had set up. Another score by Saxons of 4 shots in the ninth end, followed by 3 shots in the tenth emphatically put the game out of the reach of Islip, with Saxons leading then by 23 – 4 ! Although each team won three of the last six ends, both of them scoring 4 more shots, Saxons had an unassailable lead, running out the winners by 27 shots to 8.

Saxons ‘A’ won by 27 – 8
Saxons ‘B’ won by 16 – 13
Saxons won overall, 43 to 21

Team A : Carole Bourne, Les James, Ann Cook, Roger Gill

Team B : Anna Davies, James McColl, Tony Sellick, Jeanette Statham