Juniors score full points twice to boost hopes

Ballymena Juniors turned their attention to the race for the NIPGL Junior League Division 1 title last week and having lost a couple of games earlier in the season it was imperative that the Juniors won the two games they were due to play last week in order to keep their title ambitions alive.
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Jul 2013, 11:12 BST
Ballymena's Joe McKeown, Geoff Padgett and Jim Larkin keep a close eye on how the 'head' is developing during last week's PGL Junior League game against Old Bleach. INBT 27-172CSBallymena's Joe McKeown, Geoff Padgett and Jim Larkin keep a close eye on how the 'head' is developing during last week's PGL Junior League game against Old Bleach. INBT 27-172CS
Ballymena's Joe McKeown, Geoff Padgett and Jim Larkin keep a close eye on how the 'head' is developing during last week's PGL Junior League game against Old Bleach. INBT 27-172CS

On Tuesday night the Juniors claimed a maximum 7 points in a 50 shot demolition of local rivals Old Bleach and they repeated the dose on Thursday night with another 7 points in an impressive victory against Ewarts.

Ballymena Juniors 110, Old Bleach 60: John McFall, Neal Garrett, Michael Wilson and Roy Torrington were in scintillating form against F Anderson, winning 31-13.

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It did not look good for Alan McAuley, Arnold Kenny, Ivan Lynn and John Coulter, who were staring at defeat against M Robb, however they dug deep and a count of 5 shots on the penultimate end followed by 2 shots on the final gave them victory by 22 shots to 18.

Two counts of 4 shots on the 2nd and 4th ends gave Stephen Coleman, Tommy Hill, Danny McCullough and George Graham just the start they needed in their game against W Patton on rink 3. With two-thirds of the game played the margin was 3 shots but it was the Braid rink who dominated the remainder of the game when they outscored their opponents by 8 shots to 2 to claim victory by 24 shots to 15.

Geoff Padget, Joe McKeown, Jimmy Larkin and David Torrington were 13-11 down against E Evans after 13 ends. The game changed dramatically over the next 7 ends as the Ballymena men took total control of the game, eventually winning 33-14.

Ballymena Juniors 107, Ewarts 60: John McFall, Neal Garrett, Michael Wilson and Roy Torrington were in commanding form against T Holland, winning by 34 shots to six.

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Allen Stewart, Tommy Hill, Stephen Coleman and George Graham had to fight hard for their point against B McLean, with the final score 24-16.

Alan McAuley, Leslie Barr, Ivan Lynn and John Coulter also found the visiting rink skipped by R Kelly hard to shake off but they had 10 shots (17-17) to spare in the end.

Geoff Padget, Joe McKeown, Jimmy Larkin and Jimmy Hodges had to battle right to the end against R Coggle, wit ha count of ‘2’ on the final end earning a 22-21 victory.