Date	Team	Location	Time	Result	Selection
Sat. 17th. May	Sussex C.B.A.	Worthing Pavilion B.C.	2pm.	Kent 135  20 Sussex 84  2	Team Sheet
Sat. 24th. May	Surrey C.B.A.	Croyden B.C.	2pm.	Kent 111 Surrey 119 Kent 7 Surrey 15	Team Sheet
Sat. 28th. June	Berkshire C.B.A.	Gravesend B.C.	2pm.	Kent 119 18 Points Berkshire 107 4 Points
Sat. 12th. July	Bowls Oxfordshire	Halls B.C.	2pm.	Kent 106 17 Points Oxon 99 5 Points	Team Sheet
Sat. 26th. July	Middlesex C.B.A.	Aylesham & Snowdown B.C.	2pm.	Kent 145 18 Points Middlesex 108 4 Points	Team Sheet
Sat. 9th. August	Buckinghamshire C.B.A.	Denham B.C.	2pm.	Kent 132 9 points Bucks 97 2 points	Team Sheet

	Kent v Buckinghamshire at Olney BC   Our final game this season took us to Buckinghamshire in search of three points to secure the Home Counties League title. Having been scheduled to play ay Denham BC the game was moved to Olney on Thursday due too the condition of the Denham green, so first of all I thank all the players for agreeing to make another seventy mile round journey to play the game. As it turned out the journey was well worth the effort as we won on five rinks with an overall score of 132-97 which gave us twenty points to comfortably win the league. Again there were some impressive performances and it was good to be able to bring in Jack Jarvis for his first HCL game after just qualifying for his badge having won the county pairs title. With five convincing wins and a narrow defeat at Croydon against Surrey it has been a good performance by the squad of players used for this year’s campaign and I thank them all for their support and it just proves we have a really good pool of players to choose from after we have used our quota of eight Middleton Cup players. Personally I now look forward to seeing many of our players at Leamington over the next two weeks and I wish them every success and hope they can bring some silverware back to the Garden of England. A special congratulation has to be made to Lee Shoobridge as he has qualified in National competitions to play at Mortlake, Worthing and now Leamington.   Mick Collins.  Team Manager. Home Counties League Kent v Oxfordshire at Halls BC Our fourth Home Counties League game took us to Halls BC to face Oxfordshire for the second week running for a crucial encounter in the league. Although our visitors had the better of us in the Middleton Cup the previous week they faced a Kent team ready to avenge last week’s defeat and to maintain their push to win the league title again. We were always in front by about ten or twelve shots but towards the end of he game Oxfordshire, as per last week, showed their determination and closed the shot difference to just two before we on this occasion held our nerve and held out for an all important win (106-99). This gave us seventeen points and the visitors five and leads us to an exciting prospect facing Middlesex on 26th July at Aylesham & Snowdown BC, as before yesterday’s games Middlesex were just a few points behind us in the league. Yesterday saw Grant Allen’s rink lead the way with a ten shot win and there was also wins from Duncan Hanmore’s and Dan Stearns rinks with Bob Shields rink picking up three good shots on the last end to draw their rink. On this occasion Paul Field’s and Chris Smith’s rinks went down, but an important five shots on Chris’s last end helped to secure the overall win. Well done to the team and let’s put two more good performances together to secure a league win for my mate President Tony! Mick Collins.  Team Manager. Home Counties League Kent v Berkshire at Gravesend BC Our third Home Counties League game gave us our first home game of the season in this competition and we took advantage of it by extending our lead over second placed Berkshire at Gravesend BC on Saturday 28th June We were always comfortably ahead in this game mainly due to a flying start on Duncan Hanmore’s rink, but towards the end, during some steady rain, Berks did close the gap before we eventually came home with a 119-107 shot victory and 18 valuable points, which at the half stage of fixtures leaves us in top position. In this latest game after making several last minute changes to the team, there were wins for Duncan Hanmore’s, Jeff Vane’s, Michael Goord’s and Paul Field’s rinks with defeats for Chris Smith and Steve Savage, but all in all it was a good team performance. With home games against Oxon and Middlesex and a late season journey to Buckinghamshire the destiny of the league title is in our own hands and I am looking for three more good performances, and hopefully less enforced team changes! Mick Collins.  Team Manager. Home Counties League Surrey v Kent at Croydon BC Our second Home Counties League game took us to Croydon to face Surrey, who had lost to Middlesex last week, but as expected we were in for a tough game. The early part of the game was played in very heavy thundery rain which made conditions very difficult, and it was during this period that Kent slipped behind and found it hard to recover. After going twenty shots down at eighteen ends the team did well to recover to bring it back to five shots with just two ends remaining, but in the end we had to settle for an eight shot defeat (111-119) with three rinks winning and one drawn giving us seven points, which under the circumstances was not a disaster. Again there were some good performances and the rink skipped by Bob Shields did extremely well to win by twelve against a particularly strong Surrey rink. There were also wins for Duncan Hanmore’s and Paul Field’s rinks and Taylor Monk’s rink dropped one shot on the last end to draw. Unfortunately both Jeff Vane’s and Chris Smith’s rinks lost but both fought hard to try to keep the overall margin to a minimum There is a break now from HCL bowls as we start the Middleton Cup campaign on 7th June for three weeks before facing Berkshire in the HCL at Halls BC on 28th June. Mick Collins.  Team Manager.