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Moonrakers celebrate 90th year

WILTSHIRE men's Bowls Association celebrate their 90th anniversary this year.

To mark the event the Moonrakers, led by president Tony Watchman, will play the English Bowling Association at Watchman's home club, Westinghouse, Chippenham, on Wednesday, May 19.

Last year Wiltshire went all the way to Worthing in the Middleton Cup, the national inter-county championship, before losing out to eventual winners Devon in the semi-finals.

In 2004 they will play in the same South Midlands group again, seeking to top the table and progress to the quarter-finals on July 24. The semi-finals and finals will be staged at Worthing on Saturday, August 28.

Prior to the Middleton Cup group matches Wiltshire will play three cup trials. They will be against Somerset and Oxfordshire on May 8 and 9 respectively at Wootton Bassett, and they travel to Atherley to face Hampshire on May 16.

The home group matches against Worcestershire and Warwickshire are scheduled for Wootton Bassett on June 5 and July 3, while Wilts will travel to Ross on Wye to play Herefordshire on June 19.

Wiltshire BA will play Swindon and District at Bassett on May 2, travel to Calne for their 90th anniversary on June 6, and to Spencer Melksham for their 80th anniversary on July 18.