Cardigan wrapped up the Ceredigion County Bowls League championship in the final match of the season against main title rivals Lampeter despite actually losing the game on the night by the narrow margin of five shots overall.
Paul Monders and his men led the North Ceredigion outfit by six points going into the final round of fixtures having registered an win away at Lampeter earlier in the season and they managed to secure the points they needed on the night to ensure an outright championship win and top the table for the first time in three years. Four points would have been sufficient to claim the title on overall shots difference for the season.
Cardigan won three out of the four rink matches in this title decider with a home four of Colin James, Mike Williams, Paul Edwards and Kevin James posting the best score and winning by eight shots against Steve Entwhistle and co and captain and skip Paul Monders leading his trio of Marc James Sid Freemantle and Dilwyn Jones to a four shot success over Henry Jones and his three.
The successful Cardigan skips pictured below.
There was a win also for the rink of Emyr Davies,Mal Evans, Brian Davies and Andrew Clarke by two shots against a visiting trio led by Nick Randall
Lampeter bowler Lewis Williams took the prize for top rink and he steered his three to a comfortable 19 point win over the Cardigan four of Andre Bann, Lee Drummond, Alun Parsons and Neville Morgan and this heavy points advantage proved sufficient to see Lampeter through for an overall win by five shots despite three of their rinks going down.
Cardigan ended the season four points ahead of their nearest rivals.