SHORT MAT BOWLS.
BRITISH ISLES CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Talented young bowler Ffion Jones will become the youngest ever player to represent the Wales ‘A’ team when she joins her team mates on the mat at the British Isles Short Mat Bowls Championship later this month.
Ffion along with her fab four of Osian Elias, Phil Ladd and Darren Davies have been selected for the ‘A’ squad which will compete against teams from all over the UK in the two day competition which will be held in Bromsgrove near Birmingham.
She is the only junior girl on the team and 12 year old Ffion, who trains twice a week at Rhydlewis Hall, recently won the Ladies Open singles in Cardigan and she’s only been playing a total of three seasons.
Ffion says she is chuffed to bits having been selected, and is really looking forward to the competition,” explained Ffion’s mother, Margaret Sinnet Jones.
“She keeps her cool and even though she’s nervous before a competition, she doesn’t show it and that’s why I think she plays so well,” added Margaret.
On a national level, she won the Ladies Pairs (with Meirion Davies), Ladies Singles, Adult and Junior Pairs (with Maldwyn Jones), the Margaret Memorial Mixed Pairs (with Ceri Jones), the Under 21 (singles), the Under 16 (singles), the Junior Singles as well as the 11 and under that she has won twice.
She was also second in the Adult and Junior Pairs (with Medwyn Jones), the Under 21 singles and the County 4’s with Osian Elias, Dafydd Jones and Dylan Johnson.
Ceredigion County Bowls Chairman, Darren Davies, one of the players who will be heading for Bromsgrove this month said: ‘We as a County are overjoyed and very proud that Ffion has been selected for Wales. She is a credit to the county and we wish her all the best in the British Championships. We as a county are fortunate to have many junior bowlers under the age of 18 in our ranks, all of which may one day follow Ffion in her achievements.
