The presentation of the Trophies took place on 2nd September at Benavista.

The Federation representatives and visitors were welcomed to the Club by Dennis King our Captain. He said what a wonderful competition it was and how every one had played so well. He thanked the staff at the club for looking after us when we had home games and he also thanked Maggie Ogden for preparing and taking sandwiches to the away games, thus saving the bowlers from starvation!! Maggie was later presented with a bouquet and a jar of ‘Sandwich Spread’ as a thank you!! .

Dennis then turned the presentation over to Murray Johns. He thanked everybody for turning up, and the bar staff, Sharon, Mel, Debbie and our new ‘chef’ Caterina, for the catering and Hughie Holgate for his hospitality and the impressive job he had made of Benavista turning it into possibly the best club on the coast. He said that everytime they came Hughie had added another improvement.

He then got on to the subject of the Presentation saying, that in the Triples League, after the 1st match when Mijas had come to Benavista and well and truly trounced us, we got our act together and never looked back. The Kings Cup was a lot closer, and it came down to the last game, for Benevista to make sure that they would also win the Kings Cup. There had been over 100 players taking part over the summer including some who had never played in competition before. He was very pleased that Los Amigos had been envolved, and hoped that next year would be just as good.

He then congratulated triples team of Dennis King, Sandy Guthrie and Neil Marshall for getting a hot shot during the match on July 7th He then presented them with a ‘Gold’ medal engraved with the date. After that, he also congratulated Wendy Pemberton for not losing a singles match in the Kings Cup for 2 years. He also said he wished us luck when the winners of the other Spanish Regions visited us in October and said he knew we would give the other clubs a run for their money. Tony Winterton, Murray Johns and Dennis king.

Tony Winterton then presented the Trophies to Club Captain Dennis King. Dennis receiving the Federation Trips Trophy.

Dennis receiving the Kings Cup Trophy.

. Members of the Triples Team.

Members of the Kings Cup Team.

While some of us played an 8 end match the rest of the visitors tucked into a buffet provided by the staff of the Bowls Club.

. Winners of the 8 end competition – Doreen, Neil, Jan and Dennis.

The last part of the evening was a Skittles match and Target Bowls.

The Skittles match was won by Sandy and the Target Bowls was won by Roger Bennett.