THREE teams of four from Wellington Bowling Club set off to play a mixed friendly indoor match against North Petherton Bowling Club - with the visitors returning following a six-shot success.

Alan Mark, Tony Weston, June Anderson and skip Ian Hollingsworth's Wellington team came up against very strong opposition. With one end to play they were 15 – 16 down but they pulled out all the stops and picked up two shots in the last to pinch it 17 – 16.

Catherine Bridger, Paul Kelsall, Peter White and skip Pete Nichols came back from being 4 – 9 down to take a good win by 24 shots to 12.

Phil Wiggan, Phil Hutchings, Dave Bridger and skip Marguerite Nichols did their best but lost out in the end 18 – 11.

It was a very competitive yet friendly match which ended with a victory to Wellington by 52 shots to 46.