THE Weekend League at Wellington Bowling Club is proving very popular with many bowlers. Much of the reason for this is that every bowler has three bowls to play with, not two, as in the Afternoon and Men's leagues. If you bowl two woods badly, you still have another one to try and put things right.

This weekend there were three matches and two of them were very one-sided. Woodpeckers and Southsiders both won by a very big margin against the unfortunate Allstars and Ninchers. The fifth placed New Rollers came through after a close battle against second placed Skylarks.

Alan Mark's Allstars began well. They picked up two shots in the first end but Sally Waygood, Ed Norris and skip Nick Channon's Woodpeckers were in fine form. They played so well that they didn't give their opponents any more shots all through the game and won it in style, 16 shots to 2.

Marguerite Nichols, Steve Horrill and Andy Pearce's Southsiders were top of the league going into their match against Ninchers.

Vera White, Ray White and Simon Spalding's Ninchers celebrated collecting one shot in the fifth end, but that was all they could manage. Southsiders won all the ends but that one to take the match by storm, winning 20 shots to 1.

Skylarks were second in the league table going into their match against fifth placed New Rollers.

Monica Carter, June Anderson and skip Arthur Carter's Skylarks were up against Maria Mitchell, Diana Dagg and skip Tony Woollard's New Rollers.

After eight ends and with just three to play, Skylarks led 6 – 4 and looked to have the winning of it but the Rollers got down to some serious bowling and picked up six shots in the last ends to overtake and win it 10 – 7.