Lawn Bowls: Jersey’s triples (lead Scott Ruderham, second Greg Davis, skip Malcolm de Sousa) kicked off day two of action at Birmingham 2022, with a narrow 15-14 loss against Australia. The Jersey trio had already secured a quarter final place though, thanks to their opening-day victories over Cook Islands and Niue. Jersey will now face home nation England in the quarters tomorrow (Sunday).
This afternoon, Jersey pair Derek Boswell and Ross Davis (pictured above) overcame their Canadian opponents 20-13, and then in this evening’s match picked up two on the last end to pull level for a 15-15 tie with New Zealand.
Aquatics/Swimming: In the pool Ollie Brehaut (200m freestyle), Lily Scott (50m freestyle), Gemma Atherley (50m freestyle + 100m backstroke), Robbie Jones (100m breaststroke) and Isaac Dodds (400m individual medley) were all in action in the morning individual heats before the men’s 4x100m relay heat.
Scott was first in her 50m freestyle heat in a superb new island record time of 26.95, but missed out on a semi-final spot. Atherley also registered an island record, in the 100m backstroke, but fell agonisingly short (by just 0.02 seconds) of a place in the semis. Dodds, meanwhile, registered a personal best in the 400m IM (4:29.70). In the relay, the Jersey line-up of Harry Shalamon, Jones, Brehaut and Dodds finished fourth in their heat (3:33.46), another island record and nearly two seconds ahead of Guernsey.
Cycling: 22-year-old Rhys Pilley became Jersey’s first Commonwealth Games track cyclist for 28 years when he took to the track at lunchtime in the 4,000m individual pursuit heat. Pilley, racing with England’s William Perrett, posted a time of 4:34.787 to finish 17th in the qualifying stage. The top four went through to fight for the medals. Prior to today, Jersey’s last track cyclist was Lynn Minchington in 1994.
Tomorrow, in addition to the bowls triples quarter final, there’s also action for Jersey gymnast Daniel Lee, who goes in the final of the All-Around competition after his impressive opening day performances. Jersey will be represented in seven of Sunday morning’s swimming heats at Sandwell Aquatics Centre.