Road bowling: Brilliant Coppinger makes the difference

MARTIN COPPINGER and Brian Daly beat Gary Daly and Thomas Boyle by well over a bowl at Grenagh, thanks mostly to Coppinger’s brilliance.

Brian Daly won the first tip from Thomas Boyle. Gary Daly followed with a big shot to the end of the kerb, which Coppinger missed by 60m. Brian Daly played his next bowl to the right and beat that tip by just 50m to leave almost a bowl between them.

Boyle got a good bowl to the ‘S’ bend, which Coppinger beat by 60m. Gary Daly extended the lead to almost a bowl with his next shot onto the straight. He and Boyle were a full bowl clear at the halfway line. Coppinger wiped most of that lead out with a brilliant bowl from the farmhouse to the white wall. Boyle missed that tip by 70m and Gary Daly beat it by just 30m.