WESTLECOT Indoor Club will only be represented in one of the eight main men’s and women’s national championship events to be decided at Melton & District IBC over the next nine days.

The Old Town club’s sole hopes of success rest on the shoulders of the trio of Josie Lloyd, Wendy Anderson and Janet Willis in the final block of the championships.

The vastly experienced trio contest the ladies triples championship next Wednesday and Thursday in Leicestershire.

On the way to the triples championship last 16 at Melton, Lloyd, Anderson and Willis beat Joyce Keating’s team from Cotswold 24-16 in the area semi-final and then in the Area 10 final, had six shots to spare over Pam Harris, Amy Richards and Jean Hunt (Malvern Hills) in a 16-10 success.

This victory put them into the inter-area final, which they duly won with a convincing 19-12 victory over Welford-on-Avon’s Area 9 champions Lisa Smith, Yvonne Pick and Amy Stanton, at Cotswold (Stroud) to book their place in the last 16.

Willis’ trio were never headed by Welford, winning the first end with a two and led 8-1 after only five ends and at halfway had increased their advantage to 14-4 and led 16-9 at 15.

In the last 16 of the triples next Wednesday, they have been given a tough draw as they face a team of senior and junior England internationals - Rebecca Simpson, Chelsea Tomlin and Annalisa Dunham from Spalding (Lincs).

If successful, they would then play either Barwell (Leics) or Swale (Sittingbourne, Kent) in the quarter-finals. The semi-finals and final take place the next day.

The Willis combination will be hoping for better luck than over the Easter period at Nottingham in the last 16 of the Over 50s two-wood triples.

They ran into a brick wall when drawn against a fellow Wiltshire side, Chippenham-based North Wilts, losing 19-8.

North Wilts went all the way in the competition to lift the national title, beating Huntingdon 19-14 on an extra end in a dramatic final.