Mutch holds nerve to retain silverware

BRIAN Mutch retained the Caithness Indoor Bowling Association county singles title at the weekend, beating Watten stalwart Liam Swanson in a tense final.

Playing over 21 ends at the Assembly Rooms, Wick, in a game that held spectators agog, defending champion Mutch, Weigh Inn, kept his slender lead all the way to the silverware with Swanson calling a halt at 17 points to 13.

Twenty-six players from all over Caithness took part.

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