Two teams who have had a successful season in the Bideford Women’s Skittles League are the Tornadoes and the Coasters.

The Tornadoes, who play at Bideford Liberal Club, won the champion of champions trophy and the Division II championship in their first year together. They are: Mesdames E Beer, C Conebear, S Spry, M Clements, Miss E Jones and Mrs J Bell.
The Coasters were runners up in Division I and took the J Venus Cup for the highest away aggregate as well as the Sally Braddick and Mother’s Pride knock-out trophies.
But winning trophies is no new thing for the Coasters. In the past six years they have won the J Venus cup six times, the Mother’s Pride cup three times, the Sally Braddick Rose bowl twice and the Gladys Fulford fruit bowl once. In this period, too, they have been champion of champions twice, Division I champions three times, and runners up twice. And one of their members, Mrs G Redclift, has taken the individual trophy for the highest away scores.
They are Miss J Copp, Mrs V Headon, Miss D Copp, Mrs G Redclift and Mrs F Copp. Missing is Mrs D Wooldridge.
Gazette article dated 5 May 1972