Drawing The Shot

Congratulations to Jonathon Watson, Damien Miller and David Quigley on their performance at the National BPL Cup Finals at Pine Rivers last week.

They finished second in their section which places them in the top eight teams in the country. In both of their first two sectional games, they won a set and lost a set and lost in the one-end tie-breaker. They won their other two games by winning both sets.

At the weekend, the club hosted the finals of the Zone 8 Pairs Championships. In the Men’s State Pairs there was one game on Saturday morning with North Albury’s Daniel Markham and Stephen Broad defeating Chris Cassidy and Wayne Foote from Temora 23–16.

The afternoon games saw Matt McComber and David Ivanoff from Wagga RSL have a 25–18 win over Daniel Markham and Stephen Broad and Damien Miller and David Quigley defeat Christian Morgan and Matt Thornton from Narrandera 18–16. The final on Sunday morning saw Damien and David leading 16–9 after 13 ends and they went on to win 25–16.

The Reserve division also started on Saturday morning with the Cootamundra Ex–Services team of Terry McDonald and John Goggin proving too strong for Steven Houting Snr and Brock Shore from Tumbarumba 32–9.

Both the afternoon semi-finals were close contests with Terry McDonald and John Goggin defeating the Wagga Rules team of Steven Houting Jnr and Andrew Carey 19–16 and Dave Robinson and Kevin Thomson from Narrandera defeating John Hedger and Tony Parkes from West Wyalong 20–18. On Sunday morning, the final saw the scores close throughout with the result in doubt until the final end with Terry and John winning 20–18.

The semi–finals and final of the Senior division were set down for Sunday. The Temora side of Bill Robertson and Bruce Lack defeated the Cootamundra Ex–Services team of Kevin Medcalf and Mike Barber 22–9 and Doug Kinder and Bob Wilson from Wagga Rules had a similar winning score of 20–9 over Les Waldron and Max Scanlan from Lavington.

The final was disrupted after 5 ends by the storm that saw all three greens under water in just a few minutes. A decision on when and where this game will be completed is being decided by the Zone 8 Match Committee. The winners of these three divisions qualify to play in the State finals in 2023. Thanks to Geoff Holt, Russell Boyd and Peter Watts who were the umpires for this event.

Play continued in the Guy Pickering Charity Challenge during the week with DOB the winners on Wednesday with their game score being 16 shots to 5. Thursday night’s winners were FATBBOTS with a score of 16 points.

Sixteen men bowlers played on Thursday afternoon in pleasant conditions. There were some big margins with Andrew Hutchison and Cliff Traynor winning their game by 19 shots. Two teams – Barry Watson and George Somerville and Milan Brankovic and Col Chapman won their games by 16 shots and George O’Neil and Joe Bargwanna won by 6 shots.

There were also 16 players on Saturday afternoon in warm and fine conditions. The highest margin for the afternoon was 22 shots for Max Penfold and Greg Woods. Glen Benson and Denis Rosen won their game by 9 shots, Colin Chapman and Cliff Traynor had a 6 shot margin and Brian March and Scott Douglas won their game by 1 shot. The jackpot of $272 was won – the first time the jackpot has been won for several months.

Good luck to the women’s Division 4 Pennant side who will be playing in the State Finals at Valentine Bowling Club (Newcastle) from Friday. They have two sectional games scheduled for Friday and a third on Saturday. The results of the sectional games will decide which sides progress to the knockout stage.

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