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Congratulations to Damien Miller on winning the Club Singles Championship.

This is the fifth time that he has won the championship in the past eight years.

In a high class final played on Sunday afternoon Damien defeated Jonathon Watson 25–24.

The opening ends of the game were evenly shared with the score at 5–all after 6 ends, 7–all after 8 ends and 14–all after 16 ends.

Jono then won 7 of the next 9 ends to lead 24–19. From that point Damien won 5 consecutive ends to take out the game 25–24.

Congratulations to both players on a great game.

Play during the week saw 12 players involved on Thursday afternoon.

The winning teams and their scores were Jarrod Schiller and Jono Watson 26–20, Albert Carter and Brian McNair 18–12 and Phil Taylor and Aldo Malvicino 18–16.

Saturday afternoon saw 20 players playing five games of pairs.

The vouchers for the afternoon went to Brian McNair and Ted Loader whose winning score was 25–10.

In the other games with significant margins Albert Carter and Ivor Watkiss won with a score of 22–11 and David Ward and Greg Woods won 29–17.

There were also two very close games with Michael Webb and Tony Ruhl winning 25–23 and Brian Christie and Leslie Christie winning by a single shot at 16–15.

On Sunday morning the club’s Grade 6 Pennant side played a practice game against the Grade 5 side from Boorowa Ex–Services and won on two of the three rinks.

This weekend the Grade 6 side will play in the Region Finals at Leeton. Their first game is against Wagga Rules on Saturday afternoon. Good luck to the side.

Those players intending to play in the Club Triples Championship should check the details on the notice board.

Entries for this event close on Saturday 17th May.

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