Playing Ditch Weight

The team of Glen Seward, Joe Read and George Somerville acquitted themselves well in the NSW Finals of the BPL Cup played at Mt Lewis on Sunday even though they did not qualify for the national finals.

The Young team played in a section with teams from Parkes, Wallerawang and South West Rocks. In their first game they defeated the team from Parkes Railway 12–1 and 11–2.

Against South West Rocks they won the first set 7–1, lost the second set 1–7 and won the tie–break 4–0.

In their game against Wallerawang they lost both sets 1–9 and 4–5.

With Young, Wallerawang and South West Rocks all having won 2 games to score 6 points there was a count–back to decide the section winner.

With 5 sets wins the South West Rocks team progressed to the next play–off where they defeated Armidale City 5–2, 9–2 to qualify for the national finals.

During the week play at Young saw 24 players on the green on Thursday in quite warm conditions.

There were two big winning margins with Ray Martin and Lisa Boyd winning their game 32–8 and Max Penfold and Denis Rosen winning 28–11.

In the other games John Maher and Jill Rosen played a 17–all draw with Freda Hambrook and Brian McNair, Allan Langford and Sheila Traynor won 18–17, Beau Greenway and Joe Bargwanna won 17–13 and Ann Gardner and Cliff Traynor won 25–16.

On Saturday afternoon there were 14 players involved and once again there were two big winning margins.

Brian McNair and Colin Chapman had a margin of 27 shots as did Les Fanning and Cliff Traynor with Brian and Colin winning the day on a count–back.

In the other two games Albert Carter and Harold Anderson won their game 19–12 and Michael Webb, Glen Benson and Denis Rosen won their game 27–16.

The draws for the Region Singles Championships will be available at the club and on BowlsLink during the week.

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