Playing Ditch Weight

The finals of the Riverina Murray Region Fours Championships were played at Narrandera on Sunday. All the finals were held in the afternoon and the players had to take a break in play of approximately half an hour due to rain.

In the Men’s Fours the Young team of Jonathon Watson, Russell Boyd (substitute), Brian Madden and Damien Miller were opposed to the Narrandera side skipped by Dave Hoffman.

The Young team established and early lead of 14–3 and despite the rain they went on to win 28–15.

In the Men’s Senior Fours the Temora team of Wayne Foote, Bill Robertson, Trevor Firman and Bruce Lack defeated David Ivanoff’s team from Narrandera 18–17.

The Leeton and District team skipped by P Wakeham won the Women’s Fours, the Women’s Senior Fours was won by Chris Coleman’s team from Wagga RSL and the Open Reserve Fours winning team was from Wagga Rules skipped by Andrew Carey.

All the winners have qualified to play in the State Finals at Dubbo in June and July 2026. There were just 8 players on the green on Thursday in quite cold conditions.

Ray Martin and Joe Bargwanna had a winning score of 19–17 in their game and the other winners were Brian Christie and Greg Woods with a score of 20–12.

A small number of players were involved on Saturday afternoon but their game was abandoned once the rain settled in.

On Sunday there will be a preliminary round of the BPL Cup. At this stage there are four teams of triples who will be involved. Each team will play a game against each of the other three teams with the overall winners progressing to Regional play–offs.

Play is scheduled to start at 10 am.

On Sunday 10th August the Annual President’s Day will be held at the club. Play will commence at 10 am and there will be a second game after lunch.

An entry form is on the notice board and entries can be made as a team of four or as individual players. Male and female players are welcome to play.

All players are reminded that entries for the Regional Triples Championships close on Thursday. All the relevant details are on the notice board.

Information is on the notice board concerning the Region Pairs Championships.

The preliminary rounds for this event are scheduled for Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th September. Entries close at the club on Thursday 21st August.

After finishing the Region Fours Damien Miller made his way to Bar Beach to play for the NSW Greenkeepers in the annual Legends versus Greenkeepers match. The Greenkeepers won four of the six games for an overall win of 118 to 104.

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