Playing Ditch Weight

Our club hosted the Zone 8 Triples Championship Finals over the weekend. This involved three divisions with three qualifying teams in each division playing in a round–robin format.

After the results of the first two rounds the third round games became finals with the winners for each division progressing to the state finals at Dubbo in March 2024.

Saturday afternoon’s game in the State division saw the Narrandera team of Wes Kiley, Dave Hoffman and Shaun Gehringer defeat Glen Fahey, Bill Bishop and George Jackson from Wagga Rules 23–19.

On Sunday morning Matt McComber, Heath Walker and Brett White from Wagga RSL defeated the Wagga Rules team 24-20. The final game in this division saw the Narrandera team win the last five ends against Wagga RSL to take out the title 24-17.

Wayne Foote, Bevan Krause and Bruce Lack (Temora B&R) won Saturday’s Senior division game against Graeme McComber, Richard Durnan and David Ivanoff (Narrandera) 25–23.

The Narrandera team also lost by 2 shots on Sunday morning 20-18 against John Hetherington, David Streher and Brett Pieper from Wagga Rules.

Bruce Lack’s team dominated the final game with a 27–5 win over Wagga Rules to qualify for the State Championships.

The three teams involved in the Open Reserve division were from Barmedman (Trevor Gadd, Mick Owers and Dennis Melmoth), Wagga Rules (Marcus Pim, Sue Pim and Andrew Carey) and Narrandera (Duncan Spencer, Matt Grant and Phil Miller).

On Saturday afternoon the Wagga Rules team came from behind over the final ends to defeat Barmedman 25–23.

On Sunday morning the Narrandera team led from the outset and defeated Barmedman 21-16.

With the score at 13–12 after 16 ends of the final game the result was in the balance but some excellent bowls from the Wagga Rules team saw them take out the game 25–13.

Congratulations to the three winning teams and good luck in the state finals.

Thanks to Damien and Mitch for the quality of the green and to the umpires who assisted over the weekend. Thanks also to the catering staff and bar staff whose work was complimented by the visiting players.

In our local program there was Jackpot play on Thursday and Saturday.

There were 22 players on the green on Thursday in fairly warm conditions.

The vouchers for the afternoon went to Tom Preston and Joe Bargwanna who won their game by 16 shots.

The other winning teams were Alan Gall and Tony Ruhl (9 shots), Brian Christie and Stan Jones (2 shots), Andrew Hutchison and Bob Ruhl (1 shot) and Ron Miller, Steven Hankins and Geoff Holt (11 shots).

There were 20 players on the green on Saturday afternoon with 5 games of pairs being played.

There was one big winning margin – 25 shots for Max Penfold and Peter Watts.

In the other games Phil Taylor and Greg Woods won by 14 shots, Alan Langford and Vic Brown won by 6 shots as did Harold Anderson and Alan Gall. In the closest game Glen Seward and Les Fanning won by 1 shot.

At the time of writing this week sees the first of the three Cherry Festival tournaments.

The Women’s Triples was scheduled for Wednesday 21st and Thursday 22nd.

This will be followed by the Mixed Pairs tournament on Saturday and Sunday 25th and 26th and the Men’s Triples will commence on Tuesday 28th November.

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