Playing Ditch Weight

Congratulations to Jenny Holt, Lisa Boyd, Jill Rosen and Kate Cooper on qualifying for the Region Final of the Women’s State Fours.

They played in Sectional rounds of the event at Temora on Sunday and a draw in their first game followed by a win in their second game saw them top their section.

The Region Fours Finals will be played at Young on the weekend of 7th and 8th of December. Other teams from the club played in Region Fours sections at Junee but did not qualify for the finals in their divisions.

The club hosted a section of the Open Reserve Fours on Sunday with teams from Boorowa Ex–Services, Harden, Cootamundra Ex–Services and Tumut involved.

The Boorowa team won all three of their games to qualify for the Region Finals in that division. Thanks to Glen Benson for his supervision work on the day and to Stuart Freudenstein for umpiring for the day.

Play on Thursday saw five games of pairs including another game in the Club Pairs. In the championship game Ian Schofield and Geoff Holt played Albert Carter and Les Fanning. After 11 ends the score was 8-all and after 17 ends Albert and Les led 16–11.

Ian and Geoff then won the next 3 ends for a score of 16–all going into the final end.

With the last bowl of the game Les hit the shot bowl and this moved the jack to the ditch. Albert and Les won the measure and won the game 17–16.

In the non-championship games Harold Anderson and Glen Benson had an 18 shot margin to take out the vouchers. Other winners were Jim McQuade and Allan Langford (11 shots), John Marr and Russell Boyd (11 shots) and Tom Preston and Cliff Traynor (1 shot).

Play in the Guy Pickering Charity Challenge started on Wednesday night with a smaller than usual number of 6 teams.

There were 9 teams involved on Thursday night with several teams unavailable for the opening night. Boof’s Heroes had a convincing win in their game with a score of 18 points to claim the vouchers.

Play on Saturday saw a further three games played in the Club Pairs. Michael Adams and Glen Benson had opened up a good lead of 9–1 over Joe Bargwanna and Cliff Traynor after 7 ends of their game.

After 15 ends their margin was 2 shots at 12–10. Michael and Glen led 15–14 after 19 ends and won the final 2 ends for a score of 18–14.

Jono Watson and Russell Boyd were playing Glen Seward and Joe Read and they led 11–5 after 11 ends. Glen and Joe won the next 3 ends to trail 10–11 and even though the final 7 ends were fairly evenly shared Jono and Russell won 18–13. The third game saw Ron Rosengreen and Peter Watts opposed to John Cooper and Denis Rosen. Ron and Peter won 8 of the first 9 ends to lead 15–1. Both teams won 6 of the next 12 ends for Ron and Peter to run out winners 25–10.

There was just one game of social triples played on Saturday with Harold Anderson, Ivor Watkiss and Greg Woods winning 23–20. Entry forms for the Region Singles are on display on bright gold paper. Entries for this event will close on Thursday 24th October.

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