The last major events of the Northland calendar were completed last weekend at the greens at Mangawhai and all events resulted in some close matches with the last bowl deciding games.
The Champion of Champion Pairs were concluded on Saturday and resulted in wins to Dennis Brewster and Ken Fitness (Hikurangi) who defeated Murray Dalbeth and Bob Ashworth (Maungatapere) in a closely fought match 21-19.
Sue Wightman and Tina Harris (Mangawhai) took the honours in the women's competition, defeating Mary Brewster and Chris Budge (Ngunguru) 16-7. The Mangawhai combination got away to a handy lead at the beginning of the match and never relinquished it.
Sunday saw the Champion of Champion Fours event played and this final resulted in an easy 19-4 win to the defending champions Gordon Bond, Dean McMurchy, Mike Howie, and George Lyddiard over the Hikurangi combination of Steve Mitchell, Willie Wyatt, Peter Mitchell and Don Cameron.
Two disastrous ends were the downfall of the Hikurangi combination and they were never in the match.