Around the Greens

Christmas winners: Terry Casey (left) and Lorna Reeve with tournament controller Maurice Allan after winning Gisborne Bowling Club’s Christmas rotational triples. Jim Wilson was the third team member. Picture supplied

GisborneVeterans were in top form when 48 bowlers turned out for the Gisborne Bowling Club’s Christmas triples last week.

Rotational triples, in which each team member in turn plays lead, director and skip, kept the bowling festive but competitive.

Two teams scored the maximum three wins and each won 14 ends, meaning that points for and against were needed to determine first and second.

Lorna Reeve, Jim Wilson and Terry Casey, with a +13 points differential, trumped Gus McCabe, John McKay and Reg Hart’s +8.

Six teams finished with two wins and had to be separated by the number of ends won.

Ted Mehrtens, Dan Barr and Mike Donnelly, with 16 ends won, were third ahead of Ginny Sherriff, Harry Jackson and Ashli Ferris, fourth with 14 ends won.

Championships

The club’s mixed pairs and four championships continue.

Close contests in all three title races will take the championships into a second and third weekend.

In the open mixed pairs, Arthur and Carol Hawes, Jamey Ferris and Tanya Harrison along with Ricky Miller and Barbara Gibson are all still alive.

When play resumes in the junior event, Kay Goldsbury and Ron Robertson, with two lives, will meet one-lifers Libby and Peter Clay.

In the junior fours, Kay Goldsbury, Ginny Sherriff, Beverly Davy and Kym Brown won the women’s title unopposed.

Don Green, Mike Harris, Roger Dymock and Peter Clay will meet Nathan Trowell, Mal Trowell, Jim Wilson and Peter Gledhill to determine the junior men’s championship.