Around the Greens

Winning team: With sponsor’s representative Pip Griffin (second left) are Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s triples winners (from left) Dusty Miller (lead), Val McGreevy (skip) and Allan Parker (director). Picture by Norma Miller

Kahutia Bowling Club’s Anzac Day Triples Tournament was played in fine weather with 36 entries. Games started at 1pm.

Three games were played over the afternoon with a 70-minute time limit. Some close games were played, and three prizes were presented.

Winners of the tournament were Lex Kennedy (skip), Marty Ryan (director) and Pat Murton (lead), with three wins and 16 ends won.

Second were Hona Huriwai (skip), Ray Young (director) and Diane Oates (lead), with three wins and 14 ends won.

Third were Andy Tamanui (skip), Frank McLoughlin (director) and Win Baker (lead), with two wins and 15 ends won.

Early-morning torrential rain reduced play in Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s Kiri Te Kanawa Triples to three 90-minute games.

Controllers delayed the start until 11am, by which time water on the greens had gone — one of the great advantages of the artificial surface.

Fourteen teams, with players from all the Gisborne clubs, competed.

The winners were Val McGreevy (skip), Allan Parker (director) and Dusty Miller (lead).

They were the only team with three wins and six points.

Seven teams had two wins. Kathy Carroll (s), Barbara Gibson (d) and Diane Doyle (l) were second, having won 17 ends.

Two teams — Emily Hongara (s), Ngawai Turipa (d) and Win Baker (l), and Jan Powell (s), Bruce Gledhill (d) and Richard Jones (l) — drew for third place.

Both teams won 16 ends, with a differential of plus 4 and 33 points. In bowls you cannot get any closer than that.

Pip Griffin, sales adviser at Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village, presented prizes. Ian Carroll then thanked Pip for her support of the Poverty Bay Bowling Club and bowling in Gisborne and presented her with flowers. Pip is retiring after 11 years with the retirement village.