In the senior women’s first round, the Tolaga Bay club team of Sharon Olsen (s), Jo Atkins (d) and Holli Elkington (l), with a plus-6 differential, defeated the Gisborne club team of Queenie Takurua (s), Dayvinia Mills (d) and Ginny Sherriff (l).
Olsen’s team also won their second game, this time with a plus-9 differential. They defeated the Kahutia team of Glenys Whiteman (s), Marie Wright (d) and Paige Richter (l).
However, the Tolaga Bay team lost their third game, against Te Karaka, and their fourth, against Poverty Bay.
In the fifth round, the Tolaga Bay team beat Wairoa, with a plus-5 differential, to finish third with six points and a plus-6 differential.
Whiteman’s Kahutia team, with a plus-5 differential, defeated the Wairoa team of Glenda Kapene (s), Jo Sturmey (d) and Hine Whaanga (l).
However, Kahutia lost their next three games — against Tolaga Bay, Poverty Bay and Gisborne. They drew with Te Karaka in the fifth round, and finished fifth, with three points and a minus-11 differential.
Tamanui, Nepia and Brown, of Te Karaka, had a big win — with a plus-14 differential — against the Poverty Bay team of Betty Herring (s), Joy Davis (d) and Diane Christie (l).
Te Karaka were “on fire” and won their next three games — with a plus-10 differential against Gisborne, plus-7 against Tolaga Bay and plus-5 against Wairoa. They drew their fifth-round game against Kahutia, and their record over the round robin was good enough to win them the senior champion of champions triples title.
The Gisborne team of Takurua, Mills and Sherriff had three wins, six points and a plus-8 differential to take second place.
Herring, Davis and Christie, of Poverty Bay, finished fourth with three wins, six points and a minus-8 differential.
Kapene, Sturmey and Whaanga, of Wairoa, finished last.
In the senior men’s first round, the Gisborne team of Bob McIlroy (s), Charlie Ure (d) and Peter Clay (l) defeated Tolaga Bay’s Vern Marshall (s), Mick Maunder (d) and Murray Duncan (l) with a plus-1 differential.
However, McIlroy’s team lost their second game, with a minus-24 differential, against File’s Te Karaka combination.
McIlroy’s Gisborne team, with a plus-1 differential, defeated Wairoa, then Kahutia (with a plus-22 differential) and Poverty Bay (with a plus-3). These results earned Gisborne third place with four wins, eight points and a plus-3 differential.
The Wairoa team of Denis Francois (s), Peter Robinson (d) and Wayne Goodley (l), with a plus-3 differential, defeated the Kahutia team of Alastair Macpherson (s), Ray Smith (d) and Leighton Shanks (l).
Wairoa then beat Poverty Bay’s Lex Kennedy (s), Barrie Denham (d) and Bruce Gledhill (l), with a plus-13 differential. However, Wairoa lost their next three games — against Gisborne with a minus-1 differential, Te Karaka with minus-13 and eventual runners-up Tolaga Bay with minus-4.
Wairoa finished fourth with two wins, four points and a minus-2 differential.
Eventual winners File, Dawson and Goldsbury lost their third game, with a minus-2 differential, against Tolaga Bay’s Vern Marshall (s), Mick Maunder (d) and Murray Duncan (l).
However, Te Karaka kept playing good bowls in the next two games and defeated Wairoa, with a plus-13 differential, and Kahutia, with a plus-6 differential. The overall results from Te Karaka were good enough for them to earn the champion of champions title.
Kahutia finished fifth with one win, two points and a minus-28 differential, while Poverty Bay finished last after losing all their games.
