Buckingham skips plate winners

ABRAHAM PLATE WINNERS: Dawne Abraham (second left) presents the Abraham Plate to mixed graded fours winners (from left) Tam Buckingham (skip), Trish Leach (lead), Dave Hooper (three) and Ron Seabrook (two), as Pip Griffin, representing Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village, looks on. Picture supplied

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TAM Buckingham skipped the winning team in the Abraham Plate mixed graded fours tournament held at Poverty Bay Bowling Club.

The other members of the winning team were Trish Leach (lead), Ron Seabrook (two) and Dave Hooper (three).

This tournament was open to bowlers from any club and all eight rinks at Poverty Bay were used, as 16 teams of four entered. Three points were given for a win.

The results calculations came down to the number of ends won, as both winners and runners-up won all their games.

Teams played four games of 90 minutes or 10 ends, and Buckingham’s team scored 12 points from 23 ends won.

Runners-up Steve Goldsbury, Lorna Reeve, Margot Willock and Mike Donnelly also scored 12 points, but won only 19 ends in the process.

Third place went to Jeff and Joy Davis, Karen Higgins and Jude Hall. Of the teams with three wins, they won the most ends, 26.

Dawne Abraham presented the Abraham Plate to the winning team, and said that when she and her late husband Herbert (Hub) donated the plate over 30 years ago, they gave it for a graded tournament so skips would need to include new players in their teams, which gave them tournament experience.

Pip Griffin, representing tournament sponsor Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village, helped with the prize-giving.