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Triples champs: Gisborne Bowling Club’s Ryman Healthcare Reg Cook Triples was a thriller, with differential deciding the top two, and the next three placings. Don Cook (right) presented his father’s memorial trophy to Terry Casey (left), skip Judy Taylor (holding trophy) and Murray Owen, standing next to Pip Griffin of Ryman. Picture supplied

Poverty BayThe Gisborne Refrigeration 2x4x2 mixed pairs tournament attracted a full green of 16 teams.

Players had to endure showers throughout the day but were generally undaunted.

Pairs faced four games of 10 ends, with a 90-minute time limit.

Only one team went through unbeaten. Lex Kennedy and Val McGreevy finished with the maximum 12 game points and won 22 ends.

Four teams had three wins (for nine points) and were placed according to ends won. Boon McIlroy and Barbara Gibson (from the Gisborne club) were runners-up on 32 ends and a differential of +38.

Tam Buckingham and Jan Powell took third with 21 ends and Mike Chisholm and Dawne Abraham were fourth on 20 ends.

Most players were keen to return to the clubhouse for the prize-giving for which the sponsors supplied a good display stand offering their varied services for householders.

COMING UP: THURSDAY, Oct 17, and SATURDAY, Oct 19, October club handicap singles, from 10.30am; SATURDAY/SUNDAY, Nov 2-3, club junior pairs championship; TUESDAY, Nov 5, Melbourne Cup fun day open tournament, from 12.30pm.

GisborneEnds won was a popular addition to the scoring system when Gisborne Bowling Club staged the Reg Cook Triples .

Usually employed to break a tie, including the number of ends won by each team to the game score is seen as a fairer way to determine results.

With every end equally important, the big one-end score that can distort results is negated.

It also produced an excitingly close contest.

The winners were decided by differential after two teams finished with 70 points. The next three teams were all on 52 points so also had to be separated by diff.

With a +7 diff, Judy Taylor (skip), Murray Owen and Terry Casey sneaked home ahead of Emily Hongara (s), Joy Davis and Kym Brown on +5.

In third place, Maurice Taylor (s), Bruce Gledhill and Mike Donnelly had a differential of +15 to go with their 52 points, edging Arthur Hawes, Tam Buckingham and Nanette Treloar on +13.

Jeff Davis (s), Ron Seabrook and Trish Leach just missed out on the prize money with a diff of +12.

Don Cook was on hand to present his father’s memorial trophy, along with sponsor Ryman Healthcare’s Pip Griffin.

Gisborne’s open fours championships will be played this weekend. Entries close at 4pm tomorrow.