The Robieson Fours indoor bowls champions are (from left) Nathan Trowell, Karyn Foster, Zoe Trowell and Malcolm Trowell. It was the 25th centre title for Nathan and 45th for father Malcolm.
The Robieson Fours indoor bowls champions are (from left) Nathan Trowell, Karyn Foster, Zoe Trowell and Malcolm Trowell. It was the 25th centre title for Nathan and 45th for father Malcolm.
Four Poverty Bay East centre titles were decided in a holiday weekend bonanza of indoor bowls at Waerenga-a-Hika Hall that included players from Auckland and Bay of Plenty.
Two Southpac-sponsored singles events were contested on Matariki Friday.
First up was the Henselite Open Singles, featuring a strong field of18 bowlers.
From four preliminary rounds of 12 ends, seven players qualified for post-section play.
In the quarter-finals, Jay Casey beat Keith Setter 14-9, Dylan Foster beat older brother Matthew 13-10, and Leighton Shanks edged Andrew Rickard 12-11. They advanced to the last four, alongside Rachael Rickard, who had the bye.
Casey got the better of Rickard in their semifinal, collecting four points in the 11th end en route to a 12-10 victory.
Dylan Foster (left) defeated Jay Casey 9-7 in the Poverty Bay East Coast Indoor Bowls Centre final of the Henselite Open Singles and will go on to contest the zone playoffs.
Foster had an impressive 13-5 win over Shanks and carried his top form into a closely fought final, which he won 9-7.
He will represent PBEC in the Henselite zone final in Whakatāne later this month.
Both teams scored on alternate ends, but Reed’s crew secured more points on their ends to win 15-8.
It was a similar case in the other semi, where siblings Nathan and Zoe Trowell, father Malcolm and Karyn Foster overcame Andrew, Adam and Rachael Rickard and Bryan Pulley 14-7.
The final was close. Trowell’s four led 6-5 after seven ends and scored again on the last two ends for an 8-5 victory.
This win earned Nathan a gold star for his 25th centre title.
Malcolm has 45 centre crowns, Zoe two, and it was the first for Foster.
Having won indoor bowls singles titles earlier in the weekend, Sean Haskins (left) and Dylan Foster combined forces to win the Clarke Schollum Pairs.
The Clarke Schollum Pairs were contested on Sunday. Thirteen teams were in the preliminary rounds, with seven advancing to post-qualifying.
David Lynn and Raklander drew the bye in the quarter-finals; Warren Gibb and Lois Lamont downed Nathan and Kayla Trowell 8-5; Reed and Matthew Foster had a decisive 14-2 win over Malcolm and Zoe Trowell, including the maximum six points on end four; Dylan Foster and Haskins comfortably beat Adam and Rachael Rickard 10-4.
Lynn and Raklander pipped Gibb and Lamont by the narrowest of margins, 8-7, in the semis. A measure was required to determine the shot bowl in the last end.
The other semi was equally close. It was tied 8-8 after eight ends before Dylan Foster and Haskins got home 9-8 over Reed and Matthew Foster - Reed’s final bowl just missing taking the shot.
In the final, Dylan Foster and Haskins started strongly to be 5-0 up after two ends.
Lynn and Raklander recovered to close it to 5-4 after four, but struggled in the last few ends. Foster and Haskins won 12-5 after Lynn killed the kitty on the eighth end.
The two wins for the weekend brought Dylan Foster’s centre title tally to 24 and Haskins’ to four.
