Chisholm Trophy winners Dayvinia Mills and Geoff Pinn with Fay Chisholm and daughter Teresa at the prizegiving on Monday. Pinn holds the trophy, a mounted set of Michael Chisholm's old wooden bowls.
Chisholm Trophy winners Dayvinia Mills and Geoff Pinn with Fay Chisholm and daughter Teresa at the prizegiving on Monday. Pinn holds the trophy, a mounted set of Michael Chisholm's old wooden bowls.
With one round to play on Monday, three pairs had three wins in top 16 play.
Two of them – Mills and Pinn, and Leighton Shanks and Sha Hohipa – played each other in the last round.
Defeat in this game dropped Shanks and Hohipa out of the top four, as teams who had already had a loss won their last game and recorded higher overall differentials.
In the throes of battle at Gisborne Bowling Club during the Chisholm Trophy Optional Pairs, which ended on Monday.
The other pair sitting on three top 16 wins, Glenys Whiteman and Kelly Te Miha, also lost in the last round and dropped out of the top four placings on differential.
They were beaten by Ball and Bunyan, whose earlier loss was to Hoepo and Kora, who in turn lost by two shots to Whiteman.
Hoepo and Kora beat Erica Thompson and Andy Tamanui (Te Karaka/Kahutia) 16-4 in the last round.
Poverty Bay pairs filled the top two placings in the consolation (plate) section. George Vaotuua and Nico Seymour were first and Anita Vaotuua and BJ Seymour second.
A field of 26 pairs – randomly divided into sections of 14 and 12 teams for Sunday’s play – contested the tournament.
Section A, comprising 14 teams, played at the Gisborne club and Section B teams were at Poverty Bay.
The top 16 pairs on points (two for a win, one for a draw) played at Gisborne Bowling Club on Monday. Consolation (plate) competitors played at Poverty Bay.
In determination of placings, where game points were equal, the higher placing went to the team with the better differential. If those were equal, it went to ends won and then, if necessary, to the “total number of shots for”.
