On the mats — indoor bowls news

That winning feeling: The Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowls team with the Bill Moore Trophy. Team members are, back (from left): Andrew Rickard, Nathan Trowell, Bryan Pulley, Malcolm Trowell and Doc Tipene. Middle: Hina Preddey, Kayla Trowell, Rachael Rickard, David Lynn, Nanette Treloar and Coralie Campbell-Whitehead (reserve/manager). Front: Keith Setter, Adam Rickard, Dylan Foster, Matthew Foster, Lois Lamont and Warren Gibb. Picture supplied

The NZCT Poverty Bay-East Coast indoor bowls representative team had a successful weekend in Tauranga.

They played some great bowls and won the Friendship Cup against King Country, winning by 42 points to 26.

The team also placed second overall in the Hone Trophy, with Tauranga the outright winners.

Thames Valley were third and King Country, fourth.

Standout bowlers for the Bay were young guns Adam Rickard, 11, and Dylan Foster, 15, with six wins from their eight games.

Keith Setter, Warren Gibb, Hina Preddey, Bryan Pulley, Nathan Trowell and Matthew Foster recorded five wins. The rest of the team — Kayla Trowell, Rachael Rickard, Doc Tipene, Malcolm Trowell, Nanette Treloar, Lois Lamont, Andrew Rickard and David Lynn — also contributed to the cup victory.

The next day the team travelled to Whakatane and created history by being the first Poverty Bay-East Coast team to win the Bill Moore Trophy against Rotorua and Whakatane.

The Bay team won with 80.5 points. Whakatane had 71 points and Rotorua, 64.5.

From the six games played, the youngest team to ever represent the Bay — Nathan Trowell 5 wins; Matthew Foster 5 wins, 1 draw; Adam Rickard 5 wins; and Kayla Trowell 5 wins, 1 draw — spearheaded the victory, with the rest of the team from the day before contributing to the historic win.