NAILBITING FINAL: Tom Duffin Fours winners (from left)skip Warren Gibb, Marise Raklander, Kayla Trowell (holding trophy) and Bruce Easton. They won a thrilling final 8-6. Picture by Paul Rickard
The ST1 Forestry Tom Duffin Fours was a great success, and the nine-end final was one not to miss.
Warren Gibb, Bruce Easton, Marise Raklander and Kayla Trowell came up against Nathan Trowell, David Lynn, Akuhata Keelan and Lois Lamont.
Trowell's team led 5-2 after four ends. On the fifth
end, Keelan was unlucky and killed the kitty, giving Gibb's team two penalty points to close it to 5-4.
Another good effort by Trowell's team on End 6 pocketed one point for them, to make the score 6-4. By End 7, Raklander was firing. She played two nice draw bowls to hold two shots. Lynn got the point back for Trowell's team, only for Easton to play one of his many classy bowls in the game to regain the point. Gibb drew another point and it was 6-6.
On End 8, Gibb's team held shot with Trowell having last bowl. The question was whether to try to get the shot and go one up, giving Gibb the last bowl on the last end, or leave Gibb with one shot, meaning Trowell would get last bowl of the game, which can be crucial. Gibb was left with the point . . . 7-6.
