Success was shared around when Poverty Bay Bowling Club members held their annual Rex Rigney Christmas Tournament on a sunny afternoon.
The Kiri Te Kanawa Retirement Village-sponsored event was run as a progressive triples tournament. This meant players were in different teams for each of their three games.
Two skips had two
wins and a draw and both won 14 ends.
Dave Hooper was the winner, with 35 shots, and Dawson Owen was second, with 23 shots. Diane Christie was third, with two wins.
Two directors, Lesley Holmes and Erin Sutherland, had three wins. Holmes was placed first, with 15 ends, and Sutherland was second, with 14 ends.
Joan Gledhill was third with two wins.
The winning lead was Peter Walters, with three wins. Debs Hancock and Oona Manning both had two wins. Hancock, with 23 ends, was placed second and Manning, with 12 ends, was third.
Debs Hancock and her two children, Jethro and Anica, are new club members and were playing in their first tournament. Jethro (10) and Anica (nearly 9) played some great bowls and received prizes for being the youngest male and female competitors.
Lucky losers went into a draw for a Ryman bag of goodies and these were won by Anica Hancock and bar manager Anna Colvin.
Following the prizegiving, members shared a potluck dinner they provided, and between courses they held a Christmas quiz.
Georgia Colvin and Jenna McCabe did much-appreciated work in the kitchen.
