Poverty Bay’s Flaugere, Colvin win Gisborne East Coast centre masters title

Bowls Gisborne East Coast centre president Jon Davies with GEC Centre Masters 60+ Optional Tournament winners Anna Colvin and Kathryn Flaugere.

The only women’s team to enter the Gisborne East Coast Centre Masters 60+ Optional Tournament have emerged as the overall winners.

Kathryn Flaugere and Anna Colvin mastered their home Poverty Bay greens in warm conditions to win the tournament which featured 14 teams and a format of four rounds of 12 ends.

The champions ended the rounds unbeaten with three wins and a draw.

Tolaga Bay’s Mark Bain and Ben Elkington were runners-up on three wins.

The last two combos standing in Poverty Bay Bowling Club's open women's pairs were (from left) Jessie Davis-Law, Karen Pinn, Debs Hancock and Ngawai Turipa. Hancock and Turipa won the title.

Meanwhile, Poverty Bay Bowling Club’s open women’s pairs champions for the 2024-25 season are Debs Hancock and Ngawai Turipa.

The Turipa-skipped pair won with two lives intact, clinching the title with a 15-12 victory over Jessie Davis-Law (skip) and Karen Pinn.

The game was highly competitive. Davis-Law and Pinn led 12-7 with three ends remaining only to drop five shots in what proved to be a turning point.

Turipa and Hancock led 13-12 on the 14th end and held the shot.

Davis-Law attempted to move the bowl or jack, but narrowly missed. Turipa then drew another shot and Davis-Law tried the same shot again, only to miss by a whisker.