Seniors and juniors combine forces at Gisborne’s Kahutia Bowling Club

Kahutia Bowling Club optional pairs winners (from left) Malcolm Trowell and Liam Pinn with sponsor Kevin Whiteman and club president Geoff Pinn.

Malcolm Trowell and Liam Pinn won a Kahutia Bowling Club tournament that brought senior and junior bowlers together in pairs of contrasting experience.

The Goodyear Auto-Cooper Tyres Optional Pairs Tournament paired juniors – those with up to eight years of bowls experience – with seniors over two days of bowls.

The top three pairs – Trowell and Liam Pinn, Leighton Shanks and Karen Pinn, and Dayvinia Mills and Geoff Pinn – all had 12 points for six wins, at two points for a win and one for a draw.

Placings were decided on differentials.

Trowell and Liam Pinn had a differential of +63 and 40 ends won, Shanks and Karen Pinn had +45 and 43, and Mills and Geoff Pinn had +43 and 39.

Fourth were Jeff Davis and Win Baker, 11 points (5 wins, 1 draw), +36 and 40; and fifth were July Hoepo and Kyle Pinn, 10 points (5 wins), +49 and 46.

OTHER RESULTS

Alastair MacPherson/Karen MacPherson 10 points (5 wins); Steve Berezowski/Peter Ferris 8 pts (4 wins); Puna McRoberts/Sha Hohipa 6 pts (3 wins); Willy Murray/Barbara Tuhi 5 pts (2 wins, 1 draw) +16 differential; Janice Young/Jackie Horsfall 5 pts (2 wins, 1 draw) -23 diff; Les Whittington/Delores Woodcock 5 pts (2 wins, 1 draw) -27 diff; Andrew Ball/Marise Raklander 4 pts (2 wins) -12 diff; Boon McIlroy/John Donnelly 4 pts (2 wins) -19 diff; Glenys Whiteman/Kelly Te Miha 4 pts (2 wins) -25 diff; Ray Smith/Craig Smith 4 pts (2 wins) -33 diff; Don Williams/Jaykwan Casey 3 pts (1 win, 1 draw); Murray Murton/Andrea Tuhi 2 pts (1 win) -27 diff; Joe Wimutu/Coral Dunn 2 pts (1 win) -29 diff.