Brendon McIlroy’s team had a win with plus-6 differential against David File (skip), Steve Goldsbury, John Dawson and Charlie Ure in the first game.
Then they beat Joe Wimutu’s Kahutia team with plus-14 differential in the second game and had a draw against Vern Marshall’s team (Tolaga Bay) in the third game.
Malcolm Trowell (skip), Nathan Trowell, Geoff Pinn and Don Oates of Gisborne had a win with plus-2 differential in the first game against Mike Atkins’s Tolaga Bay team.
Trowell beat clubmates Arthur Hawes (skip), Bruce Easton, Dave Beattie and Tim Sherriff in the second game with plus-14 differential but had a draw in the third game against Robin Jefferson (skip), Ricky Miller, Mark Walker and Andrew Ball of Gisborne.
Leighton Shanks’s team won with a plus-16 differential against Vern Marshall’s Tolaga Bay team but had a draw in the second game against Mike Atkins’s team.
In the third game, Shanks comfortably won with plus-8 differential against C Marshall’s team (Tolaga Bay).
The Hawes and Atkins teams did not qualify for post-section play on Sunday.
The top eight teams had to play in single elimination or “sudden death”.
In the first round, McIlroy beat the Wimutu team and moved on to the next round.
File comfortably beat Jefferson’s team but lost to McIlroy’s team in the next round.
Trowell had quite a good game against Marshall’s team in the first game and won the game.
Shanks’s team beat C Marshall’s team in the first round and then beat Trowell’s team in the next round.
In the final, both McIlroy’s team and Shanks’s team played some brilliant bowls with very close scores.
In the last end McIlroy took some of the opposition’s shots out and closed it to 17-16.
However, time was up and McIlroy’s team had to settle for the trophy for runners-up.
