Smith lost her second game, with a minus-6 differential, to Turipa but won her third game with a plus-13 against Nepia.
Turipa lost to Nepia with a minus-5 differential in her first game.
Wright won all her games. She beat Whiteman, with a plus-16 differential in the first round, a plus-5 differential against Olsen in the second round and a plus-17 differential against Flaugere in the third.
Whiteman had a bye in the second round but won with plus-18 differential against Olsen in the third round.
Mills, who had a bye in the first round, lost her second game to Flaugere with only a minus-1 differential. She won her third game, with a plus-4 differential, against Shanks.
Olsen won her first game, with a plus-6 differential against Tamanui but lost her second and third games.
Tamanui won her second game against Shanks with a plus-6 differential and had a bye in the third game.
Flaugere lost her first game to Shanks, with a minus-11 differential, won her second game with a plus-1 differential against Mills and lost her third game with a minus-17 differential against Wright.
Shanks had a big win against Flaugere in the first round but lost her second and third games to Tamanui and Mills.
The top eight players went through to post-section play on the Sunday with single elimination.
In the first round, Smith beat Wright; Turipa beat Whiteman to qualify for the next round but lost to Smith 22-12.
Harrison beat Tamanui and moved on to the next round to play Mills, who had won her game against Shanks.
Harrison and Gisborne clubmate Mills played some awesome bowls, but Harrison won comfortably 21-17.
The final was a great game between Harrison and Smith. Both are members of Gisborne Bowling Club, although Smith is also a member of the Wairoa club.
After these two experienced players had played their last bowls, Harrison emerged the winner, 21-18, and she took home another centre title.
The men’s section attracted 17 players — Bruce Ball, Don Williams, Andrew Ball, John Andrews and Les Whittington from Poverty Bay Bowling Club; Leighton Shanks and Hoepo from Te Karaka; Robin Jefferson, Charlie Ure, Hona Huriwai, Mark Walker, McIlroy, Steve Goldsbury, Geoff Pinn and Jon Kora from Gisborne; and Joe Wimutu and Ray Young from Kahutia.
In the first round, Bruce Ball had a win by default as Williams wasn’t present on the day. Ball then lost with a minus-6 differential to Shanks and lost his third game with a minus-5 differential to Ure.
Shanks lost his first game to Jefferson with a minus-8 differential but won his third game against Huriwai with a plus-17 differential.
Jefferson lost his second game, with a minus-1 differential, against Hoepo then lost his third game, with a minus-7 differential, to Walker.
Meanwhile, Ure won his first game with a plus-11 differential against Huriwai and won with a plus-5 differential against Bruce Ball in the third game.
Hoepo had a big win against Walker in the first game, with a plus-12 differential. Walker lost his second game, with a minus-13 differential, to Kora but won his third game against Jefferson, with a plus-7 differential.
Andrew Ball beat clubmate Andrews by a plus-10 differential in the first game. He then beat another clubmate, Whittington, by a plus-9 differential and had a bye in the third round.
Andrews lost to Wimutu in the second game, by a minus-3 differential, and had a draw with Pinn in the third game.
Whittington lost to McIlroy in the first game by a minus-13 differential and to Goldsbury in the third game by a minus-2 differential.
McIlroy beat Pinn by a plus-11 differential in the second game but lost to Kora by a minus-4 differential in the third game.
Wimutu lost to Goldsbury in the first game by a minus-12 differential, defeated Andrews in the second game by a plus-3 differential and defeated Young in the third game by a plus-2 differential.
Meanwhile, Goldsbury won by a plus-2 differential against Young in the second game and by a plus-2 differential against Whittington in the third.
Pinn comfortably defeated Young in the first game by a plus-12 differential but lost his second game and had a draw in the third game.
Kora, who had a bye in the first round, won his second game by a plus-13 differential against Walker and won his third game, against McIlroy, by a plus-4 differential.
All 16 players went through to post-section play on the Sunday with single elimination.
In the first round, Whittington beat Kora. Pinn beat Wimutu to qualify for the next round but lost to Whittington. Hoepo beat Huriwai, and Walker beat Goldsbury but lost to Hoepo in the next round. Andrew Ball beat Young. Jefferson lost to Shanks but Shanks lost to Ball in the next round. Andrews lost to Ure, while McIlroy beat Bruce Ball to move on to the next round, where he beat clubmate Ure.
In an exciting game, McIlroy beat Andrew Ball 21-17 to reach the final. Hoepo beat Whittington 21-10 in the other semifinal.
The final, between Hoepo and McIlroy, produced some great bowls and at the end Hoepo had won 21-12 to take the title.
