Stone and Treloar, Gibb and Haskins rule Poverty Bay East Coast pairs mats

Poverty Bay East Coast indoor bowls Ladies' Pairs champions Pauline Stone and Nanette Treloar.

Dynamic duo Pauline Stone and Nanette Treloar racked up their seventh Poverty Bay East Coast Ladies’ Pairs crown as a combination last weekend.

Warren Gibb and teenager Sean Haskins won the Men’s Pairs.

Both championships were held at the Waerenga-a-Hika Hall on Sunday and each featured seven pairs.

Four men’s and three women’s pairs qualified for post-section play after the preliminary rounds.

In the ladies’ semi-final, the experience of Marise Raklander and Lois Lamont was to the fore in a 13-1 victory over Zoe Trowell and Vikki Haskins.

They went on to face indoor bowls stalwarts Stone and Treloar in the final.

Stone and Treloar led 4-2 after five ends, but a mistake by Stone in the sixth, when she killed the kitty, left them trailing 5-4.

The next two ends were evenly matched and Raklander and Lamont went into the ninth and last end 6-5 ahead.

With her last bowl, Stone, in her characteristically calm fashion, dragged the kitty back for two shots and a 7-6 win.

It was the 17^th centre title for Stone and 22^nd for Treloar, and the seventh Ladies’ Pairs they have won together.

Poverty Bay East Coast indoor bowls Men's Pairs champions Warren Gibb and Sean Haskins.

In the men’s semi-finals, Gibb and Haskins beat Dylan Foster and Mike Foster 6-2, while Doc Tipene and David Lynn came from 8-0 down to tip Malcolm Trowell and Jason Trowill 10-8.

The final started as a tense affair, with Gibb and Haskins leading 5-4 after six ends before gaining momentum and going on to win 9-4.

It was the 24^th centre title for Warren Gibb and fifth for 16-year-old Haskins.

The Poverty Bay East Coast representative team are travelling to Bay of Plenty this weekend for the Hone Trophy in Tauranga and the Bill Moore Trophy in Whakatāne.

The team are Warren Gibb, David Lynn, Lois Lamont, Marise Raklander, Malcolm Trowell, Sean Haskins, Zoe Trowell, Jaykwan Casey, Keith Setter, Jay Casey, Quaylahn Casey, Sophie Haskins, Doc Tipene, Pauline Stone, Coralie Campbell-Whitehead, Nanette Treloar, Bruce Gledhill and manager Kaye Easton.