The winning team of Nepia (skip), Jasmine Merrick, Ngamiro Allen and Holli Elkington had two wins, a draw and a loss on the Saturday, but won all three of their games on the Sunday.
Two teams had three wins and a loss on the Saturday — the Poverty Bay four of Val McGreevy (s), Marion Jones, Lesley Seymour and Marilyn Knowles, and Te Karaka four Del Tamanui (s), Sarah Brown, Sharon Olsen and Diane Murray. Glenys Whiteman’s Kahutia team had two wins and two losses.
On Sunday, Nepia’s team beat the Tamanui team with a plus-1 differential in the first game, beat Jan Powell’s Poverty Bay team with a plus-2 differential in the second, and beat Whiteman’s team with a plus-6 differential in the third. With their overall victory, Nepia, Merrick, Allen and Elkington took home the Rahiwi Cup. It was Elkington’s first centre title.
McGreevy’s team, with a plus-1 differential, beat the Tamanui team in the second game on Sunday. In the third game they comfortably beat their clubmates, Herring’s team, with a plus-8 differential. McGreevy’s team were tournament runners-up.
Gisborne’s Carol Hawes (s), Ginny Sherriff, Kym Brown and Dayvinia Mills beat McGreevy’s team with a plus-4 differential in the first game and Herring’s team with plus-1 differential in the second. Hawes lost to Powell’s team in the third game, with a minus-4 differential. The Hawes team finished third in the tournament.
Whiteman’s team won their first game with a plus-8 differential against Jan Powell’s Poverty Bay team but lost to Gisborne’s Tanya Harrison (s), Dianne Phillips, Donna Smith and Bobbie Beattie in the second game, with a minus-3 differential.
Harrison’s team beat Betty Herring’s Poverty Bay team with a plus-11 differential but lost, with a minus-5 differential, to Tamanui. It was the Tamanui team’s only win on Sunday as they lost their first and second games that day.
