All semifinalists bar Kerekere are chasing a first Keiha Cup Open crown — Jujnovich in his first appearance at the tournament.
Morley looked in trouble as Hukanui Brown (Patutahi) threw a handful of birdies at him in the front nine holes.
Standing on the 13th tee, Morley found himself 3-down but kept his head and proceeded to win the next four holes to go 1-up with two holes to play and halved the 17th.
Both players missed the fairway off the tee on the 18th — Morley right, Brown left.
Morley, the son of long-time Gisborne Park members Evan and Jean Morley, played a solid second shot from the rough to about five metres short of the green.
Brown pulled his second into the left-hand bunker. He got his third out but well away from the hole and Morley showed steely nerve under pressure to chip to gimme distance for the win.
It was a contrasting victory to his morning first-round match when he crushed Waikanae 8-handicapper Robert Cooper 7 and 6.
Reedy was rock-solid all day as he disposed of Stefan Andreassen (Poverty Bay) 4 and 3 in round 1, then continued his recent dominance of Bay greenkeeper Brown.
The pair met in the previous Open final in 2020 — last year's Open was rescheduled to this week — and Brown came out on top.
Since then, Reedy has beaten Brown in the finals of the East Coast Open at Te Puia Hot Springs and King of the Coast at Tolaga Bay.
Kerekere, the Open winner in 2015 and 2016, admitted he felt he didn't have any more to offer against Rooney but simple par golf.
It was enough as Feilding teenager Rooney was unable to repeat the Thursday birdie spree that earned him the lowest 36-hole qualifying score in the tournament's history dating back to 1931.
Kerekere probably needed to find more red scores this morning against Jujnovich, who he knows through representative golf.
Jujnovich, a 37-year-old builder, North Harbour rep and proud “Westie”, scraped past Lewis in an absorbing finish.
Lewis made an excellent long-range two-putt for par to win the 18th and force sudden-death after Jujnovich strayed to the right into trouble off the tee.
The pair traded birdies on the 19th then both found sand from the tee on the par-3 20th.
Their bunker shots finished almost exactly the same distance away and the flagstick was needed to measure who was closest.
Jujnovich, who is of Croatian descent and has close family friends in Gisborne, was a smidgen further away, putted first and slotted it.
Lewis missed and was left lamenting a match he felt he should have won.
Semifinals in all six divisions were held this morning, followed by finals in the afternoon and the BDO $1000 Nearest To Pin Challenge.
The winners of the six approaches in each round of qualifying on Thursday make up the contenders for the challenge, along with a player from a lucky draw done last night.
The approach winners were Brian Clarke, Kerekere, Russell Kane (Rangitikei), Andrew Watene (Hutt Park), Rooney and Hukanui Brown. The winner of the lucky draw was Poverty Bay club captain Andy Hayward.
These seven have two goes each from 100 metres out on the 18th hole — the closest to the pin earning the victorious player a cool grand.
