Her win gave Betty Mitchell her 11th centre title, Manu Timoti her 14th and Glenda Norris-Palmer her first while Trevor Johnstone grabbed his second Northland title to go with the three he already holds from Counties, Mike Butler nabbed his 14th and Kevin Sidwell his second centre title this season.
Lawrence wins singles
The Champion of Champion Singles was played at Mangawhai greens last Sunday and Arapohue's Diane Lawrence made up for missing out on the triples by winning and picking up her fifth centre title and her gold star.
In the final she defeated Sally Stirling of Te Kopuru, 21-10. Lawrence got off to a great start, having Stirling 18-3 down after 16 ends. In the men's event, Waipu's Wayne Wrack scored his 10th Northland Singles title by defeating Hikurangi's Sam Nelson 21-12. Wrack had a lead of six shots after four ends and led 12-9 after 12 but four shots scored by Wrack on the 17th end for an eight shot advantage was too much for Nelson.
Auckland take R1
The final event of the weekend was the Region One Inter-Centre 1-5 Year competition completed at Waipu greens. Teams representing Far North, North Harbour, Auckland and Northland took part.
The Auckland men and women went into the second day of competition with a handy lead and completed the event with comfortable wins. It was close for second place with Northland women coming through to defeat North Harbour by one point. North Harbour were also second in the men's event with Northland third, and Far North fourth in each competition.
Interclub 7s starts
Today is the start of the New Zealand finals for the Interclub Sevens at Auckland.
Our centre will be represented by Kensington Women's teams in both Divisions One and Two.
This event will be followed by New Zealand finals of the Inter-Centre competition, also played at Auckland this weekend. Once again our centre is representing the Northern region, with both our open women and open men competing as our area winners. We wish all players every success and I am sure they will all represent us with distinction.
Reminders
The Umpires Association tournament is being held on March 30, at Kensington greens. Don't forget to get your entries in, any combination fours.
Nominations for the Northland Centre Board positions including president, vice president, operations committee, selectors, representative team managers and coaches close on April 1. Application forms have been sent to all clubs and are also available from the centre office.
If you are interested in any of these positions, please act now and forward your nomination along with your CV.
