Onerahi's Judy Johnson is back home after completing an exhausting whistle-stop tour of the South Island playing indoor bowls, that culminated in victory at the 25th Inter-Island Indoor Bowls Match at Balclutha on Saturday.
It was Johnson's third tour as a part of a North Island team and she said it
was by far the best in regard to results.
"It was the most successful tour that I've ever been on because we never lost any matches, our worst result was a draw against Canterbury," she said.
The tour started on Friday August 5 with a match in Motueka, followed by two matches the following day and it never slowed down after that.
The final game on Saturday was a mammoth effort with three 21-end games, each lasting about two and a half hours each.
Johnson, Hawkes Bay's Sue Fleming and Thames Valley's Fay Eccles lost the first game in the best of three series, before "slaughtering" Southland's Ann Mackie, Nelson's Kay Forsyth and Otago's Marilyn Holmes in the second game.
The final, deciding game was a nail-biter that the Northern team finally won 20-17 to claim the inter-island medals.
"It was a very close game and we didn't know we had won it until the final end," Johnson said.
Johnson said she was pleased with her own form as well as the other two players in her triple combination saying they had played out of their skins on occasion.
She said that as well as their playing duties the tours had differed slightly from other because they had carried out promotional work as they went, especially with groups of school children.
The overall score of the inter-island match in the Dunlop Tyres series was North Island 31, South Island 17.
