Karen de Jongh cuddles her father Jos De Jongh after she won the Women's singles bowls 21-7.
Leading Auckland women's bowler Karen de Jongh suffered further heartbreak at the New Zealand Open at Henderson yesterday when she and her experienced pairs partner Bev Crowe narrowly missed making the final.
On Monday de Jongh narrowly failed to make the singles final to defend the title she won last
year. And yesterday there was a similar frustrating defeat in the pairs semifinal when she and Crowe were edged by Queenstown's Margaret O'Connor and Christine Buchanan.
The Central Otago pair will now meet Thames' Margaret Henderson and Doreen Garlick in the final, with Henderson and Garlick winning their semifinal over another Auckland composite, Doreen Jensen and Aleenza Levi.
Father and son Neville and Jamie Hill clashed in one of the men's triples quarter-finals, with Neville and his line-up of Ken Fitness and Mike Bradshaw prevailing over the Richard Corry-skipped composite of which Jamie was a member.
The Fitness triple will meet the composite skipped by Counties' Shane McGonagle and the other semi-finalists will be the John McConnell-skipped Pauanui line-up and the Balmoral triple of John James, which won its quarter-final over Takapuna's Bob Howitt.
