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Congratulations to the Victoria team in the Wellington Catholic Interparish indoor bowls league. The team of Robyn and Peter Rintoul, Mary-Ann Wilson and Rich Corry were assured of winning the title for the second time in three seasons when they turned up to the final night at Berhampore on Thursday night.

It has been a particularly successful season for Mary-Ann who was also in the winning Hutt Valley A grade team playing for Vogelmorn. Mary-Ann may face up against the Victoria team for the Greater Wellington Champ of Champ Interclub competition on 16th September in Porrirua, for which Roy Gibb will make an appearance as a super sub.

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Congratulations to Rich Corry and Ray Martin for recent good form in centre indoor bowls events. They came runner-up in the Hutt Valley Open Triples at the Hutt Club playing with Mark Jacombs (Vogelmorn) going down to Grant Rayner (North Wellington) in a very high quality final. They were 5-4 up after 9 of the 10 ends before dropping a 3 on the last.

Rich and Ray also made the semifinals of the North Wellington Open Triples, and Ray the semifinals of the Upper Hutt Open Triples this weekend.

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Richard Corry with replacement lead Peter Rintoul has defended the Wellington Catholic Open Pairs title in indoor bowls. Rich and last year’s lead Mary-Ann Wilson had an easy section play night but Mary-Ann was too sick to contest the post-section night so Peter came in as super sub in his first season of indoor bowls.

The final was very close with scores all level playing the last end. Rich had to kill the end with his last bowl and enforce Rule 28 allowing an additional end but drop three shots. Peter and Rich, however nailed the extra end picking up a 5 on Maree and Kevin Crighton (Vogelmorn) to win 13-11.

This was Peter’s 1st Wellington Catholic and Richard’s 8th title (including 5 wins in this event).

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Well done to Laurie Guy for winning the lastest PBA ranking singles at the Heretaunga Club in Hastings. Laurie had to come through a tough quarterfinal over Lou Newman winning in the third end of a tiebreak, but then went on to beat Steve Love (Manawatu) in the final 7-6, 7-3. This was Laurie’s 2nd rankings event win of the season and 6th tournament win in his PBA career but he has been unable to triumph in one of the qualifying events for a trip to the UK.

Laurie continued his good form the next day but fell in the semifinal of the International Singles qualifier to the near unbeatable Murray Glassey (Hawkes Bay) 7-6, 9-4 having knocked out Hayley May earlier in the day.

Laurie has finished 6th in the New Zealand PBA rankings (pending results from Finals Weekend) again just missing out on a place in the NZ PBA team to challenge the Australian PBA next year. Richard Corry finished in 18th place.