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Congratulations to Ray Martin (in a very solid debut performance) and Rich Corry (who also co-selected the side) and the rest of the Hutt Valley Paterson Trophy team for winning the zone 4 indoor bowls intercentre event for a third year running and qualifying for the national intercentre finals (called the Welch Trophy) to be played at home in the Hutt on September 3rd-5th. This is a demanding event with each player playing 15 games made up of fours, singles and pairs in a test of focus, skill and endurance over a weekend. Hutt Valley will host Auckland, Waikato, North Taranaki, Canterbury and Otago in the national finals.

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Nicole Toomey won the Hutt Valley indoor bowls Junior Singles for players 18 years and under. This was the first time Nic had played in the event and will now represent Hutt Valley in the national Junior singles finals to be played in Porrirua on August 28th. Competitors at that event may also get selected to play in a north v south zone Junior ‘test match’. Nic is already scheduled to play in the national secondary schools champs at the same venue over the following two days.

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Congratulations to Nicole Toomey for winning the Wellington Regional College Indoor Bowls Singles for St. Mary’s, and Tim Toomey with former Victoria member Xavier Scott in winning the Pairs for St. Pat’s Wellington.

A national secondary schools indoor bowls competition will be held in Porrirua in August.

Here’s the Dominion Post article care of www.stuff.co.nz:

SCOTT AND TOOMEY SURPRISED BY WIN

A laidback approach paid off for rookie indoor bowls player Xavier Scott last week.

Scott, 17, teamed up with fellow St Pat’s Town student Tim Toomey to win the College Sport Wellington pairs title in the North Wellington Hall.

In the final, Scott and Toomey beat Luke Boyadjian and Alasdair Shariff, from Aotea College, 8-1.

The duo had not even expected to be competing in the championship competition, thinking they would play in the novice event.

“They didn’t have enough people for that, so they put us in the main one and we ended up winning it,” Scott said.

However, what started out for Scott as a casual thing has changed with the pair now qualified for the national indoor secondary school championships, which will be in Wellington from August 29-30.

“I’ll be taking it seriously now for the nationals,” Scott said.

Meanwhile, for the Toomey family there was a double reason for celebrating success at the championships with Nicole, 15, winning the singles title.

In one of the few sports that combines boys and girls entrants, Toomey beat Ben Tromp, of St Pat’s Silverstream, 17-1 in the final.

“I didn’t expect to win it,” she said. “I was quite pleased with how I did.”

As for playing against boys, Toomey, a year 11 student at St Mary’s College, has done it all before.

“I played the college outdoor [bowls] against the boys as well,” she said.

She will also compete in the national secondary schools indoor bowls championships.

For the Toomeys it is the second time they have qualified for a national secondary school championship.

In May they both qualified for the outdoor national secondary schools championships, which will be held in Dunedin from December 12-14.

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Kay Carr and Richard Corry won the Hutt Valley Indoor Bowls Mixed Pairs title. This was the second time winning the title for both players but they had done this previously with different partners.