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29 year old Lisa White has been included in the Junior Development Trans-Tasman New Zealand Team to take on Australia at the Waihopai club in Invercargill on March 7th-9th. A mutual agreement between Bowls NZ and Bowls Australia will see the Junior Trans-Tasman squad extended this year to include older bowlers in what was the under-25 team. The change of rules allows two players that are over 25-years-old to be included in both the men’s and women’s sides.

Lisa also represented New Zealand in the senior team for indoor bowls in May 2011 against Australia in Balclutha excelling in the Womens Singles position.

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Hayley May’s efforts in reaching the quarterfinals of the Womens Singles highlighted the performances of Victoria players in the National Championships over the last two weeks in a very wet Auckland. Hayley dipped out 21-13 to the Womens Consistency award winner Mandy Boyd (Johnsonville). It is definitely worth practicing on artificial surfaces for an Auckland nationals!

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Victoria’s Nicole Toomey is the 2011 National Secondary Schools Girls Singles Champion! She won on Tuesday at the Papanui club in Canterbury representing St.Mary’s College rolling out Paige Richmond (Dunstan High School) 18-9 in the semi-final and then blazing through her finals match against Holly McIlroy (Manurewa High School), 19-10. And it was a Wellington double with Euan Wong winning the Boys Singles title.

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Laurie Guy and Barry O’Brien, playing with Jamie Hill (Auckland) fell at the semifinal stage of the New Zealand Open Mens Triples at the Henderson greens on Wednesday afternoon to eventual champions and NZ team invites Chris Le Lievre, Dan Delaney (Auckland) and Shannon McIlory (Nelson) 19-9. They earlier beat Stuart Settle’s Waikato triple 16-11 in the quarterfinal.

Kirsten Griffin skipped a team playing with Teri Anderson (who has played Business House bowls at Victoria before she moved to Auckland) and Jacqui Whitburn (Auckland) to the quarterfinals of the Womens Triples also going down to a NZ invited team of Leanne Currey, Mandy Boyd and Jan Khan 18-6.

Leigh Griffin playing with Karen Hema and Tania Wrigley (Auckland) made it a consistently good effort from the Victoria players also reaching the quarterfinals of the Womens Triples falling 15-7 to a Composite team skipped by Margaret Henderson (Thames Valley).

A good effort on the Auckland greens in preparation for the Nationals!