A week after winning a Catholic national title, Ray Martin impressed again in his first ever national indoor bowls tournament reaching the quarterfinals of the national singles in Taupo. He backed this up the next day with a creditable round of 16 result in the pairs with Rich Corry. Pictured is Rich in action in the Academy match playing for the Southern Zone fours team against Northern Zone.
Congratulations on a huge effort from Raymond Martin at the Catholic National Indoor Bowls Champs in Porrirua at the weekend. Ray reached the semifinals of the singles before being knocked out by the eventual winner Helen Burnley (who also plays out of the Hutt Valley Centre), and then with partner Jeff Stuart, won the pairs title! Ray was not far off being player of the tournament!
Tim Toomey won the Regional Secondary Schools singles at the Johnsonville club in a tough final against Euan Wong from Petone Central 14-7. One end was killed 7 times! Tim will play in the national secondary schools finals in December in that great nursery of NZ bowls – Dunedin!
Nicole Toomey came third in the girls singles going down in the semifinal by 1 shot. Nicole is first emergency if one of the finalists cannot go to Dunners.
Mandy Boyd is the 2010 Kittyhawks under 20 champion winning the final in a tiebreak over Nelson’s Misty Arnold. Mandy played well throughout the tournament winning 6 out of 7 in section play. Last year’s champion Kirsten Griffen was knocked out in the quarterfinals in a tiebreak to another Nelson player Julia Hodgson.
Raymond Martin battled through section play with 4 out of 7, then hit a purple patch with easy round of 16 and quarterfinal victories before taking out a tight semifinal encounter. He was knocked over in the final by an on-fire Scott Evans from Auckland but was ‘pretty happy’ with his efforts over the weekend.
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