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Well done Laurie, Bazza, Leigh & Kirsten!

RichardC — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 06:51:57 +0000

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!

Well done Alf/Laurie, Wayne & Lou!

RichardC — Sun, 22 May 2011 04:57:01 +0000

Victoria picked up its 7th Wellington centre title of the season at Naenae on Saturday with Alf De Munnik (subbing in for an injured Laurie Guy), Wayne Coleman and Lou Newman completing the 3rd mens/womens Victoria double of the season winning the Champion of Champions Triples 18-16. The Victoria team built up an early lead and held a buffer throughout the game but were never able to pull further away from the Wilton team of John Gray, Howard Ivory and John Earles. The last three ends see-sawed with wilton closing the gap to one on the 16th end scoring a 4. Victoria picked up a 4 on the 17th to re-establish a 5-point lead for the last end but were again down 4 shots on the final end before Lou drove twice to reduce to make a five impossible.

This gave Lou his tenth Wellington Centre title with his bar to his Gold Star coming 15 years after his first Centre title in 1995-96. Wayne now has 6 Centre titles and Laurie will probably be awarded his 2nd awaiting a confirmation from the Centre.

Grant’s Whiskey Corner to Corner

RichardC — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 11:01:17 +0000

The 2010-11 Grant’s Whiskey Corner to Corner is underway and organiser Malcolm Bradshaw sure knows his stuff winning the first round to progress to the club final!

The second round will be on Saturday at 5pm once everyone is home from their Open Fours section play.

You can read all about it on the Grant’s Whiskey Corner to Corner page under Competitions.

Senior mens champs done and dusted

RichardC — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:30:03 +0000

The Senior Mens club championships were all done and dusted yesterday with the fours final won by Lou Newman’s team over Wayne Coleman’s four. All results are available on the Competitions page. And thanks to Bazza for keeping things on time.

The womens club champs resume next weekend with the pairs, after regional interclub, centre, national and age group competitions over the last couple of weeks. And junior mens competitions come to a climax with the start of the 1st year singles and finish of the junior singles – markers welcome.

Seen here are the winners Lou Newman, John Hunter (congrats on Lou and John for a three-peat in the fours), Alf De Munnik and Mark Allen. Their prizemoney didn’t last long…