Good luck to Mike Cartwright, Naki Nehemia and Nairn MacGibbon who will be carrying the Victoria flag in the semifinals of the Wellington Open Triples at 9am on Monday morning. They play Upper Hutt’s Steve Leitch on their home track but have already overcome an Upper Hutt team in the quarterfinals.
Well done to the Wellington Womens A (Lisa White & Helen King) & B (Kirsten & Leigh Griffin) teams, and the Mens B (Raymond Martin & Richard Corry) team winning their respective Tararua Quadrangular competitions in Palmerston North last Sunday. Ray was changed from 3rd in the fours to skip of the pairs on the morning, and won the competition for the Mens B team with his come from behind win over Manawatu in the last round.
Well done to the Victoria Interclub teams for their season’s efforts. Unfortunately none of our teams were quite able to win on Saturday but Victoria was the only club with three teams at finals day, and the two Womens teams came very close going down to the winners in their last games of fours. Special mention was made of Lisa White and Helen King winning their three matches in the Premier pairs, and Hayley May for three wins in the Premier Reserve singles. The fours team were the best in the Premier Mens competition winning two and drawing the other match.
Congratulations to Jamie Coleman for becoming the first player to win the Wellington Development 2-4-2 Mens Pairs for three consecutive years, and to Raymond Martin for winning his first Wellington Centre event. Although they came through some tough times during the tournament, they showed their class towards its conclusion beating Naenae pairing of Miller and McTaggart 19-7 in the final. The final was notable in that each pair won 7 ends however Naenae’s scoring was all in ones whereas Victoria picked up 2 fives. An even bigger score was required near the end of Victoria’s quarterfinal hitting the lead with a seven.
Jamie’s partner in the previous two years was Maurice Andrews. Blake Signal (Stokes Valley) has previously won the title three times but took four years to do it. Jamie’s father Wayne won the title twice for Kilbirnie.
Victoria Womens pairing Lisa White and Hayley May were unable to overcome their two shot deficit when they returned to Naenae at 8am this morning to complete the last end of their quarterfinal match against Tanya Wheeler and Debbie Hanna (Petone Central).
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