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Well done Rich & Ray!
Birkenhead’s Danny O’Connor became just the third man in the 100-year history of the New Zealand bowls championships to claim his 10th title at Browns Bay earlier today. O’Connor was a member of a composite side skipped by Aramoho’s Peter Belliss and including Richard Girvan (Onehunga) and Lance Tasker (Tauranga) that withstood a spirited late…
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Nicole grabs the spotlight at New Zealand Bowls Champs
Nicole Toomey (Victoria) and Katelyn Inch (Oxford), both aged 19, came from behind to win their semifinal in the women’s pairs and this afternoon will play in the final against two other relative youngsters, the Boyd sisters of Burnside – Mandy, 23, and Angela, 28. It took Toomey and Inch, sixth and seventh year players…
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Leigh into womens singles final at National Bowls Champs
Victoria’s Leigh Griffin and Browns Bay’s Elaine McClintock had contrasting paths but have both found themselves in the women’s singles final at the New Zealand bowls championships on Auckland’s North Shore. In the semifinals on Thursday, Griffin led throughout to deny the 2014 runner-up Tayla Bruce (Burnside) 21-14. But McClintock trailed for the vast majority…
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Well done Rich and Ray!
Congratulations to our well-performed pairs team Richard Corry and Raymond Martin who reached the semifinals of the New Zealand Open at the Henderson greens in Auckland this week before going down to Pat Houlihan (Central Otago) and Alvin Gardiner (Canterbury) 12-8. Ray also reached the quarterfinals of the singles again being clipped by Gardiner 21-14,…
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Well done Rich & Ray!
Congratulations to Richard Corry and Raymond Martin who teamed with Rob Ashton (Johnsonville) to come runner-up in the Henselite $20,000 International Invitation Triples at the Onehunga club in Auckland over the weekend. They fell in the final to Brian Bateman, Kevin Robinson and Richard Girvan 15-9 after having beaten the fancied triple of Justin Goodwin,…
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Well done Laurie, Bazza, Leigh & Kirsten!
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…