Centre Open Triples report

Centre Open Triples

The Centre Open Triples were held at Papakura East End and Hunua Bowling Club’s over the weekend in beautiful fine conditions.

Eight men & eight women qualified for post section play on the second day at Hunua Bowling Club.

David Clark and Shane Drabble qualified with three wins, Frankie Lim two wins and a draw, Brody Dix, Peter Hunia, Stu Watt and Ross Craig Smith with two wins each and Jim Ballard one win and best points made up the eight.

In the Women’s Cheryl Hunia qualified with three wins, Sharon Siegruhn two and a draw, Angela Temple, Faye Sergeant, Hetty Bolscher, Adrienne Tilyard & Sharon Perry all qualified with two wins and Diane Main one win and a draw.

Post Section saw Jim Ballard defeat Stu Watt 22-8. Peter Hunia with his young chargers of Lee Warburton & Adam Ballie beat Shane Drabble in a thrilling match 23-16. On the other side of the draw Brody Dix beat Frankie Lim 25-11 and David Clark overcame local Hunua greenkeeper Ross Craig Smith 27-8.

In the semi-final Peter Hunia took Ballard’s Buckland team to the wire with Ballard coming through 20-18 in the final end. While David Clark again showed great form beating Brody Dix, Mark Hall and Daniel Rajek 13-9 to set up a Ballard v Clark final.

In the women’s post section Hetty Bolscher, Leeane Poulsen and Joy Hall beat Faye Sergeant 23-4, Sharon Siegruhn beat Sharon Perry 16-7, Adrienne Tilyard defeated Cheryl Hunia 18-16 in a very tight match and Angela Temple won 20-14 over Diane Main.

Hetty Boslcher’s Papakura team continued their outstanding form and blitzed Sharon Siegruhn 22-7 in the semi, while Adrienne Tilyard had to battle hard to defeat Angela Temple 18-16 and set up a Bolscher v Tilyard final.

The Women’s final again proved to be a scorcher with the two teams tracking close for the first eight ends before Adrienne Tilyard’s team scored seven points in a row to lead 14- 6. Hetty, Leeane & Joy finally found their bowling range and pulled back to within a point (15-16) after 16 ends.

But it wasn’t to be as the Pukekohe team of Adrienne Tilyard, Jenny Welch & Jan Larsen picked up a two and a three to finish the match ahead 19-16.

In the men’s final, top qualifier David Clark (Manurewa) played bottom qualifier Jim Ballard (Buckland), who had just scaped in with one win and best points of the one winners. It was a tight game right up until the thirteen end with only one point in it and Clark ahead.

But the Buckland team of Jim Ballard, Ken Michelsen & Peter Moulden then picked up 8 points in the last four ends to pull away to a 18-12 victory.

A big thank you to Umpire Vince Hape and the Hunua and Papakura East End Bowling Clubs for hosting the event.