MINOR PAIRS FINALS
Ben Parslow and Dale Scott were crowned the 2025 Minor Pairs Champions on Saturday winning the game 21-16 against Clint Hurford and Brett Davenport.
With both teams recent game performance, this was not a game you could pick the winners from the start. Starting out the game it was much the muchness with 5 all on 5. Ben and Dale took the next 4 ends to hit the lead 11-6 on 11.
Clint and Brett were not throwing in the towel yet as there was still 10 ends to catch up. Ben and Dale picked up two 3’s to increase the lead 17-7, Clint and Brett answered adding 8 points to their score to only trail by 2 on 18. The game was still anyones at this point but it was Bn and Dale picking up multiples to win overall.
MAJOR TRIPLES
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Our Major triples are coming along swimmingly and our weekend of triples kicked off on Friday.
Bobby Grant leading for Scott McKellar and Lyall Strudwick proved he is still as cool as a cucumber under pressure when they played John Cutler, Jeff Nicholson and Greg Gunn.
The game card shows a 1 sided game to team Strudwick for the first 10 ends. The scoreboard did not reflect the game played as Team Gunn gave it their all but needed to achieve multiple shots to catch up trailing 2-12.
Dropping a 4 on the 14th certainly catapulted Team Strudwick to a comfortable lead 16-6 and they never took their foot off the accelerator and put the pedal to the metal to the finish line. Overall score 21-14 Team Strudwick.
Our second major triples game was played on Sunday morning between Clint Hurford, Pooch Dukes and Skip Mitch Andrews drawing Terry Molloy, Jax Murphy and Kerry Roach. Team Roach going into the game as the underdogs gave 3 our regular A players a run for their money and made them work for every point.
Jax Murphy not only playing his first Major Championship game also celebrated his 11th Birthday and played outstanding bowls to match his opposite Pooch Dukes. The battle didn’t stop there, Mitch Andrews being on point as usual, but Kerry answered with every bowl.
The board said 16-10 on 12 for Team Andrews until Team Roach levelled the board on 16 to 17 all.
Team Andrews had to pull out all the stops and took the next 5 ends to lead 27-17. Team Roach picked up another 3 points but couldn’t catch Team Andrews 33-20 the overall score.
REGIONAL – Forbes Sports and Rec Club hosted the Midwestern Region Open Triples on Saturday morning. Unfortunately, we couldn’t turn on the same weather that we had on Friday afternoon but the players are well seasoned and battled through.
First game was Caragabal vs Molong. Great bowls right throughout the game but the Molong team were too strong in the end winning the game to advance to the afternoon games against Parkes Bowling and Sports Club.
This was a much tighter game with an overall 5 margin, Parkes Bowling and Sports Club won and will now move through to Regionals.
SOCIAL BOWLS
WEDNESDAY BOWLS – Their brave, those Wednesday morning bowlers who played last week in atrocious conditions with card draw winners Sue Smith and John Gorton 23-17 in 22 ends over Bill Scott and Kerry Dunstan. It wasn’t easy for the winners who came from 7-8 down after eight to forge ahead leading slightly 16-14 after 16.
Runners-up Wayne Wright who found a bit of form leading for Kerry Roach winning 20-18 in 22 over Geoff West and Tim Everest. 5-all after six prior to the winners down 12-17 at the end of 16 to dominate on the run home 8-1.
Bill O’Connell and Noel Jolliffe didn’t let a bit of cold beat them as they downed Don Craft and Geoff Brown 23-15 in 22. They let 9-3 after seven then 22-9 after 17.
Triples was the last where John Baass, Phil Hocking and Billy Cowell won 14-7 over Terry Molloy, Geoff Coles and Sue White in 15 (there we go again an uneven end finish).
They started with four on the first two ends, that was end of story cruising home. Raffle winner, Wayne Wright.
THURSDAY BOWLS – Only 8 die hard or maybe silly players took to the greens on Thursday afternoon. The laughter and banter made up for the cold winds that went straight through every layer.
Phil Hocking and Terry Molloy played David Knox (who has only just returned to bowls after 18 years) and Billy Cowell. 4 all on 4, 12 all on 14.
Phil and Terry, although they only gained 1’s, led 17-12 on 18. David and Billy won the last two ends but couldn’t quite match Phil and Terry who won the game 17-15.
Ange Dwyer and Tara Shaw drew Dale Maynard and Ron Thurlow. Dale and Ron led the game all the way to the 12th.
The girls finally picking up a 3 to jump in front 10-9. That’s where the girls ran out of steam and dropped 2 5’s gave Dale and Ron the taste of victory and took out the game 25-11.
Resting touchers – Phil Hocking.
Jackpot winner – Ange Dwyer
SOCIAL BOWLS
Sunday – Three games of pairs and 1 triples game saw 18 players take to the greens for Sunday social bowls.
Juss Scifleet and Billy Cowell proved to good for Kelly Stringer and Peter Greenhalgh.
Juss and Billy led 8-5 at oranges and they didn’t slow down from there. Kelly and Peter scored another 5 points in the back half of 16 but Juss and Billy had the game wrapped up 18-10.
Tyler Murphy and Al Phillips had a sensational game against Joyce Gray and Lyall Strudwick.
Going into the half-time break Joyce and Lyall had only managed 1 point on the board against 10. Winning 4 ends a piece in the second half, Tyler and Al were the victors 16-5.
Ange Dwyer and Mick Merritt played Dale Maynard and Tara Shaw. A very slow start for Dale and Tara dropping a 4 on the 2nd, Ange and Mick had the lead on 8, 8-4.
The end result was close but Ange and Mick were victorious, 14-12.
Terry Muprhy, Trish Todd and John Cutler drew Noel Hocking, Daryl Burley and John Kennedy. 4 all at the break Cutlers team picked up a 3 and 2 and won 5 of the last 6 ends with the scoreboard showing 12-5 on 12.
Resting touchers: Ange Dwyer. No raspberries recorded.
Winning Rink: Terry Murphy, Trish Todd and John Cutler. Losing Rink: Dale Maynard and Tara Shaw
Jackpot Winner: Kelly Stringer
Chicken Raffle winners: Joyce Gray, Jax Murphy x 2, Scooter x 2, Pooch, Billy Cowell, Dick Sharkey and Woodsy
