John Griffin’s bowls round-up, June 6, 2015

THE district pennant finals for 2014 have been decided.

In the grade 6 elimination finals Lockhart 61 defeated Junee 45 to make the final against The Rules Club.

Lockhart were defeated 59/48,.

The Rules Club will now represent the district in the Zone 8 play offs.

In grade 4 Ganmain 68 defeated Coolamon 48 to progress to zone playoffs.

In grade 5 Rules Club will be going to the zone play offs after defeating RSL 69/47 in the final.

Grade 7 saw Rules (7b) 73 defeat Ganmain 53 in the preliminary final, however they were defeated by Rules (7a) 78 to 48 in the final.

Zone 8

THE Zone 8, 2015 pennant finals will be played June 13 and 14.

Grade 2 at Junee, Grade 3 at Cootamundra Ex-services Club, Grade 4 at Gundagai, grade 5 at Narrandera, grade 6 at Temora Bowling Club and Grade 7 at Howlong.

The state finals will be played in August.

Grade 1 Dapto and Albion Park, grade 2 Cabramatta and Ingleburn, grade 3 Kahila & Warners Bay, grade 4 Leton Soldiers and Narrendera, grade 5 West Dubbo and Dubbo railway, grade 6 Northmead and Merrylands and grade 7 Orange City and Blaney.

Tumbarumba

NO ACTION on the greens at Tumbarumba  last week, everything is virtually in recess until the weather warms up, however, any outstanding championship games that can be organised would be greatly appreciated.

The teams have been selected to travel to Narrandera for the Zone 8 play offs on June 13 and 14 are: John Salter, Mathew Salter, Jim Hunter, Charlie Garrison; Bill Butz, Paul Wood, Garry Doughty, Paul Bennett; Ralph Fair, Geoff Hulm, Robert Doughty, Damian Shore. Manager and reserve Bob Miller.

Anyone that is unavailable please contact Bob Miller.

Skips to arrange transport with the first game on Saturday at 1pm against North Albury.

Social bowls will be on again both Wednesday and Saturday with the starting time 1pm with names to be in by 12.30pm.

Gundagai

IT TOOK an extra end in the mixed pairs to decide a wonderful mixed pairs match played last Thursday afternoon, with Peter Smith and Gail Rowlands prevailing 22 shots to 20 over Bruce Tout and Ina Ford.

In another magnificent game of mixed pairs Terry and Bessie Coggan hung on to defeat a fast finishing Mark and Robyn Maynard, defeating them 24 shots to 22 played last Saturday afternoon. 

In the championship triples Bruce McCarthy, “Mitch” Peterson and Col Harris caused a bit of an upset when they defeated defending triples champions Barney Reardon, Tom French and Mark Maynard 18 shots to 16 last Sunday morning.

The “Macca” led trio flew out of the barriers to lead 12-4 at the end of the eighth end with Barney’s side fighting back to trail 16-12 after 16 and 17-14 after 18.

The last three ends were a classic as both sides tried to grab the ascendancy but Bruce, “Mitch” and Col scored one shot and only allowed their opponents single shots on the final two ends to claim a great victory.

While in the championship singles, Donny Smith had too much experience for a gallant Peter Gailey, defeating him 31 shots to 16 last Saturday.

The match was pretty even early with Smith holding a slender 10-9 lead after 10 ends, but Smith skipped away taking four of the next six ends to lead 18-12, before stamping his authority on the match by scoring 13 shots to Peters four over the final 12 ends to go on and have a rather easy victory.