2017 Men’s WA Country Inter Zone Round Robin
Halls Head BC host IZRR The 2017 WA Men’s Inter Zone Round Robin was conducted at the Halls Head Bowling and Recreation Club in Mandurah on the weekend of the 4th and 5th February in warm and sunny conditions, with a fresh and sometimes gusty afternoon sea breeze on day one. The Halls Head Bowling Club officials and volunteers are to be congratulated for raising the bar for this prestigious event by providing excellent synthetic Greens and first class facilities complemented by great catering and bar service and a seamless event that was appreciated by all bowlers, officials and a large group of spectators who were in attendance. In as exciting climax to the Championship that kept spectators on the edge of their seats, South West Zone held off a determined challenge by Eastern Zone in round 3 on Sunday morning with the result going down to the wire. South West, on the back of wins by Ben Garrett and Graham Evans team’s claimed the two rinks required to seal victory over a strong Eastern contingent that won the aggregate by nine shots with three rink wins, but fell one rink short of taking the event from their South West opponents.
Results: Round One South West 111 shots 4 ½ rinks defeated Northern 1/2 rink 74 shots South West’s Ben Garrett, Keith Gould, Peter Rogalski and Scott O’Brien brought up the first of their 3 wins of the tournament with a 28 shots to 13 victory over Northern’s Glen (T/Bone) Jones, Aaron Goulden, Richard Negus and Phil Manning. South West’s Tom Edwards, Ross White, Felix Ditri and Gordon Twist 29 shots defeated Northern’s 2013 Country week singles Champion Brad King, Don McPherson, Peter Reudavey and John Sims 16 shots. South West’s Graham (Wings) Evans, Ed Hoemburg, Jamie Conway and Rob Bowron had a tight early tussle before edging away to record a solid 17 shots to 10 win over Northern’s Colin O’Brien, Shaun Donohoe, Ben Gadsby and Ken Street. South West’s Keith Guelfi, James (JJ) Butt, Andrew Drayton and Matthew Trewella 19 shots edged out Northern’s Steve
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Palmer, Dwayne Wooltorton, Gary Preston and Andrew Antonio 17 shots in a very close contest. Nothing separated South West’s John Trewella, Greg Crisp, Alan Cowie and Denis Nagle and the Northern rink skippered by last year’s country week singles Champion Mike Ford with Geoff Ellis, Joe Cukela and Kerry Easton with a draw the result 18 shots a piece.
• Top Skipper Ben Garrett.
Eastern 96 shots 2½ rinks defeated Southern 93 shots 2½ rinks The Eastern Zone and Southern Zone clash was a cliff hanger with both teams recording 2½ rink wins and Eastern claiming the aggregate by 3 shots after Bill Fraser put the kitty in the ditch to claim 2 shots at the end of the contest. Eastern’s Bill Fraser, Geoff Main, G Walker and Ray Griffiths 19 shots defeated Southern’s Kym Jones, Keith MacGregor, Greg Cooper and Paul Garbellini 18 shots. Eastern’s Justin Smith, Ken Wolfenden, Darrel Hudson and Greg Vaughan also recorded the first of their 3 wins with a solid 23 shots to 15 victory over Southern’s Warren Holt, Damien Lloyd, Bevan Fancote and Robert Marinoni. Southern’s David Cliff, David Harris, Graham Illich and Joe Schorer 17 shots defeated Eastern’s 2015 Country week singles Champion Matthew France, John Currie, Des Miguel and Nathan Smith 12 shots.
BowlsWA • Jack Hi • Summer 2017