Great bowls in Women's O60s triples

The Champions of the GenesisCare Women’s Over 60’s Triples were decided on Friday December 2nd 2022.

Hosted by the Gosnells Bowling Club, four Composite Teams competed in the Semi-finals and the Final thereafter.

The first Semi-Final game ended with a six shot win to Linda Warburton, Pauline Bourne, and Jenny Parker when they faced off against Kathy Gobbart, Judy Allen and Julie Savell.

An early but consistent lead kept Warburton and her team ahead after starting behind by one on the first end.Warburton’s team grabbed two shots on both end two and three resulting in a three shot early advantage.

Gobbart and her team retaliated by winning the next end with a single, bringing the total to 4-2. Despite the lost end for Warburton and her team, the winning momentum continued with one shot on the fifth end and a three on the sixth end.

Gobbart and her team bounced back with two shots on the seventh end leaving the score total 8-4. Unfortunately for Gobbart’s team this led to a sequence of five single shot winning ends for Warburton’s team.

By end 13, Warburton and her team had doubled Gobbart’s score 12-6. From this end onwards Warburton’s team stayed in the lead finishing with a 15-9 final score and winning the semi-final.

The second Semi-Final had Irene Leahy, Carol Ashworth and Rinske Butcher compete against Liz Matthews, Noelene Abe and Sue Hogg.

The game found itself bouncing back and forth between the two teams. From the first end to the 12th end, the scoring was relatively even. Leahy’s team grabbed a two on the second and fourth end and Matthews’ team took a two on the first and fifth end. A change of pace on the sixth end resulted in a three short lead for Matthews and her team after scoring another two shots.

The demeanour of the scores remained however, Leahy’s team scored with a fantastic four, smiles all around as they not only caught up but were put ahead by one. The score quickly evened out once again with Matthews’ team scoring a one, bringing the eighth end to a tidy 8 – 8. The scores repeated on both sides up to the 13th end whereby it was once again a tidy 13-13.

The 14th end was the turning point for this match with Leahy winning the end with a four and gaining a good lead coming into the last four ends. Leading in to end 17 a 3-shot score was won by Matthews and her team to bring the score to 20-17 with Leahy’s team still ahead going into the last end.

Winnable but most certainly at a disadvantage, Matthews‘ team needed to get three shots to push for an extra end. Blocking Matthews’ team out, Leahy and her team managed to win the last end with one shot finishing the game off with a win for Leahy and her team at 21-17.

After a short break, the Ladies headed back out to the green to compete for the title. Irene Leahy’s team Versus Linda Warburton’s team.

A steady start for Warburton’s Team as they gathered one shot on the first end, mirrored by Leahy’s team as they picked up a one on the second end.

Momentum built up for Warburton’s Team with multiple successful bowls leading to a victory for the next four ends, scoring two shots, one shot, one shot, and two shots, bringing the total to 7-1 after six ends.

The pressure was on for Leahy as a 6 shot difference was facing them, the equivalent of a full count of an end. Rising to the challenge Leahy claim victory of the seventh end scoring one shot, doubling their shots to an overall total of 2-7. With a five shot difference, Warburton’s team did not let up, claiming another end with one shot.

With the overall score at 2-8 after eight ends the two teams went back and forth with single shots being claimed by both teams up until the 12th end. comeback going on to win the next seven ends. It was clear that Warburton’s team dominated the first half, but the second half leaned more so in the direction of Leahy’s team.

With very close ends leading up to the 17th end, both teams were still playing for the championship. A fantastic start by Warburton’s lead and second. led to them holding three shots coming into the skipper’s bowls and an opportunity to turn the score to equal.

A very unfortunate bowl from Warburton led to a jack trail, going from three held to one down and finishing the end with at 9-13.

The final end required a lot from the Warburton’s side, needing to score a minimum of four to not lose out on their chance of title winners. After some great Bowls from both sides Leahy’s came out on top scoring one shot in the last end finishing the game for a win for Irene Leahy, Carol Ashworth and Rinske Butcher with a final score of 14-9.