Exciting Pairs Championships

An exciting bowls Pairs Championship finals game was played at the Golfie last week between the dynamic father and son team of Don and Kyle Roberts and veteran champion bowler Doug Hudson and his partner Paul Kershaw.

Straight away Team Roberts laid down the greens rules and they got off to a flying start to have a five shot lead by the 4th end.

Then, for the next eight ends Hudson and Kershaw stood fast holding the mat to lead by one shot.

A four shot win on the 12th end by Team Roberts put them back in the driver until the 17th end when they were leading by two.

It was then “all over rover” for Hudson and Kershaw as Team Roberts won by +4.

On the social bowls front on Sunday a field of 18 bowlers made for three very interesting triples games.

The outright winners for the day were the team of John Goonrey, David ‘Ooze’ and Jason Mills winning by a magnificent +12 over their opposition of Shane Carter, Shine McIver and Alan Gardoll.

It was a close match and it did take 13 ends (from the 18 end game) of close play before the winners could claim their victory.

The runners-up on a countback were Anthony Polack, David Thomas and Deagan Brown by +12 after laying claim to the mat for nine consecutive ends.

According to the committee, the third triples game was cause for disqualification. (Biased or not and The Second concurred.)

Despite the valiant efforts of the team’s leads Daryl Jermyn and Mick Harvey who were spot on with their grass all day (and Jermyn wasn’t too shabby with his weight either), and the fact that Karen Daly had to contend with not one but two opposition seconds (when Jim Goonrey retired and Dean ‘Bogger’ McLeod stepped up to the mat), it seemed that neither Skipper, Gerrard Livingston or Craig ‘Duck’ Grimmond could decide who finished three shots up.

They were disqualified on the grounds that one is required to accurately record the day’s events.

The prestigious George The Giraffe Award (which goes to the worst wrong bias bowl of the day) went to master bowler Don Roberts, which is unheard of, and yet it now seems doable! The Second