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Champions play off in championships Basketball back to full strength
The Golfie hosted two championship emerging as the winner by +3. bowls games this past week and what It was such a nail biter of a championship champs all the bowlers involved were! game and a fine example of what persistence After a month long break due to school holidays, a school camp and a leaking Thursday’s Singles championship game can achieve! roof, basketball was back to full strength between Kyle Roberts and Scott Mayne start- Sunday’s social bowlers (12 in all) played last Wednesday at the Cobar Youth & ed, as always, with Champ of all Champs, their games in the near arctic temperatures Community Centre. Kyle Roberts leading the way. combined with wind gusts aplenty. There is a group of approximately 15 mini Roberts was leading 11-3 on the sixth end The winners for the day were Craig ‘Duck’ ballers (under 9’s) who learn to play through before Mayne clearly decided he needed to Grimmond, Karen Daly and Greg Clark who drills and a game each week. focus and it paid off. won their match by +5 over Gerrard Living- These players have improved out of sight, From then on there was barely three points ston, David Thomas and Tony Polack. working well together all up and down the between them and by the 16th end Mayne The day’s runners-up were Alan Knight, court. narrowed the margin to just one. John ‘Shark’ Daly and Glenn ‘Kiwi’ Ratcliffe The Junior Basketball (9-12 years) age Neither Roberts nor Mayne were ever going who finished with a +4 win over Don Roberts, group has grown significantly in 2023. to give up. The competition now has six mixed teams Doug Hudson and Allan Gardoll. Roberts then scored six points and then The scorecard shows that Knight’s team and competition is fierce, but the focus is Mayne won an end by five. charged ahead until half way when the scores very strongly on good sportsmanship and players who show great character in each It was a mighty effort indeed which ended were even. with Roberts victorious by +5 which takes It was game on from there with Team Rob- game. him through to the finals. erts taking the lead for four ends but the last In last week’s game, Green was victorious Sunday’s Singles Championship game be- end was the decider with Knight’s team claim- over Blue 38-16 with new-to-town Xavier Walker taking out the Best and Fairest award tween Greg Read and Bian Smith was yet ing bragging rights. another magnificent championship duel be- There were two contenders this week for the for Blue, and Braxton Hugget for Green. Yellow won over Red 58-25, with team tween firm friends and respectful rivals. George The Giraffe Award, Kiwi and Kaz. spirit awards going to Harpa Martin and Tillie Smith lead by five shots then extended it to Kaz finished as the winner following the eight shots before Read rallied bringing the sheer devastation she wrought upon Greg Cain. Black only just beat Pink 25-20 with Isascores even on the 13th end. Read’s on target bowl in his championship belle Gillette and Callum Bennett selected for The scores were again even on the 16th. game. Kaz’s wayward bowl is unsurpassed as Best and Fairest honours. From then on, there was barely two points far as deliveries go. Teens and adults had a much stronger atbetween them until Smith scored a three shot The collision was unfortunately unavoidable tendance last week with both courts being advantage. and you could have heard a pin drop as every- needed to accommodate everyone. The game was 28 ends in and the scores one on the green held their breath watching The games for adults and 13+ years are were locked at 22-22. the wayward bowl on its path to destruction. casual, social, and flexible and everyone is It came down to the last end with Smith —The Second welcome to join.—contributed
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