Sport

Composite bowlers to the ‘four’

It’s been another very busy spell at the Wānaka Bowling Club, with bowls being played on all but one day.

One of the winter season’s major tournaments was held last week - the Men’s Invitational Fours for the Faulks Trophy sponsored by Honda Wānaka. This involved eight men’s fours teams from Clyde, Cromwell, Queenstown, Arrowtown, Hawea and Wānaka.

The results were extremely close and differentials of scores had to be used to separate the top two teams. Only four points separated the top four teams.

In the end, the composite team of Don Urquhart(skip) (Hawea), Ken Allison (Wānaka), Bob Steel (Wānaka), Neville Roberts (Hawea) ran out the winners with 86 points and a plus differential of 29

In second place was the Wānaka team of Don Cameron(s), Murray Finn, Ewan Miller, George Cameron. They also had 86 points but a lesser differential of 19. Third place belonged to Peter Bannerman’s Clyde team of Geoff Hurst, Jeff Bell and Trevor Wooller who scored 85 points. Fourth place was taken by Peter Herbert’s Wānaka team of Derek Hope, Pat Traynor and John Maddison on 83 points. Going into the last game Peter Herbert’s team looked well placed to win the tournament but their game fell right away and so did the title. That’s bowls!

The Stadium at the Wānaka Bowling Club continues to be jam packed full of players and supporters on Saturday afternoons as the eight teams in the Studholme Trophy continue to compete for a place in the finals at the end of August.

The prize for the most vocal support would have to be by supporters of the two Hawea teams.

Any outstanding bowl or things having gone well for them results in a good old-fashioned roar of appreciation.

With only one week of play left, the race to be in the top four group has really hotted up and although Meadowstone, Mt Albert and Hawea

The four tops: Donald Urquhart (skip), Bob Steel, Ken Allison, Neville Roberts with sponsor’s rep Morgan King (Honda Wānaka). Blue look fairly secure, the last place in the top group could be any of Beacon Point, Pembroke Heights or Rippon West Meadows

Points: Meadowstone 70, Mt Albert 61, Hawea Blue 60, Beacon Point 45, Pembroke Heights 41, Rippon/West Meadows 39, Hawea Gold 32, Village 25.

– By Peter Wilson

Squash success run continues Wānaka Squash club has celebrated a successful fourth Head Junior Tournament in Dunedin. Oisin Corbett won the boys’ A division and Alex Resnick took the boys’ B division. Also in the A division George Sargood was fourth, Matthew Botting seventh and Rui Fukaya eighth. Matthew and Rui have been rewarded for their progress this year by being promoted to the A division where they are both competitive. Alex Resnick beat clubmate Kyan Prince in the boys B final – it was Prince’s third successive tournament final. Also in the B

division Harriet Sargood finished third and Ethan Prince fifth. Cody Armstrong, in his first squash tournament, finished third in the C division. Nick Resnick finished fourth in the D division, and he was involved in two of the best and entertaining games of the tournament that both went to five sets. The fifth and final Head tournament will be on August 27-28 in Cromwell. The Wānaka juniors are dominating the series - of 60 competitors, Matthew and Oisin are joint leaders and Rui, Wānaka players, from left, Harriet Sargood, Alex Resnick, Ethan Prince, George Sargood, Matthew Botting, Oisin Corbett, Nick Resnick, Ethan, Alex and Kyan are in the Kyan Prince and Cody Armstrong. top 10.

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