Sport
WEDNESDAY 15 May 2019
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Richmond pair claim two indoor bowls titles Richmond resident bowlers Mike Johnston and Diane Grooby played great consistent bowls over the weekend to win the NZ Mixed Fours qualifying tournament on Saturday together with Johnny Persico and Denise Powick, then yesterday they also won the NZ Mixed Pairs qualifying tournament. This qualifies them for the zone play-offs for both, in Greymouth in early July. The winners of the two zone playoffs then qualify to compete for the two NZ titles on offer in Hamilton later in the year. Johnston has previously won the NZ Mixed Fours title twice. Yesterday in the mixed pairs, teams had to win at least two and a half games from four section games to qualify for sudden death, post-section play, with each game played over ten ends. Four teams qualified for post section, with Johnston playing Club Waimea’s Lewis Della Bosca, who had Shirley Deerness at lead, in one semi-final. Della Bosca’s team was the only team to be unbeaten during section play winning all four games. In the other semi-final Barry
Beams who was playing with up and coming new player Marie Granger, was pitted against Club Waimea’s Nathan Della Bosca who was playing with consistent draw player Vonnie Turipa. Johnston and Grooby dominated their semi-final in beating Lewis Della Bosca 165, while Nathan Della Bosca beat Beams in a nail biting match 11-10. In the final Johnston played Della Bosca, and Johnston’s lead Grooby played exceptional bowls through-out the match to set up a dominating win 12-1. On Saturday the mixed fours were played, with teams needing to again win at least two and a half games from four played to qualify, with each game played over ten ends. As in the pairs competition four teams qualified for post-section play. In one semi-final Johnston, Persico, Powick and Grooby were drawn to play Nathan Della Bosca, dad Lewis, Vonnie Turipa and Diana Hemopo. The other semi-final saw Johnston’s dad Clive Johnston, who had Bill Hart, Pat Carrick-
Clarke and new bowler Marian Stephens who play for the Hope club, playing against Club Waimea’s Jean McKenzie, Mary Jordan, Kevin McKenzie and Phil Jordan. Mike Johnston’s team comfortably beat Della Bosca in their semi-final 12-2 while McKenzie’s team were also always in control of their semi-final beating Clive Johnston’s team 9-1. This meant Johnston played McKenzie in the final over ten ends, and it was an extremely tight affair with only singles being scored on each end bar one. Johnston lead 5-1 after six ends but McKenzie then scored a two to close the gap to 5-3 after seven. Singles were traded to each team over the next two ends to leave Johnston leading 6-4 going into the final end. Johnston played a great draw shot to score a single and win the absorbing arm wrestle 7-4. This week’s action sees Club Waimea’s 9 Bowl Triples on Wednesday starting at 1pm at Club Waimea. The Nelson reps also play their first rep match of the season at home in Nelson starting on Saturday.
Ashton Oliver on his 1988 Honda CR250. Photo: Supplied.
Perfect conditions for memorial event The Ray Anderson memorial Vintage Motocross event held at the Anglesey farm at Tadmor was well patronised with 68 riders for the Top of the South VMX club’s annual event. Jared Guthrie took out the Ray Anderson Memorial Trophy, winning three classes the pre-1986 on a 1982 Yamaha, followed by Steve Lang and Jared’s ever-green father Peter Guthrie. Jared also won the pre-1990 on the same bike, hotly pursued by Peter
Guthrie and Ashton Oliver. Jared then followed up by winning the mid-bore class for pre-1986 bikes. Good numbers were on the line for most classes. Conditions were perfect for the event, that was held over rolling terrain and berms forming in some of the corners as the day progressed. The event was by all means a success, and raised $170 for the Nelson Marlborough Rescue Helicopter Trust Rescue Helicopter.
Greenacres play for Westrupp Trophy Four teams of six from Totaradale, Motueka, Greenacres and Nelson all competed in the Westrupp Trophy last week, using players with the lowest handicap indexes that
are available. Three rounds of 36 holes were played with points accummulating, This year the Greenacres team won, a repeat of last year’s result, with 44 points, Nelson 38,
Motueka 18 and Totaradale 1 The Greenacres club enjoyed their victory, congratulating all the other teams, and thanked their supporters who came out to watch.
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