BOWL ‘EM OVER

last month for Bowls

Tasmania’s State Senior Bowls Championships.

Lindisfarne’s Beltana Bowls Club hosted the event, with games also played at Rosny Park and Howrah.

The first final played was the Bowling Arm Senior Fours Championships, with a composite team of Peter Thow, Geoff Price, David Sims and Mike Cawthorn holding off a determined fightback from Glenorchy City’s Noel Buckingham, Ken Paris and Trevor Marsh and Sandy Bay’s Ian Salt to win by two shots.

In the Women’s Senior Fours, the Sandy Bay team of Carol Bannister, Robyn Leggett, Jackie Phillips and Jan Hobbs won the last five ends to come from behind and defeat a composite team from Glenorchy Rodman, Sandy Bay and Invermay featuring Jennie Suttie, Peri Buckley, Yvonne Buckley and Jean Claridge.

The Men’s Senior Fours was won by a composite team from Beltana, Dover RSL and Sandy Bay consisting of Shane Young, Cameron Norris, Roger Dale and Steve Graf, who defeated Kingborough’s Gavin Cleary, Tony Verrier and Brett Rollins and Royal Hobart’s Keith Hinkley by three shots.

Trevallyn’s Geoff Buchannan and Joe Reissig were too good in the grand final of the Bowling Arm Senior Pairs Championship, defeating Latrobe’s Alice and Kevan Gaffney by 16 shots.

In the Women’s Senior Pairs, Rosny Park’s Ailsa Milburn and Chris McGrath had a great tussle with Howrah’s Anne Mullavey and Anne Allanby before eventually winning by seven shots.

The best game of the championships was the nail-biter grand final of the Senior Men’s Pairs Championships, with Kings Meadow’s Shane Gurr and Brighton’s John Nicholls prevailing in a tiebreaker.