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LAMARINA BOWLS CLUB
WITH DAVE HADAWAY
Our final positions for the Winter Leagues, Friday's top Division A, the Sharks came 8th of 9, and in Division B the Seagulls came 4th of 9, In the Monday's top Enterprise League the Pathfinders came 8th of 9 and in the Discovery League Explorers came 1st of 9. We will have to wait for next seasons leagues to see if the Sharks and Pathfinders maintain their positions but our Explorers will definitely be going up to the Enterprise League.
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Last week was our finals weekend for our internal competitions and what a festival of bowling it turned out to be. We will start with the Mixed Pairs, Shirley Hadaway and Norman Ship versus Anne Stone and Len Daniels, unfortunately I have no report on the game but the final score was 22-17 in favour of Hadaway and Ship.
Mixed Trips next Margaret MacLaughlin, Margaret Finlayson and Alex Whyte versus Janet & Peter Parsons with Tom Spencer, this turned out to be a very exciting game at 10 ends Janet, Tom & Peter were leading 17-8, and by the 16th that had narrowed to 20-19 and on the final end the 2 Margarets with Alex picked up a 3 to lead for the 1st time and win the game 22-21. Very well done.
Mixed Rinks Garth Slater, Norman Ship, Irene Mangan and Alex Maurice versus Mike & Carol Smith with Shirley Hadaway and Mike Stone, at 5 ends Alex held the lead at 9-3 and at 10 ends he held the lead 13-7 and at the 17th and penultimate end the game was level at 17 each. Garth, Norman, Irene and Alex then picked up a 4 on the last end to win the game. Very well done.
Next we have the men's trips consisting of Len Daniels, Alan Birch and John Rae versus Garth Slater, Norman Ship and Alex Maurice at 5 ends Alex is leading 10-0, and at 10 ends with the same shot difference and at 13-3, at 15 ends it closed down to 2 shots 13-11, but Alex, Norman and Garth got 5 on the last end to secure a well earned victory 19-11.
You then have the Pensioner's urn, a very popular singles competition sponsored by our Vice President, John Morgan, and although there was no big scoring ends Garth Slater won a
