In addition to the players for jackpot bowls there were two championship games completed.

Geoff Holt played Bruce Mason in a quarter–final of the club singles.

Both players had shown good form in their previous games and a close contest was expected.

This was not to be the case and after the first few ends Geoff dominated the scoring and recorded a clearcut win 31–10.

A quarter–final of the club pairs was also completed and this was a much closer contest.

In this game Dave Ward and Michael Chapman were opposed to James Freudenstein and Joe Chambers.

After six ends had been played the scores were level at 9–all.

The scores were level again at 13–all after 11 ends and also at 16–all after 14 ends.

James and Joe then won three consecutive ends to lead 23–16 before Dave and Michael won the next three ends to trail 21–23 going into the final end.

With his final bowl Michael needed to move the jack towards his team’s bowls. While he caused the jack to move as often happens in this game it did not go where he intended it to and James and Joe scored two shots to win the game 25–21.

The best margin for the afternoon for the jackpot bowlers was 12 shots for Greg Woods, Alan Gall and Kevin Porter.

In the other games John Cooper and Harold Anderson scored seven shots on their final two ends to win by 7; Ted Loader and Colin Powell scored 2 shots on the final end to win by 1; and Andrew Hutchison and Peter Slater held on to win their game by three shots despite losing the last two ends.

The jackpot of $200 was not won.

The 36 bowlers who played on Thursday enjoyed quite warm and sunny conditions.

The prize for the afternoon went to Keith Smith and Joe Bargwanna who won their game by 19 shots.

Not far behind them with a margin of 16 shots were Colin Parker and Harold Anderson.

It has been noted that in four of the games the winning margin was just one shot. (While this is definitely something worthwhile mentioning it really is rubbing salt in as a member of one of the teams that lost by double figures.)

There was no winner for the $200 jackpot.

There were just nine players taking part on Sunday morning.

Roger Allen and Bill Standen won their game by one shot and totalled 14 points.

The other winning team – Peter Berry, Joe Hennock and Mark Brownlie – scored 13 points.

Play for tomorrow starts at 1pm with entries closing at 12.30pm.

There will be a jackpot of $200.

Play in the district singles events resume on Saturday morning.

At Young the semi–finals of the district singles will see Michael Chapman playing Dave Ward and James Freudenstein playing Cliff Traynor.

The final will be played on Saturday afternoon.

The semi–finals of the senior singles will be played at Cootamundra Ex–Services Club with Geoff Holt to play Graeme Davidson and Colin Stokell to play Jim Deacon.

In the President’s Reserve Singles being played at Harden, Terry McDonald is to play Richie Larsen and Sam Larsen is to play Mark Armstrong.

Jackpot bowls will be played on Saturday afternoon with entries to close at 12.15pm.

Players are reminded that President’s Day will be held on Sunday with play to start at 10am.

Entries close on Saturday afternoon.

Eligible players are reminded that entries for the Minor Pairs Championship close on Saturday afternoon with the first games to be played on Saturday, May 9.

All the entry details and eligibility details are on the notice board.

It has been decided that the ‘End of Pennants’ afternoon will be rescheduled for Sunday, May 24. 

The format will be different to that originally planned.

The games will be designed to give the Grade 2 and Grade 6 sides a practice game as a lead up to the Zone 8 pennants finals. 

The Grade 2 side will play against selected teams and the Grade 6 side will play against selected teams.

As previously advertised all registered male bowlers are welcome to play in this event whether or not they played in the pennant competition this year.

Players who are not yet entered in the club’s annual Two Bowl Triples Tournament to be played on Saturday and Sunday, May 30 and 31 are advised to check the details concerning the closing date.

All the details, including entry forms, are on the notice board.