Four games of the Club Triples Championship were completed over the weekend.
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On Saturday Les Fanning, Ged Hardman and Russell Boyd led 8–7 after the first 11 ends of their game against Grant Fuller, Mark Brownlie and Denis Rosen before moving to an 18–10 lead after 20 ends. Russell’s team went on to win 27–12.
After 11 ends of the game between Rod Cummings, Col Chapman and David Ward and Stewart Taylor, Frank O’Brien and Joe Bargwanna the scores were level at 9–all. After 20 ends David’s team led 23–12 and despite losing 4 of the last 5 ends they won 24–18.
Mick Manning, Justin Nowlan and Kevin Porter had a handy 13–5 lead over Tony Ruhl, Ted Loader and Greg Woods after 10 ends but after 21 ends Greg’s team were in front 22–19. Kevin’s team won the next 4 ends to secure a win 27–22.
In Sunday’s game, Bill Maloney, James Maloney and Cliff Traynor opposed Brian March, Terry Mulligan and Colin Stokell. Cliff’s team led 11–10 after 10 ends but they then dominated the scoring to win 36–14.
There were 22 other players involved on Saturday afternoon. The highest winning margin for the day was 20 shots for James Maloney and Dave Quigley and this gave them the Penrose Funerals sponsored vouchers.
Other winning teams were Albert Carter and Bill Maloney (3); Fred Francis, David Donges and Kevin Bryant (6); Colin Powell and Harold Anderson (7) and Darryl Hemsley and Ian Schofield (14).
There were just 8 players involved on Sunday morning and the best score was 14 points for Don Close and Joe Hennock.
The conditions for Thursday afternoon were very good – a complete contrast to last week.
There were 24 players on the green and the combination of Don Close and Colin Stokell took out the prize for the afternoon with the very big margin of 25 shots.
A further three games of Club Triples are scheduled to be played on Saturday afternoon with the details on the notice board.
There will be jackpots of $200 for both Thursday and Saturday afternoons.
Interested players are asked to nominate teams for the SWDBA Veterans Day to be held at Cootamundra on Wednesday 16th August.
