Upsets in State Triples Championships
With the Mixed Open Pairs State Championships finalised yesterday, the Bowls Tasmania Gala Week continued today at the North Launceston and Invermay Bowls Clubs with the commencement of the Men’s and Women’s Open Triples Championships with many of the big names in the sport in Tasmania failing to get through their sections.
Sectional play in the Men’s Open Triples was played at Invermay today with sectional winning skips being Riley Davie, Tim Douce, Ricky Ormerod, Mark Strochnetter and Bailey Bellchambers. Big names missing a finals spot included Dylan Fisher, Mark Nitz, Rob McMullen, Codi Marshall and Cameron Windram.
Sectional play in the Women’s Open Triples was played at North Launceston with sectional winning skips being Glenda Fielding, Denise Tanner, Jenny Archer, Emily Foster, Leanne Lockhart and Jeanette Lane. The biggest upset in the women’s sectional play was the rink of Jeannette Lane, Bev Huett and Maureen Zoon who defeated the current State Triples Champions Rebecca Van Asch, Debra Lee and Jess McMullen and then State players Charlie Harkness Mikayla Baker and Lauren Banks and finished undefeated on top of their section. Other big names missing a finals spot included Courtney Hobbs, Joy, Voss, Alison Venn, Chloe Flanagan, Erin Moore and Rae Simpson.
In the Bowling Arm Singles Championship, quarter-finals winners were Peter Thow, Geoff Buchanan, John Borg and John Burley. In the first game of the day to decide who made the final quarter-final spot Craig Prewer upset the more-fancied Paul Bugg 21-19.
Gala Week concludes on Wednesday at Norh Launceston with finals in the prestigious Men’s and Women’s Triples Championships and semi-finals and the grand final in the Bowling Arm Singles Championship.
Bowls Tasmania will be live streaming one of the Men’s Triples Grand Final on its Facebook page tomorrow afternoon at approximately 3.00pm.
