Overcast start to Tasmanian Lawn Bowls Senior Championships
The best senior (over 60’s) bowlers in Tasmania were on show at Bowls Tasmania’s Seniors Championships which commenced on an overcast and at times wet day in Hobart today with sectional play in the senior men’s and women’s fours championships being played at Rosny Park. The Senior Championships will continue until Wednesday.
Tight sections were the order of the day in sectional play in the senior men’s fours championships. The only sectional winner to win all three games was the north-west combination of Wayne Manson, Nigel Melbourne, Trevor Docking and Wayne Willcox who will go into the semi-finals as warm favourites. The southern team of Phil Ions, Peter Jenkins, Bill Butler and Greg Fehlberg scored ten shots over the final six ends to come from five shots down after nine ends to finish two shots in front of the northern combination of David Minns, David Heron, Ray Boutcher and Chris Lee to win both games in their section and proceed to the semi-finals. Chris Martyn, Mick Daniels, Ricky Limbrick and Shane Young won one game and drew their first game to win their section. In the remaining section, all three teams finished with one win each, but it was the southern combination of Gary Richardson, Grant Chamberlain, Kevin Mann and Peter Francis who won the section with a superior margin of twelve shots.
Manson and Ions will play off in the first semi-final with Richardson and Martyn playing off in the other semi-final at Rosny Park on Tuesday afternoon at 12.30pm. The winners will meet in the grand final at 3pm.
Sectional play In the women’s fours championships was also played at Rosny Park today. The Howrah / Kingborough combination of Denise Tanner, Charon Foster, Lorraine Walker and Sue Mann were undefeated and convincingly won their section by twenty-three shots. Terese Brett, Janet McCarthy, Jill Silvey and Gail Thow were equally impressive in winning their section undefeated by twenty shots. The other two sections were very tight. Sandy Bay’s Peri Buckley, Yvonne Buckley, Maxine Munro and Tracey Cameron lost their first sectional game but won their remaining two games to finish with two wins and a shot margin of fifteen to win the section from Howrah’s Bernadette Carroll, Sally Ridgeway, Jillian Reid and Anne Allanby who won their first two games but lost their final sectional game to finish with two wins and a shot margin of three shots. Maxine Monson, Judy Gurr, Jeanette Lane and Denise Middap won both their games by four shots each to take out their section.
Tanner and Brett will play off in the first semi-final with Buckley and Monson playing off in the other semi-final at Rosny Park on Tuesday morning at 9.30am. The winners will meet in the grand final at 12.30pm.
Both the men’s and the women’s senior fours grand finals will be live streamed on the Bowls Tasmania Facebook page.
The Seniors Championships continue on Monday at the Rosny Park and Buckingham Clubs with sectional play in the men’s and women’s senior pairs championships.
