Hayes and Raine win State Para Pairs Championships
Dover RSL’s Kindilan Hayes and Huonville’s Marijke Raine took out the State Para Pairs Championship which was contested at Ulverstone today.
The Para Pairs Championship were played as a sectional play event with all players pitted against each other. Hayes and Raine were undefeated over the day to win the championship from Kings Meadow’s Colleen Fellows and Gerard Little who were runners-up.
Sectional play winners in the Men’s and Women’s Open Pairs Championships took to the greens at Ulverstone today in the knockout phase of the competition, with outstanding bowls being the order of the day.
In the Men’s Open Pairs quarterfinals, Mark Atkinson and Trey Daines upset Dylan Fisher and Rob McMullen by three shots, Codi and Joshua Marshall finished 17 shots in front of Darren Fielding and Michael Andersch and Mark Nitz and Eden Moore beat Riley Davie and Cameron Norris by two shots. Mark Strochnetter and Archie Burton had a bye.
In two very tight semi- finals, Marshall and Marshall led by six shots after seven ends against Atkinson and Daines and held on to win by one shot. In the other semi-final, Strochnetter and Burton were five shots in front of Nitz and Moore after seven ends before Nitz and Moore levelled the scores after ten ends. However Strochnetter and Burton steadied to win four of the last five ends to win by four shots.
In the Women’s Open Pairs quarterfinals, Charlie Harkness and Mikayla Baker defeated Karen King and Vicki Beattie by one shot, Rose’anne Howard-Smith and Pam Vant beat Kerrie Lane and Tracey Little by one shot, Jean Claridge and Debbie Lee convincingly beat Vicki Winley and Trudy Rundle by 22 shots and Jenny Archer and Terese Brett finished seven shots in front of Leanne Lockhart and Cheryl Fielding.
In the semi-finals, Harkness and Baker trailed Howard-Smith and Vant by two shots after eleven ends, but Harkness and Baker finished strongly to win the next three ends and won by nine shots. In the other semi-final, Claridge and Lee were never headed and beat Archer and Brett by eleven shots.
The championships continue tomorrow with sectional play commencing in the Men’s and Women’s Open and Para Singles Championships at Ulverstone, Latrobe and Penguin. Sectional play in the Bowling Arm Fours Championships will be played at Latrobe.
