On Sunday a total of 14 games were completed in qualifying rounds of the Region Singles Championship. Play started at 9.15 am and the last game was completed at 5.50 pm.
Particular thanks to those members of the club who gave up their time to act as markers or umpires.
In the first games of the Women’s State division Kate Cooper defeated Anne-Marie Phillis (Harden) 25–14 and in the game between two players from Harden, Dianne Peisley defeated Kelly Daley 25–22.
The final game in that division took just on 3 hours with Dianne Peisley defeating Kate Cooper 25–23 to qualify for the Region Finals.
There were nine players involved in the Men’s Senior division with two to qualify for the finals.
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In the opening game George Somerville defeated Terry McDonald (Cootamundra) 25–22.
In the next round for that section George defeated Bill Robertson (Temora) 25–12 and Bruce Lack (Temora) defeated Cliff Traynor 25–20. Bruce then defeated George 25–12 to earn a place in the Region Finals.
In other games in the Senior division Russell Boyd defeated Wayne Foote (Temora) 25–20 and John Cooper defeated Peter Watts 25–24. John went on to gain the second qualifying position by defeating Russell 25–20.
There were also two qualifying positions available for the Open Reserve division and the games there were to be played in round–robin format.
A withdrawal in one section saw just one game needed and in that game Joe Read defeated Glen Seward 25–20.
The results of the three games from the other section were Shane Foote (Boorowa Ex–Services) defeated Glen Benson 25–18, Steve Joliffe defeated Glen Benson 25–24 and Shane Foote defeated Steve Joliffe 25–16. This meant that Shane was the qualifier.
Two other players from the club were involved in games at Temora.
Jono Watson was playing in the Men’s State division and won his first game against Glen Keane (Temora) 25–6. He lost his next game to Artie Stacey (Temora Ex–Services) 25–15 with Artie qualifying for the Region Finals.
Sheila Traynor was playing in the Women’s Senior Division and had a bye in the first round.
Tanya Chaffey (Temora Ex–Services) won her opening game 25–7, defeated Sheila 25–17 and won the final game 25–10 and will progress to the Region Finals.
Saturday afternoon at Young saw 20 players involved in Jackpot play.
The five games saw four close contests and one big margin.
Allan Langford and Les Fanning took out the vouchers with their winning margin of 17 shots.
The other winning teams and their margins were Tom Preston and Joe Bargwanna (8 shots), Max Penfold and Peter Watts (5 shots), Harold Anderson and Brian Madden (3 shots) and Steve Walsh and Joe Read (2 shots).
During the week there were 14 players on Thursday afternoon.
The vouchers for the afternoon were won by Harold Anderson and Geoff Holt with a margin of 11 shots.
Milan Brankovic and Aldo Malvicino needed to play an extra end to win their game by 2 shots and the triples game was won by Tom Preston, Jim McQuade and Cliff Traynor by just 1 shot.
In the Guy Pickering Charity Challenge the winners for Wednesday night were Tigers LTD.
Play on Thursday night was interrupted by heavy rain and scores were calculated after the completion of 8 ends. The DCA team were the winners for the night with a score of 13 points after a count-back with No Names who also had 13 points.
- CLIFF TRAYNOR
