Recently Bowls South Canterbury held their Women’s Centre Triples at the Temuka greens. Ten teams entered, one each from West End, Timaru, Temuka and Waimate, with three teams from Kia Toa and three from Geraldine.

These girls played four games of 16 ends with 3 and 4 winners to qualify.

In Rd. 1 Carol Fowler, Vicky Nicholson and Barbara McIntosh (Geraldine), had a good win against Jill Bennett, Julie McAuley, and Janice Williams (Kia Toa) 16-8:  Joy Rumble, Barbara Garrick, and Sam McAuliffe, (Kia Toa) played Margaret Burridge, Kathlynn Turner, and Sandra Sutton, (Geraldine) with Margaret winning 20-7:  Bridget Kitching, Rana Crabtree and Glenis McDonald, (West End) played Barbara Tiffen, Linda Gallagher, and Shelly McGrath (Geraldine) in a close game ending in Bridget winning 17-15:  Lyn Wilkie, Eileen Rabbidge, and Carol Lee (Timaru) played Mata Frankum, Margaret Powell, and Penny Pullman (Waimate) who won 23-13, but some good bowls were played.  Carolynn Darby, Andrenna Stoddart, and Maria Davey (Temuka) had a great game against Sharon Leonard, Julie Robins, and Chrissy Herbert (Kia Toa) after 9 of the 16 ends it was 7 all, on the next 2 ends Temuka picked up 5 points, Kia Toa scored a 1 to be 8-12, and Temuka scored 1 on the 14th end, Kia Toa scored 1 on the 15th and 1 to Temuka to take out the game 14-10.

Rd 2  saw Mata Frankum’s team beat Jill Bennett very convincingly by 29-5:  Sharon Leonard’s team beat Margaret Burridge’s team by a margin of 24-6:  Barbara Tiffen’s team beat Carolynn Darby’s team by a close margin of 15-12:  Lyn Wilkie’s team had a close game against Carol Fowler’s team being 3 all after 6 ends, 10-5 after 10 ends and 10 all after 14 ends, Lyn scored 3 on the 2nd last end and Carol could only manage 2 shots to give Lyn’s team the win by 13-12:  Joy Rumble’s team beat Bridget Kitching’s team by 15 – 6, after Joy winning 9 of the first 12 ends and Bridget getting 4pts on 3 ends to be 14-4, then Joy scored one shot, while Bridget scored 2 shots to give Joy a win 15-6.


After Rd 3, the winners were Joy Rumble with 2 wins, Carol Fowler had 1 win, Bridget had 2 wins, Carolynn had 1 win, Margaret had 2 wins, Jill had 0 wins, Barbara had 2 wins, Lyn had 1 win, Sharon had 2 wins, Mata had 2 wins.

In Rd 4, all had to play as one or other of each team needed the win to qualify. This resulted in M. Burridge beating C. Fowler 17 -10 to qualify:  B. Tiffen beat J. Rumble 17-3 to qualify:  J. Bennett beat B. Kitching, 20-6, neither qualified:  C. Darby beat M. Frankum after 11 ends 13-4, neither qualified:  L. Wilkie beat S. Leonard 14-12, neither qualified.

This left only 2 teams with 3 wins, B. Tiffen and M. Burridge, both Geraldine teams to play off.

This was a one-sided game as B. Tiffen got off to a great start with lead, Shelly McGrath leading very well against Sandra Sutton. After 4 ends it was 8-0, Margaret picked up 3 shots on the next 5 ends, while Barbara scored a 5 to be 13-3 after 9 ends.  Barbara’s team drew really well to score on the 4 ends to Margaret’s 1 to win the game 19 to Barbara Tiffen’s team to 4 for Margaret Burridge’s team.

There was a small crowd to watch the final.  Temuka was thanked for hosting and Karen Manning and Carolynn Darby were thanked for Umpiring.

- Raewyn Crowe