It was a battle of the Ross brothers in the final of the South Canterbury  Centre Fours played at the West End green over the weekend.

Marshall Stoddart, Dave Wood, Mick Ross (the younger of the Ross brothers),  and Ian Gallon from Temuka were successful against Geraldine's Alphy Trevathan, Older brother Rickie Ross, Roger Glendinning, and David Curtis in a game where the lead seesawed on six occasions, and it went to the last end to see who would be crowned champions.

On the third end the Geraldine team took control with excellent leading from Alphy. The team held 5 shots but Stoddart played a great bowl to reduce the count to 2, so the Geraldine team took a 4 nil lead.

On the fifth end Temuka's team were holding 3 shots at changeover and Stoddart added 2 beauties to take 5 shots and lead 7 shots to 4.

On the seventh end Gallon held two beauties but Wood was a bit too accurate trailing kitty for one shot;  Alphy then played a blinder and drew shot but Stoddart wanted to be part of the action and drew a beauty to extend the lead 9 to 5.

On the next end the older of  Rosses drew a beauty, Alphy added to the count and scored 3 shots to close the gap 9 to 8.

The next four ends saw some outstanding bowls played by all eight players especially the skips and with two ends to play Trevathan's team lead 12 to 11. 

On the the next end Gallon played two great shots and younger Mick Ross added to hold 3 but Alphy unlucky, trailed the kitty but went down by 2 for Stoddart to lead 13 to 12 playing last.

So the last end was a beauty. When the leads finished it was even but young and talented bowler Mick Ross played a stunner and it ended up being the match winner with an outstanding bowl just sitting behind kitty with no target. Glendinning and the older Ross  and more experienced bowler of the two brothers, both rocked the kitty but the bowl still sat beside Mick's bowl which remained there to give Temuka the win.

Afterwards, Mick said with his tongue in his cheek, he put super glue on his last shot because as kids Rickie used to run away with toys.  He said "I get last laugh Rickie", with both having smiles on their faces.

Marshall steered his team to victory with some great saving shots but his team up front had their moments especially Ian Gallon who lead well.

This was Gallon's and Mick Ross' first South Canterbury title, Woods his 7th, and Stoddart his 11th.

Results:

Last 8:

Adrian Robins, Garry Ford, Chris Dawson, Nigel Mobberley (West End)  21, Dave McNeill, Barrie Andrews,  Shayne Chisnall, Andrew Bell (West End) 10

Alphy Trevathan, Rickie Ross, Roger Glendinning, David Curtis (Geraldine) 19, Sam Morton, Dave Carey, Doug Harvey, Greg Valentine (Temuka) 14

Marshall Stoddart, Dave Wood, Mick Ross, Ian Gallon (Temuka) 13, Scott Fisher, Bob Smith, Aaron Phillips, Malcolm Walker (West End) 10

Sean O'Neill, Dan Johnston, Leo Leonard, Jarrod Barker (Kia Toa) 20, Alan Wilkinson, Jim Kane, Craig Ridden, Tony Wilkinson (Kia Toa) 6

Semi Final: 

Trevathan 17, Robins 14

Stoddart 16, O'Neill 9

Final:

Stoddart 14, Trevathan 12

 - Richie Kerr