Championship Pairs - Saturday 5th June
Championship Fours - Sunday 6th June
Championship Triples - Monday 7th June
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Championship Pairs
Ashley Diamond & Mark Keen playing out of the Hornby Club in Christchurch have won the 2010 South Island Pairs Championships defeating Vern Norris & Jenny White from the Richmond Club also in Christchurch 9 - 2 in a one sided final.
Both leads played very consistent bowls throughout the match but it was the outstanding bowling form of 23 year old Ashley Diamond that ultimately decided the outcome consistently leaving Norris with no options. Diamond played with relentless accuracy to win his 3rd South Island title. Keen also now has three.
In the semifinals Diamond defeated Eileen and David Grant (South Otago) 11-6 whilst Norris came back from a 3-9 deficit to defeat Simon and Julie Thomas (Canterbury) 11-9 in their semi final.
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Championship Fours
Owen Ditfort and his Canterbury combination of Alan Tutbury, brother, Stephen Ditfort and wife Jo Ditfort have taken out the 2010 South Island Fours Championships after a titanic struggle with the Ashburton four representing the Willowby Club comprising Michael Lawson, Sandra Keith, Ken Mackenzie and Stephen Preddy 5-3.
Ditfort’s team started the match strongly scoring a single and two to lead 3-nil after two ends. However in the following six ends only five more shots were scored in what may very well be the lowest scoring final in the history of the event. A feature of the game was the fact that on almost every end the shot changed hands on several occasions. This was no more evident than on the fifth end when the shot changed hands nine times throughout the end. The Woolston Club team’s 5-3 victory was brought about by some exceptional bowling from the skip Owen Ditfort and accompanied by some great shots by the third Alan Tutbury. Ken Mackenzie also played lovely bowls for the Ashburton four. The win gave the three Ditforts their first South Island title and Tutbury his second after a win in the pairs in Timaru in 2005.
The semi finals saw Ditfort defeat Dennis Levers, Betty Barltrop, John Barltrop and Lilian Wichman from the St Pauls Club in Christchurch 10-9, whilst Lawson defeated the Kaiapoi four of Leo Ashby, Gary Ashby, Chrissie Marshall and Edward Ashby 10-7.
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Championship Triples
Michael Lawson and his team comprising Ken Mackenzie and Stephen Preddy representing the Willowby Club in Ashburton have completed what they could not quite achieve yesterday in winning the South Island Indoor Bowls Championship Triples.
After falling agonisingly close at the last hurdle yesterday in the fours the Lawson team had yet another nail biter this time against the Southland family combination of son Gary father Graham and mother Jan Low from the Grasmere Club. They were leading 4-1 after four ends when Lawson played two crucial shots to claim yet another two and stretch the lead to 6-1, however the experienced Low's were not about to give up that easily claiming three shots on the sixth to get them right back into the game.
Playing the final end with Lawson leading 9-7 Low could not muster the two shots needed to force the extra end and the score finished 9-8 in favour of Lawson. The win was a special one for lead Stephen Preddy who actually hails from South Otago as this was his first South Island title whilst it was the third for both Lawson and Mackenzie.
In the semi finals Lawson defeated Ashley Diamond, David Philpott & Bev Diamond (Hornby Club, Canterbury) whilst Low defeated Brian Stewart, Brad Henry and Robbie Austin (Woolston Club, Canterbury).
At the conclusion of the three day event Ashburton’s Michael Lawson was awarded the Player of the Tournament award with his outstanding performances in all three events. He won the triples, was runner-up in the fours and was the beaten quarter-finalists in the pairs.
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