Competition Reports – The Grove Orewa 1-5 Year Interclub & the National Interclub 7’s

The Orewa club gave a striking illustration of the depth of its junior bowlers with an impressive performance at this season’s Bowls North Harbour’s one-to-five competition.

Bowls Orewa provided both finalists in the Grove Orewa-sponsored event, with the team tagged the Seagulls beating that named the Ospreys .

The winning Seagulls team, which will now represent the centre at the regional play-off later in the season at Hikurangi, near Whangarei, was Wayne Harris (singles), Alan McQuoid and Ian Carroll (pairs), Kerry Greenhalgh, Chris Bailey and Mike Pervan (triples).

The runner-up Ospreys team was Daniel Chivers (singles), Fraser Ayson and Bruce Oughton (pairs) and Dennis Williams, John Pike and John Paladin (triples).

In the pairs the Ospreys won 16-9 and in the triples 16-9. The singles was called off once the two wins had been secured.

 

There was also a notable effort by teams from the Hobsonville club making the semi-finals. In the first of these the Ospreys beat the Hobsonville Orions 2-1 and in the second the Seagulls beat the Hobsonville Hercules 2-1.
The event had been scheduled for the grass greens of Milford and Mairangi Bay, but the downpours of last Friday meant the qualifying rounds on Saturday were moved to Hobsonville and Mahurangui East, with Hobsonville staging Sunday’s post-section play. The centre appreciates both these clubs making their facilities and carpets available at late notice.

Meanwhile, there was disappointment for North Harbour’s two representatives at the national inter-club sevens played at the weekend in Wellington. Both Browns Bay, in the men’s competition, and Mairangi Bay, in the women’s, failed to make post-section in what was a brutal qualifying format.
The Browns Bay men lost both their qualifying games, 2-1 to South Otago’s Milton and 2-1
to Nelson. But it was especially harsh luck on the Mairangi Bay ladies in the way the format was enforced. They won their first section match 2-1 over Canterbury’s Burnside, which included a Black Jack player. But the vagaries of the format used meant Mairangi Bay missed out to Burnside as the qualifiers from the three-team section. For Burnside in its second match beat Far North’s Keri Keri 3-0, with the latter then edging Mairangi Bay 2-1. So with four games won to Mairangi Bay’s three Burnside sneaked in as the section qualifiers.

However, many might question, in view of the considerable travel and accommodation costs involved, the equities in having qualifying from just two matches from sections of just three teams.

The celebrated Taranaki club, New Plymouth’s Paritutu, won the men’s title, beating Central Cambridge (Waikato) in the final and Stoke (Nelson) won the women’s, beating Raumati (Kapiti Coast) in the final.
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