Results – BNH OPEN 2-4-2 Any Combination Pairs – 14 & 15 June 2025

  • June 15, 2025

Two of the centre’s leading bowlers of the past few seasons, Birkenhead’s Daymon Pierson and Helensville’s Carlson Barnett, won the Bowls North Harbour open, any-combination 2-4-2 tournament which was decided at the weekend despite Sunday’s constant down-pours.

In what obviously were challenging conditions the Browns Bay club’s revamped carpet stood up well and in the final Pierson and Barnett beat Manly’s Shaun Goldsbury and Skye Renes 11-5.

The win furthered Barnett’s successful season in which he has won two centre titles to place him within one win from a gold star, a distinction Pierson has already earned.

Goldsbury, with another season left in the one-to-five-year ranks, and Renes have been among the centre’s best performed 1-5 year bowlers in recent years, too. Making this final added to some of their past feats, which included making the semi-finals of the national mixed pairs in 2022-23. That season Renes, then with the Takapuna club, also won while still a junior the centre’s open singles title.

In the semi-finals Barnett and Pierson beat the Takapuna pairing of Jerry Belcher and Steve Hoeft 12-7 and Goldsbury and Renes beat the Milford father-daughter pairing of Charlie and Stacey McDonald.

It was a good effort by Belcher and Hoeft to go so deep into post-section as to win their section they had to recover from a first round defeat to Hobsonville juniors, Deanne and Stuart Bronlund.  Then in the quarter-finals they accounted for the promising pairing of Craig Lane and Lloyd Sinton, albeit by a single shot.

And it was another praiseworthy feat for Milford by McDonald and his daughter Stacey, another still in the one-to-five-year ranks. They had a notable first up win in Saturday’s section play, upsetting another father-daughter pairing, Birkenhead’s much decorated Millie and Peter Nathan, 9-5.  They secured another big scalp in the first round of post-section, beating Mairangi Bay’s David Payne and Julie Chhour, the latter fresh off winning the centre’s one-to-five-year champion of champions singles.

Manly’s Paul Daniels and Kevin Rainsford won the plate, which was the consolation event for those pairs beaten in the post-section’s opening round. They won the final from Mairangi’s husband and wife pairing of Bruce and Elaine McClintock, 10-4.