On Friday 29 August our adjunct held the championship triples. We had eight teams competing with three teams making it through to post section play. Ellen McSkimming’s team of Ellen, Paulene and Bruce Rollo got the bye into the final, whilst Alex Steel’s team of Alex, Marilyn Steel and Janet Foley played Peg Jones, Cynthia Colville and Erin Wyatt in the semi-final. Alex team ran out the winner. Alex and Ellen’s team then played out the final which was won by Alex team.

 

On Sunday 17 August Thames Valley fours was held and Whangamata Club had two teams entered. The team of Alex Steel, Stephen Hodgson, Ngaire Wallace and Marilyn Steel qualified for post section play and were beaten into second place by Shane Patchett’s team from All Saints in Matamata.

 

On Sunday 24 August the Thames Valley Mixed fours were held. The team of Tim and Peg Jones, Brian Wyatt and Joy O’Sullivan qualified and made it into the semi-finals but unfortunately were not able to go any further.

 

On Saturday 6th September we player our drawn & graded pairs competition. 10 teams competed in the event with four teams qualifying. One semi-final saw Ellen McSkimming and Janet Foley playing Ngaire Wallace and Lynda Callaghan. Ngaire and Lynda winning this one. The other semi-final was between Peg Jones and Laraine Osborne playing John Hares and Sandra Smith. Peg and Laraine winning this match.

 

The final between Ngaire and Lynda and Peg and Laraine saw Peg and Laraine winning quite significantly. Peg and Laraine then went on to represent Whangamata Club at the Thames Valley event. Unfortunately the ladies did not fare so well and did not qualify for post section play.

 

On Saturday 13 September saw the Waihi Association holding the Pairs competition at Whangamata Club. The semi finals were played between Bruce and Paulene Rollo Whangamata Club and Kevin and Gail Boothby Waihi Beach RSA and Tim and Peg Jones from Whangamata Club played Ethel Dench and Shirley Taylor from Waimata IBC The final way played between the Boothby’s and the Jones with the Boothby’s coming out the winners.

 

On Thursday 18 September a group of 10 Whangamata Club players visited the Manurewa Cosmopolitan Club for their regular Hospice tournament. Players from both clubs were drawn into teams for the day and Laraine Osborne from Whangamata Club was in the winning team with two Manurewa players. Tim Jones from Whangamata skipped the runner up team with two ladies from Manurewa. The lucky loser team was skipped by none other than Whangamata Club player Brian Wyatt.

 

We played our Bean and Muir trophy pairs events on Friday 3rd October. The Bean trophy for skips & threes had three qualifiers - Brian Wyatt and Alex Steel, Peg Jones and Jim Foley and Tim Jones and Ann Costar. Brian and Alex had the bye into the final with a battle of the Jones to challenge them. Tim and Ann won this battle and then went on to beat Brian and Alex in the final.

 

The Muir trophy for two’s and leads had 4 teams entered who played a round robin event. Two teams had two wins each Marilyn Steel and Brenda Smith and Bruce Rollo and Laraine Osborne. Bruce and Laraine were too good in the final.