It has been a busy time for Indoor Bowls over the last two months with Alex Steel representing Thames Valley in the Zone final of the Champion of Champion singles and Tim and Peg Jones joining Kevin and Gail Boothby of Waihi Beach RSA representing Thames Valley in the Zone finals of the mixed fours.  Unfortunately none of our players qualified for the NZ finals.

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The New Zealand nationals and representative fixtures have kept all our bowlers busy.

On Saturday 12 July Waihi Association held the Championship fours.  Three teams from Whangamata Club entered. Three teams out of six qualified. Alex and Marilyn Steel and Neville and Pamela Bracewell were one of these.  They played Peter Youngman’s team from the Waimata IBC in the semi-final but were beaten in a close game.  Peter went on to win the event.

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On Sunday 13 July the Thames Valley Centre held the Championship triples. 15 teams entered this championship.  Three teams from Whangamata Club entered this event.  Alex Steel, Stephen Hodgson and Marilyn Steel qualified for post section play along with five other teams and went on to win the Championship.

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On Tuesday 15 July the Waimata IBC held their bi-monthly tournament and the team of Tim Jones, Brian Wyatt, Stephen Hodgson and Patrick Cairns went on to win this event.

The week Monday 14 – Thursday 17 July The Clubs NZ Ladies Indoor Bowls nationals were held in Pukekohe.  Nine Whangamata Club members entered.

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On Monday the singles were held.  All nine members played but with some very stiff competition none were able to qualify.

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On Tuesday the pairs were held.  Two teams qualified for post section play.  Peg Jones and Joy O’Sullivan and Ann Costar and Marilyn Steel.  Both teams made it to the last eight but were knocked out at that stage.

On Wednesday the triples were played.  Of our three teams only one qualified for post section.  Ellen McSkimming, Ngaire Wallace and Cynthia Colville.  Regrettably this team was knocked out in the first round of post section.

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The two teams who played in the fours competition on Thursday did not qualify for post section play but Erin Wyatt was drawn in the pool to play for Otorohanga B team who made it to the last 16.  Erin played extremely well in this team and did Whangamata Club proud.

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Three of our members, Tim and Peg Jones and Ann Costar have regularly been chosen to play in Thames Valley representative teams during the year.