Open Novice Triples August 7th
Sixteen teams competed in this tournament and there were some new faces which was good to see. We had teams from Toronto in the west to Kingston in the East and there were nine Cobourg teams. Each team played 3x12 end games. The tournament was sponsored by Louisa and Bill Arthur.
The 2024 winner, Elaine Antaya from Lindsay, had a bounty on their head and they started the day with a win but had to give up their title, losing in the second game to Caro Ann Bell’s team from Kingston who claimed the bounty of $15 Tim’s cards. The Cobourg winners in the first round were Lynn Bryans, Julie Perry and Henry Kowalski.
In the second round Henry’s team lost by one point as did Julie’s. Heather Stubbing’s team from Oshawa had an impressive record with two wins and 30 points, only 3 points behind Carol Ann and they played each other in round 3. Carol Ann won that game and with it the title, dropping Heather out of the prize money.
The other two game winners were Eugene Dupuis from West Toronto and Kim Bonisteel from Belleville. Eugene had a commanding win to place second in the tournament.
Julie Perry finished strongly, beating Elaine Antaya, to finish with the two game high score of 43+1, just ahead of Eric Bergman from Agincourt who had two wins and 42 points.
It was a treat to watch these novices playing some great bowls with some extremely close scores and, as I said at the outset, having some new faces who will be the future of bowling in the next few years.
Congratulations to all the bowlers and a special mention to Wendy Abrams and Chris Dinner playing their first open tournament.
There were some problems in the lead up to the tournament in trying to accommodate all those who wanted to enter and in keeping the numbers even. Congratulations to our open tournament convenor extraordinaire, Bob Bates, for coming up with the solution of inserting himself into the teams. Bob played round one with Wendy and Chris and rounds two and three with Eric and Julie Bergman and finished fourth with Eric and Julie.
Full result
Winners – Carol Ann Bell, Scott Bell, Jim Baggs (Kingston) 3 wins 47+1
Second – Eugene Dupuis, Jason Cristaldi and Steve Miller (West Toronto) 3 wins 38+1
Third – Julie Perry, Andrew Perry and Dana Williams (Cobourg) 2 wins 43+1
Fourth – Eric Bergman, Julie Bergman (Agincourt) and Bob Bates 2 wins 42
One game high – Mike Cyr, Sharon Cyr and Shirley Horeczy (Oshawa) 35 points
Last game high – Brent Bayley, Jenn Wetherall and Sheri Perkins (Cobourg) 18+1
Sixteen teams competed in this tournament and there were some new faces which was good to see. We had teams from Toronto in the west to Kingston in the East and there were nine Cobourg teams. Each team played 3x12 end games. The tournament was sponsored by Louisa and Bill Arthur.
The 2024 winner, Elaine Antaya from Lindsay, had a bounty on their head and they started the day with a win but had to give up their title, losing in the second game to Caro Ann Bell’s team from Kingston who claimed the bounty of $15 Tim’s cards. The Cobourg winners in the first round were Lynn Bryans, Julie Perry and Henry Kowalski.
In the second round Henry’s team lost by one point as did Julie’s. Heather Stubbing’s team from Oshawa had an impressive record with two wins and 30 points, only 3 points behind Carol Ann and they played each other in round 3. Carol Ann won that game and with it the title, dropping Heather out of the prize money.
The other two game winners were Eugene Dupuis from West Toronto and Kim Bonisteel from Belleville. Eugene had a commanding win to place second in the tournament.
Julie Perry finished strongly, beating Elaine Antaya, to finish with the two game high score of 43+1, just ahead of Eric Bergman from Agincourt who had two wins and 42 points.
It was a treat to watch these novices playing some great bowls with some extremely close scores and, as I said at the outset, having some new faces who will be the future of bowling in the next few years.
Congratulations to all the bowlers and a special mention to Wendy Abrams and Chris Dinner playing their first open tournament.
There were some problems in the lead up to the tournament in trying to accommodate all those who wanted to enter and in keeping the numbers even. Congratulations to our open tournament convenor extraordinaire, Bob Bates, for coming up with the solution of inserting himself into the teams. Bob played round one with Wendy and Chris and rounds two and three with Eric and Julie Bergman and finished fourth with Eric and Julie.
Full result
Winners – Carol Ann Bell, Scott Bell, Jim Baggs (Kingston) 3 wins 47+1
Second – Eugene Dupuis, Jason Cristaldi and Steve Miller (West Toronto) 3 wins 38+1
Third – Julie Perry, Andrew Perry and Dana Williams (Cobourg) 2 wins 43+1
Fourth – Eric Bergman, Julie Bergman (Agincourt) and Bob Bates 2 wins 42
One game high – Mike Cyr, Sharon Cyr and Shirley Horeczy (Oshawa) 35 points
Last game high – Brent Bayley, Jenn Wetherall and Sheri Perkins (Cobourg) 18+1
Club Singles August 9th
This was a scorcher and I don’t mean just the weather, the play was pretty hot too.
Twelve men and five ladies competed for the respective men’s and ladies titles. Bill McCollam was back to defend his 2024 win but Lynn Bryans was unavailable so there would be a new name on the trophy.
The ladies championship was sponsored by Carol Dewy and the men’s by Martin Foxhall and we are very grateful for their support.
The format for both championships was a round robin with each game consisting of eight ends. The five ladies each played four games. The first and second after the round robin then played each other for first and second places; third and fourth played to decide third place. Janice Slobojan was the winner of the group but the order after that had to be decided on the difference in points for and points against with Julie Perry, Mary Salter and Helen Kowalski all tied. The decision was that Janice and Julie would play the final and Mary and Helen would compete for third place.
The outcome was wins for Janice and Mary so the final result was:
Winner- Janice Slobojan
Second – Julie Perry
Third Mary Salter
With twelve men competing there was a random draw to determine who would play in each group. The top two players in each group would proceed to the finals playoffs.
Bill McCollam was in group B and had a faultless performance winning all five of his games. Ernie Sapinski and John Ledgerwood were tied for second place. The first tie breaker is the head to head result but they had tied their head to head match as well so points differential came into play. Ernie had minus 11 and John minus 10! So john was declared in second place.
Bill Arthur topped group A winning four of his five games. However deciding second place meant the calculators were out again as Brent Bayley, Terry Bradshaw and Terry Shannon had all beaten one another so it was points difference again. This time the nod went to Brent Bayley so it was Brent versus John for third place and the billtopper (gettit?) was the two Bills.
John get the better of Brent to claim third place. The Bills had a very close game with lots of tight heads and at and after four ends Bill A was 5-1 ahead before Bill Mc scored four to tie the game at 5-5. Bill A scored singles in ends 6 and 7 and managed to limit Bill Mc to one in the final end to win 7-6.
Result:
Winner – Bill Arthur
Second - Bill McCollam
Third – John Ledgerwood
Thank you to drawmasters Tammy Browes-Bugden and Martin Bugden for a well run tournament and to all the members who acted as markers
This was a scorcher and I don’t mean just the weather, the play was pretty hot too.
Twelve men and five ladies competed for the respective men’s and ladies titles. Bill McCollam was back to defend his 2024 win but Lynn Bryans was unavailable so there would be a new name on the trophy.
The ladies championship was sponsored by Carol Dewy and the men’s by Martin Foxhall and we are very grateful for their support.
The format for both championships was a round robin with each game consisting of eight ends. The five ladies each played four games. The first and second after the round robin then played each other for first and second places; third and fourth played to decide third place. Janice Slobojan was the winner of the group but the order after that had to be decided on the difference in points for and points against with Julie Perry, Mary Salter and Helen Kowalski all tied. The decision was that Janice and Julie would play the final and Mary and Helen would compete for third place.
The outcome was wins for Janice and Mary so the final result was:
Winner- Janice Slobojan
Second – Julie Perry
Third Mary Salter
With twelve men competing there was a random draw to determine who would play in each group. The top two players in each group would proceed to the finals playoffs.
Bill McCollam was in group B and had a faultless performance winning all five of his games. Ernie Sapinski and John Ledgerwood were tied for second place. The first tie breaker is the head to head result but they had tied their head to head match as well so points differential came into play. Ernie had minus 11 and John minus 10! So john was declared in second place.
Bill Arthur topped group A winning four of his five games. However deciding second place meant the calculators were out again as Brent Bayley, Terry Bradshaw and Terry Shannon had all beaten one another so it was points difference again. This time the nod went to Brent Bayley so it was Brent versus John for third place and the billtopper (gettit?) was the two Bills.
John get the better of Brent to claim third place. The Bills had a very close game with lots of tight heads and at and after four ends Bill A was 5-1 ahead before Bill Mc scored four to tie the game at 5-5. Bill A scored singles in ends 6 and 7 and managed to limit Bill Mc to one in the final end to win 7-6.
Result:
Winner – Bill Arthur
Second - Bill McCollam
Third – John Ledgerwood
Thank you to drawmasters Tammy Browes-Bugden and Martin Bugden for a well run tournament and to all the members who acted as markers
Ontario Mixed pairs Championships
The championships were held at the Burlington club on August 9th and 10th. Representing District 14 were:
Peter Stuart-Sheppard (Cobourg) and Sharon Paxton (Oshawa)
Ben van Steijn and Emmalee Smith (Cobourg)
Carl Ferguson and Nan Hendren (Cobourg)
There were eight groups of four and after a round robin the top two in each group moved forward to the elimination stage. Peter and Sharon finished second in their group as did Ben and Emmalee. Unfortunately Carl and Nan finished third and did not go forward. Peter and Sharon were eliminated in the round of 16 but Ben and Emmalee won to move into the quarter finals. They had a tough draw against David Llewellynn and Lyn Frost and that was the end of the championships for them.
Congratulations to all the teams on first of all making it to the Championships and performing well when they got there.
The championships were held at the Burlington club on August 9th and 10th. Representing District 14 were:
Peter Stuart-Sheppard (Cobourg) and Sharon Paxton (Oshawa)
Ben van Steijn and Emmalee Smith (Cobourg)
Carl Ferguson and Nan Hendren (Cobourg)
There were eight groups of four and after a round robin the top two in each group moved forward to the elimination stage. Peter and Sharon finished second in their group as did Ben and Emmalee. Unfortunately Carl and Nan finished third and did not go forward. Peter and Sharon were eliminated in the round of 16 but Ben and Emmalee won to move into the quarter finals. They had a tough draw against David Llewellynn and Lyn Frost and that was the end of the championships for them.
Congratulations to all the teams on first of all making it to the Championships and performing well when they got there.
