1st Place: Karen Evans (Vice), Barry Hersh (Skip), Ronnie Stinson (Lead)
2nd Place: Marilyn Turpin (Lead), David Anderson (Skip), Peter Insley (Vice)
3rd Place: Ian Capon (Vice), Jo Ann Edquist (Lead), Ron Harmer (Skip)
The 2021 Labour Day tournament was the best attended of any club tournament since 2019. A good number of first-year bowlers turned out to boost the player count to 48, enough for 16 triples teams to play in ideal sunny weather.
Only the Skips knew their playing schedule in advance. No one knew the makeup of the teams until the skips drew their names upon arrival at the club. Here’s what happened . . .
[ngg src=”galleries” ids=”223″ display=”basic_thumbnail” thumbnail_crop=”0″]Team #2 led by Barry Hersh played a perfect set of games, winning all four, the only team to do so. David Anderson’s team #9 and Ron Harper’s team #11 both won three games to tie on points, with Team #9 having the advantage in net shots to secure the silver medal.
Full results appear below.
Half way through the tournament we all took part in a “spider”, ten seconds of mayhem when 48 bowls were rolled simultaneously to the jack in the middle of the green. For the first time that anyone present could remember, the jack was struck so hard by a forceful bowler that it leapt from its centre point all the way into the south ditch of the west green. Mitch Fumalle’s bowl was a long way from where the jack landed, but it was nevertheless the nearest, which won Mitch a bottle of wine.
Just because your team was not a top scorer, didn’t mean that you were out of the money. Two more team prizes were awarded based on a random draw , which meant that members of teams #10 and #14 got their money back. The rest of us got to bowl for about $2 an hour — and there were cookies for everyone at the end and some very fine door prizes donated by , whom you can thank with your patronage.
If you bought lots of tickets for the door prizes you increased your chances, which might explain why no less than three different members won two prizes each. Or maybe the wealthier among us just wanted to benefit our club and CHAMP, our favourite charity, who each got half of the money.
Thanks to Gloria Brown, our tournament photographer, almost every player has an action shot in the gallery below. Please study your own form; you may be the reason your team did not win all of its games. . . 🙂
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