The BSI Ladies Triples Tournament was hosted by our Club on the evenings of September 7-9 and managed expertly by Louise Mason.

Fourteen Teams played in the LoTN tournamentLoTN tournament takes place in the evenings, hence 'Ladies of the Night' and provided the spectators with incredible shots and closely-fought games – some requiring an extra end to determine the winner.

Participants came from a number of BSI Clubs including Juan De Fuca, Lakehill, Gordon Head and Vic West.

Oak Bay Lawn Bowling Club was represented by Louise Mason, Betty Walker, Bobbi-Jean Charlton, Layla Godfrey, Tanis Ranger, Pat Thomas, Kate Kajewski, Karen Evans, Mary Magill, Diane McMorran, Linda Cowie, Kay Alexander and Helen Kempster.

Results

Overall Winners: Marie Landsdowne (Lead), Flo Steel (Vice,) Nancy Oberholtzer (Skip)

Three-game winners: Dorothy Verge (Lead) Josie Tan (Skip), Gale Law (Vice)

Two-game winners: Anita Wah (Lead), Anne Murfitt (Skip), Judith Raymer (Vice)

One Game Winners

Linda Cowie – Skip
Kay Alexander
Helen Kempster

Consolation Winners: Jill Foster (Third) Anne Mathie (Skip) . Absent: Wendy Leamen (Lead)

This tournament was successful based on the leadership of Louise and her ability to enlist the help of other members. So thanks to David Anderson, Robert Game, Brent Jansen and Harnam Grewal who marked the greens, to Ian McMorran who rolled the green each day, to Brent Merchant for help in rink set-up and take down, and to Lee Millar and Brent Merchant for registration and selling the 50/50 tickets.

A special thanks to the three Umpires for the tournament – Davie Mathie, Steve Foster and Mort Nelson.

Reporting by Brent Merchant

Breaking News . . .Post-tournament extortion concerns

Regrettably, after the tournament, a number of players reported that the masked woman who collected the score cards had threatened to alter the cards unless the players bought expensive tickets from her, most of which turned out to be worthless.

One player surreptitiously took a photo of the offender, caught in the act, and turned it over to the Oak Bay Police.

Thanks to secret forensic image-processing software, the police were able to digitally remove the offender’s disguise and reveal that it was in fact a man! A man who, in previous years, had been well known to the penal system.

They discovered that some years ago, there was circumstantial evidence that the suspect had laundered tens of millions of dollars through the construction business where the money was used to build multi-residential secure buildings.

The police expressed surprise that the current scam by the known offender was on such a small scale. Because of the trivial nature of the fraud and the fact that not all of the tickets were worthless, they declined to issue any arrest warrants. If the club, wishes to proceed further we were advised to provide more evidence. Perhaps the worthless tickets can be collected???

Editor