Viviene Sears- ReMax Real Estate company sponsored indoor bowling tournament was held on Jan 27 and 28 with 9-teams participating from Vancouver, Courtney, Parksville, Victoria and Qualicum The format was a 2-bowl12-end open triples.
Brent Jansen’s (Skip) team comprised of two locals (Vern Hagstrom/Jan Hansen) and Gopal’s (Lead) team comprised of David Gardner (Skip) and Peter Smith from Gordon Head. The league component consisted of everyone playing 4-games and the top four playing the semis and finals for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize.
Gopal’s team was undefeated until the finals where they lost a close game to Brent’s team in the tie-breaker!
Here is a write-up on the Qualicum Beach website – https://qblbc.ca/ :
“The Gold Medal game looked like it was over by the 6th end and David Gardner’s team was comfortable. Then Brent Jansen’s threesome made a furious move to overtake them in the second half to be one up after the eleventh end.
Peter Smith made a fantastic toucher to tie it up in the twelfth and the audience erupted.
In the extra end, Smith made a great draw to beat Hansen’s shot bowl. Then a remarkable draw to the jack by Jansen forced Gardner to try a runner, but he was just off line. All players were given a great round of applause for a very entertaining game.
Winning team was Brent Jansen, Vern Hagstrom and Jan Hansen.
2nd place were David Gardner, Pete Smith and Gopal Gowda.
3rd were Ryan Pollard, Ozzie Chambers, Lorane Martin.
Thank you to our generous sponsor, Viviene Sears Remax Real Estate!”