Women’s Club Championship Pairs

CLUB CHAMPION PAIRS

On Tuesday, twenty eight women played three games of eight ends of three bowl pairs to determine the Club Champion pairs team for the 2009/10 season in warm weather.  The teams were composed by using a blind draw and the winning pair was Rae Sheppard(skip), and Phyllis Tarbuck with two wins and a draw and a total of 7 shots up.   In their first game they played Joy Poole(skip) and Joan Lemin.  Rae and Phyllis started this game strongly and led 6/1 after five ends.  Although Joy and Joan managed to reduce the lead, Rae and Phyllis went on to win the game 7/4.  In their second game, Rae and Phyllis played Anne Sloan(skip) and D.Eller.  Rae and Phyllis started this game very strongly and led 7/0 after two ends.  Anne and her partner then won the next three ends to reduce the lead, but Rae and Phyllis scored 3 shots on the seventh end to lead 11/3 and then go on to win the game 11/7.  In their third game Rae and Phyllis had a very close game with Betty Hernan(skip) and Tina Neylon.  The score was 2/2 after three ends, 4/4 after six ends and 5/5 after eight ends.  Marion Empy and Joan Hooper also had two wins and a draw and a total of 22 shots up.  Consequently, Rae and Phyllis had a three end play off against Marion and Joan to determine the club champion pair.  After three ends were  played the score was 3/3 thus requiring a fourth end to be played.  On the fourth end Joan drew close to the kitty, but with her last bowl Rae managed to replace Joan’s bowl and score 1 shot and consequently win the club championship.