Day of extra ends

Press, 12 February 1981, Page 4

Day of extra ends

PA Dimedin ' ' •.'■. It was a day of extra ends , at the New Zealand women's bowling championships yesterday and none benefited from it more than Margaret Walker . (Lower Hutt) who needed it to win her third round game of the. pairs. Going into the extra ends" DIS' scores stood at 20-aU and the Lower Hutt lead, Delia Laurie, had the shot after her three bowls and Mrs •Walker gained another by gaining a rlchochet with her second bowl. , ■ This was enough to-jriveiiham a 22-20 win oyer Natalie Wilson and Ngaire Hamilton,’ of Bttrmgx ton, and project them into the last four rounds of’ post-section ! P The game was very even until the wind dropped with Birrington ahead, 15-14, after the sixteenth end. A. — “The wind dropped and.we.:got two threes," ' Mrs Walker > said, but it was not enough ond the Barrington team soon- Plastered the tightening greeiFta level the scores after 21 endß,. s^'K-.5:<' l >ii;S i »J,;i The Lower Hutt pair have played together for the last nine years and finished runher-up to Rhoda Ryan. (Matamata) in the pairs championships at Dunedin eight years ago. - ■ Heavy overnight .rain, delayed, the start of .play yesterday'morning for 45.'minutes <Mui' heavy showers interrupted l pl»y during

.warm and the steens chanted ; again. ..Th* constantly . chancing conditions put the bowlers on their mettLs and led to some interesting results. June Millard (SMriey) and her niece. Vat Gylistra, were another on the extra end agatast Norma Tebutt (Stoke), 23- ® had the shot: and Mrs the tM® .Hl Dunedin ner third, round same on the R t lnvercargill extra a’i^^beM a M5Mret a Webb W have a >S?u^ ioI * sh ! lps because’she Is Jin both lhe/pairs and the singles. . ni£?J i:e J-' :ibom s.: f -’' ,J U’.awa.tu) arid [Rhoda Ryan (Matamata)- are the sentatives still serving in the pairs. ;,/ .a-J" ;- 3;• ' world champion singles Player, Elsie Wilkie (Matamatai. Kunfeer fLlnwood fleaien in , laetond-round m tee pairs continue this manarigj■> -,