Late sport National 'women’s bowls results

Press, 13 February 1981, Page 4

Late sport National 'women’s bowls results

PA Dunedin Etluiie Stallard (Coronation, Nelson) may not have won her semi-finals singles match against Noeline Scott. (Cromwell) but she has the satisfaction of. achieving the best result by a Nelson centre player for 20 years at the New Zealand Women’s Bowling Championships today. . Mrs Scott, the winner of the title four years ago, won the game, 20-17, by scaring three on the extra end. Rhoda Ryan (Matamata) revealed her stamina as well as her technical skill by playing her fourth game of the day and beating Denise Page (Linwood), 20-15, in the quarter-finals of the singles. ■ It -is unusual for any player to be asked to play more than three games a day in a national championships when it includes two games of pairs and Mrs Ryan must have been tired going into her final game, but she was in such good touch after comfortably beating.. Marie Watson (Linwood), ■ ,2Q-8, ■ that she volunteered to play the extra game. Barbara Kunicich (Bayswater), who,won the title in 1978. will play Mrs. Ryan-in the semi-final this morning. .-"She beat Betty Fitzeli (Matamata) comfortably in the-semi-final; • • * s The unset in the pairs came when Mrs Ryan . was beaten, 18-16, by a fellow New Zealand representative, Joj)ce Osborne (Manawatu). Mrs Ryan. led, 14-12, after‘ 15 of the 21 ends when she’ uncharacteristically dropped a four < on. the; next end and trailed to the finish.

Mrs Osborne Basi.a'. touch, of class in her play and revealed it when scoring a four on the final end of her fourth'round game to beat Judy Howat (Wellington), 18-17. But in the semi-final, against Margaret- Walker (Lower Hutt),

Mrs Osborne was unable to master the tricky wind and was beaten. 19,11, after trailing for the entire game. In the other semi-final, Jenny Simpson (Matamata) had a comfortable 25-13 win over Jo Hodder (Frankton Junction). The Matamata team led, 19-5, after 11 ends and never looked like losing. Results:— Singles Fourth round.—B. Kunicich (Bayswater) 19. M. McDowell (Waikiwi) 16; B. Fitzeli (Matamata) 22. K. McLew. (Invercargill) 10; R. Ryan (Matamata) 20. M. Watson (Linwood) 3; D. Page (Linwood) 17. M. Fisher (Caversham) 16; E. Stallard (Coronation) 24, E. Moffatt (Miramar) 13; L. Kimber (Linwood) 20, J. McLean (Walton) 14; T. Anderson (Linwood) 20, N. McCunn (Tateri) 17; N. Scott (Cromwell) 17, J. Canister (Taninui) 12. Fifth round.—B. Kunicich 21, B. Fitzeli 16; R. Ryan 20, D. Page 15; E. Stallard 18, L. Kimber 17; N. Scott 20, T, Anderson 8. . . Semi-final.—N. ■ Scott 20, E, Stallard 17. Pairs ; " ' Fourth, round,—J. Osborne (Manawatu) 18, J. Howat (Wellington) 17. R. Ryan' (Matainata) 21. A. -Selby (Matamata) 12; J. Millard (Shirley). 17. L.:Chisholm (Leith). Hr M. Walker - (Lower Hutt) 23. M. E. Collins (Palmerston) TO; J. Simpson (Matamata) 24. A. Triggs (Riccarton) 17; J. Beardsley (Temuka) 17. M. Driver (Hampden) T 6; J. Hodder (Frankton Junction) 22. E. Heydon (Northend) 1’; D. Strang (Middlemarch) 20, K . McLew (Invercargill) 16. Fifth rounder. Osborne 18. R. Ryan 16. M. Walker 25, J. Millard 10; J. Simnsbn 28. J. Beardsley 12; J. Hodder 23. D. Strang 10. Semi-finals.—M. Walker 19,. J. J. Simpson 25,;. J,