2024/25 Champion: Les Mikowiec

May 4 - The Singles final was played on a cool, cloudy day but no rain. There was a great crowd there to support the players. Les Mikowiec and Ian Edgar were our finals players and Ian got away to a good start winning the first couple of ends. Les then got into a groove and started to pull ahead. It did not matter how well Ian bowled (he did bowl well) Les just seemed to come up with a better bowl when it was needed taking the final 21-7. April 29 - The semifinals were played in magnificent weather, with a good crowd there to support the players. The Ian Edgar vs Barry Whinfield game was a cliff hanger to the end with Ian starting well to lead 5-0 but then Barry won nine of the next 11 ends to lead 16-8. Ian then won two ends to trail 10-16, Barry then got one point to lead 17-10. Ian not to be out done then won the next 4 ends to take the win 18-17. Les Mikowiec started well against Len Paterson to take out a lead of 8-3, Len kept in it, getting the score to 8-9. Les again got a slight lead to go 11-8 up. Len digging in then won four ends to lead 15-11. But Les was not finished won the next three ends to take the win 18-15. April 22 - The second round was played in beautiful weather. The game of the round went to Barry Whinfield and Neville Palmer with Barry slowly but surely Building a lead of 14-9. Only for Neville to fight back winning three ends in a row to lead 16-14, however Barry was not done and scored two 2 shot scores in the last three ends to win 18-17. The results of the other games were: Len Paterson winning over Alan Arter 18-9 Les Mikowiec winning over Ian Leahy 18-7 Ian Edgar winning over Clive de Ridder 18-4 April 16 - One of the catch-up games was played today with Neville Palmer defeating Colin Tremlett 18-10 April 15 - The first round was played in beautiful weather with some great games played. Possibly the game of the day was between Eddie Eaton and Les Mikwiec. Les started with a bang leading 5-0, this was followed by a run of 5 ends to Eddie who led 6-5. Not to be outdone Les then rattled of 4 end to lead 9-6, Eddie returned fire winning 4 of the next five to lead 15-10. A final run of 5 ends by Les resulted in him winning 18-15. It was a competitive game between Steve Szonyi and Barry Whinfield with the lead changing a number of times, but Barry ran out the winner 18-14. The same could be said for the Alan Arter and Bill Kell game with Alan winning 18-14. The results of the other games were: Ian Edgar winning over Charlie Dodson 8-12 CliveDde Ridder winning over Brian Binney 18-10 Len Paterson winning over Dennis Camenzuli 18-8 There are still two games to be played to complete the first round. April 8 - The Men's Singles Championship began with an Alinement round. Last year's Champion Neville Palmer played Chris Beaney and it was a tight game with the score 4-4 after 5 ends and 8-8 after 9 ends but it was at this point that Neville took control winning the next 5 ends with a 21-8.Colin Tremlett played against Lindsay Marsh, the same as last year's first round but this time Colin managed to turn the tables on Lindsay and took an early lead 5-1 on end 4. Lindsay then put together a run and caught up on end 9 with a score of 7-7. From there Colin took control and won the next 5 ends to lead 17-7, it was when that Lindsay retired leaving colin the winner. Eddie Eaton was too consistent for Bill Jessiman wining 21-9. Les Mikowiec was too consistent for Bill Nicoll winning 21-8.