International Triples

April 2008- Albir BC

Report & photos by Jackie Breslin.

This year’s event produced some of the finest bowling but you would expect that with so many International players participating, this year we had more teams wearing special coloured tops which enhanced the show piece and made recognition of who’s who easier for the spectators.

The wearing of coloured club tops has now been passed by the Costa Blanca Bowling Association which is a massive step forward and should make next season’s league games more spectacular.

A big thank you must go to the sponsors Bancaja Habitat who have been involved since the conception of the competition 3 years ago.

After 3 great days bowling we got down to the nitty gritty, the envelopes with the euros in, the semi finals. The first semi between Tony McKenna’s triple and that of Yvonne Briden probably produced the biggest surprise with Yvonne winning comfortably 17---7, not that some people did not expect them to win but the majority favouring Tony’s team. The other game was between Russell Marks and Dot North, wonderful to see her back bowling and to a good standard, Russell got of to a good start leading 5—1 after 4 ends but the team of Dot North, Barry Elms and skip Alex Fisher won the next 3 ends to lead 6---5. The lead changed twice more before Russell eventually won 12—9.

Russell again got off to a flyer in the final leading 6—0 after 3 ends, but as in his semi, the opposition staged a comeback winning the next 4 ends to lead 8---6, however a strange decision by Yvonne in the next end resulted in Russell scoring a 5 and despite losing a 3 at the next end scored another 5 to lead 16—11 with 2 ends to play. Yvonne scored 2 singles to finish 16—13 down.

A very eventful final one way or another.

The winning triple of Alan Bowen, Malcolm Dupuis and Russell Marks received 1800€ for their endeavours, the finalists Yvonne Browne, John Rawlings and Yvonne Briden received 600€ and the semi finalist 300€. The trophy was presented to the winners by Brian Pocock, President of the Costa Blanca Bowling Association.

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