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Gold Coast Report 22nd February

KIWIS QUALIFY FOR THE FINALS.

GOLD COAST OPEN TEAMS.

Two of the six qualifying teams contained New Zealand players. Michael Whibley – Matthew Brown are members of the McAllister team which scored 2 perfect 20’s on the final day to finish top qualifier. It looked like that position was to go to Ware but a draw and two losses in their last three matches saw them drop but still remain in the top 6 to fight another day.

Spare a thought, though, for Carter (Pat Carter- Julie Atkinson, Jenny Millington- Barry Jones). Consistent performances had seen them move up to 6th place with one match to play. Alas for them, that was against McAlister and resulted in a 63 imp loss which saw them drop 16 places at the vital moment.

Here, then, are the final positions of the top New Zealand teams:

(non Kiwis in italics)

1.

McAllister

John McAllister, Sartaj Hans, Michael Whibley, Matthew Brown

170.56

5.

Ware

Michael Ware, GeO Tislevoll, Tony Nunn, Justin Mill, Matthew Thomson, Hugh McGann

160.51

11.

Chen

Yuzhong Chen, William Liu, George Sun, Alice Young

150.44

16.

Lester

Stephen Lester, Jan Cormack, Jeter Liu, June Lei

149.56

17.

Boughey

Andi and Steve Boughey, Liz and Blair Fisher

149.38

18.

Lee

Greg Lee, Alan Currie, Larry Moses, Nikolas Moore

149.37

19.

Badley

Duncan Badley, Paula Boughey, Alister Stuck, Lorraine Stachurski

147.81

21.

Jeffery

Peter Jeffery, Yumin Li, Andrew Liu, Herman Yuan

145.15

22.

Carter

Pat Carter, Julie Atkinson, Barry Jones, Jenny Millington

144.61

     

 

   
           

SENIORS TEAMS

In all other categories, only the top two teams qualify for the final. Final positions in the Seniors for our Kiwis were:

 9

Walters

Patsy Walters, Lynne and Arie Geursen, Andrew Janisz, Trevor Robb

123.58

13

Cormack

 

John Cormack, Tony Thomson, Marilyn Chadwick, Toni Sharp

 

114.35

19

Brown

Sue and Bob Brown, Arleen and Lloyd Purdie

78.43

 

INTERMEDIATE TEAMS – 102 teams

The Hajmasi team, all Auckland based, had three huge wins out of four matches on the final day to win the qualifying competition by 18.67 vp and finish 24vps ahead of 3rd place. However, like all the finalists, they must start the final on zero knowing that their opponents are the team which inflicted one of their two losses, and the heavier one, in an otherwise excellent qualifying performance. Time for revenge!

1.

Hajmasi

Kinga Hajmasi, Andrew Michl, Tony Jiang, Julia Zhu

181.62

25.

Kalma

Anna Kalma, Charlotte Jager, Tim Rigter, Rochelle Van Heuven

133.45

 

RESTRICTED TEAMS – 104 teams

A very consistent performance by top qualifiers Bannister. Jane O’Brien and Chris Hagen are committee members of Napier/Taradale Bridge Clubs while Ian Bannister used to play at Napier before moving to Australia. In the last round, they had a small win over Stuart, thus ending their opponents’ hopes of making the final. Bowers finished in style with a perfect 20 but finished 5.5 vps short of making the final.

1.

Bannister

Ian Bannister, Fran Martin, Jane O’Brien, Chris Hagen

165.58

3.

Bowers

Nicky Bowers, Joy Watkinson, Nick Walsh, George Wagner

159.91

8.

Stuart

Richard Stuart, Carol Joseph, Denise Mayhew, Dave Garrett

150.10

9.

Haslett

Julie Haslett, Trish Patterson,Janice Willoughby, Annette Hagan

147.48

16.

Thaillainathan

Tilley Thaillainathan, Jenny Donaghue, Ron Janes,Yvonne Doole

139.49

18.

Zink

Joeline Zink, Sue Hunt, Sue Ormsby, Jane Caddy

138.01

 

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