Fast Lane

Golden time for Honeychurch, tenpin

story first published in the Central Western Daily, Saturday 19 September, 1998
except text in bold which was edited from their publication. Above headline is from CWD.


Cara Honeychurch Maxine Nable


There�s a lot of tenpin news this week both from the Orange Bowl and the Commonwealth Games where the sport had medal status for the first time.

Cara Honeychurch dominated at the Sunway Pyramid Bowl in Kuala Lumpur winning three gold medals from as many events contested.

The unassuming 26 year old Melbourne superstar, who has been blitzing opponents both nationally and internationally for the past few years, won the first ever tenpin gold medal awarded when teamed with Maxine Nable, 21 of Sydney, in the Women�s Doubles event last Sunday.

Honeychurch rolled an impressive eight game tally of 1765 for a 220 average but Nable was the star in the doubles however, shooting 1913 for a 239 average as the pair finished 130 pins clear of silver medalists Shalin Zulkifli and Kin Ngoh Lai of Malaysia with Gemma Burden and Pauline Buck (England) finishing third.

The Men�s Doubles went to Malaysia�s Kenny Ang and Benny Heng 223 pins ahead of Conrad Lister and Antoine Jones (Bermuda) with Frank Ryan and Michael Muir of Australia taking the bronze medal.

The Mixed Doubles was contested on Monday and it was another gold medal for Cara Honeychurch as she teamed with fellow Victorian Frank Ryan to win by 35 pins after tallying 3605 pins. This was memorably Australia�s 500th Commonwealth Games gold medal of all time.

In this event England�s Richard Hood made history by becoming the first bowler to shoot a perfect 300 at the Commonwealth Games, a feat that would be emulated by Honeychurch in the Singles. Hood and Pauline Buck took the silver medal while Canadians William Buck and Jane Amlinger were third.

The men�s singles saw another win to Kenny Ang (Malaysia) with 6046 pins ahead of William Rowe and Warren Rennox, both from Canada.

Cara Honeychurch destroyed her opponents in the Singles qualifying, reeling off games of 257-243-257-266-247-227-261-300-258-243 for a stunning 256 average. She was unmerciless in the matchplay finals, averaging 241 to claim the gold medal with pinfall of 6,370, 378 pins ahead of Australia�s Maxine Nable and Malaysia�s Kin Ngoh Lai.

Australia topped the medal tally with 3 gold to Malaysia�s 2 gold from the five events bowled.



At the local level, the talented Julie Wilson was the star of the week with an incredible performance in the Tuesday Ladies Singles.

After an opening 182 game, Wilson shot games of 266-252-219 for a brilliant 919/4 series, a female centre record. The last three games tallied a very impressive 737, also a new centre record for women, breaking the mark set by June Bryant earlier this year.

In the same league junior Rhearne Trudgett rolled a brilliant 265 game while other top games included Maree Brown 219, Lyn Handel 200 and Marilyn Schwenke 200.

William Harvey was in red hot form in the Sunday Sabbath League with a 266 games as well as a 232 for a 678 series. Rob Jones fired a 210 while Bob Waddell managed a 215.

In the earlier Restricted Singles Chris Fuller shot a 223 ahead of Colin Edwards 216 and Suzanne Dubbelde 213.

Fuller returned in the Tuesday 6:30 league with a 201 game. Carl Bishop rolled a 222 in that league while Jason Osborne bowled 205-202-226 for a nice 629 series.

Osborne maintained the form in the Wednesday 7:30 league with a 246 while Anthony Knudsen shot 209 and Bruce Clements 205.

Jason Belmonte again dominated the Monday Scratch Singles with a 1261/6 series including an opening double of 256-229 and closing games of 203-202. Also doing well in that league were Les Gunner 223-218-207 (839/4), Jason Brown 203-203-233-203, Jim Dullaway 212, Chris Collins 219-214-215 (632/3), June Bryant 212-203 and John Cooney 202.

The Wednesday Doubles saw high games from Sharon Trudgett 223, Keith Dean 206, Henry Phillips 234, Dave Gunner 213 and David Hayward 216.

In the Friday 6:30 league Ray Parkes rolled a 211 ahead of a 203 from Paul West.

Ken Wiseman got Lined up in the Thursday Singles, opening with and eight bagger on the way to a great 278 game.

In the Wednesday Mid State league Craig Perry bowled a personal best 212 while Larry Manning shot a 203. Clare Hodgson rolled a 215 in the Monday Mixed Singles while Jenni Huthnance recorded a 200.

The high scoring Friday Triples again produced it�s above average number of top games led by a personal best 617 series from junior Maree Caltabiano which included games of 212-213.

Aldo Belmonte lifted his average to 201 after games of 233-209 (641/3) while June Bryant shot 615 after games of 247-208. Peter Brown shot a 247 as part of his 615 series while Steve Reil rolled a 245 (600/3).

Other good games came from Jason Belmonte 237, Jason Brown 213-202, Ross Caltabiano 215, Chris Collins 201, John Cooney 206, David Hayward 242, Val Irwin 221 and Henry Phillips 232.

Personal best games from various leagues were bowled by Shaun Bowman 100, Shawn Reily 103, Kylie Merritt 152, Amy Brooks 129, Bryan Clements 137, Ashley O�Neil 192 and 527/3, Melody Madden 150, Tammy Madden 163, Gabby Parra 122, Fleur Parra 129 and Betty Chester 153.



Jason Brown was named the Franklin Fresh Bowler of the Month for August following his two 279 games and two 900/4 series during the month, lifting his average to 196.



The final qualifying round of the South West zone Country Challenge will be held in Dubbo this weekend with the Orange Mid City Motor Lodge women�s team holding a slender 1 point lead. The men�s team face a forlorn hope of making the state finals in November, going into the round in fourth spot, 35 points out of third place.

The following players will be sporting the Orange colours this weekend:

Men Ray Tyquin (captain), Ken Wiseman, Steve Reil, Allan Collins, Mark Lijic, Henry Phillips and David Hayward

Women Gwen Britt (c), Marilyn Schwenke, Judy Streatfeild, Bonnea Wiseman, Dianne Gee and June Bryant.



The 15th annual Orange City Championships commenced last weekend with a number of good scores produced.

John Cooney may gain some revenge on two second place Masters finishes behind Peter Brown as he leads �Porky� the coveted men�s open singles divisions following games of 215-232-227 for a great 674 series

Bonnea Wiseman leads the women�s open singles with 539 while topping the junior lists is the sister/brother combination of Rebecca Belmonte (465) and Jason Belmonte (633) who edged Jason Brown�s 625.

Leading the doubles were Rebecca Belmonte-Belinda Irwin (1005) and Tim Irwin-Jason Brown (1117) in the juniors and Bonnea Wiseman-Judy Louie (1107) and Aldo Belmonte-Jack Rapley (1212) in the adults.

The adults and juniors have a week off this weekend while the pee Wees take centre stage with the second annual Gutterstopper Championships. The City Championships conclude next weekend.



The Wednesday 7:30 league concluded this week and was won by �Who Cares 2� consisting of Geoff Thomas, Anthony Knudsen, John Rapley, Jason Osborne, Kevin Fisher and John Cooney.

Second spot went to �Fuzzy Ducks� ahead of �Pakawakas�.

The league high game went to Allan Collins 255 while Jason Osborne took the high series with 703. Osborne�s 195 average was also best.


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