Fast Lane
Bouffler and Holle win Gutterstopper Championships
story first published in the Central Western Daily, Saturday 26 September, 1998
except text in bold which was edited from their publication
The second annual pee wee Gutterstopper Championships were held at the Orange Tenpin Bowl last Sunday with over one hundred people attending the presentation ceremony where the juniors were awarded medals in keeping with the Commonwealth Games theme.
Juniors bowled three games with handicap with the added advantage of gutter stoppers.
In the girls� section Tracey Bouffler won the gold medal with pinfall of 709 ahead of silver medalist Leigha Aurisch (665) and Angela McClure who took the bronze with 637.
It was a great struggle for third and just missing a medal was Becky Speechley ahead of Eileen McClure, Tiarne Price, Kathy Quommo and Amy Brooks.
Tiarne Price at just three years of age was the youngest competitor in the Championships.
Tiarne Price
There was an excellent response in the boys� section with 25 bowlers lining up. Mark Holle won the gold medal after rolling a personal best game of 192 on the way to a 721 three game series.
Jason Wright won the silver medal with pinfall of 685, just two pins in front of third placed Evan Jackson.
Other bowlers finishing right behind the leaders were Tristan Harrison, Jeremy Mason, Shane Speechley, Dylan Gersbach, Zach Royle, Ben Owens and Scott Bennett.
The 15th annual Orange City Championships for adults and juniors conclude this weekend. Full results will be presented in this column next week.
Upcoming events include the 37th annual Australian Tenpin Bowling Congress National Championships which run from 3-17 October on the Gold Coast.
The Bathurst City Championships will be held next month over two weekends from 24 October to 1 November. Entry forms are available at the Bowl. Orange bowlers will no doubt be trying to emulate last year�s success when they won around fifteen events.
The 3rd annual Ron Boulton Marine & Cycles and Harvey Norman 1998 Orange Junior Cup will be held on Sunday 15 November.
Prizes in this event include a mountain bike for first place in scratch and handicap divisions as well as a trophy from Central West Trophies, a shirt and $200 cash. There are also electrical goods up for grabs for second to fourth placed finishers and cash prizes for others in the top ten,
All entrants also have the chance of winning a Brunswick Zone bowling ball.
A preview event will be held on the Saturday night in the form of a city versus country challenge.
The final qualifying round of the South West zone Country Challenge took place in Dubbo last weekend with the Mid City Motor Lodge Orange men�s team finishing fourth.
The team went into the final round well behind third placed Bathurst and despite making up considerable ground on that team but were unable to peg them back, therefore missing a spot in the state final in November.
The team bowled reasonably well, averaging around 185 and winning 27 of 50 matches.
Individually, Stan Streatfeild jumped in for two games and emerged with a 195 average and one win one loss.
Captain Ray Tyquin was solid as always, averaging 185 and winning six of nine games.
David Hayward and Chris Collins both averaged 184 with the former winning four times from eight matches and the latter three of seven games.
Other averages included Henry Phillips (183), Ken Wiseman (181) who won six from nine games and Mark Lijic (175).
The women�s team took a slender one point lead into the final round but unfortunately their fate is unknown as no-one passed on the results!
There were a number of bowlers chasing player of the week honours over the last seven days with juniors featuring prominently.
In the Wednesday 10am Mid State league David Rosser bowled well with games of 210-219-236 for an excellent 665 series.
Jason Brown has been in sensational from lately, winning the Franklin Fresh bowler of the month award for August. His great September form continued in the Thursday Singles with an opening pair of 265-216. His next two weren�t quite as good but he settled for a nice 838/4 series to see his average sitting at 204, the second best in the house at present behind Mark Lijic�s 206 in the Friday Triples.
Lijic shot an excellent 659 series in his latest outing in the Triples after games of 243-221.
Junior Greg Perry rolled a solid 806/4 series in the Thursday Singles but his middle two games of the night were noteworthy as he rolled 206-254 back-to-back, finishing with 648/3.
Another junior in Jason Belmonte once again topped the scoring in the Monday Scratch Singles. After an ordinary first two games, Belmonte fired off scores of 205-56-253-226 for a 1280/6 series. His last four games were 940/4 while the last three an even more impressive 735/3.
Other to rate a mention in the same league were Jim Dullaway 200-222, June Bryant 212, Steve Reil 202-205 (606/3) and (yet another junior) Tim Irwin with 244-203 (616/3).
Going back to the Thursday Singles, other good games were bowled by Chris Collins 222-223, John Cooney 247-229 (661/3 and 833/4), Frank McGovern 208, John Rapley 253, David Rosser 206 and Ken Wiseman 203.
As mentioned above Mark Lijic rolled the high series in the Friday Triples this week, but Jonathan Thatcher was the standout performance with 647/3 which was his first ever 600 series. Thatcher rolled games of 212-236.
Aldo and Jason Belmonte both rolled a 620 series in the Triples with Aldo shooting a 245 and Jason 219-228.
Les Gunner was another to crack the 600 barrier with 225-227 (618) while other good games came from Peter Brown 210, Jason Brown 203, June Bryant 206, John Cooney 201, Jenni Huthnance 205-203, Tony Irwin 203, Tony Richards 214 and Paul West 210.
In the Sunday Graded Singles high games came from Chris Fuller 203, Colin Edwards 202 and Trevor Auliff 213.
Auliff returned in the Sunday Doubles with games of 204-232 while Adam Richards shot 201-211.
In the Sunday Sabbath League Rob Jones rolled a 212 ahead of Kevin Aurisch 203.
High games from the morning leagues were bowled by Anthony Ruggiero with 202 in the Tony Leahey Ford Monday Triples and Craig Perry with 212 in the Wednesday Mid State League.
Bonnea Wiseman led the way in the Tuesday Ladies Singles with 208-225 ahead of Sharon Trudgett 214-205 and Karen Sharp 213.
Jim Dullaway�s 237 topped the Wednesday Doubles while other good games were bowled by David Hayward 208-222, Phil Blakeley 232, Dave Gunner 219, Sharon Trudgett 225, David Smith 204-220, Chris Tyack 223 and Jason Brown 201.
Personal best games this week were bowled by Angelina Trindade 111, Ashleigh Calvo 112, Troy Seers 157, Jaye Seers 152, Luke Knight 122, Tamara Garvin 142, Rebecca Lefevre 151, Matthew Southwell 128 and Hayden Gosper 108.
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