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Get your own Free Home PageDavid Hayward added another tournament to his collection with a hard-fought win in the Anzac Day Singles at the Orange Tenpin Bowl on Monday, finishing 19 pins clear of runner-up Leo McKay.
Jason Osborne finished third in front of Frank McGovern, Marie Rosser, David Rosser and John Hayward.
In the first two-game bracket, using the 7 no tap format, Hayward let loose with 300-296 to share the lead with Marie Rosser.
The next block of eight no-tap games saw Hayward jump out to a 28-pin lead over Rosser who was bowling well at that point.
The 3-6-9 block proved the deciding factor of the tournament, with Hayward taking full advantage of the three free strikes to compile games of 219-232 and set up a big lead.
The final two game block, normal games with handicap, surprisingly saw Hayward struggle with Leo McKay staging a brilliant finish to pull up just 19 pins short.
Sally Hart won the encouragement award.
The Orange Masters will be held at the Tenpin Bowl tomorrow with bowlers competing for arguably the most prestigious tournament of the year in both Open and Graded male and female divisions.
The champions will represent Orange in the New South Wales State Masters in June.
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The Manhattan Super Classic was held at the Manhattan Bowl at Mascot last weekend with 1998 World Bowler of the Year, American Tim Mack winning the $15,000 first place prize money ahead of South Australian Brenton Davy.
As you may have read in the Sydney press earlier this week, it was Davy who went away with all the dollars though, rolling a 300 game during the matchplay segment of the tournament which was worth an amazing $200,000! A million dollars was on offer for back-to-back perfect games and Davy started the next game with five strikes before missing in the sixth frame.
Davy qualified in fifth place and swept through the stepladder finals, defeating Commonwealth Games gold medallist Maxine Nable 226-225, Jason Walsh 232-178 and Jamie Sim 193-190 before facing Tim Mack.
Tim Mack proved too good in the decider, winning 226-175. Mack should be familiar to viewers of the recent Coca-Cola tournaments on Capital television.
Orange's Mark Lijic, runner-up in the recent New South Wales Country Open, finished a creditable 41st and could have made the top 24 stepladder finals but for two poor games.
Lijic finished with a respectable 195 average and missed the cut by just 62 pins. That's not much considering he bowled two games he'd rather forget - 134 and 125. To his credit he followed that last game with a mighty 284 effort while his other games included 244-222-202 and 213.
The tournament was a who's who of bowling around the world, including Malaysian champions Shalin Zulkifli and Kenny Ang, plus bowlers from New Zealand, The United Kingdom, Norway, Singapore, The Philippines and Noumea. Zulkifli finished 20th while Ang was 13th.
Other well-known competitors in the finals included Fred Allsopp 7th, Ian Bradford 8th, Mark Donaldson (7th in the recent NSW Country Open in Orange) 9th, Andrew Frawley 14th and last year's winner Cara Honeychurch 17th.
There were some equally well-known bowlers outside the top 24 including Carl Bottomley 25th, Tony Livianiou (who rolled a 300 in Orange recently) 28th, Terry Maher 30th and last year's Orange Open winner Jamie Kyriacou 45th.
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Mark Lijic was the star performer this week and he preceded his creditable Manhattan Super Classic performance with a sizzling 726 block in the Friday Triples with games of 258 and 279.
Others to get noticed in the league included Jason Belmonte with 234-208-203 for a 645 series, David Rosser 204-234 (635) and Chris Collins 200-225 (609).
Good games were also supplied by Gwen Britt 222, Ross Caltabiano 211, Maree Caltabiano 220, John Cooney 208, Lyn Handel 202, Warren Handel 219, David Hayward 195, Tim Irwin 207, Jason Osborne 256, Mario Mastronardi 209, June Reil 247, Steve Reil 211, Tony Richards 222, Judy Streatfeild 213 and Stan Streatfeild 212.
Sharon Trudgett shot an 825/4 series in the Tuesday Ladies Singles with games of 201-200-225 while Lyn Handel rolled 210 and Karen Sharp 223-200.
Henry Phillips continued his great run of late with 206-206-225 (637) in the Wednesday Doubles.
Also doing well were Jason Brown 221, Mick Moorby 219-212, Glenn Robinson 214, Dianne Gee 201, Jim Dullaway 211, David Hayward 216 and Leo McKay 202.
Anthony Crowhurst bowled a 201 game in the Friday 10am league while personal best games this week came from Ben Perriman 156, Debra McDonald 150 and 50 over average, Orry Swann 143 and Blake Robinson 102.
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