The women's team is currently in second spot, 24 points behind the leaders Canberra while Bathurst are third ahead of Wagga, Dubbo and Mudgee.
The men's team is in third place and trails the front-runners Wagga and Canberra by 14 points while well behind Orange are Dubbo, Bathurst and Mudgee.
Representing Orange in this round are:
Men:
Chris Collins, David Hayward, Henry Phillips, Alan Collins, Ken Wiseman, Wally Price.
Reserve: David Rosser
Women:
Gwen Britt, Marilyn Schwenke, Judy Streatfeild, Dianne Gee, Bonnea Wiseman, Lyn Handel
Reserves: Marie Rosser and June Reil
The third round of the Central West Pennants will be bowled next weekend with Orange taking on Dubbo. The following weekend sees the Mountain Skins at the Bathurst Tenpin Bowl.
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The Orange Tenpin Bowling Association Adult Masters was held last Sunday with victory going to David Rosser, Sharon Trudgett, Marie Rosser and Chris Fuller. (pictured left to right. Click on the photo for a larger image)
Mark Lijic went into the Open men's Masters as a hot favourite after his brilliant recent form but after being in a winning position with four games to go, stumbled across the line and could only manage fourth place behind David Rosser, Jason Osborne and David Hayward.
It was a great win for the much improved Rosser who finished the twelve game final with a 193 average, winning comfortably by 51 pins from Osborne with Hayward just five pins further back.
Rosser had an opening game of 225, his high for the tournament before three below average efforts. He recovered from those and was consistent for the remainder of the tournament, shooting 201-222-209-203.
Osborne started badly but came back with games of 201-201-211 before a 255 in game ten put him in a winning position but he was unable to capitalise on it in the final two games. He finished with a 189 average.
Deaf champion Hayward rolled an early high game of 254 as well as 212-203-221 and looked set for a win at the ten game mark but crumbled badly in the last two games. His average for the day was 189.
Mark Lijic rolled games of 202-224-245 but really ran out of steam over the last four games, averaging 182.
Jon Thatcher finished fifth ahead of John Cooney, a former dual Masters runner-up behind Peter Brown.
Sharon Trudgett scored a 69-pin win in the women's Open Masters ahead of Dianne Gee and Karen Sharp.
Trudgett averaged 182 for the twelve games and rolled high games of 237-229-204.
Gee finished with a 177 average and rolled high games of 224-200.
Sharp added yet another Masters minor placing to her career, averaging 174 with a high game of 201.
Chris Fuller scored a 34-pin victory in the men's Restricted Masters, averaging 175 to defeat Colin Edwards and Leo McKay with former winner Gary Johnson fourth.
Fuller fired games of 201-202 to set up a handy lead and he needed to as he crashed badly in his final game but had a big enough lead to hold off the challenge from Edwards.
Edwards averaged 172 without the aid of a 200 game. Minor placegetter McKay averaged 167.
The women's Restricted Masters saw a double to the Rosser family with Marie Rosser capturing her most important tournament win to date then later watching her son David win the Open Masters.
Marie Rosser averaged 156 to score a narrow 17-pin victory from runner-up Leanne McKell with Brigitte Eden third.
Rosser and McKell duelled for the lead throughout the tournament, with the eighth game proving decisive with Rosser gaining a 25-pin break at that point.
McKell's 192 was the high game for the division.
The Orange Masters winners will now represent their centre in the New South Wales Masters next month.
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David Rosser is this week's star bowler and not just for his Masters triumph. He reappeared in the Monday 6:30 league with games of 224-253 for a hot 666 series then in the Wednesday 10am league he rolled games of 214-215 for a 607 series.
Mark Lijic recovered from his Masters debacle with a strong effort in the Monday Scratch Singles. He fired games of 227-203-233-257-207 (1127/5) before a poor final game and a 1276/6 series.
Wally Price also did well, rolling games of 210-226-219-221 for a 1247/6 block.
Other good games were supplied by Jason Belmonte 200-230 (601/3), June Reil 220-200-225 (645/3), Steve Reil 247 (623/3), Chris Collins 217-200-212, James Dubbelde 216-237-200 (653/3), Les Gunner 205, Tim Irwin 207-200-245 (833/4) and Bindy Irwin 219.
High games from the Monday 10am triples came from Marisa Belmonte 212, Judy Louie 207 and Rodney Thomas 206 while Bob Taylor rolled 201 in the Monday 6:30 league and Leo McKay shot a 223 in the Monday Mixed Singles.
In the Wednesday 10am league Rod Iffland had a personal best 207 and Julie Wilson shot 212 while Vince Mastronardi fired a 203 in the Monday Golden Oldies.
In the Friday 10am league Carl Bishop bowled a 226 game while Sandy Honeyman had a 209.
Karen Sharp fired a great 268 in the Tuesday Ladies Singles, the high game for the week and also rolled a 210 while other good games came from Dianne gee 202, Lyn Handel 200 and Maree Brown 233.
In the Tuesday 6:30 league Andrew Lennard bowled 211 and Tennille Smith 208.
Kevin Carr bowled his first 600 series in the Sunday Restricted Singles with games of 203-203 for a 601 block. Other games included Frank McGovern 210, Jonathan Thatcher 232, Bob Waddell 211 and Niki Stones 216.
The Sunday Doubles saw high games from Mick Moorby 209, Bob Waddell 203 and Trevor Auliff 204 while in the Sunday Sabbath league John Rapley shot 226 and Will Harvey 210.
Personal best games this week were bowled by Robyn Astill 188, Alysia Hayward 198 and Charlotte Martin 199 while Leanne McKell bowled a 158 triplicate.
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The Orange Tenpin Bowling Association Junior Fund-raising raffle was drawn last weekend by Peter Smee. Winner of the first prize, a pair of adult Seiko watches was Gwen Britt while the second prize, a pair of Lorus watches was won by Betty Morgan. Thanks to all those who bought tickets.
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