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Get your own Free Home PageThe 16th annual Orange Tenpin Bowling Association Junior City Championships will be held at the Orange Tenpin Bowl this weekend.
Action started with a teams squad last night and continues today and tomorrow with singles, doubles, teams and mixed doubles events.
The championships have been moved from their usual September date to avoid a clash with the adult championships.
The third annual Junior Gutterstopper City Championships will be held at the Bowl next Sunday in separate boys and girls divisions.
A ten-game roll-off for the New South Wales Walter de Veer team will be held at Bathurst Bowl tomorrow with the top four players moving on to the state finals in Sydney next month. Players making the state squad will then compete in the Nationals in Adelaide in October.
Orange bowlers Chris Collins and Jim Dullaway represented their state in the event last year.
The big event on the horizon is the 1999 New South Wales Country Tenpin Open, worth $5,870 in prizemoney, which will be held at the Orange Bowl on 10-11 April.
The Open event replaces last year's Orange Cup with this year's tournament format reverting to that of the former Orange Open.
Bowlers will roll ten games in Saturday's qualifying round with the top 32 players returning for further action on the Sunday.
After six games the field will be cut to the top ten will who then roll another four games before a cut to the top five. Those five bowlers will battle it out in a stepladder final to decide the placings with the winner receiving $1,000 cash plus a trophy, shirt and free entry into the year 2000 NSW Country Open.
Cash prizes for the others in the top five will be $800 (2nd), $600 (3rd), $500 (4th) and $400 (5th) while prizes will be paid down to 20th with that player taking home $100.
The first round of the revamped Central West Pennants series was held last Sunday between Orange and Bathurst with honours shared between the two centres, both winning six events.
The top teams ventured to Bathurst where the men copped a hammering, losing the ones by 7 points and the twos by 26 points. The junior boys suffered a rare defeat, going down by 22 points after being within reach at the lunch break.
The ladies fared much better, with the number one team, defending champions from 1998, winning easily by 30 points. The twos also scored a good 17-point victory while the junior girls scraped in by a solitary point after trailing until the last game.
No individual averages were supplied but the high games from the Orange players came from Rebecca Belmonte 230, Marilyn Schwenke 230, Sharon Trudgett 205-213, Joel Wiseman 209 and Nikki Stones 205.
For Bathurst Tony Mould was in great form, rattling off games of 223-226-201-232-223.
In Orange, the men's threes got home by 6 points while the fours scored a miraculous win. After trailing by 5 points with a game to play, the team put the cleaners through their opponents in the last game to score a narrow 0.38 win.
The ladies threes lost by 6 points while the fours won their encounter by the same margin.
In the mixed squads, the adults lost by five while the juniors went down by just one point after leading with two games to play.
High games from the local bowlers were Trevor Rowney 200-213, Leo McKay 200 and Leanne McKell 202.
The next Pennants round will be held on 18 April when Bathurst clashes with Dubbo while Orange meets Dubbo in their next outing on 16 May.
James Dubbelde is this week's star player following another top effort in the Monday Scratch Singles. Dubbelde followed a 1229/6 series the previous week with a 1220/6 series this week. Dubbelde's form has improved against much tougher opposition and this week rolled games of 210-214-225, coming home with 634 in his last three.
Mark Lijic continued to post the big numbers, topping that league with a 1268 series and really stretching his league lead. Lijic fired games of 200-237 and finished with a great 276 for blocks of 630 and 638.
Jason Osborne was in great form early, posting games of 212-268-216 (696/3) before losing his way slightly. He recovered with a 209 in the last game for a nightly series of 1237/6.
Jason Belmonte shot a nice 260 game but nothing else of note while sub Jack Rapley opened with a deadly 666/3 after two 235 games but crashed badly after that.
Others to rate a mention were Chris Collins 204, Tim Irwin 208 and Joe Werner 214.
Tony Richards shot a 649 series in the Friday Triples with games of 211-245 just ahead of Mark Lijic with 212-238 for a 646 trio.
Shooting above 600 were Aldo Belmonte 213-214 (606), David Hayward 227-208 (617), Jason Osborne 234-216 (622) and Peter Brown 200-204-204 (608). "Porky" returned for the day to conduct business in the Pro Shop.
Other good games from that league included Des Britt 223, John Cooney 246, Lyn Handel 203, Tim Irwin 202 and Mario Mastronardi 206.
David Rosser bowled a 637 series in the Wednesday 10am league with games of 227-214 while in the 7:30 league that night Jason Osborne shot a 218 game ahead of Trevor Connerty 210, Bill Chappelow 202 and Bruce Clements. Scores from the same league, which were omitted last week, included Osborne 243 and Clements 226 plus Kelvin Merchant 200.
In the Wednesday Doubles high games over the past fortnight have been bowled by Tim Irwin 202-224-207 (633), Jason Brown 204-205, Glenn Robinson 244-217 (645) and 214, Wally Price 232, John Rapley 210, Brian Dinsmore 205, Jason Belmonte 239, Chris Tyack 201, Dianne Gee 204, John Cooney 204 and Clare Hodgson 200.
Hodgson also rolled a 213 game in the Monday 8:30 singles. Marilyn Schwenke shot a 204 in the Monday 10am Triples.
Anthony Crowhurst rolled a nice 208 in the Friday 10am league, which was 78 pins over average while high games in the Friday 6:30 league came from Peter Smee with a personal best 234 and Paul West 213.
High games in the Sunday Singles were bowled by David Phoo 200, Brian Shaw 203 and Brigitte Eden 201 while John Rapley was the lone star in the Sabbath league with a 234.
Gwen Britt rolled another all spare game in the Tuesday Ladies Singles plus a 210 game while other good scores came from Rhearne Trudgett 211, Karen Sharp 206 and Dianne Gee 201.
Tennille Smith bowled a 215 game in the Tuesday 6:30 league.
Chris Lees notched up a personal best 215 in the Thursday Adult-Junior league while Bonnea Wiseman bowled 221 and Peter Rosser 202.
In the Thursday Singles high games were turned in by Jason Brown 226, Jim Dullaway 200 and Ken Wiseman 222 while in the Thursday 7:30 league Les Gunner shot 245-211 and Patrick Cass 205.
Personal best games were bowled by Brook Furner 172 (70 over average), Doug Southwell 181, Jessi Knight 135, Jenny Wade 170, Jeffrey Cisco 180, Evelyn Pride 169 (54 over average) and Eileen McClure 132. Michelle Spicer bowled a PB 157 game then topped it with a 158.
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