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Get your own Free Home PageOrange junior Rebecca Belmonte scored a great win in the recent Restricted New South Wales Country Masters held at the Orange Tenpin Bowl while Sydney's Ron Langham won the men's division, upsetting top qualifier Gary Johnson from Orange.
Belmonte outpaced the field in the qualifying round, posting an impressive 172 average for her ten games to finish ahead of four other local players in fellow junior Bindy Irwin (164 average), Marie Rosser, Brigitte Eden and Jan Peters. Just missing the playoffs was another local junior Renae Caltabiano.
In the first stepladder game, Brigitte Eden just couldn't get going and Jan Peters made short work of the match, winning 164-117. The next match was a real nail-biter as Peters came up against Marie Rosser. The match was extremely tight with a single pin separating the players from the fourth frame. Both players left the final frame open as Peters eked out a 148-147 win.
Bindy Irwin got off to a hot start in the next match, three early strikes propelling her to a handy 44 pin lead after four frames. Peters fought back well with two doubles in the last half of the match but just couldn�t catch her junior rival, with Irwin holding on 153-146.
Irwin and Rebecca Belmonte then put on another memorable match with Irwin getting out to an early lead and winning 168-165. Belmonte had the right to a repercharge and made no mistakes the second time, sprinting to a handy lead early and coasting homer 164-121.
The comeback kid, Gary Johnson looked like pulling off a memorable victory after leading the qualifiers with a 173 average, finishing 30 pins and more clear of four Sydney bowlers in Ron Langham, Daniel Brand, Adam Scard and Scott Allen.
In the first stepladder match Adam Scard looked the goods, punishing Scott Allen 205-165, boosted by a mid game four bagger. Scard couldn't reproduce the effort in his next match and Daniel Brand was too good winning 166-137.
Brand didn't last long either with Ron Langham turning up the heat after opening the first frame. He then piled on a turkey and a late double to win 215-184.
Langham then faced the nervous top qualifier, beating Gary Johnson comfortably 190-143, an opening turkey putting Johnson under pressure right from the start.
Langham started the repercharge with a double to go to an immediate lead and Johnson had no answers, going down 149-190.
Mark Lijic and Steve Reil were in sensational form in their open doubles attempt in the recent New South Wales Country Championships, firing a championships and Orange centre record of 1396.
Reil was brilliant, shooting a blistering 279-267 in his first two games before a solid 214 final game gave him a great 760 block. He had 28 strikes from 35 shots.
Lijic started slowly with a 178 game but came back strongly to post 225-233 for a 636 trio.
Orange's Mick Moorby and Bob Waddell were also in a record breaking mood, setting a new mark in the A grade doubles with an 1183 series to beat Ken Wiseman and Clive Brand.
Restricted Masters champion Ron Langham teamed with Michael McKenzie to win the B doubles with 1132, again relegating Gary Johnson into second position with his partner John Rapley.
Daniel Brand and Adam Scard won C grade with 1034.
The women's doubles saw a win to Orange's Gwen Britt and Bonnea Wiseman in open division ahead of Melanie Brown and Masters champion Kelly DeDassel.
Sisters Renae and Maree Caltabiano from Orange scored a good win in A grade with 1093 while another local junior pairing in Bindy Irwin and Rebecca Belmonte, the top two finishers in the Restricted Masters won B grade with a 983 series.
Margaret Patterson and Gail William rolled 894 to win C grade.
In the Mixed Doubles, Orange's Jason Brown teamed with Canberra's Kelly DeDassel to shoot a record 1301 series in the open division, finishing ahead of Orange's June and Steve Reil who also beat the previous record with 1254.
Winners of the other three grades were all from Orange and included Rebecca and Aldo Belmonte (A grade), Frank McGovern and Brigitte Eden with a record 1058 in B grade and Kathy and Kevin Aurisch in C grade.
Winners in the men's team events were Tony Richards, Mark Lijic, Jason Belmonte and Steve Reil (Orange) with a record 2561 in open and juniors Greg Perry, Jason Belmonte, Tim Irwin and Joel Wiseman with 2235 in A grade.
Ron Langham, Scott Allen, Ian Wilby and Michael McKenzie scored a victory in B grade.
Marisa Belmonte proved a valuable team player as she featured as part of the winning teams in both open and A grade. Her open grade partners were Karen Sharp, Maree Brown and Dianne Gee who shot 1898. They were well and truly out-bowled by the A grade team that included Marg Rapley, Sharon Trudgett and June Reil who fired a record tally of 2126.
B grade went to Margaret Patterson, Adrienne Williams, Betty Burns and Dawn Smith from Nowra while their compatriots also took C grade. Members of that team were Elaine Eimer, Kay Lawless, Christina Southwell and Mavis Camlin.
Orange junior Melanie Brown and Country Masters champion Kelly DeDassel were part of the winning open and A grade mixed teams. Their open partners were Mark Loader and Willy Hoole while the other A graders were Greg Kelly and Tony Luvianiou.
The mixed B grade teams event went to Ray Solway, Jan Skinner, Coral Cavey and Ray Joyce while Andrew Dinnie, Kerrie Gallard, Eunice McGuire and Bob Richards won C grade.
At the time of writing no results had been received for either the first round of the Country Challenge or the Valentines Day Doubles.
Junior Renae Caltabiano was in excellent form in the Friday Triples, shooting a big 247 game that was 96 pins over average.
The high scoring league again featured a number of good series including a 674 from Mark Lijic who started with games of 236-256.
Others to roll above 600 were June Reil 208-212-219 (639), Jason Belmonte 225-232 (633), Ray Tyquin 245 (629), Steve Reil 234 (621), Aldo Belmonte 214-214 (619) and Tony Richards 234 (621).
Other good games were produced by Ross Caltabiano 213, Maree Caltabiano 200, Mario Mastronardi 204, Henry Phillips 226 and David Rosser 225.
Mark Lijic also topped the scorecard in the Monday Scratch Singles with a 1290/6 series. He started with 220-225-236-236-213 before running out of gas in the sixth game.
Jason Belmonte was the only other bowler to average 200, compiling a 1233 series that included 215-233-228-257 and two lesser efforts.
Other good games were bowled by Les Gunner 245-203 (625/3), Wally Price 200-247, June Reil 237-200 (619/3), Steve Reil 214-223 (623/3), Tim Irwin 223, Chris Collins 211 and James Dubbelde 214.
Scores from the previous round have also filtered through late with Lijic and Belmonte again the only two players to roll above 1200. Belmonte shot games of 236-236-216-234 for 1291/6 while Lijic had 201-223-248-203 for a 1226/6 effort, firing 673 for his final three games.
Other worthy games were rolled by Wally Price 242-202, June Reil 225, Les Gunner 203, Greg Perry 213-234, Chris Collins 213-202, James Dubbelde 233 and Craig Perry 223-217 (622/3).
Bruce Clements bowled a nice 257 game in the Wednesday 7:30 league while in the earlier Doubles league good efforts were recorded by Sharon Trudgett 202-208, Jim Dullaway 203, David Hayward 231-212, John Cooney 201, Chris Tyack 204, John Rapley 200, Dianne Gee 200, Henry Phillips 204 and David Smith 205.
Steve Smith rolled a 242 game in the Adult-Junior league while Christopher Lees shot a personal best 190 game and 508 series.
The Thursday Singles saw high games from Chris Collins 209-233-217, Ken Wiseman 232-210 and Melanie Brown 201. The Thursday teams league had a number of high games including Barry Rosser 215, David Rosser 246, Frank McGovern 204, Greg Perry 246, Jan Peters 207, Joe Werner 200 and Chris Collins 236.
Mick Moorby shot a 211 game in the Sunday Singles ahead of Brian Shaw 202 and Jonathon Thatcher 204-203 while in the Sabbath league Rob Jones fired 200-225 ahead of Barry Rosser 201 and William Harvey 211.
Upcoming events include the Bathurst Junior Masters. The Restricted finals will be held on Saturday 27 February commencing at 6:30 pm while the Open division is set for the following morning at 9:30 am.
The 13th annual Nowra City Championships will be held at the Shoalhaven City Lanes on 6-7-13 March while the Masters will be held on 14 March. The championships are open to adult and junior bowlers.
Bowlers are reminded that coaching is available for adults on Friday nights from 7 to 8pm while juniors are catered for on Saturdays at 1pm commencing 6 March.
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