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Get your own Free Home PageOrange's Melanie Brown scored a one pin victory in the girl's division while Gosford bowler Jarrod Lean scored his second successive win in the boy's division of the 4th Annual Ron Boulton Marine & Cycles and Harvey Norman Orange NSW Country Cup which was held at the Orange Tenpin Bowl last Sunday.
Lean upset tournament top qualifier Jason Belmonte in the final to capture his second successive title.
Melanie Brown averaged 176 in the eight game qualifying round with a best effort of 214 to land in third spot in the stepladder playoffs behind top seed Leanne Prenzel of Shellharbour who averaged 195 in qualifying after games of 221-266-203.
Orange's Rebecca Belmonte qualified second with a 190 average including games of 229-208 while claiming fourth in the stepladder was Belinda Irwin on a 174 average.
Brown and Irwin met in the first knockout match with Brown advancing 193-181 to set up a match with Belmonte. Brown prevailed in that game also, rolling a top 225 game to Belmonte's 179.
The decider went down to the wire with Brown scraping in 203-202 against Prenzel.
Finishing outside the top four were Amanda Barrott, Emma Herring, Toni Brasting, Tahnia Seers and Melissa Johnston.
Local hotshot Jason Belmonte had dominated the boy's qualifying round, averaging 215 to outdistance nearest rival Lean by a massive 157 pins. However, in the one game stepladder shootout Lean proved too good winning 210-194 with a ninth frame split putting paid to Belmonte's prospects.
Belmonte was on a mission in the qualifying section as he put together games of 209-230-202-223-264 (1128/5) before cruising across the line with 597 for his last three games. Lean started slowly but put together games of 234-225 at the end of qualifying just as Belmonte seemed to go of the boil.
Taking third place in the stepladder was Sydney's Michael Frazi (193 average) ahead of former local city champion Greg Perry 192 (average) who finished seventh in this event last year.
Perry fired a 214 at Frazi who was only able to counter with a 153. Perry wasn't able to reproduce that form against Lean however with the Gosford player winning easily 223-167 to move into the decider against Belmonte.
Missing the playoffs by just a spare was Joshua Dwyer while rounding out the top ten were Jai Prentice, Billy McGlashan, Scott Richards, Ryan Griffiths and Josh Singer.
Jai Prentice (Gosford) won the handicap division with a 215-190 victory over top seed Matthew Sing (Sydney). In the earlier rounds Fiona Smydzuk (Sydney) beat Joshua Dwyer (Corrimal) 239-195 before Prentice beat her 260-236.
The tournament, which again highlighted the cutthroat nature of stepladder finals where all three top qualifiers were beaten in the one match that counted, was a major success attracting a full field of 48 bowlers ranging in age from 11 to 18. Next year's tournament will be even bigger with a $1,000 boost in prizemoney, from the NSW State Junior Committee announced at the end of the tournament.
Special thanks to the two above-mentioned major sponsors who received naming rights as well as Central West Trophies and Brunswick Bowling Supplies. The ball from BBS was won by Darren Fisk who finished in 13th spot.
The state final of the Country Challenge will be held in Campbelltown this weekend with Orange represented in both the men's and women's divisions.
The President's Shield Central Zone roll-offs commence today at the Castle Hill Wondabowl with the finals to be bowled tomorrow and next weekend.
In upcoming events, the Orange Tenpin Bowling Association Annual General Meeting will be held next Saturday while the annual barbecue/presentation day will be held on the Sunday along with the OTBA Adult-Junior Doubles tournament.
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The Wednesday Doubles keeps producing the big games and Dianne Hazzard was this week's star performer following a nice 665 three game series.
Hazzard started with a solid 192 game with two missed ten pins then rolled a great 247 game that could have been in the 270's with an ounce of luck. She maintained her form in the last game for a good 226 game.
Ian Hazzard had his own ten pin problems, shooting 214-204 for a 601 series while other notable efforts included Jim Dullaway 213, Marilyn Schwenke 200, Tim Irwin 201, Glenn Robinson 204, Ray Tyquin 212, David Hayward 212, Henry Phillips 202 and Brian Dinsmore 202.
Julie Wilson shot a nice 245 game in he Wednesday 10am league on her way to a 618 series while in the Wednesday Juniors Kelly Flood bowled a personal best 221 game.
Mark Lijic is bag with a vengeance. After some relatively lean times he bowled a huge series last week then did the same twice this week. In the Friday Triples he kept his average at a centre high 213 mark with games of 226-226-225 for a 677 series, almost picking up a record triplicate in he process.
In the Monday Scratch Singles Lijic shot a sizzling 1322/6 series with games of 212-219-257-221 (909/4) as well as a 234.
Jason Belmonte shot 1217 in that league with 237-203 (639/3) while others of note included Wally Price 226 (600/3), Jason Osborne 239-214, Mario Mastronardi 201 twice, Marisa Belmonte 219, Tim Irwin 209-211 and Rebecca Belmonte 203.
Jasons Belmonte and Osborne also performed well in the Friday Triples with he former shooting 204-213-238 (655) and the latter 229-213 (641). Aldo Belmonte also made 601 with games of 202-203.
Other good games were turned in by Greg Perry 226, Lyn Handel 215, John Rapley 202-212, Ross Caltabiano 233, Stan Streatfeild 223, David Rosser 214, Henry Phillips 211 and Tony Irwin 201.
Sharon Trudgett's 213-202 led the way in the Tuesday Ladies Singles ahead of Melanie Brown 212-200, Gwen Britt 212, Tennille Smith 211 and Judy Streatfeild 205.
The Saturday Juniors saw good games from Edward Woolfe 201 and Mark Holle 203 while John Rapley was in fine fettle in the Friday 10am league with 235-214.
In the Monday 10am league Debbie Seers did well with games of 200-216. The results of the Bowling Games raffle from that league are: 1st McClure Family (30 games), 2nd Craig Priest (20 games) and 3rd Margery Birt (10 games).
There were personal games aplenty this week including those recorded by Robyn Gregson 187, Margery Birt 199, Joan Matthews 167, Todd O'Neil 105, Wade Selwood 144, Allan Davis 135, Kristin Clements 117, Bryan Clements 127, six-year-old Hayden Gosper 127 and Aaron Thurtell 118.
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