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Get your own Free Home PageWill Harvey is this week's star bowler following a couple of impressive efforts at the Orange Tenpin Bowl over the past seven days.
Harvey, the A grade champion at last year's Orange City Championships is obviously priming himself for a defence of that title next month. In the Wednesday 7:30 league he fired a big 246 game that came on top of a 627 series in the Sunday Sabbath league, comprising games of 236-203.
Last year's B grade City Champion, Jonathan Thatcher has been in good form recently and continued during the week with a hot 258 in the Sunday Doubles and a 204 in the Sunday Restricted Singles.
Other noteworthy efforts from the above-mentioned leagues included Bob Waddell 225, Frank McGovern 212, Trevor Auliff 216, Garry Johnson 204, Chris Fuller 212, Joanne Sullivan 211, Allan Collins 200 and Cindy Clements 223.
Clements also did well in the Monday 10am Triples with a 211 game while Marilyn Schwenke had a 221 game.
In the newly reformed Tuesday Ladies Singles Schwenke rolled a 243 game to finish ahead of Melanie Brown 235, Dianne Gee 212, Sharon Trudgett 211 and Gwen Britt 200.
Junior Chris Lees is another in-form player at present and he rolled a 216 in the Wednesday 4:30 league.
Glenn Robinson topped the scoring in the Wednesday Doubles with 222-200-201 (623) while other good games included Debbie Seers 205, Sharon Trudgett 204, Mick Moorby 225-216, Pat Cass 201, Dianne Dean 202 and Keith Dean 200.
Tim Irwin fired a 246 in the Wednesday 7:30 league ahead of Jason Osborne 224, Colin Edwards 201 and Joe Werner 203.
Carl Bishop shot 601/3 in the Friday 10am league while Kevin Turner turned in a 200 in the Tuesday 6:30 league. High games in the Friday 6:30 league were bowled by Craig Woodley 205 and Peter Smee 216.
There were six 600 series in the Friday Triples, including a couple that were butchered. In fact it was surprising the number of inconsistent players who shot one or two big games then struggled in the next game.
Leading the pack was Jason Osborne with 258-201 (646) just in front of Warren Handel who shot 642 after a 214 triplicate. Mark Lijic rolled 214-216 for a 620 block.
Chris Collins fired 254-204 but his middle game was a shocker as he amassed a 602 series while Henry Phillips also did well in two games with 211-244 before a forgettable third game and a 604 series.
Tony Richards was another in mixed form, opening with a 237 as he barely made 600/3.
Other "flash in the pan" efforts came from Rebecca Belmonte 232, Des Britt 200, Gwen Britt 255, John Cooney 209-201, Ross Caltabiano 226 and Mario Mastronardi 233.
If you consider not making 1200 struggling, players struggled in the Monday Scratch Singles. With league play now on lanes 1-6 things are much closer across the board, which makes for a more interesting league. Mark Lijic just missed 1200/6 after games of 207-216-235 (837/4) to narrowly edge David Rosser who shot 236-203 (606/3).
Other scores included Jason Belmonte 225-211 (626/3), Jason Brown 215-201 (605/3), Wally Price 200-212 (608/3), Mario Mastronardi 204-214, Les Gunner 203, Tim Irwin 212, June Reil 200, Rebecca Belmonte 207 and Bindy Irwin 202.
Personal best games this week were bowled by Chris Morrison 182, Scott Dinsmore 166 (60 over average), Rachel Passor 128 and Brian Clements 136.
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The 1999 Nu Vision International Open was held at Chester Hill last Sunday with Orange's Jason Belmonte finishing fourth in a field of 44.
In the opening stepladder game, Belmonte vanquished Australian rep Andrew Frawley 217-169 before falling by the barest of margins to eventual winner Angelo Constantino 216-214.
Constantino went on to beat Gil Ilagan 238-204 and top seed Amanda Bradley 205-186 and 228-182 in the repercharge.
Orange had three other starters who finished down the field. Tim Irwin finished 33rd (187 average) ahead of David Rosser 35th (182average) and Mark Lijic 39th (178 average).
Other well-known starters included Sam Romeo (7th), Tony Murray (10th), Mark Donaldson (12th), Jamie Kyriacou (19th), Sue Cassell (23rd) and Anne Maree Putney (24th).
The victory earned Constantino $800 plus a spot in the Smoke Free Invitational to be held at the Manukau Bowl in Auckland from 24-6 September.
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Entry forms are now available for the 1999 Orange City Championships and Masters. The championships, featuring singles, doubles, teams and mixed doubles will be held over the weekends of 10-12 and 24-26 September.
The Open and Graded Orange Masters are set down for 26 September with the inaugural Veteran's masters to be bowled the preceding day. Winners of the Masters receive a bowling shirt, chevron, paid entry into the 2000 New South Wales State masters and 2000 Orange City Masters, if eligible.
The Bathurst City Championships start this weekened and conclude next week. As has been the case over the past couple of years a strong contingent of Orange bowlers should be competing.
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