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Get your own Free Home PageThe tenth annual New South Wales Country Championships will be held at the Orange Tenpin Bowl this weekend with an official opening ceremony scheduled for today.
The Country Championships, inaugurated by the Orange Tenpin Bowling Association back in 1990 return to the Central West after three-year stints on the coast at Nowra and at Newcastle.
Bowlers will be lining up for the 1999 Championships in singles, doubles, mixed doubles and teams squads this weekend as well as next Saturday.
The New South Wales Country Masters will be bowled next Sunday.
Entries from around New South Wales have been exceptional with full squads lining up in most time slots.
Orange Association President, Henry Phillips has asked all local bowlers to check with the Bowl this morning to ensure they are bowling at the times nominated on their entry form. Due to the phenomenal response some bowlers were allocated to different times if their original squad choice was full.
The Orange City Council and Hansen's Optometrists proudly sponsor the Championships.
Leo McKay scored a 70 pin victory in the final of the Bob Jane T Mart and Harvey Norman Orange No-tap tournament at the Bowl last Sunday, winning a set of all rounder tyres valued at $400 for his efforts.
Under the seven no-tap format McKay rolled a tally of 2856 for his ten games.
Finishing in the minor placings and winning some electrical gear from Harvey Norman were Trevor Rowney and Rodney Thomas.
Rounding out the top ten in a field of 27 were David Rosser, Marie Rosser, John Barrett, Anthony Ruggerio, Jan Peters, Jason Osborne and David Hayward.
To see the full results of this tournament click here.David Hayward may have only finished tenth in the No-tap tournament but was in sensational form in leagues over the past seven days.
Bowlers can't complain about lane conditions after another week of sensational scores and if conditions remain this weekend there should be some great scores in the Country Championships.
In the Friday Triples David Hayward fired games of 269-247-237 for a personal best 753 series.
It was a big night with a total of 28 200 games and ten 600 series as well as the just mentioned 700 series.
Mark Lijic boosted his league average to 204 after a 696 series with games of 245-213-238 while Chris Collins was one pin short of Lijic's effort with 247-245-203 for a 695 block.
Also doing well were Jason Belmonte 205-216-248 (669), Les Gunner 206-248 (642) and Steve Reil 226-235 (633).
Others to crack 600 were John Cooney 204-226 (611), Lyn Handel 236-200 (629), Mario Mastronardi 202-215 (610) and Henry Phillips 247 (618).
Rolling games over 200 were Rebecca Belmonte 212, Frank McGovern 208, Michael Moorby 212, June Reil 201 and Ray Tyquin 234.
A number of the same bowlers also featured heavily in the Monday Scratch Singles and the Auto Style Wednesday Doubles.
Mark Lijic and Les Gunner were both on fire again in the Singles, Lijic shooting games of 212-233-248-236 for 1293/6 including 677/3 and Gunner belting out 236-235-257 for a 1288/6 series including 671/3.
Wally Price started with 234-202-244 (680/3) on the way to a 1245/6 series while Steve Reil bowled 214-224-236 for a 1228/6 series.
Other notable efforts were turned in by Jason Belmonte 200-258 (654/3), Chris Collins 214, June Reil 202, Jack Rapley 233-202 (613/3), Tim Irwin 200 and Rebecca Belmonte 203.
Henry Phillips shot a personal best 702 series in the Wednesday Doubles after games of 256-213-233.
David Hayward shot a nice 265 games as well as a 226. No details of his other game were received but it's assumed his three game series was quite healthy.
Wally Price maintained his good form with 222-213-200 for a 635 trio while other good games came from Jason Belmonte 233, Jason Brown 214-239, Glenn Robinson 222, John Cooney 227-228, John Rapley 204, Marilyn Schwenke 200 and Di Gee 221-215.
Gee also bowled well in the Tuesday ladies Singles with a 225 ahead of Lyn Handel 223 and Karen Sharp 213.
Andrew Scully bowled an impressive 243 in the Monday 6:30 league while Bob Waddell shot an even 200.
In the Friday 6:30 league Allan Kinghorne notched up a 202 game while Bev Hawkey had a personal best 184.
The Golden Oldies saw a 214 game from Marie Rosser while Mervyn Rosser 184, Norman Rosser 182 and Meg Burrell 165 bowled personal best games.
Greg Perry was in hot form last Thursday, shooting 201-216-237-204 for a nice 858 block in the Singles and 208-224 in the 7:30 league.
Others to bowl well in those two leagues were David Rosser 212-214-222-226, Will Harvey 214-204, Allan Kinghorne 202, Mick Moorby 212-225, Ken Wiseman 222, Jim Dullaway 226-226-235 and Frank McGovern 203.
Other high games came from Henry Phillips 218, Jim Dullaway 211, Wally Price 227, Cindy Clements 231, Tony Knudsen 223, Jason Osborne 233, Tim Irwin 204, Paul Chappelow 202, Allan Priest 215 and June Graham 214.
Congratulations to Melanie Brown, Jim Dullaway and Chris Collins who all won Australia Day Sports Achievement awards on Tuesday.
Brown represented New South Wales in the Presidents Shield while Dullaway and Collins represented New South Wales in the Walter de Veer tournament.
A reminder that the Strike It Rich Skins bowling tournament screens on Capital Television this weekend at 2pm both today and tomorrow.
Triple gold-medallist from the 1998 Commonwealth Games, Cara Honeychurch scored a third consecutive win in the Adelaide Cup at the Woodville Bowl last weekend.
Honeychurch, the only female to make the final blitzed her rivals, averaging 219 to finish an amazing 353 pins clear of the runner-up.
In the stepladder finals Sam Parella (Rostrevor, South Australia), beat Andrew Frawley (Shellharbour) 180-168. Bruno Maglieri (Craigmore, South Australia) then dispatched Parella 269-173 before beating Honeychurch 247-192. As top qualifier, Honeychurch had the right for a repercharge and beat Maglieri 220-201 to win the title.
Upcoming leagues include the Saturday Special League which starts on February 13 for all bowlers with a disability.
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