Fast Lane
Surprises, records in city titles
story first published in the Central Western Daily, Saturday 3 October, 1998. Above headline is from CWD.
The 15th annual Orange Tenpin Bowling Association City Championships concluded last weekend with a number of surprise results amongst some excellent scores where an amazing fourteen city records were broken.
The highly coveted open singles titles went to John Cooney, Sharon Trudgett, Greg Perry and Melanie Brown.
Cooney rolled a brilliant 674 to grab a one pin victory over Jason Osborne in he men’s division with nine time winner Peter Brown rolling 643 for third. Cooney who has won in Classic and A grade over the past three years fired games of 215-232-227 to edge 300 shooter Jason Osborne who bowled 205-223-245. Brown had his chances for title number ten after starting 225-239 but couldn’t go on with it in the third game.
It was a very high scoring event with eight 600 series recorded including Chris Collins (639), Mario Mastronardi (612) and David Hayward (604).
Sharon Trudgett secured a one pin victory in the women’s division, bowling 584 with games of 214-202 to narrowly tip out Dianne Gee who shot a 232 as part of her 583 series. Marilyn Schwenke finished third with 571.
Melanie Brown was too strong in the girls’ section with a 580 series including a 222 closing game. Melissa Johnston was second with 541 ahead of minor placegetter Belinda Irwin.
Brown also won her all events category ahead of Rebecca Belmonte and was part of the winning team.
Greg Perry caused probably the biggest surprise of the Championships with a great win in the boys’ open singles, preventing a fifth consecutive win by Jason Belmonte. The much improved Perry rolled games of 200-255 for a nice 638 series, beating runner-up Belmonte by 5 pins. Jason Brown finished third with a 625 series while Tim Irwin as fourth with an even 600.
Jason Brown won the open all events crown with a nice 1805/9 series and combined with Tim Irwin to win the open doubles.
The men’s open all events went to Jason Osborne in one of the lowest scoring years, shooting just 1763 to beat David Hayward and Peter Brown. June Bryant won the ladies all events with a record 1721/9 tally ahead of Bonnea Wiseman and Dianne Gee.
The lefty combination of Steve Reil and Peter Brown was successful in the men’s open doubles with a tally of 1274. David Hayward/Mark Lijic finished second with 1248 ahead of Aldo Belmonte/John Rapley 1212.
The ladies’ open doubles went to June Bryant and Val Smith with 1150 ahead of Bonnea Wiseman/Judy Louie and Karen Sharp/Maree Brown.
The outstanding effort of the Championships was a record shattering 646 series from Jonathan Thatcher in the men’s B grade singles, crunching the previous best by 99 pins after games of 203-220-223. Runner-up Steve Eslick also finished ahead of the old mark but was still 97 pins from the winner!
Space prevents a more detailed wrap-up of other results but winners of various events are listed below.
Other adult singles winners were Rob Jones 581 (Classic), Clare Hodgson 491 and William Harvey 579 (A grade), Jan Peters 490 (B grade) and Kath Aurisch 454 and Steve Winkle 470 (C grade).
Winners in the doubles included Jonathan Thatcher/Jason Osborne 1117 (Classic), John Cooney/Peter Zylstra 1151 and Bridgette Eden/Leanne McKell (A grade), Melissa Waddell/Jan Peters 1062 (record) and Chris Fuller/Grant Huggett (B grade) and N Truslove/Kevin Aurisch 859 and Dorothy Priest/Lyn McNamara 840 (C grade).
All events champions were Phil Blakeley 1499 (Classic), John Rapley 1706 and Clare Hodgson 1506 (A grade), Kevin Aurisch 1396 and Jan Peters 1528 (record) (B grade) and Kath Aurisch 1418 (C grade).
Winners in Mixed Doubles were June Bryant/Steve Reil with1202 (record) in open, Dianne Gee/John Rapley 1216 (record) in Classic, Val Smith/Peter Zylstra 963 in A grade, Marg Rapley/John Rapley 1099 (record) in B grade and Alan Manning/Karen Crowhurst 1034 in C grade.
Looking at the juniors, this year’s champions in singles include Tahnia Seers and Steve Paterson (A grade), Ashley O’Neill and Matt Munro (B grade), C Smith and Terry McClure (C grade) and Kristin Byrnes and Jeff Hunt (D grade).
Junior doubles winners were Rebecca Belmonte/Belinda Irwin (open), Paul Blakeley/Kiel Bugden (A grade), Tahnia Seers/Ashley O’Neill and Nathan Cox/Steve Paterson (record) in B grade, Gemma Blakeley/Tina Hart and Matt Munro/Lewis Brooks (record) in C grade and C Smith/K Bett and Joel Wiseman/Jeff Richards (record) in D grade.
The Mixed Doubles titles went to Belinda and Tim Irwin (open), Gemma Blakeley/Craig Priest (D grade).
The all events champions were Tahnia Seers and Steve Paterson(A grade), Ashley O’Neill and Matt Munro (B grade), Nathan Cox (C grade) and Gemma Blakeley and Lewis Brooks (D grade).
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Results have been received for the women’s division of the final round of the South West zone Country Challenge held at Dubbo a fortnight ago with the Orange Mid City Motor Lodge unable to hold onto first place, finishing second behind Bathurst.
Chasing their first ever win in the competition, it was a disappointing end to the season for the Orange team who held a commanding lead with two rounds to play but had to settle for the runner-up position once again.
The team’s averages were well down on normal with the exception of Marilyn Schwenke who averaged 182 with a high game of 244 and seven wins from ten games.
Gwen Britt was next best with a 158 average and five wins from eight matches while Bonnea Wiseman averaged 153, winning just one match. Judy Streatfeild, Dianne Gee and June Bryant all averaged 151.
The Orange team will be hoping for better luck in the state final which will be held at Mailand on 21-22 November. The Orange men’s team failed to make the final after finishing fourth in their division.
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Fresh from her open singles City Championship victory, Sharon Trudgett was in exceptional form during the week, first shooting a massive 880/4 series in the Tuesday Ladies Singles with games of 202-227-241-210 (670 for the first three) then returning in the Wednesday Doubles for a handy 617 with two 212 games.
Junior Greg Perry, rewarded for his sharp improvement this year with a win in the City Championships open singles, rolled his third consecutive 800/4 series in the Thursday Singles with games of 215-201-235 (651/3 and 832/4).
June Bryant was the other outstanding player this week and she too met with success in the City Championships, winning the open all events. In the Monday Scratch Singles Bryant rolled games of 211-203-256-222 for a 1250/6 block.
Others to do well in that league were Jason Belmonte 214-235-225 (622/3), Steve Reil 224-200 (608/3), Les Gunner 237-202-210 (836/4), Chris Collins 212-200 (602/3), Jim Dullaway 223, Joe Werner 200 and Wally Price 201-206.
High games from the above mentioned Thursday Singles included Jason Brown 222-202, Chris Collins 217, John Cooney 201-223 (801/4), John Rapley 217, David Rosser 222-208, Malcolm West 202 and Ken Wiseman 237-206 (606/3).
Bonnea Wiseman and Lyn Handel both rolled a 215 game in the Tuesday Ladies Singles while Rhearne Trudgett topped them with a 216.
The Wednesday Doubles had it’s usual output of high games including Dianne gee 213-202, Jason Brown 207, Wally Price 201-200, Ray Tyquin 207-203 and Brian Dinsmore 235.
Chris Collins shot a nice 247 in the Wednesday 7:30 league ahead of William Harvey 233, Bill Chappelow 213 and Derek Courtney 227.
Other high games this week were bowled by Barry Bourke with a 209 (Tuesday 6:30), Warren Bartimote with a personal best 221 (Monday 6:30) and Brian Penrose with a personal best 212 and 541/3 series in the ABCPA Super League.
Jacinta Richards bowled a personal best 92 game in the Friday Juniors.
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The Wednesday Business League finished this week and was won by “Killawatts” just ahead of “Austar” and “Pot of Gold”. Members of the winning team were Rhonda Iffland, Donna Cheney, Gwenda Budworth and Tracey Dawson with reserves Peter Walker, Sandra Reynolds and Luke Budworth.
The league high game of 226 was rolled by Peter Bryson while Ross Larsen’s 390 was best two game series.
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