Fours championships held at Ettalong

The 2012 Bowls Central Coast-Zone 15 Major Fours and President's Reserve Fours Championships at Ettalong on Saturday, January 28, attracted a large field of teams.

With 196 players in the Major Fours divided into four sections, the sectional rounds winners were Avoca Beach in section one, Terrigal in section two and Ettalong in sections three and four.

Run in parallel with the Majors, the 140 players in the President's Reserves fought out their sectional rounds with Halekulani winning section one, Woy Woy section two, Umina section three and another Ettalong team winning section four.

This set the scene for a feast of bowls on offer for the spectators at Ettalong Beach Memorial Bowling Club for the semi-finals in the morning and the finals after lunch.

The morning semis saw big wins in the Majors for Terrigal over Avoca 26-5 and for Aron Sherriff's Ettalong team over their fellow club mates led by Danny McNeilly 24-4.

The President's Reserves semis were closer with Bruce Raynor's Ettalong team victorious over Umina 22-12 but Herby Lach's Halekulani team had to come from behind over the closing stages to snatch a one shot win 17-16 from Woy Woy.

With the spectator crowd building for the finals in the afternoon, they were not disappointed as Sherriff skipped his Ettalong team to an early lead against David Neilsen's Terrigal team until end seven when Terrigal started to fire and hit the lead by one shot at end 17.

Ettalong scored four shots to two over the last four ends to take the Major Fours Championship by one shot.

In the President's Reserve Fours final Herby Lach's Halekulani team had another nail-biter, this time trailing Woy Woy until the 20th end when they levelled the score-line at 18-18 then took the last end to win 20-18.

Media Release, 5 Feb 2012 Bob Bourke, Bowls Central Coast-Zone 15