Contributed by 'Pistol Pete'

One Sundee bowler carried the flag representing the Combo Bowlers at last week’s Dubbo City Bowlo ‘Presidents' thing’, a knockout event over two days at Sporties.

Pete Ruzans and Judith O’Conner won both games on Saturday and their semi on Sunday morning. Unfortunately their run came to a wet and sticky end at the hands of Gumpy and Pete McKechnie in the final.

The miserable weather once again reduced our numbers and restricted games to just 10 ends on Sundee morning. This was to the detriment of those teams who had factored in ‘comeback’ to their strategy!

Julie Brown and Bryan O’Sullivan were one of these. They opened with a four on end three but ‘New knee’ Graham Ross and Ruby Stockings took over, chalking up shots five ends in a row. It was enough to stifle any ‘come from behind plans’ by Julie and Sully who added a triple but finished two shy when ‘she tumbled down’!

The triples on Rink 10 featured a ‘great team’ against ‘one not so great’! Mary Perry was very ready, Frank Armstrong always very competitive and Pete Sinclair (Team MFP) very experienced. Together they demonstrated their assets in this one game. Sue McCauley, Ray Strawhan and Trish Gosper did not know what was ahead after they opened the scoring with a solitary. They added one more on the fifth and one on the last. Meanwhile MFP kept adding them up and in a ‘smacking’ performance that featured a triple on End three, four lots of doubles and two won by 10!

Chris Castlehouse - still finding his legs - Leo Balstad, Eric Satchell are all pretty determined rollers and they played a solid team in Ron McCauley, Pete Bennison and Col Cottee. The latter showed they meant business, scoring on the first three ends to lead six nil. Despite some ‘determined’ - albeit low scoring ends - Chris, Leo and Eric couldn’t narrow the margin and went down by 10 shots.

Allan Stratford and John Cole showed how to play a shortened game - get in early and hope she rains! A couple of triples, a pair of twos and a quad proved decisive as Doc Livingston and Gordon Scott dropped in three singles. A big 13 shot win for Al who spent most of the morning rolling the jack!

This Sunday 30 bowlers from Scone are joining the RSL Combo for a ‘Day on the Green’ at RSL Sporties.

Winners - Allan Stratford and John Cole;

Runners Up - Mary Perry, Frank Armstrong and Pete Sinclair.