Pat Cutt
Special to the Record
Courtenay Lawn Bowling Club hosted a highly successful Ladies Triples Provincial event on July 11-12. Winners were the Mary Wright team from the Lower Mainland, but our local Zone 2 girls played three tight games on Saturday, back-to-back in the heat, to come through with the silver medal.
On the men’s side in Nanaimo, Vern Greenhill, Martin Fereday and Dean Penny brought home the bronze with the gold going to German Santana of Vancouver and the silver to the South Island team skipped by Gord Fall of Duncan.
This is but the third year that the North Island zone has hosted a Provincial tournament, so our pride in our greens and our local bowlers is proving to be well placed.
Travellers are off to Nanaimo this weekend for the Cruise Ship Mixed Triples. Four local teams skipped by Vern Greenhill, Pete Harding, Pat Cutt and Dean Penny start on Friday for three days in a winner-play-winner event with really good prize money. This tournament was previously known as “The Gold Bowl.”
Locally, the Webber singles continues with many makeup games to be played due to the many tournaments going on and the heat. Pairs on Tuesday evenings are now 14 teams of mixed pairs with the winners going on to the zone event in September.
Wednesday League has started the second half with 14 teams and played one game so far. Results next week.
– Courtenay Lawn Bowling Club
