By Casey O'Connor
The Stanthorpe Bowls Club held their highly anticipated Triples open carnival Sunday.
The carnival was well supported by from Texas, Southern Cross, The Summit and Warwick City in addition to the local teams.
Although organisers received apologies from several NSW clubs unable to attend for obvious reasons there were 12 teams competing.
Conditions were perfect and the greens received many compliments from the visiting players.
Congratulations to Frank Gallo and his band of helpers who are responsible for preparing the green.
The winners for the day were as follows:-
Final round – winner Wendy Hurnall (Stanthorpe), second Tony Schubert (Summit)
in third place Frank Taylors composite team.
The overall winners were the team from Southern Cross Bowl Club. Congratulations to the winners and place getters.
A special thank you to the ladies who provided lunch and homemade refreshments throughout the day. Your efforts made the day complete.
On the social bowling scene, two games of three bowl triples were played midweek.
Val White, Rocky Thompson and Peter Smith outscored Ray Rankin, Louisa Girgenti and Bruno Stefanon 17-8 while Robyn Smith, Cathy Stefanon and Dot Rankin scored a 16-12 win in their game against R Smith, Helen Jones and Mark Wicks.
Saturday bowls was limited due to the Carnival the following day. Tom Hodgson, Ernie Jones and Mark Wicks had a one point win over T Hodgson, Jack Bell and Peter Smith. Helen Jones and Brian Brown outscored Robyn Smith and David Rose 31-17.
The Stanthorpe Bowls club wish to thank the Stanthorpe RSL Club for their continuing
sponsorship of the annual Triples Carnival.
