State Triples Final 2004/5
The Doubleview team of left/right: Robbie Ball {skip}, Jim
Bausor and Dennis Katuna-rich.
They
are a happy team after winning the State Triples
for 2004 defeating the Yokine combination of Marko Krajancic {skip}, George
Elkins
and Phil Simonetti 24 / 17.
The State Triples was discontinued in 1990. The winners
of
that event were Dennis Katuna-rich, Robbie Ball and John Rainoldi.
A good move by BowlsWest to bring it back in 2004, and appreciated by the players.
This
was a great game to watch and anyones game up until the
20th end.The Yokine boys got away to a great start and were leading 9/3, with
Phil Simonetti playing extremely well with 9 of his first 12 bowls very close
to the jack, leaving
Jim Bausor with some work to do on his game .
George Elkins doing a great job
as the middleman, the Kat was feeling his way and Marko playing his usual game.
Robbie Ball was nearly always under the pump.
From here on the game started to go better for Doubleview and it became a nip
and tuck affair. The feature of the game was clash between George Elkins and
the Kat, what was needed was for Jim Bausor to lift his game and he did, the
game was still in the balance, Yokine leading 17 / 16 on the 17th end. From here
on
it was all Doubleview as they went on to score a great victory.
Leads:
Some say Jim Bausor won the duel, my stats
say he did not, Fabulous Phil won 12 ends. What was important for Doubleview
if
they were to win this game, was for Jim to lift the work rate and he did.
Middlemen:
The highlight of the game with both players
working hard to win supremacy. George Elkins was terrific and was a man on a
mission, also without the contribution of the Kat Doubleview would have had no
chance.
The Skips:
Marko appeared to play better than Rob
but faded toward the end, he played some terrific conversions, also gave the
shot away which was costly, Rob did his best work later in the match when it
was really
needed.
Best Player: 1. George Elkins, 2. Dennis
Katuna-rich.
My summary seems to say Yokine had the better game, however like in football
matches, a team can have a lot more of the footy and still lose the game, and
this is what
the Yokine team did.
Runner/up Yokine Pictured left/right: Marko Krajanic {skip}, George Elkins and Phil Simonetti.
Semi-finals: Marko Krajancic defeated Peter Harris {Vic Park}in a very good finish picking up a five on the second last end to win 17 / 15-- Peter Harris hardly played a bad bowl for the entire game and easy to see why he is a State Skipper.
Robbie Ball defeated Trystan Smallacombe { Cambridge} 17 / 11 in the other semi, the Cambridge boys did not play up to the very high standard they displayed the day before. Stll, its a great effort to do as well as they did to make the semi's.
