The other competing teams at the Dunedin Indoor Bowls Centre are North Otago, Central Otago and South Otago.
The Dunedin-based team includes six players selected for the South Island’s nine-match North Island tour in August.
One of the key bowlers in the team is the experienced Ann Cottrell who won her three games of singles — 15-8, 22-2 and 11-10 — for the South Island masters team against the North Island in Taupo last week.
The anchor bowler in the Dunedin team is international Daniel French, who won silver and bronze medals at the national championships.
The challenge to the Dunedin-based team’s dominance will come from South Otago with its three South Island representatives of Alanna Preddy, Kathryn Edgar and Chris Moffitt.
Preddy and Moffitt were in a composite four that won a silver medal at the South Island championships in Nelson.
They were joined by Ashburton’s Grant Wilson and Matt Bassett and lost the final to Southland’s Gary, Graham and Jan Low and Warwick Gray 9-6.
Jolly Quadrangular
The annual event honours the memory of Gordon Jolly who was a life member of New Zealand Indoor Bowls and the New Zealand Bowling Association.
Jolly was the long-term secretary-treasurer of the New Zealand Bowling Association.
He represented New Zealand in both indoor and outdoor bowls with his playing highlights a gold medal in the fours at World Bowls and the Commonwealth Games.
Trophy for couple
At the New Zealand championships in Taupo last week, John and Jacquie Williams reached the quarterfinals of the open pairs and won the Bob Malcolm Memorial Tray as the most successful husband-and-wife combination.
The Mornington triples team of David Angow, Marilyn Irvine and Rhonda Switalla won the masters silver medal when they lost the final to Lower Moutere’s Ron and Rae Inglis and Ettie Wells 12-4.
Daniel Sinclair made the second round of the open singles and the last 16 in the fours. Brothers Brandon and Adam Williams reached the second round of the open pairs.
At the South Island championships in Nelson, Dunedin bowlers David Webb (pairs), Brandon Williams and Daniel French (fours), French and Lyn Rance (triples) reached the last 16.The composite four of Daniel Sinclair, Barry Cadogan, Mike Harte and Brent Sinclair lost in the semifinal.
South Otago
Paretai teams contested the final of the South Otago mixed fours with Stephen Preddy, Biddy Craig, Craig Botting and Shona Preddy beating Alanna Preddy, Chris Moffitt, Jaime McElrea and Greg Keach 10-5.
They will represent South Otago in the regional final in Dunedin on July 1 against teams from Otago, Central Otago, North Otago, South Canterbury and Southland.
Colleen Fenton skipped the pairs to three wins and Chris Moffitt captained the South Island Academy team that beat the North Island in Taupo 26-22 last week. It was only the second time in the 15-year history of the trophy that the South Island had won. The other time was in 2008. Southland beat the South Otago Development team 97-91. The best-performed South Otago bowler was Alex Melville (Lawrence) with five wins.
Four wins were gained by Don Jenks (Katea), Tony Chittock and Sue Kingi-Potiki (Waitepeka).
Central Otago
Kevin Hurley, a life member of the Bannockburn club and the winner of 11 centre titles, will represent Central Otago at the national Henselite singles final in Nelson in September.
Hurley beat Georgia Watt (Frankton) 12-8 in the semifinal and clinched his national spot when he beat Rick Yorston (Roxburgh) 12-5 in the final.
North Otago
Mike Howard (Oamaru) was in red-hot form over the past month and has skipped a four and pair into the regional finals in Dunedin early next month.He won the mixed pairs with Rhonda Lockerbie when they beat Oamaru clubmates Graham Larcombe and Aylene Millar 8-6.
Howard and Lockerbie will have a second chance to reach the national final in the mixed four with Sue Jones and Graham Larcombe.
These events do not count for centre titles. The only North Otago title contested this year was the champion of champions pairs won by Wally Strachan and Graham Arlidge (Awamoko). This was Strachan’s fourth centre title and Arlidge’s first.
The Strachan family team of Graham, Bevin and Diane won a non-championship triples tournament when they beat Meadowbank’s Carol Read, Barbara Allan and Raewyn de Filippi 6-1.
Tom Galway
Tom Galway, the only centurion to play regular interclub bowls in Dunedin, died early this month at the age of 102.
Galway, who was sprightly and looked and felt 30 years younger than his age, played in the Bowls Dunedin Wednesday club competition with his St Kilda clubmates after hitting the ton.
Last year, when he was aged 101, Galway played an interclub match with St Kilda clubmates Dave Hanlin (95), Colin Challis (93) and Ray McBride (90). The average age of the fours team was 94.75 years.
Galway, a retired purchasing officer, suffered from diabetes and carried a meter to games to test his blood sugar levels. He had a pill box of jellybeans to eat if the count was too low.
Galway’s wife died 18 years ago and he lived alone at South Dunedin before shifting to the Yvette Williams Home five years ago.He still drove his Honda Civic car this year and used to travel to Australia with his daughter,Carol McRobie-Shaw, each winter. But that stopped when he turned 100 because he could no longer get travel insurance.
PBA
Top-ranked PBA member Murray Glassey (Hawke’s Bay) started the 2017 season in style in Hastings when he beat Kapiti Coast’s Daryl Johnson 12-2, 8-4 in the Scottish singles qualifying event.
He also qualified for the World Indoor Pairs national finals at the new Naenae indoor complex in Wellington in September when he teamed with fellow Hawke’s Bay bowler Bart Sorensen to beat the Wellington pair of newcomer Ray Martin and Bradley Down 5-4, 4-11, 2-0.Other qualifiers for the national finals are: Scottish singles, Colin Rogan (North Harbour), Stephen Zino (Wellington), Russell Dawe (Dunedin), Sonny Tautari (Southland); World Indoor pairs: Bart Robertson (North Harbour) and Steve Hoeft (Auckland), Steve Muller and Kevan Sellars (Taranaki), Darren Broome and Brad Allan (Southland).
Facts and figures
Recent Jolly Quadrangular results
2014: Otago (Dunedin) 71, South Otago 69, North Otago 39, Central Otago 37.2015: Otago 85, South Otago 63, North Otago 40, Central Otago 28.2016: Otago 80, North Otago 49, South Otago 46, Central Otago 38.
Honours in last month
Daniel French (Dunedin): Australasian triples medal, NZ championship silver (fours) and bronze (singles).
Ann Cottrell (Dunedin): Unbeaten in inter-island singles.
Alanna Preddy, Chris Moffitt (South Otago): South Island fours silver medal.
John and Jacquie Williams (Dunedin): Bob Malcolm Memorial Tray for best husband and wife pair at NZ champs.
David Angow, Marilyn Irvine and Rhonda Switalla (Dunedin): silver medals in NZ masters triples.
Centre titles (total titles)
4 Wally Strachan (North Otago).
1 Graham Arlidge (North Otago).
