August has been both a busy and a successful month for Narrabri and Wee Waa lady bowlers, with three of the 2023/24 season Namoi District Women’s Bowling Association events held across three weekends.
Singles were played last weekend in Wee Waa, where Narrabri’s Lisa Pillar was crowned open champion and her clubmate Marie Redman prevailed in the senior division.
The triples were held in Narrabri on Saturday, August 12, with Wee Waa trio Melissa Allen and Dot and Kay Dewson winning the open division and Narrabri’s team of Marie Redman, Lyn Wedesweiler and Debbie Gleeson taking out the senior division.
The pairs were contested first in Lightning Ridge the weekend prior on Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6, with Narrabri’s Lisa Pillar and Eva Sadler crowned the open champions and Wee Waa’s Kay and Dot Dewson winning the senior division.
All that remains at district level are the open and senior fours, which will be played on Saturday, September 9.
All Namoi District champions will then compete at the regional playoffs in Lightning Ridge in November to play for a spot at next year’s State Championships.
In Wee Waa on Saturday, Pillar won the open singles division after beating Wee Waa’s Melissa Allen 25-12 in the morning, and then Narrabri’s Janice Foxe 28-15 in the final.
Redman won the senior singles after downing clubmates Lyn Tuckey 25-17 in the morning and Dawn Armstrong 25-19 in the final.
In the open triples, Allen, Dewson and Dewson beat Narrabri’s Janice Foxe, Eva Sadler and Lisa Pillar 21-19 in the only match that way played in the division. The two Lightning Ridge teams scheduled to line up that day forfeited.
In the senior triples, Wedesweiler, Redman and Gleeson downed their Narrabri clubmates Carol Demamiel, Gloria Campey and Val Falkiner 19-11 in the final.
Falkiner’s team had beaten fellow Narrabri bowlers Dawn Armstrong, Ronnie Dewar and Di Chessells in their semi-final, and Gleeson’s team outscored the Lightning Ridge team of Maria Sostarec, Dixie Skuthorpe and Lyn Carney in their semi-final.
In the open pairs, Pillar and Sadler downed Lightning Ridge duo Tracy Coglan and Dixie Skuthorpe 29-16 in their semi-final while Lightning Ridge’s Christie Ravot and Sheila Nagy beat Narrabri’s Janice Foxe and Di Chessells in the other semi-final. Pillar and Sadler then cruised through the final to a 31-13 victory.
There was only one quarter-final in the senior pairs, as Narrabri’s Helen Woodward and Marie Redman beat clubmates Carol Demamiel and Val Falkiner 20-14.
They then prevailed 23-11 against Lightning Ridge’s Debbie Ravot and Stacey Reynolds in the semi-final, while the Dewsons downed Lightning Ridge’s Maria Sostarec and Lyn Carney 27-11 to join them in the decider.
The Wee Waa ladies beat Woodward and Redman 21-10 in the final to be crowned champions.
