Metro East win Womens Prestige Medley

Metro East have taken out the 2009 Womens Prestige Medley title after a comfortable 29 shot win over Metro North yesterday.

Ina replay of the Men's final fromlast week, Metro East claimedredemption in the best possible way,dominating both the triples andfours disciplines.

Aftersuccessfully topping theirsections respectively after 5 rounds, bothteams went into the finalconfident of claiming the top prize but aflying start from the triplescombination skippered by Denise Caulfieldset the trend for the final.With the 20 ends concluded, a 31-12 victoryto Caulfield over PennyDunbar combined with a 16-7 fours win from SandyWallace over SueMaddern locked the result away.

TheMetro North pairs combinationof Margaret Cooper and Cherie Morganbattled galliantly for theirregion, however the Joan Prosser/PennyLandherr pairing prevailed in aclose one, 10-9.

Congratulations to Metro East on a terrific 3 rink, 57-28 victory, in front of a very vocal home crowd.

Inthe playoff for third, MetroWest took 2 rinks from Yorke Peninsula totake the prize money with an8 shot win. Di Green, skipping in theabsence of star Kelli Wray had agood 12-6 win over Annette Rowntree.

A good 2 weeks for the Metro Regions with North, East & West filling the top 3 spots over both the Mens & Womens events.

Tofinish off the trend of repeatwinners, North Eastern again took awaythe winners of the losers prize,defeating Upper Northern by 17 shots.

Metro North win Prestige Medley

Last bowl heroics from Salisbury's Brett Davis has guided Metro North to take out the 2009 Prestige Medley.

WithMetro North only needing a rink against Eastern to qualify for thefinal and Metro East dominating Section B, the final looked to be ahotly contested affair and it didn't disappoint.

ThePairs contest saw Don Mackereth and Gary Meekcoms pick up a late six toclinch a nine shot win over Gary Davies and Gary Thompson while East'sBernie Manser, Gary Miles and Brian Starr leveled the ledger with avictory over Brydson, Croser and Fyfe.

Withtwo ends remaining in the fours, Metro North held a four shot advantagebut a two from Luke Pietersma on the 14th end made things veryinteresting going into the last. The tension was growing untilPayneham's Wayne Prosser calmly drew two shots to level the scoresoverall with only the Skipper's remaining.

Withthe two orange bowls clearly visible from the mat, Davis had no optionbut to drive for the bowls. With his drive astray, Pietersma went forcover. With his final bowl, Davis let rip and took out both bowls. Notto be outdone by his ex clubmate, Pietersma's sceanrio was set. Trailthe white a foot, get three shots and win for Metro East. His weightwas perfect for the shot, however just narrow and Metro Northcelebrated an amazing win.

Gary Miles, Ben Harris, Wayne Prosser & Luke Pietersma

Inthe playoff for third, Metro West dominated against Eastern to createthe clean sweep for the Metro Regions while in the "Winners of theLosers" round, North Eastern's ten shot win handed them someconsolation prizes.

Abig congratulation to the Payneham Bowling Club for the way they hostedtheir first Prestige Medley and well done to all competitors. Paynehamwill now relax for a few days before getting prepared for the ladiesPrestige Medley, starting on November 30.

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