2015 Under 18 National Championships
2015 Junior Championships
The 2015 Under 18 Junior Championships started off on Sunday 27 September with everyone eventually arriving in Canberra and travelling out to Tuggeranong Bowling club where the team enjoyed their practice session and the Championships officially opening with a Celebration Dinner.
The first day of bowls saw us playing the powerful Queensland side – while WA lost all games; Georgia Cant playing in the singles had a terrific game that went down to the eventual gold medal winner Sophie Young 21-18. WA Teams played some very good bowls and were proud to represent our state. The afternoon games saw us playing against Tasmania where the Girls fours opened our account winning 16-9 and the boys’ pairs going down in a great game 16-12.
First round Tuesday continued the fixture against Tassie with the girls triples winning 24-8 and Patrick winning 21-14 in the boys’ singles. Afternoon games were against Northern territory where Patrick and William won the pairs in another high quality game 18-15. The triples just lost by a close margin of 16-15 again a high standard game, while Georgia won her singles 21-17 and ladies the fours won 20-8. The last round featured Patrick playing Marcus Simpson in a great game with Marcus winning 21-20, so close and yet so far! The girls’ triples won their game 16-13, with the girls’ pairs and boys’ fours losing. Overall, a great day!
After another early start on finals day the boys’ pairs won against the ACT pairs 15-12 and the triples came back after a slow start to win 18-14 also against ACT. While we had wins, we also had losses with the ladies losing the fours and singles.
The last finals round saw Patrick playing SA Josh Studham in a terrific game to eventually lose to the junior squad member 21-18. The ladies triples started slowly against the NSW team with the start too much to overcome to eventually lose 21-15. The girls pairs however, finished on a high to win 20-12 against the S.A. team.
Our team at times played very well but found the opposition to be of exceptionally high quality. Well done to our team for putting up a great showing and a special thank you to Louise Cronin, Brianna Smith and Briana Graham from NSW for partnering with the WA girls’ team. Overall, it was a very well run tournament. Congratulations to Bowls Australia organisers, Tuggeranong Bowling Club and all their volunteers, and well done to all the winners!
Boys
Placing
Girls
Placing
Singles
Patrick Quinlan
6th
Georgia Cant
6th
Pairs
William Hyatt
Patrick Quinlan
5th
Kellie Ainsworth
Georgia Cant
7th
Triples
Daniel Ainsworth
Nathanial Fuge
Justin McKay
7th
Briana Graham (NSW)
Brianna Smith (NSW)
Louise Cronin (NSW)
4th
Fours
Daniel Ainsworth
Nathanial Fuge
Justin McKay
William Hyatt
8th
Briana Graham (NSW)
Kellie Ainsworth
Brianna Smith (NSW)
Louise Cronin (NSW)
4th
John Goddard, Under 18 State Squad Team Coach