Men’s Over 60’s Triples Results
sponsored by Aero Bowls Mick Erceg, Phil Hutchison and Keith Manton are the 2016 Men’s Over 60s Triples Champions. They defeated the Mt Pleasant side of Steve Hughes, Jim Stewart and John Terrell in the final at Joondalup Bowling Club on Wednesday.
Erceg’s side set up their semi-final victory against Chris Lander, Ross Cunningham and Bruce Eagles (Sorrento) early in the match. After trading fours in the opening two ends Erceg won five ends in a row leading Lander 14-4. From there the smallest margin of the game was 5 shots after the 11th end after Lander picked six shots to one over four ends. From there the game was mostly even with Erceg outscoring Lander by a two shots to win the match 21-14.
Hughes built early leads in both the semi-final and final but failed to capitalize and was reeled in in both matches. Against Geoff White, Frank Carbone and Glyn Vaughan in the semi-final Hughes stormed out to a 12-1 lead in the first five ends of the match. The lead got out to as far as 12 when Hughes picked up a four on the match’s eight end. After that White began the process of pegging it back but found it slow going only making up four shots by the 15th end Eight shots in the last three however brought the game to 19-19 tie with Hughes winning the extra end.
In the final Hughes got out to a similarly good start leading 10-2 after the first six ends. Over the next six it was all Erceg with his side changing to a longer length and winning all the ends to take the lead 11-10. Hughes only won one more end as Erceg continued the momentum to steadily build out the lead. The final score was 19-12 with Erceg, Hutchison and Manton crowned champions having won 10 of the match’s last 11 ends.
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