Multii-Nations Tournament

The Norfolk Island Bowls Club has been fortunate enough to have been invited to participate in the Multi-Nations Tournament on the Gold Coast as a warm up for the World Championships later this year. The Club has provided both a full Ladies and Men’s team with dual World Gold Medallist Carmen Anderson leading a strong women’s team, together with Shae Wilson who narrowly missed out on a medal at the recent Commonwealth Games and the vastly experienced Petal Jones, together with Vivian Bigg & Junior Ellie Dixon. The Men’s team has plenty of experience with the Commonwealth Games (Gold Coast) Bronze Medallist Ryan Dixon leading a strong team with evergreen Moochie Christian who has represented the Island since 1990, together with Matt Bigg and new comers to the team, John Groat, Brent Johnstone & Tony Scicluna. The selectors have selected a cross section of players with an eye on the World Championships in September this year.

Over the week the players have had mixed results with some excellent wins and a few close losses, the results of these games were:

Ladies Singles (Shae Wilson) – Vs Australia Green LOSS 8-21, Vs Queensland WIN 21-16, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 16-22, Vs South Africa WIN 21-20, Vs Hong Kong China WIN 21-13, Vs New Zealand LOSS 10-21, Vs Ireland WIN 21-4.

Ladies Pairs (Shae Wilson & Carmen Anderson) – Vs Australia Green WIN 17-15, Vs Queensland Win 18-13, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 14-19, Vs South Africa

DREW 19-19, Vs Hong Kong China WIN 18-16, Vs New Zealand LOSS 16-18, Vs Ireland WIN 23-10..

Ladies Triples (Petal Jones, Vivian Bigg & Debby Adams) – Vs Australia Green LOSS 11-24, Vs Queensland LOSS 9-31, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 15-23, Vs South Africa WIN 16-14, Vs Hong Kong China LOSS 11-15, Vs New Zealand LOSS 13-20, Vs Ireland LOSS 9-22.

Ladies Fours (Petal Jones, Vivian Bigg, Carmen Anderson, Ellie Dixon) – Vs Australia Green LOSS 12-15, Vs Queensland DREW 12-12, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 3-29, Vs South Africa WIN 23-8, Vs Hong Kong China WIN 16-7, Vs New Zealand LOSS 9-19, Vs Ireland LOSS 9-18.

Men’s Singles (Moochie Christian) – Vs Australia Green Loss 6-21, Vs Queensland LOSS 13-21, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 10-21, Vs South Africa WIN 21-14, Vs Hong Kong China LOSS 19-21, Vs New Zealand LOSS 14-21, Vs Ireland LOSS 5-21.

Men’s Pairs (Moochie Christian & John Groat) – Vs Australia Green LOSS 12-15, Vs Queensland LOSS 10-25, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 11-29, Vs South Africa LOSS 9-20, Vs Hong Kong China LOSS 8-17, Vs New Zealand LOSS 12-23, Vs Ireland LOSS 12-16.

Men’s Triples (Ryan Dixon, Matt Bigg, Tony Scicluna & Tony Johnstone) – Vs Australia Green LOSS 12-18, Vs Queensland LOSS 9-24, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 4-24, Vs South Africa LOSS 9-20, Vs Hong Kong China LOSS 12-14, Vs New Zealand WIN 18-14, Vs Ireland LOSS 9-18.

Men’s Fours (Ryan Dixon, Matt Bigg, John Groat, Tony Scicluna & Brent Johnstone) – Vs Australia Green WIN 17-15, Vs Queensland LOSS 8-17, Vs Australia Yellow LOSS 9-15, Vs South Africa WIN 17-14, Vs Hong Kong China LOSS 12-15, Vs New Zealand LOSS 12-19, Vs Ireland LOSS 5-25.

LADIES QUALIFY IN TWO EVENTS.

The Ladies Pairs team skipped by Shae Wilson together with Carmen Anderson qualified for the semi-finals and defeated Australia Yellow 19-11 and get to play in the final on Friday morning (results next week).

Shae Wilson by winning her last game easily 21-4 and the two Australian girls winning has allowed Shae to qualify for the semi-finals which are to be played on Thursday afternoon against the Australian girl Kelsey Cottrell. (results in next week’s report).