The weekend of the 23/24th September saw the completion of the quarter finals of the Bowral Bowling Club Handicap Singles.  Two matches were played on Saturday and two on Sunday.

On Saturday Dugald Braithwaite played Mick flynn and Nathan Boyers played Noel Fraser.  Dugald and Nathan were the low handicap players on 3 and 5 shots.  Mick and Noel were on 13 and 11 shots, no doubt laughing all the way to the bowling green with such generous handicaps.  The handicap was not enough to help Mick to a win, although he has just recently played in the final of the Handicap Pairs.  Dugald steadily closed the 8 shot gap so that after 11 ends the score was 16 to Dugald to Mick’s 19 shots.  There after Mick only won one end with Dugald winning 10 ends to finish 31-20 winner.

In the second match it was a really close tussle over 28 ends.  Noel started the first end by claiming four shots to be 15-5.  Nathan started to claw his way into the match with the score 16-18 after 10 ends.  The score fluctuated over the next few end before Nathan closed the gap to draw level with 24 shots each on the 19th end.  At the 24th end the score was level at 28 all.   Scores were also level at 29 shots all and going into the 28th end Nathan was on 30 shots and Noel 29.  Scoring 2 shots on this final end gave an extremely close win to Noel Fraser.

On Sunday Carl Spilker defeated Bob Crowley and Kevin Stafford defeated Gordon Lewis.  I do not have scores for these games.

Next weekend the semi finals will be played between Carl Spilker and Dugald Braithwaite and Noel fraser and Kevin Stafford.