Alex Reed, Matthew Foster, Dylan Foster and Mike Foster won the biggest fours event on the local calendar — the Robieson Fours — without losing a game .
Reed travelled all the way from Auckland to contest the event and team up with the Foster family. Reed played top bowls to help with the victory.
In their first game of the day, Reed’s team were two down on the head and looking likely to lose to Malcolm Trowell, David Lynn, James McIlroy and Lois Lamont. But Reed played an inch-perfect bowl to get the shot and win the game 7-5.
Reed’s team then beat Arnold Hutchins, Pauline Stone, Kevin Lee and Nanette Treloar 9-4.
Their next game was an 11-4 win against Doc Tipene, Warren Edlin, Kevin White and Coralie Campbell-Whitehead.
They then beat Andrew Rickard, Bryan Pulley, Adam Rickard and Rachael Rickard 9-8.
This was Reed’s first centre title counting towards a gold star, which is earned by winning five gold-star-status titles. Matthew Foster won his 15th centre title and fourth gold-star-status title. Dylan Foster gained his 16th centre title and, more importantly, earned his gold star for winning five gold-star-status titles. He won the Robieson Fours in 2017 and this year, the open pairs last year and this year, and the centre closing triples in 2019.
The Fosters’ dad Mike is now storming ahead in the game, having won his fourth centre title and his first gold-star-status title .
Sixteen-year-old Kayla Trowell played magnificent bowls in combination with her grandmother Kaye Easton to win the Clark- Schollum Open Pairs.
They beat David Lynn and Lois Lamont 10-6 in the final.
Trowell showed her class time and time again in a one-way final, drawing her way to victory end after end when down on the head.
In the nine-end final, Trowell and Easton led 7-0 after only three ends, having got out of trouble on all three of those ends.
Lynn and Lamont clawed their way back to trail 8-4 after seven ends, but every time it looked as if they would score big points, Trowell was untroubled in foiling their plans.
Trowell notched up her eighth centre title and Easton earned her 51st.
Trowell and Easton won all four of their qualifying games, then beat Andrew and Adam Rickard 9-4 in the quarterfinal.
In the semifinal, they turned it on against last year’s winners, Malcolm Trowell (Kayla’s dad) and Dylan Foster (her cousin), to win 9-3. Player of the day Kayla was again the standout player .