The final round of the Club Championships was played last Saturday with some interesting results. Star recruit Boh Wall, only true single figure player in the field and Mark “Mouldy” Millward, the best player of the modern era to have never won the championship burst from the ruck back in equal 6th place to lead the qualifiers.
There was greater competition in A grade this year (due largely to an administration error) and the match committee decided to increase the qualifiers from 4 to 8. This was welcome news for the bottom 4 which included defending champion David “Jack” Webster and 3 previous champions. The only qualifiers not to have previously won the title are Boh and Mouldy and they will understandably be sentimental favourites.
NAME | H’CAP | Grade | 8-May | 15-May | 12-Jun | 19-Jun | best 2 | PSN |
Mark Millward | 7 | A | 85 | 89 | 92 | 78 | 163 | 2 |
Boh Wall | 7 | A | 86 | 87 | 85 | 78 | 163 | 1 |
Matt Opperman | 9 | A | 82 | 84 | 83 | 165 | 3 | |
Gus Wenzel | 12 | A | 86 | 86 | 81 | 89 | 167 | 4 |
David Webster | 11 | A | 90 | 81 | 88 | 169 | 5 | |
David Robinson | 9 | A | 86 | 84 | 87 | 90 | 170 | 6 |
Pat Hallion | 12 | A | 87 | 89 | 84 | 93 | 171 | 7 |
Phil Thomson | 12 | A | 85 | 88 | 87 | 90 | 172 | 8 |
In B grade Richard “Pickles” Matz returned the form we have come to expect to head the qualifiers while the others only had to turn up.
NAME | H’CAP | Grade | 8-May | 15-May | 12-Jun | 19-Jun | best 2 | PSN |
Richard Matz | 16 | B | 95 | 103 | 103 | 89 | 184 | 1 |
Kobi Wenzel | 15 | B | 105 | 85 | 190 | 2 | ||
Matt McAuley | 19 | B | 101 | 94 | 195 | 3 | ||
Peter Weiss | 19 | B | 101 | 107 | 100 | 201 | 4 |
C grade was much like B grade with only 3 players qualifying.
NAME | H’CAP | Grade | 8-May | 15-May | 12-Jun | 19-Jun | best 2 | PSN |
Ben Dunstan | 24 | C | 113 | 104 | 217 | 1 | ||
Michael Shepley | 33 | C | 114 | 116 | 113 | 227 | 2 | |
James Tiver | 41 | C | 128 | 138 | 266 | 3 |