Management Team

2024/25: champions: Joan Bowey, Mavis Price, Edwina Foster, Soly Batka

Revised Ladder
Skips                                      P        W        L        D         F        A        PtsMavis Price                           3         3       0        0        48       38        6
Maggie Edgar                       3         1       2        0        53       51        2
Julia Barron                          3         1        2        0        50      52        2
Elaine Weskin                       3         1        2       0        43       53        2

Ellaine Jopling      results expunged

WITH the outcome already decided, the fours of Maggie Edgar and Elaine Weskin battled it out for second place with Dawn Ferguson, Roberta Waldeck, Gail Kempton and Maggie had a runaway 23-12 win to take them from last to runners-up.
Edwina Foster, winning her second title in less than a week, Soly Batka, Joan Bowey and Mavis Price could all watch on, while playing in a pennant trial, knowing that their 100 per cent record was easily the best of the competition. Ironically Edwina's success in the mixed fours team included yesterday's beaten skip Elaine Weskin.
The other three teams all beat each other and the margin of victory took Maggie's team to second and relegated Elaine to last and the seven-times champion skip Julia Barron in third.

AFTER six years of dominating the Ladies Fours, Julia Barron's rink will be replaced by Mavis Price and her team on the honours board as they maintained their 100 per cent record on a day when captain Lyn Sibson was left with a disrupted competition after Ellaine Jopling forfeited her game with Elaine Weskin.
Edwina Foster, Soly Batka, Joan Bowey and Mavis had to do it the hard way against a strong Maggie Edgar rink of Dawn Ferguson, Roberta Waldeck and Gail Kempton, who were well in command on 11 ends at 12-6. But in the next five ends the complexion of the game took a dramatic turn as Mavis scored 11 shots and conceded just one.
At 13-17, Maggie's team were still in contention and they took the final two ends but could only score one on each occasion.
The results from Ellaine Jopling's team - two defeats - were expunged from the records and the ladder revised, leaving Mavis at the top on six points with just Maggie and Elaine Weskin left to play next week.

MAVIS PRICE, one of the longest serving members of the club, is on the brink of leading her ink to the the Fours championship, after a thumping 26-9 win over Ellaine Jopling's four to give them the only 100 per cent record in the round robin competition.
Only Ann Walssh, of those still playing, has been at Merriwa longer but Mavis' team of Edwina Foster, Soly Batka and Joan Bowey followed up Saturday's thriller against Julia Barron's defending champions with a runaway win against May O'Neill, Tina Hay, Mario Besanger and Ellaine.
That leaves them four points clear of the field with just one game left to play against a dangerous quartet of Dawn Ferguson, Roberta Waldeck, Gail Kempton and Maggie Edgar.
Julia's rinks domination of the competition, six wins in the last seven years, came to an end from a confident display by Mary-AnnJackson, Helen Paterson, Lyn Sibson and Elaine Weskin, winning 22-14. Julia, Veronica Thysse, Joy Gillian and Pauline Wright knew the game was up when an anguished cry from Elaine turned into one of joy as a narrow bowl pinballed its way through the head to turn a deficit of seven into a count of two!

TWO brilliant bowls from Joan Bowey on the final end of a classic contest gave the Mavis Price rink a critical victory over the pre-tournament favourites skipped by six-time  champion skip Julia Barron.
With the scores level at 14-14 on 17 ends, Joan produced the perfect time to conjure a piece of magic to give the team of Edwina Foster, Soly Batka, Joan and Mavis a one-shot win.
That gives the Mavis four two wins from two games and leaves Julia, Veronica Thysse, Joy Gillian and Pauline Wright needing to win their remaining games to give them any chance of retaining their crown. They started badly, dropping five shots on the opening two ends, but hit back to lead 11-7 on ten only for the opposition to claim five of the last eight ends.

MAGGIE EDGAR'S rink got off the mark with a comeback 26-16 win that looked a little unlikely as the Ellaine Jopling team won six of the firsst eight ends to lead 12-6.
But they did not score again until the 17th end when the game was well and truly lost as Maggie, Dawn Ferguson, Roberta Waldeck and Gail Kempton scored 20 shots without reply.
In the early stages, Ellaine, Tina Hay, May O'Neill and Marjo Besanger were well in control and only a count of five on the sixth end kept the opposition in touch.
Successive fours on ends nine and ten swept Maggie's side into the lead and their opponents were only able to muster a couple of consolation scores on the final two ends.
The Julia Barron-Mavis Price clash has been put back until Saturday (September 14).

SKIP Julia Barron, bidding for an unprecedented seven Fours title in eight years narrowly avoided a first round slip-up against the Maggie Edgar rink, which lost the last three ends to go down 22-15.
Maggie, who was in Julia's initial success in 2016/17 at three,  and her team of Dawn Ferguson, Roberta Waldeck and Gail Kempton took the lead just once (15-14 on 15) but failed to score again.
The defending champions were forced into a last minute switch when Joy Gillian had to pull out. They had the ideal replacement in Ronda Macgregor, a former member of the team, who slotted in at two, linking up with lead Veronica Thysse with Pauline Wright stepping up to third.
In the round robin format, the other winning rink was that of Edwina Foster, Soly Batka, Joan Bowey and Mavis Price, 16-9.
On 13 ends, Mavis's four were just a shot ahead of Mary-AnnJackson, Helen Paterson, Lyn Sibson and Elaine Weskin (8-7) but got on top over the closing stages to double their score.