	{"id":12187,"date":"2025-01-12T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/mtgambiertimes\/?p=12187"},"modified":"2025-01-08T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T05:08:55","slug":"championship-quartets-crowned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesnewsgroup.com.au\/mtgambiertimes\/sport\/championship-quartets-crowned\/","title":{"rendered":"Championship quartets crowned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Millicent Bowls Club held their Championship Fours in rather warm conditions on January 4.<\/p>\n<p>The games leading up to the grand finals were played over 12 ends.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies didn\u2019t have quite as many entries as the men and were able to complete their competition in one day. The men\u2019s grand final ran into Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The ladies grand final saw the teams of Lyn Scudds, Elaine Goode, Judy Lowe and Ros Varcoe taking on Lorraine Hyland, Merle Stevens, Margaret Johnson and Joy Warren.<\/p>\n<p>Due to very unfortunate circumstances, with Margaret Johnson having to be taken by ambulance to hospital and with the score sitting at 16 to 2, the Lyn Scudds team was declared the winner and Champions for 2025 season.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s grand final the game was played over 15 ends.<\/p>\n<p>The team of Rod Gibbs, Neil Whelan, David Taylor and Peter Hyland played Peter Varcoe, Frank Cooper, Steve Skeer and Malcolm Wright.<\/p>\n<p>On the fourth end the Varcoe team were able to pick up six shots to give them a lead of seven shots, by the 10th end the score was sitting at, the Varcoe team 13 to the Gibbs team seven.<\/p>\n<p>The Gibbs team was able to work their way back into the game and finished going down by two shots which give the Varcoe team the 2025 Men\u2019s Championship, finishing with a score of 15 shots to the Gibbs team 13 shots .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Millicent Bowls Club held their Championship Fours in rather warm conditions on January 4. 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