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NOSE TO THE MAT – While a good throwing arm is important in carpet bowling, sometimes a precise measurement is needed to tell which bowl is closest to the jack ball. Here, Loretta Warnsby, left, and Judy Lightening carefully measure on behalf of their teams in Atlin. Photo courtesy of PAUL DABBS
The senior carpet bowling circuit ended with a trio of tournaments held over the last month.
The senior carpet bowling circuit ended with a trio of tournaments held over the last month.
Members of the ElderActive Recreation Association (ERA) have been living up to their organization’s name, participating in three tournaments hosted in the communities of Teslin, Tagish and Atlin.
“Although most of our members live in the Whitehorse area, we also have members in the communities,” said ERA president Tom Parlee. “We travel to the communities to support the activity they have there all fall and winter.
“Folks know each other from competing over the years and participating together in the Canada 55+ Games. So the tournaments are social exchanges as well as athletic competition.”
In the Teslin tournament at the end of March, eight teams competed.
A Whitehorse team of Darlene Johnson (skip), Betty Hiebert, Dave Boschman and Paul Dabbs placed first.
Four teams tied for second place with the skips throwing a single ball to break the tie.
In the end, a Whitehorse team placed second and a Tagish team took third. Cribbage and shuffleboard competition kept the rest of the participants busy.
The Tagish tournament on April 16 had six teams competing from Teslin, Tagish, Atlin and Whitehorse.
The competition was stiff with a tie for first place. Both the Tagish and the Teslin team went 3-1, with Tagish finally taking the win in sudden death play.
The Atlin tournament took place last Thursday with a bus load of 40 players arriving from the North to join the nine bowlers in Atlin and a team from Teslin.
The Tagish team skipped by Paul Dabbs came in first, with Ron Lister’s Whitehorse team placing second. Third place was a tie between a Whitehorse team and the Atlin Blue Shirts.
“This tournament is a great way for us to end the season,” says Dorothy Odian, one of the organizers in Atlin.
“We play once a week all winter in the community hall and it really pushes us to have outside competition.”
ERA members will be participating in their semi-annual games in Whitehorse this weekend.
The games include carpet bowling, shuffleboard, cribbage, scrabble, orienteering, five-pin bowling and floor curling.
The competition follows ERA’s annual meeting Friday at 10 a.m. at the Elks Hall. The agenda includes significant constitutional changes necessitated by the organization’s growing membership of 400-plus.
– Report courtesy of Spence Hill
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