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The Medicine Hat Lawn Bowling Club held the ninth annual Medicine Hat Memorial Triples Tournament, a provincial tournament, over the weekend. a total of 43 bowlers from across Alberta took part in the two-day event.
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The Medicine Hat Lawn Bowling Club held a provincial tournament over the weekend, its largest event of the season.
The club’s ninth annual Medicine Hat Memorial Triples Tournament saw clubs from Edmonton (Royal LBC, Commonwealth LBC and Highlands LBC), Calgary (Stanley Park LBC, Rotary Park LBC and Calgary LBC) and the host Medicine Hat taking part.
Teams played five matches on Saturday and were then seeded in one of four pools on Sunday. The tournament is designed to include veteran players, novice players and newer players on one team to give them all a chance to play in a provincial-level tournament.
Two of the 14 teams represented went undefeated on Saturday, Team House from Calgary LBC and Team Starling from Medicine Hat. Both teams were eliminated Sunday morning. Team House lost to the fourth-seed Team Jo from Highlands LBC 4-2 and Team Starling lost to the third-seed team Moll 7-6
In the A final, Team Jo took the Memorial Trophy with a 7-4 win over two-time champion Team Moll.
Team Packer from Rotary Park/Stanley Park took the B side defeating Team Spencer from Royal LBC
Team Turner from Royal LBC defeated Team Gilchrist of Medicine Hat to take the C side championship.
Team Black of Commonwealth LBC took the D side defeating Team Millward of Highlands LBC
The Ben Osterman Award, for top skip, went to Keith Bacon of Calgary LBC for the second time in a row.
Bacon’s team also took home the Howard Davison Award for the team “most fun to play against,” both awards are voted on by participants.
