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Rocks Jewellers Singles 2017/18 – Event 7 Results

3 weeks later than scheduled after the ‘Beast from the East’ snows forced cancellation Event 7 finally got underway on Sunday 25th March with 36 bowlers competing.

The cut for the finals in the Scratch Division was Paddy Dunne (1188) with Alan McDonnell (1195) in 3rd, Alan Bride (1212) in 2nd and Paul Stott Jnr (1247) leading the field with a 249 average.

Jason Byrnes (1213 incl Hcp) led qualifying in the Handicap division with Nickey O’Malley 1205, Paddy Gibbons 1196 and Tom Byrne 1190 took the final position when he rolled a 300 game in the last game of qualifying.

Scratch Semi Finals & Final

In the first Scratch Semi Final Paul Stott Jnr – 206 just edged out Paddy Dunne – 203 while Alan McDonnell struck out for the last 6 balls to beat Alan Bride by 269 to 234 to go thru to the Final.

The Final proved to be a very tight affair with Alan taking an early lead only to be put under pressure to close out the match when Paul struck out for a 235 forcing Alan to mark in the 10th frame and get at least 9 in the fill frame. Alan’s first ball failed to strike leaving the 7 pin which he spared and then rolled a strike to shoot 237 giving him a 2 pin victory.

Handicap Semi Finals & Final

Jason Byrnes took the first Handicap Semi Final with a 228 to 205 win over Tom Byrne. The second Semi Final was closely fought throughout Nickey O’Malley 239 just managing to hold off  a late charge from Paddy Gibbons who doubled in the 10th frame to post a 236.

Jason ran out a comprehensive winner when he struck on 8 of the first 10 frames beating Nickey who never got going in the Final by 273 to 166.

Congratulations to Jason Byrnes on his first win of the season and to  Alan McDonnell who is having a great season in the Rock Jewellers Singles, Alan has qualified for the Finals in 5 of the 7 events so far and now winning his 3rd event he is still the only multiple winner.

Full details from Event 7 are available on the Rocks Jewellers Tab/Results

With only 2 Events remaining there is still plenty of opportunity to qualify for the End of Season Finals in May

The next event is on Sunday 8th April.

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Rocks Jewellers Singles 2017/18 – Event 6 Results

February’s Rocks Jewellers Singles event did not produce quite the same high scoring as the previous month as players had to work a little harder to find strikes on an oil pattern with less volume than previous months.

Scores could still be found, however, as proven by Barry Foley’s leading total of 1197 in qualifying. He was joined in the Scratch finals by Paul Stott Jnr (1175), Joe Clancy (1139) and Paddy Dunne (1135).

In the Handicap section, Fran Puzzouli (1180) took the top seed position, with Gareth Shannon (1155), Paddy Gibbons (1151) and Sheron Sweeney (1144) making up the semi-final line-up.

The semi-finals threw up little in the way of surprises as the number one and two seeds won their matches in both sections to set up a face-off between the best players of the day in both sections.

Scratch Semi Finals

  1. Barry Foley 259 .v. Paddy Dunne 193
  2. Paul Stott Jnr. 223 .v. Joe Clancy 185

Handicap Semi Finals

  1. Fran Puzzouli 215 .v. Sheron Sweeney 210
  2. Gareth Shannon 257 .v. Paddy Gibbons 232

In truth both Finals played out in much the same fashion as the semi-finals, with the top seeds always in control and never really looking like they were going to allow the lower seed to put the pressure on them and snatch the victory away from them. In the end the top players took home the winner’s prizes after another great round of action in the Rocks Jewellers Singles.

Scratch Final

Barry Foley 226 .v. Paul Stott Jnr. 180

Handicap Final

Fran Puzzouli 257 .v. Gareth Shannon 180

Another good turnout this month with 40 bowlers, congratulations to the winners Barry Foley (Scratch Division) and Fran Puzzouli (Handicap Division), PJ Shine (Rocks Jewellers Earrings Raffle Winner) all the finalists and everyone who played. Also special mention must go to Colm Cloake who bowled a perfect 300 game in game two of qualifying!

Full details from Event 6 are available on the Rocks Jewellers Tab/Results

The next event is on Sunday 4th March

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System Outage Apology

We would like to apologise for the recent system outage encountered by users of the website.  This was due to the high usage of the associated tenpinbowling.ie site during the 2018 Irish Open.  We hope that you were able to access the required information during this time.

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Rocks Jewellers Singles 2017/18 – Event 5 Oil Pattern – Irish Open condition Kegel Bourbon Street

Happy New Year to one and all.

We are using the Irish Open oil pattern for this event (Burbon Street), so if you want to get some early practice be sure to join us on Sunday 7th January.

Pattern is Kegel Bourbon Street  –  now available on the Rocks Jewellers Tab – Forms & Documents

Please confirm your entry for Sunday to Barry Brown asap.  Check-in @09:00 – Bowling 09:30