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Champion of Champions
Champion of Champions
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The Champion of Champions competition brings together win-
ners of licenced tournaments, who can enter one category - singles,
pairs, triples or rinks with the winners in each of these going on to rep-
resent Ireland in next years world championships in Belgium in 2021.
In the singles Joe Beattie (Armagh), who eventually came through.
In the final he met the youngest competitor Jamie West who represented
Monaghan in the junior interzone. It looked for a good part of the game
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that the youthful West was going to win the title against the Irish Interna- IIBA Report
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tional. Unfortunately, when Beattie lay 3 shots with 2 ends to go to take From
Seamus Kyne
the lead Jamie panicked a little losing bowls with driving shots to give Seamus Kyne
Beattie the opportunity to win the end, take the lead and go on to take the title 10 -7.
In the pairs Robbie Foster and Tom Lithgo met Paul Duff in what was an excellent final
which went to the last bowl. The lead changed virtually every end with veteran Tom Lithgo play-
ing in his first final particularly impressive. It was 9 - 9 going into the last end with Foster picking
up the crucial shot to win 10 - 9.
The triples saw Alan Irwin’s triples win their semi-final 8 - 2 against Mark Beattie and Mark
Sproule comfortably winning his semi-final against John Carson 8 - 1. The final was again a
closely contested affair with neither triple able to pull away Like the pairs it went to the last bowl
with Sproule, Corrigan and Campbell coming through 8 - 6.
In the rinks the final between Irish internationals, John Quinn and Gerry McCabe was ex-
pected to be a classic but as is often the case it proved to be a one-sided affair. The McCabe
rink never got into the game and while they did not concede more than 1 shot per end, they
only won 1 end with a single shot. The Quinn rink with 3 internationals in Alan Paul, Stuart Mc-
Sorley and Alan Laughlin came through 8 - 1.

Cork The Wilton Bowls Club Staged their Annual Licensed
Cork
Fours Competition over several days for the James
Gilmore Memorial Cup. The event was held in the S.M.A.
Parish Hall, Wilton, Cork. The competition attracted a large
Zone entry of 304 players in 76-teams competing for the for tro-
Zone
phy and the event once again proved a great success with
teams entering from all leading Clubs in the Cork Zone.
Sixteen Teams qualified for the final session and after the first round had whittled them down to
eight, the event moved into the quarter finals:- Rockies (J. O’Leary) beat Wilton (H. Burrows,
D. Moynihan, Mgt. Moynihan & Hubert Burrows), Glounthaune (J. Kirby) beat Wilton (K. Mc-
Carthy, E. Kiely, N. O’Keeffe & P. McCarthy), Conna (G. Tanner) beat Douglas GAA (T. O’Neill,
J. Curran, B. Kenneally & D. Twohig) and Cathedral Parish (E. Cosgrave) beat Ballynoe (P. O’-
Donovan, S. Hennessy, D. Hennessy & J. Turner),
At the Semi-final stage Glounthaune (J. Kirby) beat Rockies (U. O’Leary, M. Grace, N.
O’Leary & J. O’Leary) & Cathedral Parish (E. Cosgrave) beat Conna (N. Tanner, D. Cliff, J.
Martin & G. Tanner).
In the seven-end final Glounthaune’s Marian Canning, Liam O’Connell, Tony O’Shea &
Joe Kirby defeated Cathedral Parish’s Sheila Cosgrave, Ber Keohane, George Gaul & Eddie
Cosgrave. Cathederal Parish opened up with a single but Glounthane replied with a three on
the second end and followed this up with a single and a brace for a 6-1 lead. A single to Cathed-
eral Parish slightly closed the gap but two singles on the final two ends gave Glounthane an 8/2
victory.
The umpires on duty for the final session were; Jack Murphy, Tim Murphy, Tom Liston and
Dick Dowling. The individual prizes were presented by Hubert Burrows the Wilton Club Captain
and Kathleen Gilmore presented the James Gilmore Memorial Trophy to Liam O’Connell, the
skip of the winning team.