Callum (UK) Dwayne (RY)
C: E Boundary
D: C2
C: Miss E Boundary ball
D: Missed E boundary double. 2yds S.

U rushes to 1, load and hold from crn 2 and a good hoop 2 to establish break...currently approaching H6 in full control.

After a couple of scorching days, and speedy lawns, today is a mild day with steady rain and court speed is significantly more trivial than rest of event.

Trev helping David with commentary here...Callum elects not to load 3b and takes all balls to peg, set R on peg, Y very close also, but U canons into Y after cut rushing K to 3b, makes 3b with rush to E boundary, goes back to tidy up balls at peg, R&Y 2ft from peg wired but needs to jump to retreat to K.

Callum successfully completes first 9 of the final

Trev helping David with commentary here...Callum elects not to load 3b and takes all balls to peg, set R on peg, Y very close also, but U canons into Y after cut rushing K to 3b, makes 3b with rush to E boundary, goes back to tidy up balls at peg, R&Y 2ft from peg wired but needs to jump to retreat to K.

Callum successfully completes first 9 of the final

Y lifts to crn3 and misses 20y long lift

K misses 3y at U

Y misses 13y from crn 4 to near crn 3

K goes around the world but ends with full control at H3 for a std tp

Misses 4b peel, leaves H5 pioneer at 4b, peels 4b, makes 5 and is back on time...wait, pulls up short of peelee and needs to run 4b to hit U...succeeds

Bad miss on Pen peel, didn't get back for death roll on way to 2b, missed death roll on way to 3b, jaws Pen on way to 4b, straight double coming up

grazes peg on peel but lands 4ft NE from rover ends up with 2.5ft straight peel

peel lands <1ft from boundary and K in jaws, 4y take-off to get rush to peg, copes, 2y peg out to win game 1, hits front ball but misses with back ball from 3.5y!!!

Y on A baulk and K 8y N crn1

R sticks in 1, K misses 3.5y on Y to crn 2

R rolls to deep behind 2 with Y, load and hold towards H4, misses 6ft hoop 2.
K had target from H4, peg with Y in background...middles the peg to win game 1, 26-1.

Game 2. Dwayne UK, Callum RY
Opening: East boundary, C2, K missed C2 ball leaving good double, Y hits both, southern ball first.

Y roll up from, E boundary to 6ft in front of H1, bad miss.
B hits 20yd in C2. Split roll hits H2 going to H1 ball, runs H1 from 3ft, and hits 4yd return for break.

Three pass rolls later... we have a laid 4-ball break.

... ending with a '2-4' leave with a rush to 2yd N of H1.
R hits short lift shot to boundary K.

R makes H1 but fails H2 after a long roll leaves a 50deg 2yd.
Reception ball B hit, pass roll, leave 8yd take off down the E boundary... which turns out, leaving Y and 8yd shot... missed.

B trivial pickup leads to standard TP opportunity #431... first peel jawsed.

Two peels done after 6. 3b pioneer centre-balls peelee. Hits 6yd and break continues.

Straight rover peel, trivial finish, nice turn. So its 431 for Dwayne and only another 569 for the T-Shirt!
Game summary: one all in best of five.

Game3: Callam RY Dwayne UK
Opening: 'Çallum' Supershot (ie 3ft E of peg), U to 4ft W of peg, Y missed R 3yd past, K middles R.

Break ends before H1 with 50deg hoop run. R misses ball near peg to south boundary. Dwayne has another go at a pick up...

Trivial break with NSL, UK slightly sth of H5 on E boundary.

Y misses long lift

UK is actually a rush pointing at 1

Y was the ball at 4

Great rush to 1, loads 3, rushes long to 2 and fails H2.

R hits U, takes off to K at H3 and gets good rush to H1, makes 1, no room to load 3, but controls 2, no room to load 4 but gets rush to 3, bad rush but good roll to 3, makes 3 with no control, hits 8y return roquet, still some work to do...loads 5 and rushes into peg, looks like he'll be rolling from crn 4 for H4

Bad roll out of crn to end up 6ft E of H4.
Pairs up behind H4 with rush to 4, K 2y NNW of H5 and U 4y SE of H3 (about 16y apart)

U takes the shot at K but misses to crn1

Makes 4 & 5, loads 2b and rolls from crn1 to load 1b and go to pioneer at 6, pretty good, just 3y short and break continues

Tries to POP U thru H2 jawsing, loads 3b nicely and runs 2b. Rush POPs U. Break continues to a less than ideal leave with a bunch of 13yders available.

U misses lift shot 10yder leaving three balls together on E boundary. Rushes C2 ball off S Boundary, rools up to 6ft and blobs to wired 1ft straight in front.

B misses quarter ball sticking out at H1.
Y runs H1 to N boundary the hits R nr C2. Runs H2...

Y H3 rejection back 3 yds. UK 12dy shot available... missed.

Y H3 to H1 shot tickled, getting to H3 and sticking in the hoop.

K hits Y in H3. K hit in setting leave. Missed. U break starts with Delayed TP opportunity.

Peeled 4b on way to 1b, all set up at pen but failed 3b off Y...
Callum now has good chance of a std TP

Didn't get set for std TP but set up a delayed TP, jaws on way to 6

Got a bit loose there, 1b load was short, didn't get rush out of 6, loaded peelee to 2b (short) and was short on getting rush to 1b, cut the wrong way and had a 9y backward take-off, got 3y straight position but failed

U missed 7y shot

Y hits 9y shot

Sets up lawn and plays a load and hold from crn2 for 1b, copes...is now through 2b looking at death roll to 3b

Works fine, rushes reception ball into 3b , take off to peelee leaves U south of Rover, peels penult to 4b pioneer 4yd south of 4b, makes 4b, rushes back to peel, rushes peelee south stopping back to rover. Bad rush to penult, load and hold U towards C2, runs 3ft hoop to down to rover. Taps partner, attempts 4ft peel jumps peelee to S boundary, retires to C4.

Dwayne hits 7yder from peg to Rover with K.

Recap: Y peg, R rover, K penult, U 4b.

K misses 5yder on U to C2.
R misses 20 yd to C3.

U hits 5yder to C2 K ball. Split roll loading K to penult leaves 7yder to R in C3, hits. Split roll from C3 short, approaches 4b to 5ft. Runs hard. Hits 5yd return, just. Arranges the Straight Double with Y at Rover, R penult side ball, but short with peelee. aborts straight double, attempts posthumous peel which without success. Runs Rover rushing R into C4. Take off to Y, rushing to Peg and pegging Y out. Put U and K off south of C2 10yrs apart. K penult ball in C2.

R missed lift shot from C1 into C2 near K.

K stops Rto H4 and joins almost wired through peg behind H2.
R shoots and misses by 2 balls.
K ignores R to rush to 4yrd N of penult. approaches hoop and runs 5ft past reception ball at the peg. Hits return. Rolls to S of Rover and sets rush to Rover.

R shoots but misses by 3ft.

... R target was a Rover and U double...

K hit R, croquets to end of A baulk, rush to 3ft W of Rover, takes off and runs to S boundary...

Dwayne pegs out to win Game 3 26-24.
Dwayne leads best of five match 2-1.

Lunch break for 30 minutes...

Well, it seems like lunch is for wimps and the fourth game is set to start any moment!

Game 4: Dwayne UK, Callum RY.
Opening: E boundary, Duffer Tice to 6in SE of H6, K hits Duffer moving it 3 yds, sets leave with U peg high between H1 and H2, K 6ft rush on Y on E boundary 14yd N of C4.
R misses from C3 to C4.

K rushes to U, loads U to H2, straight rush to 3ft SW of H1, approaches, run H1 with Rush north. Three ball break established with R in C4.

Around the courts...shout out to Stephen Pearce who has just won his Bo3 against Chris Borlase for 5th, 26-16, 26-9.
Trevor Bassett secured 3rd with Lachlan Berryman staying home to catch up on some work.
David Fuller and Jeff Newcombe were the other quarter finalists.
In the plate, Kerri-Ann Organ is leading the field.

Meanwhile, Dwayne is progressing well, through H6

For some reason he took off to 3b from 3ft W rather than splitting to it...rushed U to E boundary and is taking off back to Y to try and set NSL position...looks ok but has to shoot off Sth of U so there is no shot from Y (4) at K.
So, U has a reverse rush on K to crn 4 should Callum take the long shot at UK.

Y picks up from H4 and takes the long double missing to crn 4.

U rushes K into Y...Y goes into crn 4 but K ends up 2ft W of crn 4.

Loads 2 and hits a great rush to 1, but ends up hampered after 1...goes for it but misses R

Quick summary: Bo5, 2 games Dwayne, 1 game Callum, Game 4 - Dwayne is K 4b & U2, Callum is R&Y both H1.

R fails H1 off Y (U at 2, K near crn4)

U misses Y/R to sth of 1.

U misses Y/R to sth of 1.

R makes 1 and runs into Y, croquets to crn 1 area getting rush to just off A baulk, croquets U into 3b (oops) and doesn't get rush on K, leave k deep in crn 4, takes off to U and scatters U to 8y sth of H3 and R to H1.

Dwayne/U hits 17y at K in cnr 4 with 2 balls near H1 and he is wanting H2...splits K 4y short of 3 and lands 6yrds short of Y, elects to hit R 3y and now has 6y take-off to Y which is 3y off sth boundary...ends up with a 3ft cut rush

Ends up 4y SW of H2

Runs 20deg H2, runs H3 leaving peelee at 4b, picks up R at H1, 4yd approach to H4, runs H4 hard from 4ft, puts 4b escape ball 2 yds too South.

Break continues, but has to move peelee away from 4b leaving 4ft, 45deg roll peel going to 1b pioneer 3yrds N of 1b...

Peelee stays in 4b but partially on the right wire, runs 1b, loads 3b going to peelee but has to bail out of the TP attempt, STP notwithstanding.

Standard four ball break...to 4b but 2ft dead straight gets rejected.

R trivial lift to a 1yd rush on Y on N boundary. TPO? :)

QUICK SHOUT OUT: Great job Kevin for running the show and playing! Long days, mowing lawns, cleaning up. Cheers!

R through H3, break mostly under control.

R H6 approach to scary position behind the hoop, take off to 2ft at 40deg, rejected.

Summary: U and K on 4b. R on 6, Y on 1.
K shoots 5yder at Y just behind H6, hits, runs 4b. pioneers on penult and rover...

... round to peg with DSL.

QUICK SHOUT OUT: Great job Lewis for all the work around the club, clearing courts, etc etc. We would have helped but we are working hard here in the commentary box...

R shoots from C3 to C1 at the peg ball, misses by a ball.

U to peg ball, loads penult, runs 4b from 2ft 20deg to boundary...

Nice hoop and roquet at penult, simple rush to rover with partner 3ft from peg...

Congratulations Dwayne! 26-5. Match 3-1. Bad luck Callum.