The Oriel Zone men’s team saw their challenge to retain their title begin with a comfortable victory over South Tyrone.
The first half saw Stephen McMahons rink race into an early lead by piking up a count of 7 in the 2nd end and with 4 ends to go the lead looked unassailable at 19-4. However Damian Campbell’s rink gave a late rally to take his score to 19-9. John Murnaghan’s rink was nip and tuck throughout and with 4 ends to go could not be seperated at 6-6. The last few ends saw the Oriel quartet rally to win 10-7. Niall hands four were also in a ding dong battle, this time with John Carson. Niall played a few great bowls in the final stages of their match and eventually won 9-5
Ht score 38-21
Jim Fox | D Kane | Noel Mackin | D Wallace | Fra Woods | S Turner |
Ronan Hanlon | T Stinson | Diarmuid McMahon | J Rafferty | Shane Hand | J Emerson |
Jason Hand | P McKiver | Michael Hand | P Garvey | Kieran Trainor | R Browne |
Niall Hand | J Carson | Stephen McMahon | D Campbell | John Murnaghan | A Dyche |
9 | 5 | 19 | 9 | 10 | 7 |
For South Tyrone to have any chance they needed a quick start but this and their chances were quickly put to bed. Gerry McCabe’s rink raced into a 10-2 lead and Paddy Hanlon into a 9-1 lead and while they took their foot off the pedal in the last few ends, the contest as a whole was long over . The only saving grace for South Tyrone was the middle mat skipped by Ian Hobson who beat Paul Duff 6-12
Final Score Oriel 70 South Tyrone 47
next up is an away tie to larne
John McMahon | R Wallace | Micheal Savage | J Shaw | Thomas Martin | N Rafferty |
Seamus McParland | D Irwin | Anthony Reel | S Clarke | Sean Traynor | J Elliot |
Fra Dillon | U Shaw | Sean Conroy | D McCabe | Conor Mackin | T Wallace |
Gerry McCabe | P Hagan | Paul Duff | I Hobson | Paddy Hanlon | C Dunwoody |
14 | 9 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 5 |
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