Club Tournament Winners 2024

Men’s Singles Tournament

Winner of Challenge Cup Men’s Singles-Nick Bantock
2nd Men’s Singles Constantin Botea
3rd Men’s Singles Geoff Poulton

Women’s Singles Tournament

Winner McDonald Cup Women’s Singles – Bobbi Jean Charlton
2nd Women’s Singles Sandy Hodel
3rd Women’s Singles Cathy Korpela

Richard Mermer Quaddie

1st place – Don Allan, Susan Schiphorst, Lindsey Affleck, Gopal Gowda
2nd place – Norma Alison, Paula Parkinson, Joey Schiphorst, Richard Coulter

BSI Novice Women’s Singles

After five games, Susan Schiphorst held 2nd place in A Division, moving on to compete with the 2nd place winner in Division B. Susan won her playoff game by a wide margin, placing 3rd overall. Congratulations Susan!

Knut Berg Charities Award

Winners – John Wigle and Chris Jones

Totem Scotch Pairs

Each team below won all 3 games, placement decided by differential.

1st – Shaun Peck and John Bidgood
2nd – Libby Weiser & Nick Bantock
3rd – Susan and Joe Schiphorst

BSI Andy Stewart Open Australian Pairs

1st place (32 teams)- Don Allan (VBCC) and Aaron Almeida

BSI Simmons Women’s Triples

1st – Nancy Fraser (VBCC), N. Oberholtzer (Vic West), Portia Priegert (VBCC)
2nd – Susan Schiphorst, Bobbi-Jean Charlton, Norma Alison (VBCC)

Men’s Novice Singles

1st -Geoff Poulton
2nd – Eric Pederson
3rd – John Bidgood

Women’s Novice Singles

1st place – Susan Schiphorst

BSI Anne Webster Women’s Triples

2nd place – Brenda Janke (v), Nancy Fraser (s), Susan Schiphorst (l)
4th place-Lisa Hebb (l), Bobbi-Jean Charlton (v-missing), Paula Parkinson (s)

VBCC Clayton Cup Men’s Pairs

1st place – Joe Schiphorst (lead) and Nick Bantock (skip)
2nd Bill Mills (lead) and
Constantin Botea (skip)
3rd – Mitch O’Brien (skip) and
John Bidgood (lead)

BSI Sadler Memorial Mixed Triples at GHLBC

2nd place of 30 teams – Don Allan (skip), Nancy Fraser (lead), Randy Small (vice)

BSI Lions Mixed Triples – Central Saanich LBC

4th place of 16 teams Portia Priegert (lead), Mitch O’Brien (vice), Don Allan (skip)

BSI South Island Men’s Quaddie

4th place winners VBCC members Nick Geerdink, Don Allan & Mitch O’Brien (missing Randy Small)

VBCC Jean Wright Winners

1st place – Constantin Botea and Libby Weiser
2nd – Sandy Hodel & Nick Bantock
3rd – Vera Rozylo & Barragh Wayne

BC Provincial Women’s Singles

Silver Medal Winner- Bobbi-Jean Charlton, VBCC

BSI Findlay Memorial Mixed Triples-Vic West

Don Allan, Portia Priegert and Randy Small (VBCC) – 1st place
Nancy Fraser (VBCC/Vic West), Jill Spear (Vic West) & Joe Schiphorst (VBCC)

BSI Jubilee Pacific Pairs-Oak Bay

Don & Keith – 4th out of 28 teams
Keith Newhouse & Don Allan, VBCC

Honorary President’s Cup

Winners Chris Jones and Portia Priegert, with HP John Wigle
2nd Cathy Korpela & Joey Schiphorst
3rd Renate Grinfelds & Nick Bantock
VBCC member Nancy Fraser (R) and Brenda Janke (L),
winners of BSI Lynn McElroy tournament

Joan Turner Mixed Triples

1st place–Portia Priegert, Nancy Fraser (skip) and Theo Brand

2nd (left)-Sandy Hodel, Randy Small (skip) and Kim Tadei
3rd (right)-Keith Newhouse (skip), Barb Marriott and Joey Schiphorst

QUALICUM INDOOR BOWLING. March 16/17. Victoria team Gopala Gowda, Brent Jansen (VBCC) and Dennis Verge (Gordon Head) won the Pat and Gavin Reid Memorial Cup, the final tournament of the indoor season. Twelve teams (2 groups) played 5 triples games each over two days. The Victoria team came out undefeated. Contributed by Gopala Gowda

See 2023 Tournament Results

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