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Bowlers
strike gold and silver
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Sergeant
Scott Kohler, Corporal Chris Venning, Corporal Tony Tapper
and Warrant Officer 2 Gary Kern display the medals they
won at the Australian New Zealand Police and Emergency Games
in Perth.
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ADF
lawn bowlers have taken on the law – and escaped with gold
and silver.
The ADF’s eight-man team took gold and silver medals in the
Pairs and silver in the Fours to thwart the favourites, WA Police,
in the 32-team event at the Australian New Zealand Police and Emergency
Services Games in Perth from March 21-26.
The Games, a multi-sport extravaganza, attracted more than 1500
fire, ambulance and law enforcement personnel from Australia, New
Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
Four ADF teams contested the preliminary rounds of the Pairs. Two
of them won all four games to earn semi-final berths. The aggregate
winning margins of each of the semi-finalists meant Army’s
Warrant Officer 2 Gary Kern and Air Force Sergeant Scott Kohler
would not meet Army’s Corporal Chris Venning and Air Force
Corporal Tony Tapper until the final, providing both pairs could
overcome their respective WA Police opponents.
WO2 Kern and SGT Kohler won seven of the opening eight ends of their
semi-final 17-6 and were never threatened.
CPLs Venning and Tapper had a tough struggle and took until the
15th end to draw level. They scored three shots then one shot on
the last two ends to win 13-9.
This set up an all-ADF showdown in the final. CPLs Venning and Tapper
started slowly and the margin should have been double figures after
five ends but errors by WO2 Kern and SGT Kohler resulted in their
trailing by just one shot.
CPLs Venning and Tapper then found their form and coasted to a 26-15
victory.
The four bowlers then combined for the Fours gold medal play-off
against WA Police’s best side. They got off to a flying 12-4
lead then lost seven out of the next eight ends to trail 13-17 with
five ends to go. After 21 ends the WA Police players were rewarded
for their consistency and superb tactics with a 22-16 win. The ADF
team had to be content with a hard-fought silver.
More information on ADF Lawn Bowls is on the Defence intranet at
http://intranet.defence.gov.au/raafweb/Sites/ADFBOWLS/
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