Sports
Bowlers line up for national team - "Get Rolling"
By Barry Rollings

Volume 49, No. 4, March 22, 2007
 
ROUND IT GOES: CPL Keiran Wyllie from the ADF ACT team makes a smooth delivery down the lane while practising for the ACT/SNSW Inter-Service Ten Pin Bowling Championships next month.
Photo by LS Yuri Ramsey
 
CONTESTANTS will aim to put themselves firmly in the frame for national honours when they compete in the ACT/SNSW Inter-Service Tenpin Bowling Championships on April 2 in Canberra.

Entrants will be vying for berths in the ACT Combined Services team for the ADF National Tenpin Bowling Championships in Sydney from June 4-8.

Bowlers in this mixed-gender sport will compete for their respective Services, and team selection will be open to all permanent, Reserve and APS members. The championship will be decided over nine games, and the total pinfall for each Service will determine the winner.

An order of merit will be used to select the 12-person ACT Combined Services team and three reserves, with the top two Army, Navy, Air Force and APS bowlers gaining automatic selection.

There are no qualifying standards but contestants must be members of Tenpin Bowling Australia and be a member of a league to be eligible.

ADTBA president FSGT Paul Logan expects 15 to 30 players to vie for ACT representative honours, with a field of 50-60 likely for the Australian titles, which will be contested by state and territory representative teams in singles, doubles and triples.

“The top 16 bowlers and four reserves from there will comprise the ADTBA representative team for the team and individual Australian titles,” FSGT Logan said. “The representative team from last year’s national competition will compete in the Arafura Games in May.’’

For more information, contact FSGT Paul Logan on (02) 6266 1679 or 0408 012 643.