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Asia Pacific Bowls Championship
Pine Rivers Memorial Bowls Club
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Asia Pacific Bowls Championship
Pine Rivers Memorial Bowls Club
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| South Tweed's Kelvin Kerkow has retained his spot in the Australian side with his naming in the team to play in the Asia Pacific Championships at Pine Rivers. Kerkow, a key figure in Australia's latest victory against Ireland, was named along with Steve Glasson, Bill Cornehls, Kevin Walsh and Michael Wilks. Glasson, Australia's No 1 ranked bowler, will play singles and will skip for Kerkow in the pairs. The triples line-up is Cornehls, Walsh, Wilks, with Kerkow joining that trio in the fours. Cornehls, Walsh, Glasson and Wilks last played for Australia in a six-man side that toured England and Scotland in August. Two players from that side - Steve Anderson and Mark Casey - have been overlooked by selectors along with veteran Rex Johnston and Brett Duprez who both played in Australia's Test match victory over Ireland in September. The Australian men's and women's teams will be seeking to win back the overall champions title from New Zealand at this year's Championship. Australia was the best performed nation at the 1999 championship held in Malaysia, but lost the crown to the Kiwis at Moama in 2001. Gold Coast-based teenager Lynsey Armitage will become the youngest player ever to represent Australia in lawn bowls when she competes in the Asia Pacific Championship at Pine Rivers this month. Armitage, a 19-year-old university student from the Helensvale club, has been selected in the five-player women's team announced by Bowls Australia. Other Queenslanders in the side are Helen Bosisto (Coolangatta) and Maria Rigby (Manly). Armitage's selection is even more notable as she has stepped straight into the national side from the developing players section of the Australian bowls squad. Traditionally, players are selected from the 10-player open section of the squad. Armitage, who began bowling when she was 12, only made her open debut at state level earlier this year. At the Asia Pacific Bowls Championship she will play lead in the triples and fours and is part of a new-look side that comprises Karen Murphy, Lee Poletti, Bosisto and Rigby. Both Bosisto and Rigby will also be making their international debuts at the open level at this event. Murphy, a silver medalist at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, will play singles and will skip for Poletti in the pairs. The triples line-up is Armitage, Bosisto, Rigby, with Poletti joining that trio in the fours. Omitted from the Australian team that defeated New Zealand 3-0 in February are Jeannette Sibly, Willow Fong and Queenslander Jenny Harragon. Queensland Bowler |
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