JACKAROOS bowlers Ben Twist and Kelsey Cottrell won the Australian Indoor Championships after four days of competition at Club Tweed.<\/p>\n
It brought together 32 of the leading male and female indoor bowlers, including Australian Jackaroos team members who recently competed in the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/p>\n
The championships reinforced Club Tweed\u2019s reputation as one of the country\u2019s premier bowls venues, with crowds and high-quality competition throughout the week culminating in two memorable finals.<\/p>\n
Bowls Australia described the tournament as a showcase of the country\u2019s best players, with both finals delivering the kind of tension the championships have become known for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese championships consistently produce some of the highest-quality indoor bowls in Australia,\u201d an event spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth title matches went right down to the last bowl, which was a fitting finish to a fantastic week of competition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twist capped off an outstanding campaign by defeating St Johns Park Bowling Club teammate Travis Moran to win his first Australian Indoor title without dropping a set during the week.<\/p>\n
A superb draw to the ditch helped Moran win three consecutive ends and level the set, before he stormed to a 5\u20132 lead early in the second.<\/p>\n
Twist rallied to draw level heading into the end.<\/p>\n
With his father Jeff watching from the stands, Twist delivered under pressure, moving the mat forward before driving the jack into the ditch.<\/p>\n
He then held his nerve with his remaining bowl to secure the championship and his maiden Australian Indoor crown.<\/p>\n
In the women\u2019s final, Cottrell added another memorable win to her Australian Indoor record with a thrilling victory over Club Merrylands\u2019 Samantha Noronha.<\/p>\n
Cottrell dominated the opening set 9\u20133, but Noronha responded strongly in the second, winning six of the nine ends to force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n
The win marked Cottrell\u2019s third consecutive Australian Indoor Championship and her fourth in five years.<\/p>\n
It also moved her past Jeremy Henry\u2019s tally of three titles, leaving only Steve Glasson, with nine, and Karen Murphy, with six, ahead of her on the all-time Australian Indoor honours list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKAROOS bowlers Ben Twist and Kelsey Cottrell won the Australian Indoor Championships after four days of competition at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-865894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}