Batiste heads to UK with another title
Don Batiste won the Smithard Over-60 Singles title before travelling to Aberdeen to compete in the World Champion of Champions event. (Picture by Steve Sarre, 0480676) HUSBAND and wife Don and Doreen Batiste pulled off the double as both won their respective Bowls Guernsey over-60 singles competitions at the weekend.
HUSBAND and wife Don and Doreen Batiste pulled off the double as both won their respective Bowls Guernsey over-60 singles competitions at the weekend.
Playing at the Guernsey Bowling Club's Beau Sejour green, Northerner Don beat the home player, Phil Schofield, in a very close Smithard Singles final.
It was 9-9 after nine ends and still deadlocked at 12-12 after 15, but the former picked up three counts of two shots whereas his opponent could manage only singles over the following 10 ends leaving Batiste the winner at 21-16.
Doreen beat Pauline Leadbeater in a similarly close contest in the Carre Singles.
The former enjoyed a better start, leading 11-6 at 11 ends, but Leadbeater levelled the game at 11-11 at 15 and two counts of three on the 17th and 18th put her in the driving seat.
However, back came her opponent to score on the last five ends to record a 21-17 win.
