THIS year’s Mixed Pairs Indoor Bowls Champions at Wellington Bowling Club are Leah Waygood and Nick Channon.

The granddaughter/grandfather combination were too strong on the day against very good opposition from Yvonne Abbott and David Beaudet who are fairly new to the game, so did extremely well just to get to the final.

From the start Channon and Waygood took the lead but every end was close and most of them finished with a single shot winning it. After five ends they led 5–1 but Beaudet and Abbott picked up a two in the next to bring the score closer at 5–3.

Sadly for the less experienced pair last year’s champions did not give away any easy shots after that and they moved on to a 13–5 victory over the full two hours.

Yvonne and David congratulated Nick and Leah on their excellent bowling to become Indoor Mixed Champions 2017.

To get to the final David Beaudet and Yvonne Abbott won a closely fought battle in the semi-finals against Alan and Liz May 19–11 while Nick Channon and Leah Waygood played very well to beat Mike and Gill Groves 25–9.