This weekend sees the start of this year's Irish National Championships in Leisureplex Stillorgan. Defending Champions Darragh McLoughlin and Aimee Kellegher will be looking to get a good start in the opening weekend events.
The tournament opens with the Mixed Doubles on Friday February 18th at 7.30. Although the Mixed Doubles does not go towards the All Events final, there is still the matter of gold, silver and bronze medals to be won.
Saturday morning sees the first event towards the All Events, the singles. 31 men and 16 women are currently entered for the five-game singles event. The singles begins at 8 am for the men and 10.30 am for the ladies.
On Sunday focus turns to the doubles event. Bowlers play four games for this event with individual pinfall going towards each competitors' All Events total. Play commences at 8.30 am for the men, with the ladies doubles taking place at 6 pm the same evening.
As always the tournament runs over two weekends, so bowlers get a five-day break to think over their progress so far.
The tournament starts up again with the trios event on Friday February 25th. The men's event begins at 7.30 pm, with the ladies' event starting at 9.30. Bowlers will bowl three games, and individual scores will again be added to each competitors All Events total.
Th final qualifying event for the All Events final, the three-game team event, is scheduled for Saturday morning at 9 am. Men's teams consist of five competitors, while the ladies' teams are made up of four players.
After the team event, competitors individual total scores are calculated, with the top ten men and top six ladies qualifying for the All Events finals. The men will play nine games and the ladies will play five, with pinfall carried forward, to determine who will be the Irish National Champions for 2011. The champions will represent Ireland in the European Champions Cup in Lahiti, Finland in August.
The full tournament schedule for this year's National Championships, as well as Lane Assignments, can be found at the Irish Tenpin Bowling Association website, http://www.tenpin-ireland.com/.
Keep an eye on Bowltalk over the coming two weeks for all the updates, scores and analysis from this year's tournament.
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