Skip Barbara Walker played a telling upshot on the 12th end to help Fairfield win its fifth Ballard Brooch in Dunedin yesterday. The same Outram team won the event in 2013 but was outplayed by a more consistent Fairfield. Walker played the decisive shot of the game on the 12th end when the scores were locked at 13-13. Walker rubbed it in on the next end, when Outram also held two shots on the head, by drawing the shot with her last bowl. Fairfield scored 11 points on the last six ends to win comfortably.Barton and Blucher played consistent draw bowls to set up the heads.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 02, 2017 17:03 UTC