Good news this week from the PIMD playdowns. Our Janine Andrews dominated the field in a round robin competition to select PIMD’s participant in the national women’s championship. Well done! In the men’s competition Berkeley’s Rob Hoey and Daniel Gorelick rose to the top of a fiercely competitive field. Here is the account taken from the PIMD Newsletter:

On May 17-18, seven ambitious women took part in PIMD’s playdowns at the Berkeley Lawn Bowling Club, competing for the right to represent PIMD in the National Singles Championships to be held In Laguna Beach, California in October. Participants were Mei Chan (San Francisco), Reggie Banares (San Jose), Joellyn Raderstorf (San Francisco), Rose Selby (Palo Alto), Janine Andrews (Berkeley), and two teen-age bowlers, Adilyn Zeino (San Francisco) and CeCe LeMessurier (San Jose). Over the course of the weekend, the ladies played a complete round robin style tournament, playing each of the other competitors one time. CeCe is a regular bowler at the San Jose lawn bowling club, which has artificial turf. Believe it or not, this was CeCe’s first time playing on natural grass. At the end of the day on Sunday, the two younger participants had very good showings, each winning three of their six games. Janine Andrews (Berkeley) won her first 5 games and had the event won prior to the start of her last game. She will represent PIMD at nationals. Rose Selby was runner up and will be the alternate.

Over that same weekend, plus Monday, sixteen men competed in the men’s singles playdowns. Saturday and Sunday were dedicated to group play with each player competing one day in San Jose and one day in Santa Cruz. After the weekend, the field of 16 was reduced to a final bracket of 8 to be played off on Monday in San Jose. The final eight consisted of DanielGorelick (Berkeley), Calvin Darling (San Francisco), Chris Davis (Berkeley), Jim Corr(Berkeley), Scottie Marzonie (Palo Alto), Frankie Napoli (Rossmoor), Rob Hoey (Berkeley), and Jesse May (Santa Cruz). All eight of these bowlers travel regularly to bowl. All of them took part in last year’s US Open and 7 of the 8 were at last month’s Southwest Open. The competition was fierce and at the end of the day Monday Rob Hoey, emerged the victor and will represent PIMD at nationals, having run through Scottie Marzonie, Jesse May, and Daniel Gorelick in three epic matches on his way to a well earned win. Daniel Gorelick will be the alternate.