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Carter returns a winner
from first international
lawn bowling event
Susan llundertu►ark
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Carol Carter has returned a win-
ner from her first international
lawn bowling competition.
The Mitchell woman and longtime
member of the Seaforth Lawn
Bowling Club was in Arizona
recently bowling in the North
American Challenge, her first
"assignment" playing for Canada.
"It was certainly competitive. We
didn't have any easy matches," she
says.
While there were no medals, both
Canadian women's teams won cups
and trophies. Carter's team was the
overall winner of six games with 18
ends each.
"They were long competitions
with 18 ends - that's three and a
half hours in the hot sun," she says.
But, while she was at top form
bowling, Carter
says an asthma
attack shortly
before she left for
Arizona kept her
coughing for
most of the tour-
nament and
scrambling to
discover whether
any of her med-
ications would
deem her inelig-
ble for play.
"That was a lot
of pressure won-
dering if I could
take the drugs I
needed," she
says.
Another chal-
lenge during the
tournament was
the weather. The
hot, dry weather
made the greens
faster than she's
used to in
Canada but she
says she man-
aged to adjust to
the conditions.
And, a huge
wind storm with
50 mile an hour
winds delayed
play during the
tournament.
While Carter's
experience in
both provincial
and nationals
lawn bowling
competitions
have earned her
enough points_ to
be considered to represent Canada,
she says she's been ambivalent
about the travel necessary to com-
pete internationally.
But, after her trip to Arizona -
where she earned four more points
towards her eligibility to join the
Canadian team - Carter says she'll
consider applying to join the
Canadians in New Zealand in 2008.
"It was nice to think I was repre-
senting my country. I am proud to
be Canadian and proud of what we
accomplished," she says of the
Arizona competition.
But, whether or not she competes
for Canada again, Carter is now
eagerly awaiting the start of lawn
bowling season in Seaforth after her
first experience bowling since last
fall.
"Now, I'm itching to bowl," she
says.
submitted photo
Carol Carter, at left, bowls in a triples event with Canadian
teammates Martha Welsha and Lynn McElroy during the
recent North American Challenge in Arizona.
Seaforth Ringette Association
REGISTRATION
for 2007 - 2008 Season
and
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Monday April 30, 2007
6:30 pm
at
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The 2006/07
Seaforth peewee B
girls hockey team
includes in the
back from left,
Kevin Melady, Don
Heard, Liz Scott,
Jordann Murray,
Heidi Raynard and
Dave Murray and
in the front,
Heather Heard,
Tabitha Arts, Alicia
Middegaal, Maddie
Melady, Shannen
Murray, Abby
McGavin, Nicole
Marriage, Marissa
Scott and
Stephanie Sluys.
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ANNUAL
MEETING
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