It was the defending champions that started better, leading 9-2, but the Fanning lead threesome were soon back with seven shots over the next four ends to tie the match 9-all. Hazell, Smith and Fanning pressed their new found confidence racing to a 22- 11 lead after 17 ends. The Cousley combination needed to fire and that's what they did winning the next four ends, reducing the margin to four with four to play.

With the game on the line Fanning played the bowl of the day converting a four shot deficit into a one shot end to increase their lead to five with three ends to play. Trading shots over the next two ends was not helping the Cousley cause and trailing by five shots going into the last end a miracle was needed but not forthcoming. Fanning 25 d Cousley 21.

In our next match it was a family affair with Kel Seton, Billy Seton and Craig Shaw playing Murray Dobson, Jed Passlow and Craig's father Allen Shaw. It was the son's team that started the best leading 7-3 after six ends. But with an experienced line up of Dobson, Passlow and Allen Shaw you knew that a fight back was on the cards and on the back of an eight shots to one run the elder Shaw team lead 11-8 after 10 ends. An amazing run of five two shot ends to Craig’s trio saw them arrest the decline and set up a break to lead 18-11. A slight repreave for the A Shaw team manifested in the sixteenth end with three shots to reduce the margin to four, but it was just a blip in the radar as the Seton's and Craig Shaw tightened the screws on their opponents with a seven shot run to extended their lead to eleven shots with four ends to play. A five shot 23rd end to Allen gave his team a slight chance but Craig closed out the match winning 27-20.

Our final match had Gary Ferrario, Jeff Chisholm and Ian Cooper facing Harry Thompson, Roy Woodall and Robert Minister.

After a four shot start by Cooper, Minister's trio fought back with a 10-shot run to lead 10-4 after six ends. But in one end the Cooper team had erased the deficit scoring the maximum shots and then added another five shots to lead 15 - 10. The Minister boys converted a four shot tenth end, then the match grounded down to a stalemate with both team winning end and the lead going back and forth. With seven ends to play the Cooper team established a nine shot lead after an unbroken five end run. But the Minister combination were not quite done with scoring a four on the penultimate final to trail by five, but it was a bridge to far and could only manage a single shot on the final end – Cooper 28 d Minister 24.