Swannies take flight!

After 19 weeks of competition, broken by months of lockdown, Maccabi NSW finished their competition with the result only known after the last game.  During the previous two weeks ‘Swannies’, the winners, had managed to lose both games and also their position at the top of the table but an 8-4 win over Beauty & The Beast enabled them to jump over the leaders Bubba Zeida and win the competition by 3 points.

‘Swannies’ team of Ronnie Lang and Justin Kennedy had led the league for eight weeks until last week when overtaken by a point by the Bubba Zeida team of Phillip Levy and Steven Cohen.  Bubba Zeida in turn were overtaken by the Watch & Learn team of Ari Baram and Natai Hanouka who beat Bubba Zeida 7-4 to finish second.

Top game of the round was a great 266 by Ronnie Lang who also shot a 225.  Other good games were 204 by Brian Dobov, 201 by Ari Baram, 244 and 215 by Justin Kennedy.  Top series on the night was a 668 by Ronnie Lang for the men and 532 by Kerri Schwartz for the women.