Pam
Bass (second left) presents Tania
Dwyer, Neil Morrison and Murray
Fraser with the Pup Cup and prizes
for finishing first in the 4x50m relay on Sunday.
Absent was fourth team member Brendan
Hayes.
Over $1800 dollars
was raised at the auction held at
the Golf Club following the swim.
Warm
temperatures and the promise of a fun,
family day drew about 100 swimmers
to the Forbes Pool on Sunday. There
were 20 teams contesting the 4x50m
freestyle relay and annual trophies
presented to the best junior and senior
swimmers.
The
winners of the relay (pictured above)
finished with a time just 0.24 sec
outside thier nominated time. In
second place, 0.4 sec outside were Richard
Barwick, David Dwyer, Murray
Fraser and Brendan
Hayes who backed up to swim
two legs. Third were G. Field, T.
Field, G. Percy and S.
Percy, 3.0 sec outside.
Richard
Barwick (64 pts)collected
the senior swimmers trophy which
dates back to the 1960's, followed
by Norm Cook (54
pts) and Kevin Bell and Gary
Davis who tied (42 pts).
The junior trophy went to Jack
Davis (64 pts) followed
by Bill Davis (55
pts) and Gus Coles (41pts)
Other
results:
Junior
30m -
1. Shane Percy (0.25) 2. Tamara
Maitland(0.30) 3. Kaitlan Faulkiner
(0.50).
Senior
30m -
1. Anthony Rennick (0.20) 2.
Norm Cook (0.22) 3. Paul Faulkiner
(0.22).
Junior
50m -
1. Paigan Bartholomaeus (0.19)
2. Ryan Shatz (0.20) 3. Amelia
Sweeney (0.29).
Senior
50m -
1. Mark Stibbard (0.06) 2. Michael
Bushell (0.07) 3. Michael Ryan
(0.09).
Seventeen
swimmers from
Forbes travelled
to Wellington
for the Western
Districts AIF
Championships.
A good time was
had by all and
there was also
some success
in the pool. Geoff
(Pin Head) Watson made
a return to the
pool and came
third in the
50 metre RSL
Championship.
Geoff was happy
with the result
and let everybody
know at the Wellington
RSL when he was
awarded with
his trophy.
Forbes
also picked
up 1st place
in the 6x50
metre relay.
This is the
first time
the trophy
has traveled
back to Forbes
since 1974.