Henty and Albury's Commercial Club to stage Albury and District triples events

Henty hosts the open triples and Peter Forck has received a bye through to the semi-finals on his home green.

His side will face the winner of the first round clash between Henty's Terry Donahue and Oaklands' Quinton Evans.

In the bottom half of the draw, Lavington's Bill Pantling takes on Henty's Kerry Boyle and Lavington's Darren Moore is set to face Graeme Scholz from Henty, with the winners to meet in the other semi-final that afternoon.

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The senior triples is to be played at the Commercial Club, with Howlong's Les Pilfoot straight through to the semi-finals where his side awaits the winner of the all-Lavington showdown between Max Scanlan and Slawko Kitt.

Lavington's Fred Markham has automatically progressed the opposite semi-final and will take on either clubmmate Bill Collins or a Howlong side skipped by Phil Slater.

The Commercial Club will also stage the president's reserve triples with Commercial's Mike Hodgess into the semi-finals to play Howlong's Peter Thompson or North Albury's Mark Mulcahy.

Oaklands' Ron Bonat and Walla's Russell Paech square off in the other semi-final.

Round one matches start at 9.30am, with a 9.10am roll-up, while the semi-finals commence at 1.30pm, with a roll-up at 1.10pm.

The finals for all three tournaments will be played on Sunday, January 10.

Meanwhile, the first two rounds of the president's reserve fours were recently played at Culcairn with Bonat and North Albury's Rob Unsworth into the final, scheduled for January 17.

Bonat defeated Thompson's Howlong side, 26-12, before he eliminated North Albury's Kevin Wild, 25-12, in the semi-final.

Unsworth had a much more difficult run to the decider, which started with a 22-17 result against Pilfoot's Howlong quartet, before a win against the Walla side, skipped by Paech, 20-17.

Paech eliminated Hodgess from the tournament in the first round, 21-12.