Just two weeks after the quartet took out the Henty Farmers Fours tournament, they backed it up with a hard-fought 22-16 triumph against North Albury's Neville Wegener, Clarrie Klepiak, Billy Jones and Ken Allen in the district final.

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Scores were locked at 4-4 after seven ends, but Howlong picked up five of the next six ends to move to a 16-8 lead after 13.

North Albury clawed its way back to 16-15 with seven shots on the next four ends, but Howlong was able to steady the ship with three of the last four ends to clinch the title, 22-16.

The open fours was played at Holbrook and won by the home side of Chris Heather, Gavin Jones, Wolfgang Kaletta and Peter Wornes against a Lavington outfit skipped by Darren Moore, 24-20.

It was a tale of two halves as Holbrook raced to a 6-0 buffer on two ends and led 23-4 after 13.

With their backs to the wall, Moore's side lifted to claim 14 shots in the next six ends to set up the chance of an unlikely victory at 23-18 after 19 ends.

Holbrook stopped the Lavington run with one shot on end 20, and, despite, giving up two on the last end, had enough on the board to finish 24-20 winners.

Moore won through to the final earlier in the day with a 24-11 result against North Albury's Bob Gough.

However, North Albury didn't go away empty-handed as the team of Rob Unsworth, Mark Mulcahy, Troy Campion and Jim Holland, who was in his first district event, defeated a strong Oaklands side, 26-13, to be crowned president's reserve fours champions at Culcairn.

Oaklands' Ron Bonat, Brian Gee, John Danaher and David Evans were quick out of the blocks and had a 5-0 advantage after two ends, but the Hoppers grabbed nine shots on the next two ends to lead 9-5.

From there, they kept Oaklands at bay and finished winners by 13 shots.

The Albury and District pairs events commence on Sunday, January 31.