Coppinger regains crown

Martin Coppinger regained the Munster senior bowling championship ith a storming finish against Christy Mullins at Derrinasafa, Dunmanway.

Mullins was in contention with three shots to go and might have been better placed had his bowl to Ross’s not been blocked. That said there was little doubt about the verdict once Coppinger strung some serious bowls together.

Mullins opened with a good shot Coppinger beat by 40m. Mullins made the high gate with his second. Coppinger beat that tip by just 80m in two —he only made the end of the wall with the first and the cut rock with the second. Mullins kept his lead with a good bowl over the bridge, another to Cullinane’s lane. Coppinger’s sixth blew right and missed Mullins’s tip to concede a bowl of odds. Coppinger recovered instantly with a brilliant bowl to just the point of the bend at Ross’s. Mullins’s reply drifted right and was accidently blocked close to the right bank. That cost him vital metres.