CHARLIE Bateman and Paul Mooring won the men's final in the St Leonard's Hospice Men's Indoor Bowls Pairs Competitions played at Thanet Road.

They beat last year's winners Mal Harrison and Phil Parsons in the final.

Harrison and Parsons won the first set 7-5, lost the second 7-6 and won the third 7-4 to take a 2-1 lead.

But this was soon checked when Bateman and Mooring won the last two sets 7-0 to win the final 3-2.

It was a similar story in the ladies final, with last year's winner Margaret Moss partnered by Ann Peacock, who was substitute for Gill Clark, playing Maureen and Pat Walker.

Moss and Peacock lost the first set 7-2 but then won the second and third 7-2 7-5 respectively to lead 2-1.

In the fourth set they were leading 6-3 but couldn't get the required single to win the final as the Walkers got four shots from three ends to tie the sets at 2-2.

The last set was a one-sided affair as Maureen and Pat Walker picked up the trophy with a 7-2 win.

There was an amazing Mixed Pairs final when Sue Kirkpatrick and Frank Turner beat Phil Parsons and Trish Harrison 3-2.

Parsons and Harrison were leading two sets to nil (both 7-0) and were 4-0 up in the third after only 40 minutes play.

Turner and Kirkpatrick recovered to win the third set 7-5, then take next 7-6 to level the scores and they won the fifth set 7-4.

Iain Boyle and Shirley Stacey retained the Christmas Mixed Pairs crown at York and District Indoor Bowls Club when they beat Mal and Trish Harrison in the final.

The game was finely poised at 5-4 to the Harrisons after five ends, but then a run of six winning ends out of seven saw Boyle and Stacey take a stranglehold on the game to lead 16-6.

The Harrisons won the next three ends to reduce the arrears to six shots at 16-10, but their opponents stamped their authority on the game once again, scoring a four and a single to lead 21-10 with four ends to play.

The Harrisons scored a single and a magnificent six to make the score 21-17, but their comeback was stifled when Boyle and Stacey scored a two to lead by six going into the last end, which saw the Harrisons score a three to make the final score 23-20.

In the Tom Forbes' Pairs final, Alf Sunman and Fred Clayden lost only six ends in beating Dudley Williams and Ken Patterson 18-11.

It took 24 ends to decide the Ladies Champion of Champions Sub-zone semi-final between York's Maureen Thomas and New Earswick's Pat Walker. Walker led 18-14, but a three and a four sealed the 21-18 win for Thomas.

Updated: 11:29 Thursday, January 03, 2002