He announced his retirement at last year’s Aussies, but Stewart MacLachlan returned this season, hunting a fifth Australian board title, to equal the great Trevor Hendy.
And for a while it looked like he’d get there, after breaking clear, however mother nature had other ideas, bringing a wave carrying all of his competitors past him.
Redhead’s Nicola Owen suffered a similar fate while leading the Under 19 ironwoman, relegated to eighth.
While Swansea Belmont pair Kye Taylor and Kyle Lehman finished fourth and fifth in the Under 17 board.
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