A totally focused Whanganui team returned home from the annual New Zealand Blind and Vision Impaired Indoor Bowls Championships at Labour Weekend laden with medals and two national titles.
Two mixed teams were dispatched to Fielding by the Wanganui Blind and Vision Impaired Association, and one in particular returned home winners.
The fours team, skipped by Ken Fredericksen with Joe Twomey at No3, Colleen Pryce No2 and Russell Lowry the lead, won the Open Fours title, while Maureen Conwell was awarded the coach's medal.
Pryce and Fredericksen then combined to take the pairs title. Fredericksen's form continued into the competition allowing him to finish runner-up in the men's partially-sighted singles.
Fredericksen, who is also national federation chairman, said the Wanganui association had a long successful history at national bowls level beginning from the first year they competed in 1965. That competition also included Twomey.