Thirroul member Webster and Warilla’s Clarke stunned champions Scott Bateup (Dapto Citizens) and Hemi Palmer (Towradgi Park) 22-9 in the deciding third match.

The victory sets up a clash against Albion Park’s Roger Kelly and Rod Raftery in Monday’s post sectional round.

For skip Webster the victory eased some of the disappointment after being knocked out in the fours on Wednesday, following a protest by Matt Sargeant in their deciding match.

‘‘What happened earlier in the week was a motivation, but it was a new day, new event and it was great to get through the section,’’ Webster said.

‘‘Big credit to Ted, he played awesome and set things up beautifully.’’

Webster said while he’s known Clarke for six years it was a late decision to ask him if he wanted to team up as his lead for the pairs.

‘‘I knew Ted wasn’t entered in the pairs and I was looking for a lead so I got in touch probably only about three weeks ago.’’

Bateup said while it was disappointing the defence of their pairs crown was a short one, he paid credit to Webster and Clarke.

‘‘We knew what was at stake but they played too good,’’ Bateup said.

Thirteen Illawarra clubs hosted a marathon day of pairs involving close to 200 teams and 48 sections.

The other major upset was Warilla’s Wilson Patuwai and Geoff McGillivray winning section 33 from John Green and Rohan Brassey.

The Warilla pair finished with two wins and a minus 1 shot differential to edge out Green-Brassey (1.5 wins+18).

Green has been the pairs champion four of the past six years.

The most dramatic section was at Corrimal BC with Towradgi’s Col Agnew and Brian Purdie edging out Corrimal’s Grant Myers and Eddie Ugarenko.

Both teams finished with 2.5 wins with it taking some Albert Einstein maths before Agnew-Purdie got it on countback, 55.40 per cent to 54.54 per cent.