By Ian Milgate
Tuesday Pennant
Healesville Bowls’ team 1 played away at Croydon and we were hoping for another win over them after the win we had when they travelled up to Healesville earlier in the year but it was not to be. It was a close game all day with only a shot or two either way, but in the end we were only able to win one rink going down 59 – 69
Robyn Turville, Rob Ayres, Ian Milgate, Steve Bulled 19 – 24
Steve Graham, Bob Brown, Rob Broadhurst, Gerda Otto 13 – 22
John Clark, Effie Laban, Russell Smith, Barry Parker 27 – 23
Team 2 played at home against Chirnside Park and continued their sizzling winning form beating Chirnside Park by a massive 66 shots 95 – 29. This side deserves being second on the ladder as all season they have been the stand out team where all the players have performed exceptionally well and connected with each other to get the results. For the third time this year the group have been able to achieve an 8 SHOT WIN on one end, well done guys.
Congratulations to John Fitzpatrick, Anne Holland, Leonie Fitzpatrick, Len Stewart 42 – 6, 8 shot end
Gerry Gommers, Len Cosson, Ted Upton, Colin Jarvis 33 – 10
Mike Adams, Damian Key, Hilda Gurney, Judy Veermann 20 -13
Wednesday Corporate Bowls
It was another great night for Corporate Bowls and some great bowls were played. Teams were really getting the hang of putting bowls down and I saw some very good heads of bowls, around the jack during the night. It’s also good to see the networking going on after the game between all the players over a quite refreshment. I’m sure there is a good exchange of ideas that come out of the discussions. Results for the night have two teams on equal first, Above Board Plastering & Total Shutters on 74 points Australian Hot Taps on 72, Provit Cult on 66.
In the elimination final Above Board Plastering will play Australian Hot Taps and Total Shutters will play Provit Cult. The final will be played on Wednesday night so come on down, have a snag and watch some competitive bowling for the eventual winner of the Charles Hort Memorial Trophy.
Saturday Pennant
Team 1 played away at Boronia on a beautiful sunny day, and we had no excuses as the grass green was rolling exceptionally well. Steve Graham’s team were the stand out rink once again with Mark Hoffman’s team also coming home with a win. Unfortunately a couple of the teams were struggling due to player shortages, eventually going down 67 – 84.
Steve Graham, John Clark, Rob Ayres, Gerda Otto 25 – 14
Mark Hoffman, Colin Lowe, Robyn Turville, Ian Milgate 16 – 15
Mark Ward, Steve Bulled, Brad Chandler, Mick Featherstone 19 – 26
Adrian Beales, Bob Brown, John Howard, Judy Veermann 8 -29
Team 2 played at home against Blackburn North and we knew before the game that it was going to be a big ask for Healesville to win as we were 3 players short so each rink had to play 3 players against 4 players but to their credit they fought hard all day only going down by 7 shots 53 -60
Barry Parker, Glenda Graham, Ted Upton 21 – 20
Russell Smith, Rob Broadhurst, Karl Tok 13 -21
Mike Adams, Gerry Gommers, Leonie Fitzpatrick 19 – 19
A great effort by all players when they were playing at 75 per cent capacity.
Next week is the last week before Christmas so let’s make it a good one and bring it home with some Christmas Cheer. Our Christmas party will start after the completion of the games. Good luck everyone.
