By Ian Milgate
After a well deserved 4 week break over the Christmas, New Year period, it was great to get back on to the green as we only had 5 weeks to go before finals start.
With the continuing run of bad luck with illnesses plaguing Healesville club throughout this season it has made it hard to field the teams each week but to everyone’s credit we manage to get to the starting line.
Also great to see Brad Chandler and Bob Brown back on the green after a long layoff.
It was going to be an important game for both teams this week as the first team were sitting third only 2 points below Vermount South who were sitting second, and the Second side were second on the ladder playing against a good team Monbulk on their territory.
TEAM 1 played Vermont South at home which evened up the odds as they were a very good side.
Healesville got off to a slow start and by the half time break, the team were down by 1 shot 41/42.
After the break, all four rinks came out fired up and pulled away in the end to score a comfortable win by 27 shots 90/63.
Two outstanding players today were Colin Lowe and Gerda Otto.
Steve Graham, Rob Broadhurst, Ian Milgate, Robert Ayres 25/17
Steve Bulled, Chris Hawting, Colin Jarvis, John Howard 23/14
Adrian Beales, Effie Laban, Bob brown, Gerda Otto 20/13
Mark Ward, Colin Lowe, Judy Veermann, Russell Smith 22/19
TEAM 2 travelled to Monbulk with a depleted side once again, due to illness etc.
It was going to be a tuff ask for the team to win with one player down and a lot of new bowlers in the side.
They also had to play on one of the toughest greens around that is extremely quick for new bowlers to navigate. In the end Healesville went down by 25 shots 48/73.
Although Len’s rink wend down by 8 shots Mark, Len and Glenda came back from 8/23 down to 21/29.
Karl Tok and Mike Adams also played a strong game.
Mike Adams, Anne Holland, Karl Tok, Jill Cookney 14/27
Len Cossons, Glenda Graham, Mark Cookney 21/29
John Fitzpatrick, Leonie Fitzpatrick, Brad Chandler, Jude Wallace 13/17
Healesville 4’s Tournament
Don’t forget the Bowls club are hosting our yearly Healesville 4’s Tournament on 2 February, so come on down and see some great bowling from teams that will be here from all over the state, including Inverloch, Paynesville, Wonthaggi just to name a few.
The day will start with a BBQ breakfast, eggs, bacon and orange juice at 8.00am prior to commencement of play at 9.30am.
The teams will be playing for some big prize money with the winning team taking home $1200, not bad for a day’s work, so call in, take a walk around both greens and watch some very competitive bowling.
