By Ian Milgate
First week of the Community Barefoot Bowls was a great success with 22 teams competing for the Charles Hort Memorial Trophy.
This season saw several new teams enter including The Bodi Tree, The Grand Hotel, Terminus Tornadoes and the Healesville RSL.
Healesville Bowling Club had great conditions for the first night and everybody enjoyed the bowling and of course the sausage sizzle.
After night 1, the leader is Advanced Agg on 20 followed by Code Art on 19, the RSL on 18 and right on their tail on 17 points are McDonald Maintenance, Terminus Tornadoes and Watts River Brewing.
Come on down next Wednesday night and watch these great teams put down some good bowls.
Tuesday’s Team 1 played Healesville’s very friendly rivals Warburton at home and knowing that they always put a strong side in.
Healesville had to be at their best to take the win.
The team was travelling not too bad with two rinks up and one down and by the half time break Warburton were just up 38/32.
After the break, Healesville started to struggle apart from Steve Bulled’s team and finally went down by nine shots 54/63.
Gerda Otto, Mick Featherstone, John Fitzpatrick, Colin Jarvis 11/26
Rita Featherstone, Robyn Turville, Bob Brown, Steve Bulled 22/18
Ian Milgate, Damian Key, Barry Parker, Effie Laban 15/22
Tuesday’s Team 2 played away against Mooroolbark.
This was their first game away so the new Pennant players had to deal with new surrounds and new opponents.
Mooroolbark came out firing and by the half time break had a reasonable lead.
To the credit of Healesville players, they hung in there and tried to change the result but came up short by 16 shots 49/65.
John Allen, Glenda Graham, Len Cosson, Wally Mays 11/26
Jim Viggers, Russell Smith, Judy Veermann, Mike Adams 22/18
Tino Macari, John McMillan, Bernard Godde, Gerry Gommers 16/21
Saturday’s Team 1 played away at Lilydale and were looking forward to playing them on their own turf.
All four rinks got away to a great start and by the half time break were leading by 22 shots 60/38.
There must have been something in the water because after the break all teams struggled to gain or hold the lead.
In the end, it came down to the last team playing on the last end and they managed to hold Lilydale off for a win by one shot 83/82.
Ian Milgate, Robyn Halton, Colin Jarvis, Adrian Beales 20/26
Mick Featherstone, Robert Ayres, Bob Brown, Mark Ward 16/18
Rita Featherstone, Chris Hawting, Effie Laban, Steve Bulled 23/20
Barry Parker, Wally Mays, Rob Broadhurst, Steve Graham 24/18
Saturday’s Team 2 played away at Doncaster with an under manned team.
Two rinks played really well with Sarah and Ken Gallacher, John McMillan and John Howard putting some good shots in.
Unfortunately, the team with only three players in it were struggling all day against a team of four but to their credit, they didn’t give in. In the end they lost by nine shots only 53/62, a great effort.
John Allen, Jim Viggers, Leonie Fitzpatrick, Russell Smith 19/14
Ken Gallacher, Glenda Graham, Judy Veermann 10/32
Jude Wallace, John McMillan, Sarah Gallacher, John Howard 24/16
Good luck every one for next week, keep up the great work and don’t forget, Enjoy your bowls.
