By Ian Milgate
Tuesday’s 1st. side played at home against Croydon who were a couple of places below Healesville on the ladder, but Healesville needed to win to keep their finals chances alive.
The team got the jump on Croydon from the start thanks to the new skip Robyn and her rink.
Effie’s rink were going well and Steve’s rink were holding on and by the break we were up by 25 shots 44/19.
As the temperature rose, so did Healesville and although they stopped the game with one end to go, due to the heat being above 36 degrees, Healesville comfortably won the match by 31 shots 74/43, Great game by everyone.
Ian Milgate, Hilda Gurney, Robert Ayres, Effie Laban 33/16
Gerda Otto, Bob Brown, Col Jarvis, Robyn Turville 29/11
Barry Parker, Mick Featherstone, Rita Featherstone, Steve Bulled 12/16
Tuesday’s side 2 played away at Heathmont.
It should be a good game as Healesville are fourth and Heathmont fifth on the ladder.
The heat was knocking a few of Healesville’s players around making it difficult to make any headway throughout the game.
After the half time break, with one player down and another struggling, Healesville called the game after the 15th end due to the extreme heat, and Heathmont came away with a convincing win by 27 shots 37/58.
Russell Smith, Anne Knibbs, Bernard Godde, Len Cosson 11/24
Jim Viggers, Judy Wallace, Jodie Ward, Judy Veermann 9/23
John Allen, John McMillan, Glenda Graham, Damian Key 11/11
Saturday’s side one played Chirnside Park at home and it was a must game win to hold our position coming into finals.
Healesville was down on players so the team promoted Anne Knibbs up, Judy Veermann and got Steve Graham out of retirement.
They not only played well but contributed to the Healesville’s massive win.
Going into the break, Healesville was 55/38 but then after the break, the team continued to put the foot down and came home with a strong win over Chirnside Park by 41 shots 105/64.
Gerda Otto, Ian Milgate, Robert Ayres, Mark Ward 31/8
Barry Parker Anne Knibbs, Bob Brown, John Fitzpatrick 14/25
John Howard, Colin Jarvis, Rita Featherstone, Robyn Turville 31/13
Judy Veermann, Steve Graham, Mick Featherstone, Adrian Beales 29/18
Saturday’s 2nd. side played away against Diamond Creek, who was below Healesville on the ladder but Healesville was going into the game with two people short, so this was going to be a miracle.
That is 84 bowls less than the opposition have.
At the break, Healesville was down by 35 shots.
Glenda Graham, who only had three players in her rink, said “Come on let’s make a game of this.” and to their credit, they fought hard to go down by only 41 shots 38/79 when they had 84 less bowls than their opposition.
Well done to all the players for a gallant effort.
Jill Cookney, Ken Gallacher, Glenda Graham 12/26
Judy Wallace, JimViggers Mark Cookney, Bernard Godde 11/27
John Allen, Sarah Gallacher, Russell Smith 15/26
