After the Christmas and New Year Break the First side were playing Mooroolbark at home.
If we wanted to progress up the ladder, we needed to beat Mooroolbark who were sitting just above us.
Healesville got off to a great start with all rinks sharing the load and by the break we were 23 points up 43 to 20.
After the break Mooroolbark started to claw their way back until with three ends to go, they hit the front by one shot.
In the end we went down by seven shots, 51 to 58 John Howard, Ian Milgate, Colin Jarvis, Steve Bulled 16to 14 Anne Knibbs, Mike Adams, Bob Brown, Gary Broussard 17 to 25 Gerda Otto, Steve Graham, Len Cosson, Robyn Turville 18 to 19.
Our Second side played away at Heathmont, with Healesville sitting in second place and Heathmont in sixth spot on the ladder, we had a good chance of beating them on their home ground.
Both teams were having a great battle up until the half time break, when Heathmont came back out determined to win.
Healesville couldn’t find any answers to Heathmont’s determination and we finally went down by 34 shots, 44 to 78. Let’s regroup next week and get back to our winning formulae.
The scores were as follows;
Karl Tok, Glenda Graham, Mark Cookney, Damian Key 13 to 27 Tino Macari, Jill Cookney, Kenny Gallagher, Bernard Godde 13 to 27 John McMillan, Jim Viggers, Sarah Gallagher, Robert Ayres 18 to 24.
Saturday’s First Side played Upwey Tecoma at home and we knew we were in for a challenge as Upwey came down from Second Division this year and they were not going to stay in Third Division.
Upwey were also on top of the ladder.
To our credit, we had a couple of rinks that were keeping them honest, but in the end, they were too good for us overall.
Adrian Beales’ rink came from behind after 16 ends to win 23 to 21. Well done guys.
In the end Upwey Tecoma won overall by 33 shots, 56 to 89 Gerda Otto, Anne Knibbs, Robyn Turville, Adrian Beales 23 tp 21 Bob Brown, Ian Milgate, Gary Broussard, Mick Featherstone 12 to 20 Colin Jarvis, Rita Featherstone, Steve Graham, Mark Ward 13/23 Rob Broadhurst, John Fitzpatrick, Steve Bulled, Robert Ayres 8 to 25.
Saturday’s Second Side played Berwick at Berwick. Berwick were on top and we needed to beat them to hold third spot.
All rinks started off well and by the half time break, the game could have gone either way.
After the break, Berwick started to pull away and although we were hanging in there, in the end they were too good, but having said that our players put up a great effort.
Berwick finally won by 23 shots, 48 to 71.
The scores were as follows;
John Allen, Judy Veermann, Mike Adams, John Howard 18 to 24 Tino Macari, Jude Wallace, Sarah Gallagher, Bernard Godde 11 to 24 Karl Tok, John McMillan, Glenda Graham, Kenny Gallagher 19 to 23.
