By Ian and Julie Milgate
Healesville’s Tuesday Pennant side played on neutral territory at Ringwood for the Final against Croydon.
Although the green was running slow we managed to keep ahead of Croydon for most of the match, except one rink just went down over the last few ends, but still gave Healesville a great win over Croydon 65 – 49
Steve Graham, Gayanne Hutt, Hilda Gurney, Chris Hawting 28 – 11
Chris Boland, Bob Brown, Robyn Turville, Steve Bulled 22 – 20
John Clark, Effie Laban, Barry Parker, Gerda Otto 15 – 18
This puts Healesville into 2nd. Division for next season and our 2nd side who got to the finals but were knocked out, still go up to 4th Division.
On Sunday our club hosted the inaugural Tom Ayres sporting club challenge.
The teams consisted of Healesville Football Club, Healesville Cricket Club, Healesville Tennis Club and the Healesville Bowls Club, which have all been in existence for over 130 years.
It was a great day had by all and exposed some very good players from all of the clubs. If we could catch a few of them the Bowls club would be looking pretty healthy. To make the challenge fair the Bowling Club was given a 20 shot handicap but to the strength of the team, the Bowling Club came home winners by 3 shots over the Tennis Club followed by the Football Club and dragging their heels a little, the Cricket Club.
I’m sure next year will be different as we all know Clubs are very competitive and I’m sure the others can’t wait to get their Club name up on the Tom Ayres Trophy.
