By Ian Milgate
The Corporate Bowls Challenge finally got off to a good start after being postponed due to heavy rains the previous week. It was a beautiful night for bowls and saw some up and coming bowlers from our local community showing their skills and having a great time.
There were 24 teams made up of 4 players per team competing for the prestigious Charles Hort Trophy and after the first round, we have at the top of the leader board,
Jack’s Concrete Pumping on 22 followed by Map Speedway and Above Board Plaster both on 20.
The competing companies are: Above Board Plaster, Advanced Ag, Australian Hot Taps, Bendigo Bank, Bird Dog, Boat O Craigo, Constructive Works, CWA, Eastside West Boys, First National, Have a Dig Excavations, Healesville Cottage, Jock’s Concrete Pumping, Map Speedway, Mocha and Lime, Pro Vit Colt, Stevenson Constructions, The Mower Mob, Toolangi Wholesale, Total Shutters, Tuck In, Watts River Yering and Yunckens Engineering.
Please support these businesses the next time you need, or want a service provided.
Tuesday:
Team 1 Played Lilydale1 at home which they thought would be a hard game to win with Lilydale sitting above Healesville and generally a tough club to beat but with all players playing really well Healesville were able to get over the top of them for a win 63 – 45. Russell Smith and Gerda Otto were stand out players for the day, (well done).
Robyn Turville, Steve Bulled, Ian Milgate, Russell Smith 28 – 11
Bob Brown, Rob Ayres, Hilda Gurney, Gerda Otto 22 – 10
John Clark, Effie Laban, Damian Key, Barry Parker 13 – 24
Tuesday Team 2 played away at Mooroolbark and although Healesville battled all day they finished up with a narrow loss 54 – 60. The outstanding player for the day was Lenny Cossons who recently had a knee replacement, but it certainly didn’t show today, well done Len.
Gerry Gommers, Len Cossons, Karl Tok, Colin Jarvis 22 – 10
Mike Adams, Rob Broadhurst, Glenda Graham, Judy Veermann 16 – 26
John Fitzpatrick, Anne Holland, Len Stewart, Leonie Fitzpatrick 16 – 24
Saturday Team 1 played Monbulk at home and although this was going to be a tough match (especially when they play a player who was playing in the Australian side a few years ago) to Healesville’s credit the players challenged them all day but in the end, Monbulk were too good and Healesville went down 56 – 73.
Colin Lowe, Mark Hoffman, John Howard, Rob Ayres 13 – 18
Adrian Beales, Bob Brown, Rita Featherstone, James Beales 15 – 21
Mark Ward, Steve Bulled, Brad Chandler, John Simnett 10 – 18
Steve Graham, John Clark, Robyn Turville, Mick Featherstone 18 – 16
Next week is a bye due to the Victorian Championships being played so it gives the players the opportunity to get some good training in with coach Colin Lowe on Thursday night.
