By Ian Milgate
This week Healesville Bowls Club saw St Hubert’s cellar door staff come to the bowling club for their annual Christmas breakup lunch as well as a very competitive game of bowls.
After staff gave them a few tips on how to bowl, they were away and having a great time with a few silky skills to be seen amongst them.
They had a great day and hopefully we will see more of them in the future.
St. Hubert’s Cellar Door recently became a Major Sponsor of our club and we thank them for their support.
Tuesday Pennant
Team 1 Tuesday saw a change of tempo and everyone was reading from the same book, after the disappointment of last Saturday.
Team 1 played away at Boronia on a grass green, so we knew it was going to be tuff but to everyone’s credit they came to Boronia with their A game and won overall 55 – 49.
Robyn Turville, Rob Ayres, Ian Milgate, Steve Bulled 25 – 13
Bob Brown, Effie Laban, Russell Smith, Barry Parker 12 – 21
Steve Graham, Rob Broadhurst, Hilda Gurney, Gerda Otto 18 – 15
A great effort by all players who backed each other up all day for a great win
Team 2 played at home against Heatherdale whom were on top of the ladder, so they knew it was going to be a tuff match but they supported each other to come home with a win, which puts them into 3rd. place on the ladder 69 – 48
Gerry Gomers, John Howard, Karl Tok, Colin Jarvis 24 – 13
Mike Adams, Damian Key, Glenda Graham, Judy Veermann 23 – 19
John Fitzpatrick, Ted Upton, Leonie Fitzpatrick, Len Stewart 22 – 16
Well done both teams and good to see the players back at the clubrooms afterwards for friendly banter over a few refreshments.
Wednesday Night Corporate Bowls
The third round of the Charles Hort Memorial Trophy was played on Wednesday night under pleasant conditions and the bowlers are becoming very competitive as we head into the middle of the tournament. There was some very good bowls put down and at the end of the night there are now 4 teams leading the challenge on 56 points.
Above Board Plastering
Australian Hot Taps
Provit Cult
Total Shutters
East Side West Boys are on 51 and Speedway are on 47. It should be a very interesting night next week as we get close to the finals.
Saturday Pennant
Team 1 played away at Lilydale under very hot conditions and we knew it was going to be a tuff one. We led all day taking it up to the Lilydale team but as it was getting closer to the end Lilydale started to come back and up to the last 2 ends we were still 2 shots up. It came down to the end but unfortunately we just couldn’t hold on to go down 80 – 83
Colin Lowe, Mark Hoffman, Steve Bulled, Ian Milgate 16 – 24
Steve Graham, John Clark, Rob Ayres, John Howard 18 – 19
Mark Ward, Robyn Turville, Brad Chandler, John Simnett 24 – 24
Adrian Beales, Bob Brown, John Fitzpatrick, Glenda Graham 22 – 14
Team 2 Healesville played at home against Nth. Balwyn and although we had a few withdrawl’s due to health conditions, they came out and gave Nth. Balwyn a real Bowling lesson winning 90 – 23. To those players who took ill prior to the game, we were thinking of you and get well soon.
Barry Parker, Rita Featherstone, Ted Upton, Gerda Otto 32 – 10 (8 shots up on 1 end)
Mike Adams, Gerry Gommers, Len Cossons, Leonie Fitzpatrick 35 – 12
Russell Smith, Rob Broadhurst, Colin Jarvis, Anne Holland 23 – 12
