by Ian Milgate
Healesville were at home on Saturday 14 January hosting two teams, Bayswater and Templestowe.
It was under extreme hot conditions, although games started at 10.30am rather than the 1.00pm time to avoid the excessive heat.
Everyone was keen to get back into it after the Christmas new year break and although Healesville were missing quite a few players out of the teams, they performed extremely well.
The second team had to play with only three players per rink due to insufficient players which means over a day’s play, they had 126 less bowls than their opponents and still only going down by four shots, a remarkable effort.
Team 1 played Bayswater, who were above us on the ladder and with up to five key players out, we thought we would struggle but the team worked together well all day to get a good win 99 – 77.
Adrian Beales, Bob Brown, Glenda Graham, James Beales 25 – 17
Mark Ward, Steve Bulled, Brad Chandler, Chris Hawting 34 -19
Steve Graham, Robyn Turville, Robert Ayres, Gerda Otto 20 – 22
Mark Hoffman, Colin Lowe, John Howard, Ian Milgate 20 – 19
Team 2 played Templestowe and this was going to be a tuff ask with 3 less players but to their credit they fought it out and finally went down 47 – 51
Russell Smith, Rob Broadhurst, Judy Veermann 19 – 10
Barry Parker, Wally Mays, Ted Upton 15 – 21
Mike Adams, Effie Laban, Leonie Fitzpatrick 13 – 20
Overall on a very hot day and depleted of players a great effort by everybody.
