By Ian Milgate
The singles finals for men and Women were played on Saturday 25 January under beautiful blue skies, watched by some very enthusiastic followers.
Rita Featherstone and Robyn Turville were fighting it out for Ladies Singles Championship and right from the start, Rita was on song putting some very good bowls down.
When Robyn put one close, Rita would get inside and take shot. Rita kept winning the ends until a few ends before the end, where Robyn got her eye in and started to put some great bowls down.
Rita may have got the jitters, but she went on to a comfortable win 27/10.
Well done to both girls.
Robert Ayres and Colin Jarvis were playing off for the Men’s Singles Championship and what a game it was.
Robert got a small jump on Colin after three ends, but Colin came back to draw the game on end five.
Every end throughout the game was close with both players putting bowls on the jack.
Robert would win an end and then Colin would fight back.
It was any bodies game after 19 ends but Robert maintained focus and put his bowls in just a little closer than Colin.
On the 23rd end, Robert picked up four shots which sealed the deal and finally won by 12 shots 28/16.
Well done to both players.
The Pairs Championship for both Men and Women will be played this Friday at around 4pm.
Time to be confirmed.
Tuesday’s Side one played away today at Heathmont who were sitting on top of the ladder, although Healesville was quietly confident that the team could give it a shake.
Healesville got the jump right from the start with all rinks winning the first four ends.
By the dinner break, Healesville had a comfortable lead 33/23 and if the team could keep it up, it was going to be a huge upset.
With only five ends to go, Healesville was still comfortably ahead 50/35, but then Heathmont pulled together and started to win some big numbers.
With one end to go, the team were 56/57 so had to picked up a few shots on the last end, but that didn’t happen finally going down by three shots 57/60.
Full credit to Heathmont and disappointing for Healesville.
Ian Milgate, Hilda Gurney, Rob Ayres, Effie Laban 27/10
Mick Featherstone, Damian Key, Rita Featherstone, Steve Bulled 13/27
Gerda Otto, Judy Veermann, Robyn Turville, Col Jarvis 17/23
Saturday’s Side 1 played away at Boronia who were second on the ladder 10 points ahead of Healesville.
If Healesville bought their A game with them, the team had a very good chance of knocking them off.
Unfortunately, Boronia had a different plan that saw them scoot away to a 38 shot lead 32/70 at the half time break.
Adrian Beales rink were bowling well but the other three rinks just could not make any gains on Boronia, who in the end won the match by 56 shots 64/120.
All credit to Boronia who played exceptionally well.
Ian Milgate, Col Jarvis, Robert Ayres, Mark Ward 8/31
Barry Parker, Bob Brown, Effie Laban, John Fitzpatrick 18/34
John Howard, Chris Hawting, Rita Featherstone, Steve Bulled 12/33
Gerda Otto, Mick Featherstone, Robyn Turville, Adrian Beales 26/22
