By Ian Milgate
Tuesday’s 1st side were playing Ringwood at home and to ensure the third place before the finals, Healesville needed to win.
Fitzy’s rink and Robert Ayres rink, skippered by Rob for the first time, did really well.
Robyn’s rink were holding their opponents back, and at the break, Healesville was 23 shots ahead 45/22.
After the break, Fitzy and Rob’s rink kept powering ahead until Ringwood lost the fight and Healesville finished up winning by 48 shots 93/45.
Great effort everyone.
Ian Milgate, Hilda Gurney, Rita Featherstone, Robyn Turville 18/28
Gerda Otto, Bob Brown, Col Jarvis, John Fitzpatrick 37/12
Barry Parker, Glenda Graham, Mick Featherstone, Rob Ayres 38/5
The 2nd side were playing away against Lilydale who was on top of the ladder, and Healesville was holding onto fourth place, so it was going to be a tough game.
Healesville played on their fast synthetic green which was hard to adjust too.
To Healesville’s credit, the team kept persisting, but in the end the opponents were too strong for Healesville.
Lilydale won by 30 shots 43/73. A good effort against the top side.
Jude Wallace, Anne Knibbs, Bernard Godde, Russell Smith 15/28
John Allen, MikeAdams, John McMillan, Len Cosson 14/19
Jill Cookney, Jodie Ward, Mark Cookney, Judy Veermann 14/26
Saturday’s 1st side played away at Mooroolbark, and to cement Healesville’s position in third spot with finals next week, Healesville needed to win, or at least get three rinks up.
All rinks started off well and by the half time break, Healesville was eight shots up 48/40.
After the break, it became a sea sawing match with lots of rain delays, which was making it hard to keep the pressure up.
It came down to the last bowl on the last end of John Fitzpatrick’s rink and unfortunately, Healesville came up one shot short allowing Mooroolbark to win by one shot 78/79.
Adrian Beales rink was a stand out, but all four rinks fought hard all day.
Healesville finished third on the ladder, which gives the team a home final, so bring it on.
Ian Milgate, Col Jarvis, Robert Ayres, Mark Ward 15/17
Barry Parker, Bob Brown, Effie Laban, John Fitzpatrick 16/17
John Howard, Chris Hawting, Rita Featherstone, Steve Bulled 17/24
Gerda Otto, Mick Featherstone, Robyn Turville, Adrian Beales 30/21
Saturday’s 2nd side played at home against Donvale who were sitting on top of the ladder.
A win today would put Healesville into the finals which would be a remarkable effort.
Healesville needed to win to hold third position or the team would finish up fourth without a home game in the finals.
As usual, the team was a player down which made it hard to get a win over the top side, but the rain gods set in after the half time break, causing the cancellation of the match giving each side eight points each, so the 2nd side will be playing in finals next week.
Let’s hope Healesville Saturday 2nd side has a full team.
JimViggers, Jodie Ward, Ken Gallacher, Judy Veermann 0/0
Judy Wallace, Sarah Gallacher, Bernard Godde, Anne Knibbs, 0/0
John Allen, Mike Adams, Russell Smith 0/0
