The last night of the Community Bowls Challenge, played for the Charles Hort Memorial Trophy was played under a beautiful summer’s night.
There were four teams challenging for the title and they were all keen to take out the trophy.
Code Art were up against Pink Cantina, and Pink Cantina, under their old name, The Laneway had won the title the past two years but were struggling early on and could not make up the shots required to play in the final. Watts River Brewery and Caddie Shackers were the other two competing to get into the final. They were both bowling well but Caddie Shackers just pipped them at the post, so the two teams competing for the final were Code Art and Caddie Shackers. Once again, the competition was fierce and there were some great bowls going down, up until the last end when it could have gone either way, but Caddie Shackers knocked their own bowl out to give Code Art, the well-deserved win. In the playoff between Pink Cantina and Watts River Brewery, Watts River got up to take third spot.
There are a lot of people to thank, especially the teams who entered the competition. Most of them all own businesses or work very hard, which makes it difficult to field a team over the six-week competition. Without the sponsors, Healesville Bowling Club could not run the event. A big thank you to Wild Grains Bakery for supplying the bread for the BBQ, and to Aldi for supplying the meat for the BBQ, great community people. Hay Constructions for supplying all of our raffle prizes, which were well received, thanks Mitch and Greg. To Watts River Brewery, Healesville Toyota and The Terminus Hotel a big thank you for supplying the Trophies. And all of this could not have been possible without the help of the Healesville Bowling Club volunteers, Mick, Rita, Mike, Colin, Robyn, Steve, Sarah, Kenny, Bob, Corolie, John, Julie and more.
If anyone is interested in entering a team for the next Community Bowls Challenge which will be in late February, please contact Ian Milgate on 0418 288 037.
Hopefully everyone has a great Christmas and a Happy New Year, make sure you all look after each other and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year.
Saturdays 1st side played away at Ferntree Gully. This was going to be a tough ask as the green is slick and impossible for all clubs other than Ferntree Gully to play on. It rained as we started and continued raining up until the half time break, when Healesville were 9 shots down. After the break, they tried to cut the margin down but to no avail. In the end, Healesville went down by 18 shots 58/76.
John Howard, Rob Broadhurst, Steve Graham, Mark Ward 15/21
Gerda Otto, Mick Featherstone, Robyn Turville, Adrian Beales 13/17
Ian Milgate, Anne Knibbs, Rita Featherstone, Gary Broussard 12/21
Russell Smith, Bob Brown, Steve Bulled, Robert Ayres 18/17
Saturday’s 2nd side played away at Monbulk, which is also notorious for its quick greens. Everyone played very well under the trying conditions, but in the end, Monbulk got up by 12 shots, 54/66. Healesville look forward to playing Monbulk again on their home ground.
John Allen, Leonie Fitzpatrick, John Fitzpatrick, Bernard Godde 19/28
Karl Tok, Glenda Graham, John McMillan, Mark Cookney 21/20
Tino Macari, Judy Veermann, Jill Cookney, Mike Adams 14/18
