Healesville Bowling Club Championship Finals were played recently for the Women and Men’ s Singles and Pairs event.
The Women’s Pairs final was won by Robyn Turville and Rita Featherstone over Anne Knibbs and Jude Wallace, while the Women’s Singles was also played between Robyn and Rita, with Robyn Turville being victorious.
In the Men’s Pairs Final Robert Ayres and Steve Bulled were victors over Gary Broussard and Ian Milgate.
In the Singles Final Robert Ayres was the winner over Rob Broadhurst.
Tuesday’s Firsts Side played away at Yarra Glen.
This was going to be a tough match as we were sitting on the bottom of the Ladder and Yarra Glen were in fifth place.
The match started off quite well with all three rinks winning ends and at the half time break Healesville were eight shots up 30/22.
After the break two rinks were neck and neck while one rink was surging ahead with a seven on one end, bad luck about eight, which took the wind out of their opponents sails.
In the end Healesville won by five shots 69/64.
The scores were as follows; Bob Brown, Anne Knibbs, Rita Featherstone, Gary Broussard 36/19 Gerda Otto, Rob Broadhurst, Steve Graham, Robyn Turville 17/21 Col Jarvis, Ian Milgate, Rob Ayres, Mick Featherstone 16/24.
Tuesday’s Seconds side played at home against Croydon.
Each week the Healesville team get shuffled around due to players being unavailable and also
returning, so they always go into the match with their eyes wide open, and to their credit, continue to come up with the results.
In the first half Healesville was down but they managed to compose themselves and push hard to finally win by one shot 53/52.
Every rink played their part and it could not have been any closer. They are now sitting second on the ladder.
The scores were as follows; Russell Smith, Mike Adams, Sarah Gallagher, Len Cosson
16/15, Karl Tok, Glenda Graham, John McMillan, Damian Key, 15/15, Tino Macari, Kenny Gallagher, Mark Cookney, Bernard Godde 22/22.
Saturday’s Firsts side played away at Yarra Glen and they will be looking for retribution after losing to Healesville on Tuesday, so we really needed to be on our game.
The game started off well with Healesville nudging ahead but Yarra Glen weren’t giving up without a fight.
By the half time break Healesville were five shots up 45/40.
After the break Healesville got a small break on them but Yarra Glen came back again.
In the last six ends there were only two or three shots in it, right up until the last end.
Healesville held two shots on the last end of the last rink to play.
With two bowls to go, Healesville were holding another shot, until the Yarra Glen skip put down a brilliant bowl to knock the Healesville bowl out giving them five shots and finally winning by three shots overall, 79/82.
The scores were as follows: Gerda Otto, Anne Knibbs, Robyn Turville, Adrian Beales 12/31, Col Jarvis, Rita Featherstone, Steve Graham, Mark Ward 24/18, Chris Hawting, Rob Broadhurst, Steve Bulled, Robert Ayres, 25/10, Bob Brown, Ian Milgate, Gary Broussard, Mick Featherstone
18/23.
Saturday’s Seconds side played at home against Yarra Junction.
This was a must win game to hold our fourth spot on the ladder and maybe third if Monbulk lose.
Watching the roll up I had no doubt that Yarra Junction were going to struggle on our green after being used to their very fast green.
Healesville got off to a ripper start with all rinks enjoying their day and by the half time break, there was no doubt Yarra Junction were in for a big loss.
After the break all rinks kept piling on the points until finally winning by 71 shots, 92/21.
A brilliant effort by everyone going into the Christmas break.
The scores were as follows; Karl Tok, Glenda Graham, Kenny Gallagher, Mark Cookney
31/6, John Allen, Judy Veermann, Mike Adams, John Howard 32/11, Russell Smith, Jude Wallace, Sarah Gallagher, Bernard Godde 29/6.
