Bowls Notes and Club Blog

Here’s the latest from the Bowlie.
Pennants.
On Sunday the Grade 2 side continued its good form when it visited Molong, winning all three rinks with an aggregate score of 72-46. Paul Went’s team had a narrow win, 18-17, Brett “Baldy” Frame’s team won 22-14 and Garry Carberry’s team had a convincing win 32-15.
The Grade 5 side played at home against Canowindra and won only one of the three rinks, going down with an aggregate score of 52-63. Dave Johnson’s team had the only win, 22-20 while Greg Townsend’s team lost 12-18 and Warren Bevan’s team were defeated 18-25.
The Grade 7 side travelled to Forbes and unfortunately were beaten on all three rinks with an aggregate score of 47-68. John Carr’s team lost 13-26, Keith MacRae’s side lost 12-19 and George Boatswain’s side went down by one shot, 22-23.
Club Championships.
During the week, two matches were played in the Major Singles Championships. On Thursday, John Taylor advanced to the next round with a good win against Steve “Nimo” Mills, 31-18 and on the Saturday Mark Dwyer defeated Greg Howlett, 31-17.
In a Major Pairs match on Saturday Gary McPhee and Martin Tighe got off to a great start, leading Steve Turner and Garry Went 10-0 after four ends. However, after thirteen ends Steve and Garry had taken the lead, 17-15. After nineteen ends and with two ends to play, the scores were level 19 all. Gary and Martin won the last to ends to advance to the next round with a 22-19 win.
In the other Major Pairs match on Saturday Brett “Baldy” Frame and Paul “Chook” Henry had a convincing 33-9 win against Warren Bevan and Bruce Deland.
SOCIAL BOWLS.
Thursday, March 8.
On what was a good day for Bowls a disappointing number of sixteen players turned out for four games of Pairs. In the closest match of the day, John Ward and George Bradley won eleven of the twenty-one ends played but went down to Greg Howlett and Dean Searl. On the last end, John and George needed three shots to draw the match and were holding four shots for a win until Greg managed to disturb the head leaving John and George with only two shots giving Greg abd Dean the win 16-15
In another fairly close game, Keith MacRae and Bob Freeman won thirteen of the twenty-one ends but Arthur Corbett and Col Woods scored five shots on the last two ends and won the match 21-18.
Graham Barby and John Dunn had a good win, defeating Rob Irving and Joe Crowley 22-18 and in the other match Col Hayward and John Watson were too good for Geoff Freeman and Jim Blake, 21-15.
Saturday, March 10.
It was good to see both greens in action when 22 social bowlers joined the ten bowlers involved in Championship games, to play four games of Pairs and one of Triples.
The Triples match turned out to be the closest of the day. The Team of Rob Tinker, John Dunn and John Watson had a narrow 20-19 win against Dave Johnson, Joe Crowley and George Bradley.
In other close matches, Tom Furey and Col Woods just got up against John Davies and Les Kent 19-17, and Guy Ellery and Janelle Ross won 23-20 against Keith MacRae and Jim Blake.
Other results were;
John Taylor and Greg Huggins 23-10 over Steve Ryan and Gladrin Sun.
Col Mudie and Ray Jones 23-14 against John Ward and Rob Irving.
Twilight Bowls.
Another great night of Bowls with some close and some not so close results.
Born Bowlers scored four shots on the last two ends to defeat Loopy Loppers, 12-11.
Casey Surveying lead 11-5 before High Rollers scored eight shots on the last four ends to win 13-11.We Wreck ‘em ‘N’ We Fix ‘em scored five shots on the last three ends to beat J&KC 12-9 (J&KC is a new team and it is how they are named on the score card – I will have more info. next week).
Biowls Bros. were too good for the Three Amigos.
Central West Glass had a win against Purple People.
Rebelle were too good for Happy Wanderers.
Thanks again to Tom Furey and his helpers for a great night and a great supper after the game.