Bowls - Weekly report 3/12/23

MIDWEEK BOWLS

There was no bowls for us last Tuesday due to the bye, this Tuesday we begin the second round and host Deniliquin RSL who are currently in third place, followed by The top team Moama Steamers at Moama, we will be hoping to improve on our opening round match ups against these teams.

We hosted 12 teams in the 60 and over bowls competition on Thursday which was a very successful day. The only complaint was about the very persistent flies. The winners come from our neighbouring bowlers from Kyabram well done.

Also wishing good luck and great golfing to our fellow bowlers and golfing mates who are competing in the pennant golf final against Numurkah at Numurkah on Monday.

WEEKEND PENNANT

Saturdays match was at home against Lockington, where the Valley View team came away 7 shots up with a great win 64 to 57. 

Graeme Topp skipped for Leanne Busch, Dave Clavell, and Rob Varcoe and had a close match against the team led by W Musgrove. Valley View opened up a gap of  4 shots after the 7th end of 7 to 3, then the Lockington team picked up a couple of good scoring ends to hold the lead by 3 on the 10th of 10 to 7.  Valley View immediately picked up a valuable 3 on the eleventh end, followed by a dead end on the twelfth and with Lockington picking up a 1 on the thirteenth leaving the scores level. Lockington picked up 8 shots to 1 over the next 5 ends to hold a lead of 7 on the 18th. Graeme’s team rallied picking up 5 shots to none with some excellent bowling over the next 3 ends picking up the win 19 to 17.

Ken Hastie’s rink of Frank Findlay, Tom Robertson- Skevington and Geoff Beamish had a great win by 9 shots over D Gilmore 25 to 16.

Opening up with a great start scoring shots on the first 4 ends,  and opening up a lead of 8 to nothing. Lockington scored on 6 of the next 9 ends to Valley Views 3, and  picking up 9 shots to 6, to close the gap to 5 after the eleventh end. Ken’s team had a great 4 on the fourteenth and then picked up 4 more ends of 7 shots with the Lockington team matching the 7 shots in 3 ends but not able to close the gap.

Skip Rod Donohue with Kevin Broadhurst, Helen Ward sub M Thomas were up against   N Haines. Rod’s team started with a lead of  5 to 1 after 4. They were then out bowled  over the next 3 ends with Lockington picked up 12 shots over 3 ends including an impressive 8 shots on the sixth end to gain a lead of 13 to 5 after 7. Valley View then slowly pegged back that lead over the next 6 ends to be one down after 13, and a score of 14 to 15. Lockington continued to pick up 9 shots in the last 8 ends to Rods teams 5, closing out the match in Lockingtons favour 24 to 20.

Well done a great overall win.

Next week we host Tongala. Good bowling to all.