Sports results
GOLD CITY BOWLS CLUB
THERE were three rinks in play at the Gold City Bowls Club on Sunday.
On rink two, Betty Johnstone, Jack Scholes, Ken Peace and Graham Harris notched up a win against Tina Barrett, John Sealy, Pam Norton and Ian Barrett. The final score was 24-19.
On rink six, Bev Davis, Bob Wine and Dan Dunn had a 24-8 win against Errol Shuttleworth, Verdie Truscott and Bill Bowen.
Charlie Truscott, Harry Bartlett and Grace Gleeson claimed victory against Mary Mccormack, Dan Spear and Clint Macpherson on rink seven with a score of 23-15.
Three more games were played at the club on Tuesday.
On rink two, Christine Grave, Verdie Truscott and Denis Donaldson had a win against Ken Cowan, Dan Spear, Errol Shuttleworth and Betty Johnstone. The final score was 23-12.
Bev Davis, Rhonda Richards and Pam Norton drew even with Wendy Thompson, Harry Bartlett and Robyn Seibold on rink six. The score was 16-all.
On rink seven, Mary McCormack, Ian Barrett and Grace Gleeson had a 17-12 win against Tina Barrett, Ken Peace and Mary Donaldson.
CHARTERS TOWERS MINERS UNDER 13S RUGBY LEAGUE
THE Under 13 Enzed Miners played Upper Ross Rams on the weekend in a tough game in Townsville.
The Rams started with confidence coming off two wins and the Miners, unprepared for the intensity of the game, allowed them to run in three quick tries.
The Miners started to work together with purpose moving down the right edge with quick passes. The ball landed in Cooper Thomas’s hands to dive across in the left corner for our first try.
Rams fullback made a break down our right edge and with 20m to go Chase Glenwright came across in cover defence and tackled him into touch.
The play seesawed back and forth until halftime when we regrouped and focused on working together as a unit.
The second half started with Isaiah Gaidan taking the kick-off and linking up with Cooper getting us out of our own half, this changed the momentum of the game.
Darby Linton then spurred on his teammates after going high and being swatted away by a giant of a prop, he decided to go for the legs bringing down the next four runners, all much bigger than himself.
Archie Miller fielded a kick and got us down in an attacking position. We worked quickly to the left and Rory Barr dived over untouched for our second try.
The Miners had found more confidence and continued to compete, getting the Rams back on their line. Some quick hands saw Darby cross for our third try, which he converted.
The kick-off wasn’t fielded and went out which gave the Rams good field position and with the bigger forwards peppering our line they scored their fourth try.
With quick play the balls, the Rams made it through our left side defence to score again and some penalties going against us made it hard in attack, but first opportunity Isaiah had he barged over for our fourth try.
A slack kick chase gave the Rams fullback another chance to score in the dying minutes, ending the game Miners 18 to Upper Ross’s 32.
Cooper, Darby and Chase were strong in defence while Isaiah, Cayden Bell and Nate Taylor worked tirelessly in attack.
Travis Friend was gallant in the runs and tackles he made.
Round 4 will be at home for the Miners against Norths Devils this weekend.
CHARTERS TOWERS BULLS UNDER 16S RUGBY UNION
THE Under 16 Griffiths Pharmacy Bulls went down in a tight encounter to Grammar in Townsville.
On a day where the Grammar students were celebrating the life of former deputy headmaster Bill Muller, they turned emotion into points and snatched victory in the final two minutes.
A reshuffled Bulls took to the paddock without Jasper Guy and Bryce Kingham, the starting halves from last week.
The pair fractured bones in their arms during the game against Burdekin.
Their absence meant the Bulls played without two of the team’s best communicators.
Tyler Thompson and Marty Stevenson stepped up and led the team from scrumhalf and fly-half, respectively.
The new combination showed plenty of promise and the Bulls’ only try was created by Stevenson.
It was an early start and the Bulls started with a bang. In his first play of the day, Jimmy Mcdowell carried three defenders down field, and then walloped one of the Grammar players in a monstrous tackle.
But it was Grammar that opened the scoring with a try after creating an overlap out wide. Despite missing the conversion, the home side enjoyed plenty of support from a vocal crowd.
The students’ enthusiasm led to some overzealous defence, and their blind side breakaway was sin-binned for a high tackle. However, there was some confusion and a verbal disagreement between match officials about whether he actually spent the required 10 minutes in the bin.
The Bulls played much of the first half without the ball. It was during one of these defensive efforts, that the visitors turned defence into attack.
Marty Stevenson stripped his opposite number of the ball in contact and then made a clean break.
He put Connor Cafee into space who then passed to Zai Hopkins. The centre hit the accelerator and touched down under the posts.
Thompson then converted the try and the Bulls spent most of the match with a twopoint lead.
The second half was a tight affair, with both sides snuffing out attacking raids with solid defence.
Stevenson was given a 10minute spell for what was ruled a high tackle, but the Bulls held their line during his absence, and a 7-5 lead.
A lack of communication and urgency saw the visitors needlessly turn over the ball a number of times.
In the dying minutes came heartbreak. The Bulls had possession inside the 22, but rather than a clearing kick, the side opted to try to run the ball out of the red zone.
Grammar made a gamechanging pilfer at the breakdown and then scored down the blindside.
The home side erupted into emotional celebrations and the final score was Grammar 10 to the Bulls 7.
This week the Bulls will work on ball security at the breakdown as well as improving set piece play and cohesion.
Preston Ah Wing was given one coach’s point for his damaging carries, two points went to Deegan Woods and three points went to Marty Stevenson, who displayed great adaptability at pivot.