Warragul enjoy a better day
It was a better day for Warragul Bowling Club in round 10 of WGBD pennant on Saturday, with two teams winning and three losing.
Division one went down to the wire again, losing by just four shots against Trafalgar with three teams up, while division two had a nice 15-shot win against Moe 2 with three teams up.
Division three had a good 20-shot win over Yinnar, division five lost to Morwell 3 by a disastrous 38-shots and division six had a 16-shot loss against Thorpdale 2. Warragul 1 lost to Trafalgar 110/114 John Vickerman, Graeme Davis, Glenn Lockett and Gary Johnson lost to Scott Jones’ team 19/39. Laurie Innes, Toby Wallace, Peter Gallasch and Clive Padgham defeated Tom Lodge’s team 29/27. David Alderman, Allan McDonnell, Janette Gallasch and Matt Schreyer defeated Smokey Dawson’s team 34/24. Terry Sullivan, Paul Simmons, Norm Dickson and Ken Scammell defeated Ken Capper’s team 28/24. Warragul 2 defeated Moe 2 103/88 Kerrie Currie, John Beanland, Des Stephens and Necip Akarsu defeated N. Savige’s team 27/24. Matt Smith, Ian Belling, Pat Hammond and Bill Clappers defeated L. Morris’ team 24/19. Ken Landman, Bob Currie, Steve Pallot and Jim Moyle lost to G. Bruce’s team 27/28. Ken May, Graham Cobban, Roy Hammond and David Smith defeated J. Woods’ team 25/17. Warragul 3 defeated Yinnar 91/71 Bob Dowal, Elsie Hefford, Linda McCoy and Ken Taylor defeated T. Shore’s team 27/18. Ted Holland, Shirley Melsen, Dave Lawrence and Keith Wilkins defeated R. Fox’s team 29/11. Matt Draisma, Brian Barby, Lester Mason and David Piggin lost to W. Harris’ team 18/25. Gabrielle Draisma, Geoff Woods, Fred Pitcher and Ed Davies drew with T. Roche’s team 17/17. Warragul 4 lost to Morwell 3 53/91 David Anderson, Gilly Ross, Mike Cousens and Vin Roche lost to D. White’s team 15/38. Glenda Collins, Mark Hall, Marg Keeffe and Chris Wilkins lost to L. Gurney’s team 8/36. Wilf Boscombe, Lindsay Matthews, Brian Kennedy and Len Duncan defeated K. Foley’s team 30/17. Warragul 5 lost to Thorpdale 2 36/52 Flynn Pallot, Jean Kydd, Trevor Crofts and Greg Mitchell lost to D. Eves’ team 21/26. Fletcher Pallot, Michael Royce, Bill Dye and Alan Potter lost to G. Savige’s team 15/26.
In round 11 of pennant next Saturday, Warragul 1 is away to Yallourn, Warragul 2 is home to Moe, Warragul 3 is away to Drouin 2, Warragul 4 is home to Yinnar 2 and Warragul 5 is away to Garfield.
Championship finals
Warragul Bowling Club completed three championship events recently.
The men’s championship pairs final saw Paul Simmons and Terry Sullivan taking on David and Matt Smith.
The Smiths got one on the first two ends, before Paul and Terry won the next eight ends with six ones and two twos to lead 10/2.
The Smiths got one on the 11th end and, when David took out Terry’s shot bowl, picked up a rare six. They got one on the next end and all of a sudden, scores were level.
Some brilliant bowls from Paul and Terry saw a five on the 14th, then David and Matt got two ones to trail by three with two ends to go.
Paul and Terry won the last two ends for a final score of 19/12. They were worthy winners of the final, while David and Matt were gallant in defeat. B grade singles The B grade singles final was played between Brian Kennedy and Mike Cousens - and what a great game it turned out to be.
The game lasted for 31 ends, with Mike coming out the winner 25/23.
It took until the 13th end before Brian found himself four shots up, the largest margin of the game. By the 16th end, Mike was back in front by two shots.
There were eight lead changes during the game. After 25 ends with the score at 19-all, Brian picked up three shots only to lose three on the next to see the score at 22-all.
Both players kept their nerve as they moved to 23-all. Mike got one on the next by removing Brian’s close toucher, Mike drew a resting toucher to hold game and held onto it despite Brian’s three close attempts to remove it.
There were some excellent bowls played by both. Brian was unlucky to lose but Mike thoroughly deserved his win. Mixed pairs The mixed pairs final was played last week between Bill Clappers and Marg Keeffe against Bob Taylor and Jean Kydd.
The game was quite even in the first half, basically going shot for shot.
However, Bill and Marg got on top in the second half with a few multiple shot ends to run out comfortable winners, 24/12.