Vital win for Drouin

Drouin had a solid win over higher placed Newborough in division one bowls on Saturday.

Third placed Drouin won only two rinks over second placed Newborough but still secured the 14-shot overall win.

Division one: Drouin 14/95 defeated Newborough 4/81

Bruce Andrews, Col Finger, John Leighton and Mark Atkinson (skip) lost to Kevin Lovett's team 19/23. Denise Hamilton, Arthur Moore, Dale Hendrick and Toby Wallace (skip) lost to Alan Grubb's team 24/27. Graeme Aubrey, Maureen Leighton, Les Firth and Sheryl Anderson (skip) defeated Nosha Michaels' team 21/18. Steve Barr, Jan Aubrey, Mick Fleming and Samantha Atkinson (skip) defeated Tommy Lodge's team 31/13.

Division two: Drouin (2) 0/54 lost to Newborough (2) 18/120

Gerry Wakefield, Richard Joyner, Rudy Kerkvliet and Brian Throup (skip) lost to Gary Ingley's team 19/24. Jim Purvis, Sep Van

Maanen, Merv Appleyard and Andy Kidd (skip) lost to John Wasiukiewicz's team 13/32. Dini Hone, Mary Firth, Neil Bullen and Phil Jarred (skip) lost to Graham Cocks' team 13/31. Don Mowat, John Bickerdike, Lyn Jeffrey and David Tayles (skip) lost to Joan Goldie's team 9/33.

Division four: Drouin (3) 0/82 lost to Trafalgar (2) 18/108

Bev Walsh, Wayne Walsh, Ethel Van Maanen and Mary Andrews (skip) lost to Chris Bortignon's team 21/29. Peter McGrath, Elaine Thorpe, Lloyd Smith and Andrew Blaby (skip) lost to Bruce Giles' team 21/26. Max Hine, Tom Lawler, Irene Dawson and Margaret Owens (skip) lost to Malcolm Clymo's team 23/32. Ian Haughton, Necip Akarsu, Andrew De Waele and Peter Hone (skip) lost to Tony Dawson's team 17/21.

Next week will see Drouin's number one team play away at Warragul, number two team playing home to Longwarry and number four team playing away at Yarragon.