Echuca-Moama district bowls notes | January 12-19

No teams won three games, which was a surprise.

There was quite a difference between the two greens in pace — the bottom green was a little heavy, which may have upset a couple of teams, with teams playing at least one game on it.

Two teams had two-and-a-half games each, so instead of playing off they tossed the coin.

Tony Deenen’s team of Kevin McAsey (lead), Albert Clarke (second), Deenen (third) and John Hollowood (skip) from Echuca came second.

The winner of the toss was Ray Hanson’s team from Lockington, which was Kevin Humbert (lead), Andrew Harris (second), Graham Turner (third) and Ian Johnson (skip).

Members of both teams received a chook each.

Lockington was well supported with five teams.

On Wednesday, January 19, 60 and over bowls is at Elmore Bowls Club with a 10am start.

Entries to Phil Mace on 0428 290 351 or Allan Gerrish on 0407 369 410 or on the sheet at the Elmore Bowls Club.

Good bowling to all.

Moama

Social bowls

Tuesday, January 11

Pairs winners: Yvonne Hinsley, Liz Doidge.

Two-game runner-up: Sandy Harvey, Elise, Deana.

First game winners: Kath Wastell, Karen Brennan.

Second game winners: Matgot Brennan, Cheryl Doherty

Men’s triples winners: Barry Brennan, Berny O’Connell, Mark Daly.

Runners-up: Rob Wastell, Bryan Kirk.

Best first game winners: Norm Hodge, Alex McQaurrie, Rob Neely.

Best second game winners: Stuart Sutton, Peter Broom, Alan Cook.

Wednesday, January 12

Winners: Rob Wastell, Kath Wastell.

Runners-up: Joe Murphy, Ken Maynard.

Best first game winner: Ron Bunting, Lucy Sheppard.

Best second game Winner: Tony Hawley, Graeme Hinsley.

Thursday, January 13

Ladies scroungers

Winner: Beryl Bell.

Runner-up: Wilma Curnow.

Rink one winner: Elaine Thomas.

Rink two winner: Mary Kaine.

Rink three winner: Yvonne Hinsley.

Ditch–ditch: Irene Lacis, Sharyn Reed.

Men’s nominated pairs

Winners: George Thornley, P.O’Brien.

Runners-up: Ben Franklin, Peter Broom.

Best first game winners: Kevin Connolly, Stuart Sutton.

Best second game winners: Alex McQaurrie, Ken Maynard.

Echuca

Congratulations to our women’s club singles champion Pat Schram, who defeated a gallant Leica Roney to win her second club championship last Wednesday evening.

Schram jumped out of the blocks to lead 12-6 after 10 ends and increased her lead to 17-6 before Roney managed to get the mat again and alter the end length.

There, she managed to win five of the next seven ends before Schram steadied to go on and win comfortably.

Congratulations to both finalists on a very good exhibition of draw bowling. Schram won her first singles championship in the 2018-19 season.

Social bowls last week saw Monday’s Pastoral Hotel-sponsored event attended by 22 bowlers with only two teams winning both their games.

Winners were Col Berryman (s), Col Ockwell, and Brianna Dummitt with +8 from Steve Nolan (s) and Wes Newton with +7.

Thursday’s jackpot pairs were attended by 44 competitors in overcast weather.

There were five two-game winners with Max Bennett and Eddie Blampied (+9), Ian Page and Steve McCartney (+21), Greg Clymo and Jim Harris (+21), runners-up Tim Noar and Robert Taylor (+21) and winners Jerome Shaw and Tim Fraser (+30).

Best one game went to Greg Clymo and Jim Harris with +20.

The ever-popular Caledonian Hotel mixed triples were held on Sunday with 20 teams competing over four games.

Winners were the Elmore team of Charlie, Ann and Max Williams from the Echuca team of Phillip Thorn, Trevor Rickard and Bill Cook.

Best last game went to the Kyabram team of Phil Denham, Peter Lomas and Rob Anset.

The lucky card draw went to Brian Nesbit, East Shepparton (lead), Pete Tinning, Tongala (second) and Jenni Hill, Shepparton Park (skip).

Midweek pennant saw division one demolish Moama on its own turf by 31 shots, winning all three rinks.

Best performance was again Kerryn Evans’ rink of Phillip Thorn, Rhonda Gallagher and Lou Dean winning 28-13.

Division two travelled to Lockington and after a tense battle lost by five shots.

Marie Malone (s), Belinda Chong, Lorelle Opthoog and Lyn Brown managed to win by six shots to put in the best performance.

Division three travelled to Deniliquin and had a long trip home after going down by 24 shots overall.

Weekend pennant saw division one consolidate top spot by defeating second side Deniliquin at home by 18 shots, winning all three rinks.

Best performed went to Ian Page (s), Steve Cunnington, John Dinsdale, and Matt Brighton with +9.

Division two continued its good form, defeating Deniliquin RSL up there by 11 shots with Steve McCartney (s), Pat Schram, Frank Gumbleton and Col Berryman winning by seven shots.

Division three had a great battle with Deniliquin until the last few ends when the opposition picked up a couple of multiple scores to draw away and win by 14 shots.

Greg Clymo (s), Max Bennett, Steve Campion, and Bill Cook were the only winning rink, getting home by 10 shots.

Division 4A Blue hosted Moama Red and led for most of the day before losing by two shots.

Division 4B White travelled across the river to meet Moama Green and came home with a resounding 24-shot win led by John Hollowood (s), Steve Nolan, Dennis Ricketts and Chris Campbell, who won by 18 shots to secure third spot on the ladder.

Midweek pennant teams

Division one v Mathoura at home:

K. Evans (s), P. Thorn, R. Gallagher, I. Hicks.

R. Opie (s), J. Fairchild, M. Cunnington, D. Payne.

L. Roney (s), P. Schram, R. Tooley, S. Proctor.

Division two v Elmore at home:

W. Curnow (s), J. Brown, J. Clifford, N. Hall.

H. Trotter (s), B. Curnow, J. Millar, R. Neil.

M. Malone (s), B. Chong, L. Opthoog, L. Brown.

Division three has the bye.

Weekend Pennant teams

Division one v Moama away

I. Page (s), S. Cunnington, J. Dinsdale, M. Brighton.

D. Compton (s), I. Hicks, J. Shaw, A. French.

P. Thorn (s), T. Liddell, G. Armstrong, L. Roney.

Division two v Deniliquin at home

S. McCartney (s), P. Schram, F. Gumbleton, C. Berryman.

I. Whiting (s), E. Blampied, R. Taylor, J. Blair.

W. Fehring (s), A. Clark, T. Rickard, M. Thorn.

Division three v Rochester away

G. Clymo (s), M. Bennett, S. Campion, W. Cook.

D. Hicks (s), T. Deenen, L. Whyte, C. Taylor.

N. Hodge (s), W. Curnow, B. Curnow, B. Toll.

Division 4A v Kyvalley View away

M. Clifford (s), K. Bursill, B. Charman, J. Kelly.

R. Payne (s), D. North, J. Werner, T. McColl.

Division 4B v Deniliquin away

J. Hollowood (s), S. Nolan, D. Ricketts, C. Campbell.

K. Robertson (s), D. LaVelle, K. McAsey, B. Pratt.

Emergencies: J. Cowan, B. Haines.

Mathoura

We had 26 teams entered for this tournament and they came from everywhere, even Melbourne. It was good to be able to have visitors again.

Thank you to the club staff in the bistro, bar and office for their help in making it a good day for everyone, and a job well done by bowls co-ordinator Rod Werner and greenkeeper Peter Wilson.

At the end of play, we had six three-game winners, with points allocated 10 for a win, five for a draw and a point for each end won.

Missing out were G. Toy from Hill Top and R. Morris from Deniliquin, both on 81 points, while B. Williams from Stanhope posted 82 points.

Third place went to D. Morris and E. Miller (Brunswick) with 83 points, while G. McKay and D. Millard (Stanhope) placed second with 84 points.

Winners were G. Hulm and R. Werner (Mathoura) with 85 points.

Thank you to all for your entries.

Lists are on display at the bowls office for the men’s B-grade singles 21-up, men's 100-up handicap and mixed pairs.

Lockington

The newly-crowned club champion of the Lockington Bowls Club is Ken Main, who survived a frantic late challenge from opponent Phillip Cunnington to win 25-24.

The final was played on Friday afternoon with both combatants displaying some memorable draw bowling.

Main gained the early edge to lead 6-2 after six ends. Ends were traded until scores were level at 13-all after 18 ends.

Cunnington gradually made headway to win five of the following seven ends to lead 20-14.

Suddenly, Main clicked into gear and reeled off four ends straight for 10 shots to establish a 24-20 advantage. However, Cunnington was not to be denied and slowly collected three shots to draw level on 24.

The final end provided some exciting moments as both bowlers were holding shots before their opponent would outdraw them.

In the end, Main was able to draw a near resting toucher to claim his first club championship. Both bowlers were applauded as they left the green.

In the womens' club championship, Leanne McInnes will meet Phyllis MacFarlane this week.

McInnes defeated a gallant Sue Harris in the semi-final on Saturday morning.

In a game that was highlighted by some exceptional bowling, McInnes was able to keep a persistent Harris at bay to win 25-13 in a match where the actual scores did not reflect the overall close heads and where McInnes was able to exert her experience to win.

MacFarlane received a walkover from Lorraine Appleby.

The women held a successful three-bowl triples tournament on Wednesday, attracting 20 teams representing clubs including Echuca, Deniliquin, Moama, Rochester, Elmore, Rich River, Mathoura, Calivil, Dingee, Ky Valley View, Tongala, Kyabram and several Lockington members.

Women’s president Anne Lowrie welcomed bowlers and wished everyone an enjoyable day.

Tournament secretary Lorraine Appleby read the conditions of play and thanked Nichol Trading for its ongoing support.

The club was privileged to have Glenda Nichol come along and present the prizes, as well as provide an interesting talk.

At the completion of the day's play there was only one three-game winner and that was the team from Rich River, which comprised Wendy Nagorcka, Roseanne Sharp and Liz Easther (s) in a brilliant display of bowling.

In second place was the team from Kyabram featuring Jan McFadyen, Jill Barrett and Margaret Cox (s) on a countback from seven teams on two wins — Kyabram 2, Echuca 1, Echuca 2, Lockington, Deniliquin and Dingee.

The spider winner was Lois Chugg and the roll-to-the-ditch winner was Ruth Lennie (Tongala).

Appleby thanked president Anne Lowrie, umpire Leanne McInnes, greens staff, Annie Haines, Chris Stewart, Denise Gilmore, Margaret Davis and Betty Mustey for the flower arrangement and Pauline Humbert for the raffle and presentation envelopes.

Last Tuesday the womens' social bowls was washed out due to heavy rainfall.

On Tuesday evening, barefoot bowls attracted 28 players in fine conditions after the rain.

The winners were Ian Scurrah and Jeff Carnie (s) with two wins plus nine shots and eight shots against, from Cindy Felmingham and Ian Angove with two wins plus nine shots and 11 shots against.

In the local Campaspe Area pennant, the club was able record all three victories, with midweek division two scoring a 56-51 win against Echuca with two rinks up (L. McInnes lost to M. Malone 19-25; Phyllis MacFarlane d W. Curnow 20-10; Annette Brereton d H Trotter 17-16).

The weekend pennant resulted in wins for both division three and division 4B over their respective Rich River Green opponents.

The division three had two rinks up in the 66-57 win against some strong opposition (Graeme Turner d J James 24-15; Ian Johnson lost to J. Arthurson 22-24; Philip Cunnington d G. Edgar 20-18). Division 4B shared the rinks in the closely fought out match and won 42-38 (Bill Musgrove d G. Kiefel 28-9; Neil Haines lost to G. Clarence 14-29).

Both divisions two and 4B retain their second place on their respective premiership ladders.

The Friday evening barbecue and practice session was well attended and the elusive lucky members draw was not collected. The drawn name was Kath Palmer.

There is a host of club tournaments coming up in the near future.

On Sunday, the club will hold the Annual Waterwheel Classic Open Fours starting at 9.30am.

Contact Chris Stewart on 5486 2607 or Russell Shawcross on 0428 862468 for details.

On Sunday, February 6, the annual mixed pairs will be held at 1pm. Entries to Chris Stewart on 0439 834 207 (text only), Lorraine Appleby on 0427 802 569 or Annie Haines on 5486 8220.

The popular twilight mixed fours will be held on Tuesday, February 15. This event will start at 5pm, with entries to Lorraine Appleby on 0427 802 569 or Annie Haines on 5486 8220.

The BCG State Fours was held at Golden Square Bowling Club on Sunday, with local bowlers well represented.

In the women's section, the Moama rinks involving Christine Ritchie, Mia Young, Kath Wastell and Sandra Connolly (s) won a semi-final berth after winning two games in considerable fashion.

Another Moama rink comprising Colleen Maslen, Merrilyan Rehe, Marilyn Stephenson and Mary-Anne Spizer (s) also gained a semi-final berth after defeating the Moama four of Jayde Campbell, Kelli Norris, Denise Pappin and Cassie Millerick (s) 19-16 in the quarter-finals.

The men’s section only delivered the one successful rink. Jim Hogan, Glen Dorward, Barry Brennan and Kevin Brennan (s) will compete in the semi-finals. Other teams were casualties in their first round.