CRANBOURNE BOWLS
Cranbourne has now reached the half way mark of the season and remains undefeated.
Coach Lyn Quigg and his team were impressive again winning by 19 shots and setting up a great win against Upwey-Tecoma to make it seven straight wins for the year.
The top three sides all recorded magnificent wins on Saturday in pennant bowls which was another great week for the club.
The Cranbourne Bowling Club, like many other bowling clubs, had challenges this week in getting enough players to fill teams.
Sickness and unavailability presented selectors with a number of challenges this week.
However the selectors kept at it, with impassioned pleas to our emergencies and even calling on the help of some clubs who might have spare players.
We would like to thank Mulgrave CC in providing us with a spare of theirs to fill a whole in our Cranbourne 4 team.
We also thank our emergencies for helping us put together the minimum number of nine players required to constitute a team.
In the end Cranbourne had four teams win and two defeated.
This was a great effort by the players and we thank them.
WEEKEND PENNANT – ROUND 7
• Side 1 Division 2 Sec 8
Cranbourne 1 travelled up to Upwey-Tecoma to take on their number one team and did not disappoint, winning their seventh straight game with three rinks up to one rink down. The starring team of the day was led by Skip Lyn Quigg, with Doug Boggie, Peter Elgar and Danny Meyer, who had control of their match all day to record a great win by 19 shots (28-9).
Cranbourne 1 (83) defeated Upwey-Tecoma 1 (61)
22 shots up and 16 points.
• Side 2 Division 3 Sec 8
Cranbourne 2 played at home against Noble Park 1. Winning by three rinks to one the Cranbourne team was up and about with the best rink of the day being skipped by Nick Arnold, with Barry Thomas, Kirsty Tootell and Chris Deal winning their match by 24 shots.
Cranbourne 2 (96) to Noble Park 1 (60)
36 shots up and a valuable 16 points.
• Side 3 Division 4 Sec 8
Cranbourne 3 travelled to Noble Park and had a very good day, winning three rinks and drawing the fourth.
This team had some good games with the outstanding rink being Skipped by John Kent, with Yvonne Van Der Wees, Bob Bellamy and Roger Townley who won by 23 shots.
The team skipped by Bill Sherriff won by 17 shots and Ron Gascoigne’s team won by 13 shots. Harry Van Soest team had to settle for a draw and split the points.
Cranbourne 3 (109) defeated Noble Park 2 (56)
53 shots up and 17 valuable points.
• Side 4 Division 7 Sec 8
Cranbourne 4 hosted Berwick 6 but struggled all day to go down by three rinks to one. The team Skipped by George Ljepojevic, with Scott De Piazza, Brian Legg and Neil Fotheringham eventually held off their opponents to win by two shots.
Cranbourne 4 (61) were defeated by Berwick 6 (91)
30 shots down and two points.
• Side 5 Division 8 Sec 7 (12 a side)
Cranbourne 5 travelled to Mulgrave CC 6 and despite Mulgrave lending us a player for the game – which we thank them very much for – we were very competitive in two rinks going down by a combined six shots. Unfortunately one rink ran into a mini cyclone losing to their opponents by 20 shots.
Cranbourne 5 (46) defeated by Mulgrave CC6 (72)
26 shots down and 0 points.
• Side 6 Division 8 Sec 6 (12 a side)
Cranbourne 6 hosted Cheltenham 6 on the front synthetic and even though both teams struggled to fill full sides, but had the minimum number of nine each, our courageous players battled hard. Cranbourne winning the game by two rinks to one and the team Skipped by Tristan Vorbach, Steve Muhi and Davina Bobetic recorded a great win by 18 shots.
Cranbourne 6 (60) defeated Cheltenham 6 (40)
20 shots up and 14 points.
MID-WEEK PENNANT
• Side 1 Division 2 Sec 6
Coatesville came to Cranbourne and had the better of the day.
Winning two rinks to one, Coatesville 1 defeated Cranbourne 1 by an overall 12 shots.
Best rink for Cranbourne was the team of Vic Butera, Karen Hickson, Gerry Dudink and Harry Van Soest who won by 12 shots.
Cranbourne 1 (48) – 2 points were defeated by Coatesville 1 (60)
• Cranbourne 2 travelled to the Dandenong Club to play their number one team under the roof.
Playing against quality and high-ranking players the three Cranbourne teams gave their all and only just fell short on collecting the chocolates.
The team of Cheryl Wright, Rob Scott, Brian Legg and Tommy De Pradines played some great bowls to win their game by six shots and collect two points.
The team of Chris Deal, Bill Sherriff, Derek Maguire and Dennis Tomlin played extremely well with having bowls in the head all day.
Playing the final end, and with one opposition bowl to come, Cranbourne was holding two shots.
The Dandy Club skip let his final bowl go with a metre on shot, taking out the shot bowl and taking the game by two shots.
The Cranbourne lads held shot on 13 ends as the skips changed over, with the Dandy Club skip winning six of these ends to end the brave Cranbourne challenge.
This game was played in good spirit and everyone played well and supported each other.
The team of John Kent, Scott De Piazza, Phil Nielsen and Brian Turton got off to a slow start and were 17-0 down after six ends, before slowly fighting back.
The gap was too big to bridge and the lads went down by 13 shots.
Cranbourne 2 (50) were defeated by Dandy Club 1 (59)
• Cranbourne 3 hosted its neighbours from Berwick and got up winning two rinks to
one. Both John Gardner and Peter Colthup’s teams had good wins, while George Ljepojevic team went down by four shots. A great effort from everyone.
Cranbourne 3 (64) defeated Berwick 4 (54).
• Cranbourne 4 travelled to Edithvale for their game, but came across tough and
experienced opponents. The teams of Mick Feeley and John Stanley went down by a total of seven shots, while our third team skipped by Steve Bakker struggled all day and eventually went down by 16 shots.
Cranbourne 4 (46) defeated by Edithvale 3 (69)
Next week will be another day and we’ll be out having another go.
Thank you to our emergencies for helping us out again and no doubt we will continue to need you as we still battle with illness, injury and unavailability
Go Cranny.
Garry Hunt and Derek Maguire
