CRANBOURNE BOWLS
WEEKEND PENNANT
Saturday 2 November was a beautiful sunny day with a reasonable swirling breeze that seemed to kick in when bowlers didn’t need it too and presented a bit of an issue, but we all had to deal with it.
Cranbourne 1 travelled away to take on Parkdale 1 and the games were very tight.
Playing at home Parkdale won one rink, drew one and lost two, but still hung on to win the overall game by five shots.
Cranbourne 1 (77) was defeated by Parkdale 1 (82) – 5 shots and 5 points.
Cranbourne 2 hosted Dandenong Club 2 on the front green and three of the rinks had close games, but unfortunately one rink struggled and we’re just outplayed by the Dandy Club lads winning that rink by 22 shots.
Cranbourne 2 (58) were defeated by Dandenong Club 2 (86) – 28 shots and 1 point.
Cranbourne 3 travelled to the Dandenong Club to take on their number 3 side.
Winning three rinks to one, Dandenong Club 3 were too strong in the end winning the overall by 24 shots.
Best rink for Cranbourne 3 was the team of Roger Townley, John Stanley, Rob Scott and Phil Nielsen, winning their game 16-10.
Certainly worthy of mention was the team of Brian Turton, Frank Verco, Fritz Helle and Roger Roscoe who had an epic game and only went down by two shots 24-26.
Cranbourne 3 (61) was defeated by Dandenong Club 3 (85) – 24 shots and 2 points.
Cranbourne 4 hosted their game against the Cranbourne RSL (Silks).
Utilising the back grass green, the two teams went at it and gave their all.
In the end Cranbourne 4 won the match winning by three rinks to one.
Cranbourne 4 (92) defeated Cranbourne RSL Silks (67) + 25 shots and 16 points.
All rinks played very well and supported each other greatly.
Cranbourne 5 travelled to take on Churchill Waverley Golf 2 on their grass rink in the 12-A-Side match and for as hard as they tried, our Cranbourne team were outclassed by the home club.
The best rink for Cranbourne was Helen Winter, Helen Blake, Rob Sorensen & Mick Feeley who only went down by six shots, 20-26.
Cranbourne 5 (51) was defeated by Churchill Waverley Golf 2 (80) – 29 shots and zero points.
MIDWEEK PENNANT
TUESDAY 29 OCTOBER
The day started out cloudy and a bit chilly, but warmed when the sun came out later in the day.
Cranbourne 1 travelled to our neighbours Edithvale to take on their number one team.
All teams did their best, but Steve Bentley’s team went down by one shot.
The team skipped by Nick Arnold went down by 11 shots and things were looking grim, until the best rink of the day, Skipped by Rob Scott, Chris Stevenson (3rd), Lois Brock (2nd) and Gwen Scott (L) had a day out and won their game by 23 shots.
A job very well done, team.
Cranbourne 1 (58) defeated Edithvale 1 (47) + 11 shots and 12 points.
Cranbourne 2 hosted Dandenong Club 3 and came away winning by three rinks to nil, collecting 16 points.
Best rink was Skippered by Chris Deal, with Lesley Deal (3rd), Jacqui Warner (2nd) and Brian Turton (L) winning by nine shots and collecting all 16 points.
Cranbourne 2 (62) defeated Dandenong Club 3 (42) + 20 shots and 16 points.
Cranbourne 3, playing at home, took on Parkdale 2 and in the closest game of the day.
Winning 1 rink and losing 2, Parkdale 2 came out on top to take the game by one shot and collecting 14 points.
The best rink for Cranbourne was Skipped by Harry Van Soest, Dermot McConville (3rd), Olive Stanley (2nd) and Frank Male (L), winning their rink by eight shots and collecting two valuable points.
Cranbourne 3 (49) was defeated by Parkdale 2 (50)
Cranbourne 4 ventured down to the grass greens of Noble Park to tackle Noble Park 3 in the 6-A-Side game.
We must thank Noble Park for providing us a spare player.
Winning one rink each, Noble Park 2 took the chocolates and won by 17 shots.
Cranbourne 4 (30) was defeated by Noble Park 3 (47) – 17 shots and two points.
– Derek Maguire
