CRANBOURNE BOWLS
Cranbourne’s two top weekend pennant teams struggled this weekend and were beaten by their well-drilled opponents.
However, all was not lost with Cranbourne 3, 4 and 5 all recording wins.
Cranbourne 1, playing at home, took on the best of Beaumaris 1 players in Division 1, but in the end our side went down, beaten by the better team on the day, winning one rink, but losing three. Our best performed rink was skipped by Jammie Corney, with Matt Stevens, Karen Hickson and Joe Byrne winning 26-14 collecting our only points for the game.
• Cranbourne 1 (74) was defeated by Beaumaris 1 (87). -13 shots and 2 points.
Cranbourne 2 travelled to the beachside suburb of Mordialloc to take on their top team, but despite trying hard, they didn’t come away with the chocolates.
All four rinks were close, but we only managed to win one and with the barest margin at that.
Best Cranbourne rink was skipped by Ian Barrenger, with Peter Colthup, Marijan Bobetic and Barry Graham winning 25-24.
• Cranbourne 2 (70) was defeated by Mordialloc 1 (84) winning three rinks to one. – 14 shots and 2 points.
Cranbourne 3 travelled to Berwick for its match with Berwick 4. In a very good game, Cranbourne 3 won two rinks, drew one rink and lost one rink. Best rink of the day was skipped by Tony Collins, with Dermot McConville, Rob Scott, Kristi Hickson winning 22-8.
• Cranbourne 3 (85) defeated Berwick 4 (68). + 17 shots and 15 points.
Cranbourne 4 hosted its opponents Sandringham 2.
In a very good game, there wasn’t much between the two sides, but the rinks for Cranbourne all came through, winning all rinks.
Best rink of the game was skipped by Steve Boyd with Gerry Dudink, Kath Dudink and Monica Peers winning 25-15.
• Cranbourne 4 (89) defeated Sandringham 2 (57). + 32 shots and 18 points.
Cranbourne 5, also playing at home, took on the second-placed Dandenong Club 6.
These teams are 12-a-side and at the end of the match, Cranbourne had won all three rinks.
The best of those was skipped by Steve Muhi, with Cate Sharpe, Allen Skurrie and Bruce Canavan winning 24-12.
It has to be stated at this time, we had a team of ladies who are all new bowlers with not a huge amount of experience.
At one stage, the girls were 11-1 down, but after the break, they came good and came back to win their rink by six shots.
Skipped by Helen Blake, her team of Jeannie Tomlin, Jo Alsop and Sarah Richardson should be congratulated on a job well done.
• Cranbourne 5 (71) defeated Dandenong Club 6 (52). + 19 shots and 16 points.
Midweek Pennant
Cranbourne 1, playing at home, took on our neighbour Narre Warren 2.
Winning all rinks, this will give the team the boost in confidence they need to now go on with it.
Best rink was skipped by Nick Arnold, with Bill Bradbury, Bill Sherriff and Vic Butera winning 25-13.
• Cranbourne 1 (71) defeated Narre Warren 2 (52). + 19 shots and 16 points.
Cranbourne 2 travelled to Carrum and playing on matting with a difficult breeze to contend with, the three Cranbourne rinks played extremely well, but we didn’t win.
The best team was skipped by Harry VanSoest with Gerry Dudink, Kristi Hickson and Monica Peers winning 23-19.
The rink skipped by Chris Deal and his team had bowls in the head most ends, holding shot on 13 ends, but the Carrum skip was on a day out and he must have removed us on at least 10 of them.
Also, our team skipped by John Kent went down by seven shots against a skip who also got many shots out we were holding.
The Cranbourne players can all be very proud of how they played.
• Cranbourne 2 (54) was defeated by Carrum 1 (70). – 16 shots and 2 points.
Cranbourne 3 hosted Dandenong RSL Rec on the synthetic green and the three teams played out of their skins and we had a most impressive win from our star side at the moment.
Best rink was skipped by Ron Fenton, with John Stanley, Olive Stanley and Davina Bobetic winning by 27 shots.
They had strong support from Tony Whalley’s team, winning by 19 shots, and lastly the team skipped by Jammie Corney won by 16 shots.
• Cranbourne 3 (93) defeated Dandenong RSL Rec 1 (31). + 62 shots and 16 points.
Cranbourne 4 travelled to MCC at Hawthorn to take on the very strong MCC 6 side.
These teams are six-a-side and playing on synthetic our players struggled with the pace of the green and we’re overrun a little bit.
This team is basically new bowlers and they’ll learn from this. Well done.
• Cranbourne 4 (21) was defeated by MCC6 (49). – 28 shots and 0 points.
-Derek Maguire-
