CRANBOURNE BOWLS
The top four sides all recorded wins on Saturday in pennant bowls which was another great week for the club.
That makes it five wins out of five for the number one side and the number two side now moves up to the top of the ladder after defeating Dandenong Club.
WEEKEND PENNANT – ROUND 5
Side 1 Division 2 Sec 8
Cranbourne played away at Ferntree Gully against the number-two side on the ladder and despite past bad experiences at this venue over the past few years came home happy winners.
Side Captain Jay Tootell gave an inspiring pre game speech and played some magnificent shots during the game to set the standard.
Perhaps there is something special about this team compared to the past years and the belief is starting to filter through.
Club chief Tony Collins loves his bowls at the moment and the results are proof of this, but everyone has noticed that he has started a special kind of swinging of the legs as he runs down the green chasing his bowls which has now become known as the “Tony Collins Shuffle.”
After the game, Coach Lyn Quigg was pleased with the win but continues to pursue a modest don’t scare the horses approach as the season still has a long way to go.
The big winner of the day was the team of Gwen Scott, Matt (SOS) Stevens, Tony Collins and skip Shane Jakins who won by 10 shots.
Cranbourne 85 (16 points) defeated Ferntree Gully 71 (2 points)
Side 2 Division 3 Sec 8
An exciting win against Dandenong Club has moved this team up to ladder leaders and all players love that winning feeling.
Skip Nick Arnold and his team had another great win by eight shots as did skip Steve Hickson and his team who also won by eight shots.
In the end it was victory by eight shots and 14 valuable points.
Cranbourne 85 (14 points) defeated Dandenong Club 77 (4 points)
Side 3 Division 4 Sec 8
Cranbourne 3 travelled to Berwick and was delighted to have had the honour of playing under their new undercover roof and synthetic green for the first time by any club.
While Cranbourne got off to a slow start a couple of our rinks held sway over their opponents. The team of Skip Ron Gascoigne, Derek Maguire (3), Phil Neilson (2) and Rob Scott playing Lead, were down by 11 shots at one stage, but slowly started to figure out the line and weight required and came from 11 down to get up and win by 10 shots.
The team of John Kent Skip, Steve Boyd (3), Yvonne Van Der Wees (2) and Roger Townley leading, controlled their match and with some brilliant bowling at times, went on to win by 10 shots.
The team of Harry Van Soest Skip, Tony Whalley (3), Bob Bellamy (2) and Tom De Pradines leading the way, this team jumped out to a 10 to zip start after six ends, before being slowly dragged back and the game became very tight. Unfortunately, the team went down by one in a tight finish.
The final team of Marijan Bobetic Skip, Lois Brock (3), Brian Biasci (2) and Chris Rea (Lead) were in the game for the first 10 ends, but struggled over the next 11 ends to go down by 16 shots.
In the end, Cranbourne won two rinks, lost two rinks but finished the game by winning the overall by three shots and took away 14 points.
This team is fighting back with two great wins in the past two weeks.
Cranbourne 80 (14 points) defeated Berwick 77 (4 points)
Side 4 Division 7 Sec 8
A massive 58-shot win gave this side that winning feeling playing at home against Pakenham.
Up by 22 shots was the rink of Denis Tomlin, Brian Caddell, Dermot McConville and skip John Garner.
Cranbourne 119 (18 points) defeated Pakenham 61 (0 points)
Side 5 Division 8 Sec 7 (12 a side)
The long running record of Club Legend and life member Stan Burnett and his team has finally come to an end with a loss recorded against his name.
Cranbourne 46 (0 points) lost to Berwick 77 (16 points)
Side 6 Division 8 Sec 6 (12 a side)
Playing at home against Murrumbeena this side went down by 22 shots which was still a pretty good result with this team of new bowlers and youth.
Cranbourne 46 (0 points) lost to Murrumbeena 68 (16 points)
MID-WEEK PENNANT
Side 1 Division 2 Sec 6
On a magnificent spring day, our midweek Pennant teams had very close games bar our Cranbourne 3 team who travelled to Pakenham and ran into the Paky 2 juggernaut and our Cranbourne 4 team had a bye this week.
Cranbourne 1 travelled to Berwick and in a close tussle all day, came away with the chocolates winning overall by two shots with two winning rinks.
Cranbourne 1 (55) defeated Berwick 3 (53) – 14 points gained.
Cranbourne 2 (71) defeated Mentone 1 (62) – 12 points
The team of Dennis Tomlin, Peter West, Derek Maguire and Chris Deal had a great day beating their opponents by 20 shots.
Cranbourne 3 (41) was defeated by Pakenham (2) on the quick surface at Paky, our teams struggled to deal with the surface as well as coming up against a quality team.
The sun will come out again next week and this team will come out fighting and get back to their winning form.
Cranbourne 4 (Div 5 Sect 8) received a bye this week, but many of the team showed up at the club and arranged a game between themselves.
We’ll done guys.
-Garry Hunt and Derek Maguire-
