Playing Ditch Weight

The second round of matches for the Open Pennant competition were played on Sunday with two of the club’s three sides having success.

The Grade 3 side travelled to Tumut and played on the synthetic green. Two of the three teams won and the overall score was 60–54 in Young’s favour. This gave the Young side 9 of the possible 10 points.

In the individual games David Quigley defeated Tim Crampton 29–10, Damien Miller defeated Geoff Webb 20–12 and Brian Madden lost to Adam Peel 11–32. The Grade 5 side also played on an artificial surface at Cootamundra Ex–Services Club. The Cootamundra side proved too strong for Young and won all three games for an overall score of 66–49.

Geoff Hillier defeated Denis Rosen 20–19, Jim White defeated Russell Boyd 21–17 and Neil Blackett defeated Glen Benson 25–13.

Young’s Grade 7 side played at home against the Grade 6 side from Harden and had a very good 94–35 win.

Tony Ruhl won 38–11 over Phil Bowerman, Joe Bargwanna won 31-11 against Shane McKellar and Colin Stokell won 25–13 against Gerard Davis. Once again our thanks to Colin Chapman and Vic Brown for their work on the barbecue.

A number of Club Singles games were completed during the week with two on Thursday, one on Friday and five on Saturday. The results of these games, in the order they were played, were:

Damien Miller defeated Glen Benson in a game where the score was always close. Damien scored 3 shots on the final end to win 25–20.

Geoff Holt and Glen Seward also had a close contest in which the scores were level on several occasions. At one stage the score was 18–all and 5 ends later it was 23–all. Glen then scored 2 shots to win the game 25–23. Damien Miller and Glen Seward played on Friday afternoon and after an even start to the game Damien dominated the scoring to win 25–7.

The game between John Cooper and Jono Watson produced some excellent bowls with the scores level on five occasions and the lead changing six times. John led 21–15 but 5 ends later it was 23–all. Jono then scored 1 shot to lead 24–23 and was holding 3 shots on the next end before John moved the jack to score 2 shots and win 25–24.

Peter Watts played Darryle Miller and the score was 5–all after 8 ends. From that point Peter dominated the scoring to win 25–9. After 13 ends of the game between Denis Rosen and Russell Boyd the score was 11–all. Russell won 4 of the next 5 ends to lead 21–13 and despite Denis winning 3 of the next 6 ends Russell was the winner 25–17.

Ian Schofield led 9–1 against George Somerville but George took the lead at 14–12 and won most of the remaining ends to win 25–15.

After 9 ends of their game Joe Read led Colin Stokell 12–5 but Colin won 8 of the next 9 ends to lead 22–13. Joe then won 3 ends to trail 19–22 before Colin scored 3 shots to win 25–19.

There were 12 players for Jackpot bowls on Thursday with Allan Langford and Denis Rosen winning their game by 4 shots, Chris Wright and Aldo Malvicino winning by 5 shots and Brian McNair and Albert Carter winning by 16 shots.

Saturday’s Jackpot games consisted of a game of triples won 29–17 by Allan Langford, Michael Adams and Joe Bargwanna and a game of pairs in which the winners were Andrew Pratt and Harold Anderson 20 shots to 15.

More than 70 players took part in the Guy Pickering Charity Challenge during the week.

On Tuesday night the best score was 15 points for Rusty Horse while Boof’s Heroes scored 17 points to be the winners on Thursday night. Further games in the Club Singles will be played this week.

The Pennant games for Sunday will see Grade 3 at home to Cootamundra Ex–Services and Grade 5 at home to Harden while Grade 7 will play at Cootamundra Ex–Services.

Good luck to all three sides.

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