Bowls

Two mats down on each day.

With Easter there was no bowls for Easter Monday.

The club hope everybody had a very happy, healthy and safe Easter.

Winners and runners up for Monday, March 29 were:

Marna Tomlinson, Joyce Torpy, and Betty Blick. 

Runners Up were: Jeanette Davies, Margaret Hill and Helen Duncan.

Winners for Thursday, April 1 were: Judi Cummins, Anne King, Lynne Harmer and Geoff Charlwood.

Runners up were: Val Bryce, Lyn Ryan, Fran Smith, Sue Stillard.

YMGCR Bowls

Midweek Pennant had YMGCR play Wodonga in the A1 Grand Final played at Corowa Civic green and in a tough and tight game Wodonga came out on top winning 64/54. 

The fab four of Miles, Velardo, Moore and Rempel once again won 26/20. This completed a very rare occurrence where the same rink has gone through the whole season undefeated. 

They were in a tight battle all day only to pick up a 5 on the last end to seal their victory. 

“GG” green was always in the contest and came out with a 18/18 draw. 

Smithy’s rink never got going but showed a lot of ticker to fight it to the end going down 10/26. 

To go through the season undefeated only to lose the GF is a bitter pill to swallow and this will be the driving force to go one better next year.

Thanks to all teammates who came along and gave lots of encouragement and to Les for driving the bus and team manager Judy. 

Also the scribe would like to congratulate Annie for all the time and effort she put in on the Monday afternoon training sessions and to all the players who turned up.

Wednesday Social Bowls had 30 players play 2 bowl triples and the winners with 2 wins and+21 were Pinkie Lidgerwood, “Nifty” Neville Colemen and a visitor D Pohlner. 

Runners up with 2 wins and +19 were Chris Gentle, Rob Hummel and Frank Linerg (great to see Rob back on the green after along lay off due to ill health and the club hope he can master his new stick and get back into pennant next year).

Tuesday was the last night of barefoot bowls and the winners were Garden Lovers, Murray”D’ and Black Bull who all won $200 for their favorite charity. 

The runners up were Bruisers, Haacks and the Jimmies who donated $150 to their charity’s and best game winners were MWA, Rotary and Insiders who all won $50. 

The Bowls club would like to thank the Golf Club for their fantastic support and sponsorship, and we hope all the players enjoyed themselves for this worthy cause.

ClubMulwala Outdoor Bowls

Midweek Pennant Results – Tuesday, March 30.

Division B1 – FINAL – ClubMulwala (65) defeated Corowa RSL (49).

Cliff Morton, Loris Lochhead, Anita Albert and Stephen McPhee (22) lost to David Muir, Peter Smith, Dominic Carroll and Judith Black (25).

Bruce ‘Digger’ Smith, Daryl Richmond, Carmen Mangan and Graham Albert (20) defeated Keith Mills, Laurie Way, Lynne Mills and Tony Coughlan (13).

Barry Pitt, Betty Richmond, Faye Cook and Wade McPherson (23) defeated Sam Nixon, Janet Davis, Lex Thornton and Tony Townsing (11).

A huge come from behind win for the 2021 B1 Champions. 

Trailing all day and with two rinks well behind early the ‘never say die’ attitude that is talked about around the club came to fruition in this game. 

What a great contest, great spectator ‘fight’ by the side to overcome the brilliance of their Corowa RSL opposition. 

Cliff Morton and his team were 14/3 down early and Barry Pitt’s team down 9/0 early and it did not look pretty there for a while. 

Both teams fought back and taking into consideration the overall score closed the gaps in the last half dozen or so ends. Barry got home with Cliff just missing out. 

Digger Smith and team played very smart bowls and were never headed with a special mention to Graham Albert who lead wonderfully all day. 

Congratulations to both teams who played the game hard but with great sportsmanship and put on a brilliant show for the good number of spectators who attended.

Coming Up

Saturday, April 10 and Sunday 11 – Club 21 Up competition rounds 1-4 commencing 10.30am.

Sunday, April 25 – ANZAC Day Remember Our Heroes Tournament (Full).

Social Bowls:

Nominated Sets Play

When – Thursday April 15, 22 and 29 and May 6.

Time – 1.30pm each day (roll up at 1.20pm).

$10.00 entry per person each day ($30.00 per team) Limited to 28 teams

Dress – Mufti.

Play – Nominated (any combination) 2 x Bowl Triples.

Ends – 3 x 5 ends each day.

Teams to field subs for unavailable players.

Prizes – Total Prize Money Depends On Number Of Entries.

Weekly Prizes – Awarded.

Go Lawn Bowling.

A game for the young and the young at heart - you can give it a try at Club Mulwala Outdoor Bowls.

271 Melbourne Street Mulwala – Sunday, May 2 and most Sundays thereafter.B-B-Q and Welcome at 1.00pm – Introduction at 1.30pm.

Phone: Jan Morton 0437 969 888 or Kerry Merrett 0409 525 236 (for catering purposes).

New bowlers introduction to the game with experienced bowlers assisting and instructing you on the finer points of the great game. 

Have fun – enjoy – make friends.

Free sausage sizzle – free instruction – free use of bowls.

Did you know that many Australian Lawn Bowls Champions are young and young at heart people – just like you.

Sunday Social Bowls Programme

Games: Pick Up (not nominated) various depending on numbers (Pairs, Triples, Fours, (two bowls, 3 bowls) 2/4/2 and variants of each.

Cost: $7 includes sausage sizzle (Drinks available for purchase).

Dress: Mufti. Prizes: Weekly (vouchers, sponsored, cash, others) + raffles.

Yarrawonga Bowls 

The final of the Ladies and Men’s 21Up and Mixed Pairs have been held and some great bowls were played. 

Congratulations to the winners: Ladies 21 Up Jan Hermassoo, Men’s 21 Up Kevin Evans, Mixed pairs Ros King and Ian Woods. 

Ian has often done well in various events but has come out runner up and has been known to say “Always The Bridesmaid”.

Well not this time Ian, you are the “bride” or should I (the scribe) say “groom”.

Well done also to the Runners Up, June Binental (21 Up) Heath Aston (21 Up) and Jan and Richard Hermassoo (mixed pairs).

Please note for your diary -

The AGM followed by a General Meeting will be held on Sunday May 16 at 10am. 

Nomination forms for positions are out now and close at 6pm on May 6. Only Financial members may vote.

The next Monthly 2 Bowl Triples Tournament will be held on Wednesday April 14. This will be the last one at YBC for this season.

Social bowls results –

Monday March 29 - Winners – John and Don Ellis. Runners Up – John Lowdell and Peter Sloan. The Jackpot was not claimed and will be carried forward to next Monday.

Wednesday March 31 - no bowls.

Thursday April 1 - Winners – Greg Hayley, Smith Hayley and Ron Neilson. Runners Up – Peter Young, Neville Hayley and Mick Dixon.

The 4 day Easter Tournament was a huge success. Results and more on this will be in next week’s report.

The scribe would just like to mention though, that it takes a lot of organisation and help from a lot of people leading up to and during the tournament to make it run smoothly.  

As there are too many to name we won’t even start as we would hate to leave anyone out but we assure you all that it is due to all this help that made it the success it was, Thanks to all. 

This weeks games –

Wednesday April 7 - Jackpot Triples (numbers permitting).

Saturday April 10 - Social Bowls.

Monday April 12 - 2-4-2.

These games start at 12.30pm and names need to be down by 11am on the day. 

Thursday April 8 - Twilight/Barefoot Bowls, 6pm sausage sizzle for a 6.30pm start. Names need to be down by 5.30pm on the day. Please ring to cancel if you have your name down and can’t make it after all. Twilight Bowls will soon be coming to an end until next season; we are hoping to keep it going until Thursday April 29 weather and numbers permitting. 

To any members that are not well at the moment, we wish you a speedy recovery.

To all, good health, good bowling and good fellowship.