Sport
6 September, 2024
Bowling success at nationals
A LARGE contingent of southwest indoor bowlers have returned from the 2024 Australian Championships with a swag of awards.
Twenty-four Warrnambool, Heytesbury and Colac players were selected in the 56-strong Victorian team which competed across 12 sections at the championships, held in South Australia’s Barossa Valley.
Every state had two teams in each event - and each team played the other nine teams to determine gold, silver and bronze for that discipline.
Each winning game scored two points towards the overall trophy.
Tasmania finished on top of the leaderboard, with Victoria a close second.
Congratulations to the following individual local medalists:
Gold medals - men’s singles Arthur Finch who won eight of his nine games and ladies fours Barb Draffen (skip) and Debbie Keane (lead) who had eight wins and a draw from their nine games.
Silver medals - ladies pairs Maureen Drennan (lead) with six wins; ladies triples Lara Mungean (lead) with seven wins; under 18 boys’ singles Rylan Pech with seven wins and under 18 girls’ singles Harmony Rasmussen with eight wins.
Bronze medals – mixed fours Allen Armistead (skip) with seven wins and under 18 boys singles Max Heaton-Harris with six wins.
Other local players selected for the team included Jacinta Marney, George Draffen, Pam Dwyer, Sue Kerr, Pam Wines, Brett Mungean, Kathryn Wines, Bec Heard, Gill Phillips, Scott Pierce, Noah Mungean, Russell Kerr, Brendan Keane, Peter Neal and Peter Baker.
