Summer pennant concludes

WARRNAMBOOL’S indoor bowls summer pennant concluded with three grand finals last week.

By Staff Writer

Division one winners.

All three matches were of a high level and entertained the crowd of more than 80 spectators at the stadium, as well as those watching the live-stream.

In division one, Heytesbury Honeys proved too strong for Allansford Cougars in a very high standard game.

Allansford played some great bowls in the early ends but Heytesbury, with their four players in outstanding form, jumped out to an 8-0 lead after five ends.

Despite Allansford’s best efforts, the Honeys were able to carry on to a comfortable victory.

The division two final between Koroit Hornets and Port Fairy Seagulls was dominated early by Koroit, who jumped out to a 12-3 lead after six ends.

Koroit skipper Debbie Keane unfortunately took the kitty off the mat on end seven for a four-shot penalty and Port Fairy rallied to be within two shots by end nine.

Port Fairy skipper Gill Phillips was unlucky, knocking the kitty off on ends 10 and 11 and Koroit looked to be home with a nine-shot lead.

Not to be outdone, Port Fairy won the next six ends and were back to within two shots coming into the last.

Under great pressure, Koroit managed one shot on the last end to win by three shots.

Division three was the closest match of the night.

Allansford Pumas jumped out to an early eight-shot lead over favourites Dennington Devils.

The Devils worked their way back into the game and when Allansford skipper Clarrie Matthews trailed the kitty off the mat and lost two shots on the replay, the scores were locked at 11-all after 10 ends.

The next seven ends saw single shots going either way leaving Allansford one-up coming into the last end.

Down in the head before his first bowl, Allansford skipper Clarrie trailed the kitty to the back of the mat for a match-winning single shot.

Division 1: Heytesbury Honeys 19 (Brett Mungean, Lara Mungean, Peter Baker and skip Allen Armistead) def Allansford Cougars 8 (Vince Lenehan, Jacinta Marney, Doug Byron and skip Rob McCrabb).

Division 2: Koroit Hornets 22 (Ben Gardiner, Vivian O’Grady, Justin Rasmussen and skip Debbie Keane) def Port Fairy Seagulls 19 (Brian Arnold, Des Phillips, Maurice Mahoney and skip Gill Phillips).

Division 3: Allansford Pumas 16 (Shirley Ladhams, Ken Cathie, James Byron and skip Clarrie Matthews) def Dennington Devils 14 (Michael Childs, Cody Childs, Trevor Crow and skip Keith Cameron).

Congratulations to all winners and runners-up for an entertaining evening.

The next pennant season (winter) will start on Monday, April 8 at the Arc Stadium.

Names for teams to be given to the club delegates before March 25.