Rochester Bowls Club
Midweek pennant break up will be Wednesday, March 4 at 6.30pm, Shamrock Hotel Rochester.
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All midweek pennant players and their partners welcome
100 up Men’s Final
Rob Clayton and Mal MaCraild played the final of the Men’s 100 up on Sunday, March 1.
Congratulations to Rob for taking out the win.
AGM will be Monday, May 11. Details TBC.
Men’s Match Committee
Congratulations to the winners of the Kevin Snowden Drawn Fours, played on Saturday, February 28– Rob Clayton (S), Gavin Houlihan, Mal MaCraild and Mick McArdle with three wins, plus seven shots up.
Runners-up were Tim Quinlan (S), Kevin Hall, Greg Machar and Alan Williams with two wins and three shots up.
Weekend pennant final
Grand final will be held on March 7 in Moama.
Check out the final teams on the BCGBR website – very interesting.
Midweek pennant finals
Preliminary Finals, March 3 – all divisions at Rochester
Grand Final, March 10 – Rich River
60 and over
On Wednesday, February 25 the group day was played here in Rochester.
At the completion of play, there were four teams with three wins.
Overall winners for the day were Ray Hanson’s team from Lockington, with five in the yardstick.
Howard Tonkin’s team from Kyabram got four in the yard stick, as did Allan Benson’s team from Rochester.
Noel West’s team from Tongala managed three.
Many thanks to everyone who contributed to the success of the day, including the green’s keeper, catering ladies and the many Rochester bowlers who filled in for other teams.
Next week, play is at Kyabram Valley View, with a ten o’clock start.
Bar duty
Monday – Thursday 5 – 6.30 pm
2 – 5 March: J. McCallum and R. Turner.
9 – 12: D. Murray and P. Stack.
16 – 19: T. Quinlan and G. Browne.
Rochester Golf Club
Wednesday morning, 9-hole golf finally got underway after the hot summer break.
Wayne Williams was on fire early in the season, his 20 Stableford points, including not scoring on the long par 4, 6th, was just enough to hold off Mike Austin on 19 points.
The organiser King Richard had all the golfers playing off new adjusted 9-hole handicaps.
It will be interesting to see how these hold up over the next few months.
It is pleasing to report that the course has received much-needed rain, with up to 40mm falling in the last week, showing good grass growth on all fairways.
Mowing and general maintenance, including removal of fallen branches and stumps, will commence over the next few weeks, in preparation for the official golf season starting late March or early April.
Reminder: Wednesday social 9-hole golf has started with assembly at 8.30am for a hit off at 9 am.
Lockington Bowls Club- 24-2
Some good and bad news this week at Lockington in regards to the Campaspe Area Weekend and Midweek Pennant competitions.
On Saturday in the Weekend First semi-finals played at the Echuca Bowling Club, both our Division Three and Division Five teams lowered their colours to some stern opposition from their respective Echuca and Deniliquin White squads.
Division Three lost all rinks after showing glowing signs early in the contest.
However, the Echuca teams made clear their intentions in the final half of the semi-final to take out the final 73-48 (Kim Ray lost to T. Deenan 13-30; Steve Pavone lost to G. Clymo 18-31; John Fisher lost to T. Rickard 17-22).
Echuca will meet Moama in the preliminary final to be played at Lockington on Saturday.
Division Five lost a thriller against the might of Deniliquin White 35-40 after leading by some margin early in the contest.
However, both teams fought valiantly to stay in the game before the opposition improved slightly to score a five shot victory and a place in the preliminary final to face off against their fellow bowling teammates Deniliquin Blue (Rod Fiedler lost to L. Ritchie 15-26; Kalvan Stout def L. Pattison 20-14).
Last Tuesday evening some 20-odd bowlers enjoyed the barefoot bowls in cool to cold weather after a promising start to the night.
The name of the game was three bowl pairs and the winners were Jeff Carnie and JD Wright +17 shots ahead of Rod Fiedler and Peter Eade +14 shots.
On Tuesday this week the semi-finals of the Midweek Pennant competition was held at Mathoura and Rich River Bowling Clubs in ideal conditions, with just a little shower early in the game.
Lockington Division Four played Stanhope in the second semi-final and survived to win a brutal encounter with little separating the scores throughout.
Lockington had a slight advantage before the opposition won eight straight ends across the board to take a slender lead.
However, the Steve Peter rink rallied and reeled off some extraordinary bowls to grab the ascendency and lead the club to victory and a place in the grand final.
The Cindy Felmingham rink had a tough encounter against Anthony Trist before losing 12-17.
Total result was Lockington 36 to Stanhope 34 (J. Andrea, P. Andrea, S. Felmingham, S. Peter (s) def B. Williams 24-17; R. Shawcross, T. Westwood, K. Ray, C. Felmingham (s) lost to A. Trist 12-17).
Stanhope will play Moama Green in the preliminary final on Saturday at Lockington.
Members participated in the B.C.G. Region Novice Singles on Sunday at the South Bendigo Bowls Club.
All bowlers performed well with Cindy Felmingham making the final series.
60 and over
The Campaspe 60 and Over Bowls Group held their Wednesday weekly bowls at Rochester on a mild but pleasant day.
28 teams consisting of 112 bowlers all competing for a chook.
There were four three game winners.
They were Noel West’s team from Tongala, with three bowls near the jack, missed out.
Alan Benson’s team from Rochester with four bowls near the Jack missed out.
The runners up were Howard Tonkins’ team from Kyabram, for the second time in a week they also had four bowls near the jack within the metre stick and were closer than Alan Benson’s team.
The Kyabram team were lead Howard Tonkin, John McPhadden second, Maurice Hately third, and the skipper was Phil Denham.
The winners on the day were another team from Lockington in the name of Ray Hanson; they had five bowls near the jack.
They were Ray Hanson lead, John Andrew Harris second, Phil Cunnington third, and Leon Laffy was their skipper.
Last week it was Kalvan Stout’s team from Lockington who won.
Members of both teams received a chook each.
The next 60 and over bowls is at Ky Valley View on March 4 at 10am.
Entries to Graeme Topp on 0458 253 597 or Rod Donohue on 0417 633 478.
Good bowling and see you all at Ky Valley View next week.