Rochester district bowls notes | December 13-21

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Dec 20, 2021

Hands up: Garth Wiffen of Rochester. Photo: Cath Grey Photo by Cath Grey

60-and-over

At the 60-and-over competition played at Tongala, the event was interrupted by rain after the second game.

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The cards were fanned and the winning rink was John Fischer, Alan Kauffman, Russell Shawcross, Dave Thomas (s), who earned the Christmas chooks.

This win was an extra bonus for Kauffman as he combined with Ken Main, Dave Thomas and Geoff Shawcross to run second at Kyabram Valley View recently.

Lockington

Last Tuesday the women played triples at their weekly social bowls, and the stars on the day were the trio comprising Kathi Maddison, Lorraine Appleby and Annette Brereton (s).

On Tuesday evening, the Sportnight bowls attracted 24 players in warm conditions.

There were four two-game winners with Russell Shawcross and Ian Angove (s) on two wins, +24 shots taking home the chocolates.

In second place was John and Jenni Fischer (s) with two wins, +13 shots ahead of Warren Jones/John Whiteside (s) with +12 and Peter Eade/Kim Ray (s) with +5 shots.

The local Campaspe Area pennant competition was impacted by the heat on Saturday with several games being heated out and some cancelled.

On Friday in the Midweek pennant, our women lost to Elmore with only one rink up.

On Saturday, our division three teams travelled to Deniliquin to do battle. Unfortunately, the heat reached the required temperature and the game was called off following 39 ends.

The division 4B side hosted Moama Green and was successful in winning 38-35 with one rink up and one down.

Pennant will resume in 2022 on January 14.

In the club championships, Ken Main was in superb form to eliminate Frank Chugg in a high-standard performance to reach the final.

Steve Pavone defeated Bill Musgrove in the quarter final and will now play Phillip Cunnington in the other semi-final, with the winner to meet Main in the battle for championship honours.

In the championship women’s games, Sue Harris defeated Margaret Davis, while Phyllis MacFarlane defeated Pauline Humbert.

Lorraine Appleby will play Margaret Dowie and Harris will meet Leanne McInnes in one semi-final, while MacFarlane will play the winner of the Appleby and Dowie clash.

Unfortunately the Christmas break-up had to be cancelled due to some concerns relating to COVID-19 in the area.

The Christmas hamper was drawn on Sunday morning and the prize winners were:

1st Trevor Oliver;

2nd David Dowie;

3rd Jenny Keele.

The club thanks everyone who purchased a ticket and supported the venture.

The club is holding the annual Christmas-New Year Open Fours on Thursday, December 30 starting at 9.30am. This event is supported by the Moama Bowling Club. Contact Chris Stewart on 5486 2607 or Russell Shawcross on 0428 862468 for entries as the field is filling fast.

The Bendigo, Campaspe, Goldfields State Triples was completed on Sunday at the Strathfieldsaye Bowling Club. On a day that provided some atrocious weather conditions, all bowlers were very brave to complete the games; wind, sun, rain, showers — we had it all.

The Moama trio of Jayde Campbell, Kelli Norris, Cassandra Millerick (s) won its semi-final before failing in the final against the Bendigo East team skipped by Tayloh Marron 16-21. It was a very even contest before the Bendigo East team rallied after trailing 2-8 in the early stanza.

The Rich River team of Peter Nesbitt, Keith Hewitt and Jason McCloy (s) went down in the semi-final against the Bendigo East trio skipped by Greg Podesta 14-17.

The Lockington Bowls Club presidents and members extend season’s greetings to all sponsors and kindred club members.