Another great week of bowls with all committees picking teams for the ultimate results.
Tuesday saw the beginning of the Home Pennant with ten teams contesting.
The first game of the season saw the Gold team of John Foots, Tom Nichol, Tony Wilkes and Cathy Johnson fall over the line to win by one shot against the Lime team of Pam Zierk-Mahoney, Greg Hogarth, Belinda Snider and Barry Hempenstall 12 shots to 11.
The Green team of Carolyn Close, Ross Parsons, Peter Holloway and Anne Wileman took the win 18 shots to 15 against the Blue team of Alan Dobson, Brian Sinclair, Vicki Klien and Glenda Hempenstall.
The White team of Kevin Nikkelson, Kathleen Bock, Anne Tilbrook and Ray Fraser had a solid win over the Black team of Noel Jackson, Glenda Revell, Renee Prosser and Phillip Jensen 17/12 and the Yellow team of Winston Taylor, Nick Klien, Kris Humphry and Scott Lamont had a fabulous win over the Orange team of Peter McNeill, Marco Bohren, Heather Ingpen and Cameron McPherson 24 shots to 8.
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The final game saw the Pink team of Ray Close, Tom Ingpen, Sid Revell and Coral Taylor having a close win over the Red team of Lyn Foots, Peter Wooley, Alan Hatcher and Ida Rachele 15/13.
The Tuesday Midweek pennant began last week with Mansfield traveling to Wodonga.
Rink one saw Mick Walsh, Elaine Peterson, George Peterson and John Lobbe getting off to a flyer leading 14 shots to 6 but the home team stepped it up to take a close win 22/19.
Rink two saw Mike Harrison, Steve Lewis, Yvonne Robinson and Marian Ryan competitive with the score being 7-7 after 12 ends but Wodonga managed to pick up numbers to take a very comfortable win 26 shots to 11.
The final rink of Chris Laws, Mark Bettany, Lyn Holland and Irene Fuller were under the pump from the get-go and could not recover going down 14 shots to 27.
The second round of Saturday pennant saw Mansfield A2 playing at home in a game reversal with Mansfield defeating Moira Benalla 90 shots to 59.
George Peterson, Elaine Peterson, Steve Lewis and Shane O’Brien battled hard all day with Moira sneaking the win 18/15.
Mike Harrison, Chris Laws, Mick Hoban and Sid Revell bowled well all day and had a good lead after 17 ends 20 shots to 12.
Moira wasn’t done yet and picked up 9 shots in the last 4 ends to record an exciting draw 21 shots a piece.
Mick Walsh, Ray Robinson, Noel Jackson and Enid Smith had a slow start but got in the groove to take the win 20 shots to 15.
The final rink of John Foots, Peter Roberts, Graham Smith and Marian Ryan were out for blood all game taking an impressive win 34 shots to 5.
The Saturday pennant sees the A2’s in fourth spot and will be playing Kiewa at home this Saturday.
The Saturday A4’s are in sixth spot and are playing Yarrawonga away this Saturday.
Good bowling to all.
