Saturday sun and glorious greens await the members of the Wangaratta Bowls Club, as they prepare to embark on their weekend pennant season this weekend.

Wangaratta will field four teams in the Ovens and Murray Bowls Region’s weekend pennant competition, and will have representation in the A1, A4, A5 and B2 divisions.

Club president Maurie Braden said numbers around the Park Lane establishment looked like they’d be holding steady.

“Our B side might’ve been in B1 last year but it’s only a geographical thing, so there’s no difference,” he said.

“Numbers are holding up, which is good, pretty similar numbers [to last year].

“We’ll field three sides in the midweek pennant again.

“We’ve won four in a row in the [midweek] A1, which is unprecedented, we’re going for five but I’m not sure how we’ll go.

“We had a practice match against Myrtleford probably three weeks ago now, we had a big intraclub hitout last Saturday, and we had the club pairs [championships] in between that.

“There’s been no excuse as far as preparation goes, we’ve been able to get plenty of bowls down.

“The greens are fantastic, they’re in really good condition.

“We’re looking forward to the season.”

Braden said the weekend A1 side would be challenging for finals yet again this season, but would face a difficult first round match with Wodonga.

“Wodonga and Corowa RSL are probably at the moment the two standouts, and then after that it’s pretty even,” he said.

“We only just missed the four last year, so I think we will be around that mark, it just depends on how we kick off, we started poorly last year.

“We’ve got a couple of unavailabilities this week so that might test us, and we’ve got Wodonga, so it doesn’t get much harder than that.

“It’s a good test to see where we’re at, I suppose.

“We’ll be more than competitive, we probably just need to win our share of home games, that’s pretty important.”

The weekend pennant season commences on Saturday, 11 October from 1pm, with the A4 and A5 teams playing at home, while A1 head to Wodonga, and B2 are off to Howlong.