Cohuna
NOT a good start to the pennant finals on Wednesday.
Cohuna1 lost all rinks to Kerang.
Pyramid Hill next week at Cohuna Golf. Cohuna 2 lost to Kerang also.
They will meet Kerang Golf on Wednesday.
We need to put last week behind us and all turn up to practice on Tuesday.
Good luck to all players on Wednesday.
Saturday was a mixed bag, but the club still has two teams in with a chance.
Cohuna 1 2/44 lost to Cohuna Golf 10/74.
Next week it will be Kerang at Kerang Golf.
Cohuna 2 10/71 d Barham 3 2/48.
Saturday they will do battle with Barham 2 at Kerang Golf.
Practice has been organised for all selected players on Friday 5pm-6pm.
This will be followed by our usual Friday night tea. Come along and enjoy.
The club wishes both teams all the best for Wednesday and Saturday.
Anyone with time on their hands can come along and encourage our players representing our club at Cohuna Golf Wednesday and Kerang Golf on Saturday.
Best wishes to John Crichton who celebrated his 80th birthday over the weekend.
Cohuna Golf
NORTHERN District finals week one, and what a great result for our club.
Division One and Division Two Navy straight into their respective grand finals, compensating somewhat for the losses incurred in the midweek competition.
At Cohuna the midweek Ones met Pyramid Hill, who won on two rinks to score overall.
Well done to Gwen’s rink, our only winner finishing a solid year for all concerned.
The Twos played Kerang Golf, winning on one rink (great work the Baker team) against pretty strong opposition.
Thanks to all members who helped out to keep two sides playing competitively each week, no small task with our limited numbers.
Saturday pennant semis were held at our club, and firstly a big thank you to all who assisted in both the preparation, and then the running of the day’s bowls.
It was a great showcase for Cohuna Golf.
Division One defeated two of the Cohuna rinks quite clearly, with an inspired game by Brian Bowles allowing Cohuna to take the points against Jarred Hammond.
Bluey home by 11 and Harrison by 24 sealed the deal, both rinks bowling extremely well.
Division Two met ladder leaders Barham, and to the casual onlooker, the roles seemed reversed.
Jon Henty and side whitewashed Kim Watts by 19, to set up the win overall, but was aided by Des Easton’s one shot victory over Charlie Bagg.
After leading for most of the day, Doug Peace lost late ground to be beaten by just three.
Both sides have a spell this week, and will play next at Kerang.
At club level, our ladies on Tuesday combined remaining 100 up matches with triples.
Winners on the day were Rhonda, Val and Helen.
Wednesday night bowls saw Neil Simmonds, Richard Flinders and David McNamara score the chocolates by virtue of a big win over David Turnour.
Our statistician has identified both top and second four positions with the finals looming.
The top four consists of G.Valentine, K.Hocking, D.Turnour and K.Currie, with M.Appleby, S.Henty, M.Simmonds and P.Robinson making up the second four. N.Simmonds and R.Farrant are not far behind, and are assured of a game as well.
Neil Simmonds is duty team this week.
Thursday pairs saw a field of twenty chase the poultry, with the best two game winner being Alan Holmes and Barney McLoughlan.
The repecharge awards went the way of the JD’s, being John Dickins and John Pearson.
No pairs this week due to other events clashing, but back again on March 3.
On Sunday night we held the Hair and Body twilight fours, with 16 teams in attendance.
Competition was extra keen, more so due to so many clubs represented.
Winners with 77 points was the combination of Lionel and Jean Mann, and Frank and Irene Trezise, who finished ahead of teams skipped by Pat Quinn (75 points) and Ron Eckhardt (65).
A superb high tea finished off a wonderful weekend for the club.
Midweek Pennant
THE first semi- final was played at Cohuna on a very hot day in perfect conditions.
Division 1 was successful in defeating Cohuna – winning all rinks. Division 2 had a good win against Cohuna winning both rinks.
Both teams are now in the Grand Final which will be played at Kerang on Wednesday, March 2.
The teams are as follows.
Division 1 Team 1 – G. Teasdale (s), K. Teasdale, C. Fisher, L. Hein. Team 2 – M. Orr (s), C. Wise, T. Nolan, S. Pascoe. Team 3 – H. McBain (s), T. Pocock, A. Fagg, B. Williams. Em C. Pay.
Division 2 Team 1 – J. Jenkins (s), E. Fenton, D. Randell, D. Frantz. Team 2 – J. Maddox (s), B. Theobold, R. Maddox, J. Harrison. Em – M. Theobold, M. Robinson.
Practice will continue on Friday morning 10.30 am.
Good bowling and good luck.
Northern District
MIDWEEK first semi-final results.
Division 1 Pyramid Hill 10/65 def Cohuna Golf 2/54; Kerang 12/71 def Cohuna 0/50 .
Division 2 Kerang Golf 2 6/42 def Cohuna Golf 2 2/34; Kerang 2 8/36 def Cohuna 2 0/19.
NEXT GAMES
Division 1 – Pyramid Hill v Cohuna To be played at Cohuna Golf February 23. Kerang into grand final.
Division 2 – Kerang Golf 2 v Cohuna To be played at Cohuna Golf February 23. Kerang into grand final.
Saturday Pennant 1st semi-finals
Division 1 Kerang 8/55 def Barham 4/52; Cohuna Golf 10/74 def Cohuna 2/44.
Next week’s games February 26 at Kerang Golf Kerang v Cohuna. Cohuna Golf into grand final.
Division 2 Cohuna 2 10/71 def Barham 3 2/48; Cohuna Golf 3 10/63 def Barham 2 2/46.
Next week’s games at Kerang Golf Cohuna 2 v Barham 2. Cohuna Golf 3 into grand final.
Division 3 Barham 4 10/64 def Barham 5 2/56; Kerang Golf 3 10/79 def Kerang 4 2/44.
Next week’s games at Kerang Golf Barham 5 v Kerang Golf. Barham 4 into grand final.
Kerang Golf
FINALS time in both Midweek and Saturday Pennant with Kerang Golf represented in Division 3 on Saturday and the Midweek team playing last Wednesday.
Great news with the Midweek team winning the Division 2, 1st semi-final at Cohuna against Cohuna Golf and advancing to the preliminary final.
Lorraine Ritchie was a big winner by 11 shots, 27/16 and Joyce Tuohey went down by 3 shots, 15/18, so an 8 shot overall win, 42 to 34 – well done girls and boy.
They now face Cohuna at Cohuna Golf tomorrow.
Good luck.
The team is Joyce Tuohey (Skip), Mick Pors, Sonia McLeish and Allison Medson.
Team 2 is Lorraine Ritchie (Skip), Judy McKerrow, Rosie Laughlin and Lorraine Douglass.
Over at Wakool, great news for the Saturday Division 3 team who had a resounding win over Kerang 4, with the scores being 79/44.
A much improved performance from the previous week, with a couple of strong inclusions.
Great wins by Judy McKerrow’s rink by 24 shots and Noel Robertson’s by 22 shots easily covered the loss by “Fonzy’s” team.
Next Saturday’s preliminary final will be against Barham 5 on our home greens.
Good luck – a spot in the grand final awaits the winner.
On Sunday, the Northern Playing Area Champion of Champions was played at Kerang.
Lorraine Ritchie had a great win in the first game to advance to the last eight.
In her next game, she led for most of the match, before losing 25/22 against Suzanne Bennett from Leitchville.
Unfortunately, Howard McClelland ran in to a “hot” Kevin Teasdale and lost 25/10, in Round 1.
Last Monday evening, we played the Mixed Pairs Championship, with 8 combinations taking part.
At the end of the three games, the winners were Frank and Lorraine Ritchie with 75 points from their three wins.
A close tussle for second place with Laurie Gray and Joyce Tuohey managing to edge out Graeme Hayes and Marlena Orr by one point for the runners-up position.
One point further adrift was the Jim and Sonia McLeish combination with 52 points.
A great night, weather wise and the supper prepared by Carol and Ken, was appreciated by all – thank you.
Barefoot Bowls on Wednesday was won by The Lloyds – Lloyd Murray, Phil Lloyd, Andrew and Ian Charles, with 31 points and moving to 2nd place on the ladder.
Runners up were Hayes Real Eastate, with Graeme Hayes, Barry Theobald, Rod Pascoe and David Wood (for his first ever game of bowls).
The much sought after Encouragement Award chocolates were presented to Aaron Lancaster, Shane Waddingham, Mick Fisher and Kevin Chase.
Hayes Real Estate remain on top of the ladder with 113 points, followed by The Lloyds on 105, Royal Hotel 94 and Crackerjacks on 78, in fourth place.
The Thursday social bowls was enjoyed again by those who participated with triples being the game.
Perennial winner, Laurie Gray led the successful team ofStuart Robinson and Joyce Tuohey to collect the major prize.
Runners up were Judy McKerrow, “Curly” Curtis and Trevor Burmeister.
The encouragement chocolates went to Marlene Rawson, Kevin Chase and Allison Medson.
A couple of 100 Up matches were also completed with Jim McLeish defeating Jeff Anderson and Frank Ritchie proving tooready for Rob Fisher.
It is great tosee these matches being playedas it is important to have them completed, prior to presentations.
Quambatook
DIVISION 1 scraped in by three shots over Sea Lake on Saturday to move into third place on the ladder with one round to play.
Trailing by 26 shots at afternoon tea, Sea Lake came home strongly, but Quamby was able to hold on at the finish.
Division 2 lost by 27 shots but will finish in the finals with a bye next week.
RESULTS
Division 1 Quamby 10/71 def Sea Lake 2/68 C.Manners def A.Louttit 29/20; P.Schlitz def N.Watson 27/19; G.McKissack def by R.Stacey 15/29. Division 2 Quamby 0/43 def by Sea Lake 8/70; A.McKissack def by R.Allen 20/36; D.Geary def by L.Harker23/34.
