Rich River Bowls Club

The previous Wednesday winners were Max Kosch and Bill Wheeler and runners-up were Noel Dixon and Hugh Davies.

Friday’s midweek pennant side will be playing the preliminary finals at Rochester. Wishing all the best to division two and three.

The sides competing for Rich River are as follows:

Division two, playing Elmore: J. Hocken (skip), P. Stiles, M. Spinks, A. Kosch; M. Stevens (skip), T. Beck, J. White, W. Nagorcka; P. Sehestedt (skip), B. Mills, P. Edgar, B. Linquist.

Division three, playing Echuca: H. Freeman (skip), N. King, C. Mackenzie, S. Shine; E. Pineo (skip), J. Luke, S McGann, F. Galvin.

A midweek pennant dinner will be held after the grand final on March 1, all are welcome.

After the weekend pennant match on Saturday there will be a bistro meal for all teams and their partners.

Rich River’s weekend pennant teams are as follows:

Division one: Stan Barker (skip), Max Kosch, Ken Jones, Bruce O’Neale; Tim Noar (skip), Robert King, Jerome Shaw, Robert Taylor; Gary Radford (skip), Trevor Nagorcka, Peter Moon, Eugene Xodo.

Division two: Noel Dixon (skip), Roy Berryman, Allan Linquist, Robert Holmfield; Keith Hewitt (skip), Darryl Wood, Ashley French, Ron Bentley; Hugh Davies (skip), Barry Devlin, Graeme Moffatt, Paul Wallace.

Division three: Barry Downer (skip), Greg Clymo, Des Sehestedt, Bill McEwan, Max Bidgood, Paul Kearney, Rob Thomas, Leon Sharp; Gerry Devlin (skip), Warwick Styles, Ron Richie, Bill Curnow.

Division four: John Stuart (skip), Geoff Kiefel, Geoff Rayner, Franco Perissinotto; Vic Woods (skip), John Armstrong, George Clarence, Robert Brereton; Graham Edgar (skip), John James, Keith Rowan, John Langley.

Division five: Malcolm Mitchell (skip), John Exton, Mal Whyte, Peter Preston; Barry Kelly (skip), Laurie Phillips, Doug Jay, Ray Shelly.

The Villawood ladies prestige fours tournament is to be held on Wednesday, February 27, all entries welcome.

The coming week’s jackpot pairs will be held on Tuesday at 9am instead of Wednesday.

Twilight bowls commences on March 21 at 4pm with a bistro meal afterwards, single entries are most welcome.

Sixty and over bowls

On a magnificent day at the Moama Bowls complex 120 bowlers enjoyed Anniversary Day.

Four three-game winners bowled off against the yard stick. Runners-up on the day were the Tongala team of F. Vanerburgt, I. Tinning, K. Tinning and skip B. Campbell. Winners were from Moama, J. Ryan, R. McDonald, B. Hill and skip B. Barbary.

The coming week’s play will be at Elmore Bowling Club starting from 10am.

CVBD bowls news

Midweek pennant semi-finals were played on Friday at Rochester, City of Echuca and Rich River.

Five of the six matches played had close results with under four shots separating them.

Division one saw both matches come down to the last end. Moama defeated Echuca and Deniliquin defeated Mathoura.

Moama go straight into the grand final while Deniliquin will play Echuca in the preliminary final. This is a repeat of last year’s results.

Although Mathoura went out, they should be pleased with their season – their first in division one.

In division two, Moama had a clear win over Rich River. Moama are straight through to the grand final and Rich River will play Elmore in the preliminary.

Elmore’s match to defeat Echuca was a nail-biting affair.

Division three saw Moama claim a one-shot victory over Echuca, who will now play Rich River. Rich River defeated Tongala, also by a single shot.

Preliminary finals will be played at Rochester. The welcome will be at 9am.

The weekend pennant re-instated match (from January 26) will be played the following Saturday. The finals have all been put back a week and the region final has not been affected by this change.

In division one Moama is clearly on top, but the positions of the next four teams can change. Rich River play Echuca and Deniliquin play Tongala, so they are all in charge of their own destiny.

Division two sees Moama on top of the ladder and Echuca will remain in the four, but which teams make up the four can change.

Mathoura, Deniliquin and Rochester will all be working hard to take enough points to secure a position.

In division three Rochester, Moama and Echuca will definitely play finals. It is possible for the ladder to change, but as Deniliquin RSL is playing Rochester, they will have to work hard to get enough points to put Deniliquin out.

Division four sees the top four teams firmly entrenched. Moama, Mathoura, Lockington and Rich River will all play finals, but there still may be positional changes within the four.

In division five, Deni RSL, Moama Red and Moama Green are clearly in the four, but the last position can alter. Depending on this week’s results Elmore, Mathoura or Echuca could take fourth.

Elmore’s women’s fours team of Evelyn Locke, Ann Williams, Ina Heywood and Lorna Wilson and Rochester’s men’s triples team of David Keenan, Ash Vesty and Cameron Keenan should be congratulated on their successes at Bendigo Bowling Club in the regional finals.

On Sunday at White Hills Bowling Club, CVBD representatives will again be vying for the right to represent the Bendigo-Campaspe region at championship week.

In the morning, Mia Young and Maryann Spizer (Moama) will play Carol Gallop and Anne Boreham from Bendigo East in the women’s pairs.

In the men’s pairs, Ash Vesty and Cameron Keenan (Rochester) will meet Wayne Naughton and Ken Rusbridge from Eaglehawk.

The mixed pairs match will be between Philip Thorn and Pat Schram (Echuca) and Susan Howes and Andrew Brown, a composite team.

The singles matches will be played in the afternoon. Jill Grimshaw (Deniliquin) will play Julie Ross from Golden Square in the women’s singles and Rob Wastell (Moama) will meet Ken Rusbridge from Eaglehawk in the men’s singles.

Senior citizens bowls

Indoor bowls from the previous week saw winners in Win Kneebone (skip), Miriam Pascoe and Joan Hales.

Runners-up were the team of Val Gaylor (skip), Lesley Matthews and Joan Fatone.

Mathoura Bowls Club

Weekend pennant results from Saturday saw Mathoura’s division one take on Rich River at Mathoura, going down by six shots, 67-73.

In division two Mathoura took on Lockington at Lockington with the match ending in a 66-all tie.

In division four, Mathoura took on Rich River at Rich River and went down by 30 shots, 57-87.

Division five saw Mathoura take on Rich River at Mathoura and come out with an emphatic 64-27 victory.

Ladder positions for Mathoura are as follows. Division one, sixth; division two, third; division four, second; division five, fifth.

The club championships mixed pairs saw C and J Moss defeat J. Chalmers and L. Bates. Congratulations to Cec and Joan, they are the club’s mixed pairs club champions for this season.

In the men’s 100-up handicap P. Wilson defeated T. O’Callaghan and S. Limbrick defeated M. Beeche.

In the men’s pairs I. Hunter and R. Werner defeated J and A. Hulm.

In the 21-up B grade men’s singles T. Starkey defeated C. Hillier, P. Clear defeated J. Dean, S. O’Callaghan defeated P. Wilson, T. O’Callaghan defeated J. Toomey, G. Lumsden defeated D. Guthridge and M. Beeche defeated A. Prime.

Congratulations to the club’s midweek pennant side on a team performance in their first year of playing in division one, losing to Deniliquin by three shots in their first finals appearance, be proud of the year.

Lockington Bowls Club

The women played for the coveted Alys Humbert Club Pairs on the previous Tuesday in varied conditions including sun, rain and wind.

However all soldiered on to complete the games. The winning pair comprised Ann Lowrie and Kath Palmer (skip) in a fine display of bowls.

Runners-up were Joy Weller and Phylis MacFarlane (skip) with Weller also winning the voucher.

In the CVBD weekend pennant the club fared well to have division two play out a thrilling 66-all tie with Mathoura while division four collected all points in a 110-40 win over Ky Valley View.

In the division two clash the Graeme Turner four was the only winning rink. Division four had all rinks winning in a mammoth victory.

With one round to be completed the division four team remains in third position on the premiership ladder.

However, with the shock losses to Moama and Mathoura on Saturday the door remains ajar for Lockington to grab a second chance if the club defeats City of Echuca.

In the CVBD midweek pennant competition the semi-finals were hotly contested with small margins separating teams in all divisions.

Division one: Moama defeated City of Echuca 67-63, Deniliquin defeated Mathoura 75-72.

Division two: Moama defeated Rich River 93-61, Elmore defeated City of Echuca 74-71.

Division three: Moama defeated City of Echuca 47-46, Rich River defeated Tongala 51-50.

Moama has three teams in the grand finals.

In the club competitions, Don Isgro was in brilliant form to defeat Tom Davis in a round of the Presidents Trophy 21-up.

Another game completed was the match between the valiant Dave Thomas and club champion Ray Hanson. Hanson was able to control the mat to record an emphatic victory and proceed to the next round.

The Friday evening practice and cold meat and salad meal was well attended, with Ken Main missing out on the lucky members draw.

Bowlers are reminded to enter the Toyota Open Fours to be held on Sunday March 24 commencing at 9.30am. Contact Chris Stewart 5486 2607 for entries.

Moama RSL

Indoor bowls results from Monday, February 18 saw 28 players contest three games of seven ends.

The winners on 33 points were Peter Pavone (skip), Rhys Jenkins, Bev Guarda and June Simpson. Runners-up with 32 points were Heather Smith (skip), Val Gaylor and Pat Benson.

Consolation prizes went to Denise Lee, Maureen Vosper, Phyllis Eley and Liz Portwine.