Arthur Bailey starts a rink for the Steamers. Photos: Jordan Townrow
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The weekend pennant is heating up at the top after leader Echuca dropped its first match of the season in Campaspe Playing Area.
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Deniliquin capitalised on its home greens to comfortably down the competition’s top dog 14-64 to 2-44.
Conway Bovell’s squad was firing on all cylinders as it kept the Echuca opposition to single figures 23-8.
Ian Ross’ Mathoura side went down 21-16.
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Shane Laing also had a strong win for Deni, 26-18, with only Phillip Thorn able to skip his Echuca side to rink points 18-15.
At Moama Bowling Club, Moama closed on the leaders with a comprehensive 16-70 to 0-49 victory over Mathoura.
Junior state champion Gracie Retallick in action for Moama.
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The biggest margin was in the rink skipped by Jock Linehan, who took down Peter Holzer’s squad 28-14.
In the other rinks, Robert Young prevailed 21-19, while Geoffrey Beattie took the points 21-16 in a Moama clean sweep.
Helen Holzer hopes to help out her side with this shot.
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Stanhope dropped a second consecutive game at the weekend, falling to Kyabram 13-66 to 3-59.
A strong result from Robert George, 26-17, put Kyabram in a good position and, while Stanhope’s Robert Ponton won his rink 21-19, a draw between Justin Spedding (Stanhope) and Greg Shilling (Kyabram) saw Ky hold on to the overall points.
Marilyn Stephenson was part of Moama’s biggest win of the afternoon.
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The remaining game of division one had Tongala close on the top four with a high-scoring win over Rich River 14-77 to 2-42.
Stephen Hammond’s quartet cleaned up, the 32-9 margin in his rink a big contributor to the final margin, while Bradley Tinning was also victorious for Tonny, 27-13.
Raymond Sangster looks to help out his Mathoura side.
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Tim Noar narrowly pulled one back for Rich River, 20-18, to earn two points, but it did little on the overall tally.
Rochester scored maximum points with the bye.
An intriguing top four now sees Echuca (84) within striking distance of a closely-packed next three, Moama (77), Stanhope (75) and Deniliquin (74).
Tony Hawley rolls it down for Moama.
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Lower divisions
In division two, Stanhope edged out Echuca despite dropping two rinks, 12-58 to 4-54.
Moama was perfect against Deniliquin, 16-59 to 0-43, and Rich River scored the win over Kyabram, 15-70 to 1-44.
Tongala had the bye.
In division three, Echuca narrowly took down Deniliquin, 13-62 to 3-60, while Tongala beat Rich River, 14-68 to 2-55, and Moama dominated Elmore, 16-66 to 0-51.
Kyabram won a close one over Stanhope, 14-60 to 2-58, and Lockington took all three rinks against Rochester, 16-76 to 0-57.
In division four, Echuca scored 43 shots in a single rink in a huge 14-95 to 2-40 result, while Rich River had a more nervous success over Tongala, 12-58 to 4-56.
Moama scored strongly over Mathoura 16-83 to 0-43, Kyrabram also ran up the score against Deniliquin RSL, 14-72 to 2-48, and Rochester just survived Lockington 14-57 to 2-56.
In division five, Deniliquin White defeated Echuca White 12-45 to 2-32, while Moama got the best of Deniliquin Blue 12-40 to 2-35.
Stanhope took down Kyabram 14-53 to 0-27 and Rochester edged out Echuca Blue 12-38 to 2-36.
The result between Lockington and Rich River wasn’t available.
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