Kevin and Cass roll their way to bowls titles

By Rohan Aldous

Jan 13, 2022

Club champion: Moama Bowling Club star Kevin Anderson won his first singles club championship on Wednesday when he beat fellow Premier League player Graham O’Brien.

Watch and learn: Cass Millerick (left) won the Moama Bowling Club women’s singles club championship on Wednesday when she was a nine-shot victor against Terri Thompson. It was one of three club titles secured by bowlers from the region on Wednesday.

Second championship: Echuca Bowling Club’s 2022 women’s singles club champion, Pat Schram, lines up a bowl early in the 27-end contest she had with fellow Campaspe midweek skipper Leica Roney.

Kevin Anderson won his first Moama Bowling Club singles championship on Wednesday in what could be the start of several big wins for 2022.

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Anderson is a skip in the club’s Bendigo Campaspe Premier League bowls team and is also a member of the elite Moama Steamers Bowls Premier League (BPL) team.

The BPL, which is broadcast live on Kayo and Foxtel, will be hosted by Moama next month.

He could walk away from 2022 with a swag of titles if things continue in the vein which they have started this season.

Anderson and Cass Millerick walked away with the men’s and women’s club titles with identical scorelines, Anderson winning 25-16 against Graham O’Brien and Millerick repeating the scoreline against Terri Thompson.

Millerick plays as a third in the elite Bendigo Campaspe Goldfields Premier League competition, but is also a skip in the division one competition on Friday mornings.

O’Brien plays as a Premier League third, while Thompson is generally a second in midweek division two competition.

Millerick beat Mia Young, Lynn Snell, Marilyn Stephenson (who won the state singles last year) and Kerry Awti to qualify for the final.

Thompson beat Kelly Norris, Lucy Shepherd and Vera Curnow in the qualifiers.

O’Brien had to overcome Ken Maynard, Kevin Brennan and Stuart White to qualify for the final, while Anderson beat Peter Campbell, Vern Rehe, Kevin Connelly and Laurence Quinn.

Anderson finished with 16 end wins in the 25-end contest, winning nine of the opening 12 ends for a 16-5 lead.

O’Brien got to within six shots after three successive end wins later in the day and again when he secured three shots on the 21st end. But Anderson won four of the final five ends to win comfortably.

Millerick was 7-0 up after four ends of her bout with Thompson, who rallied significantly with wins on seven of the next eight ends to be only two shots down after 15 ends.

Millerick picked up the only three-shot haul of the match on the 16th end and won all but one of the final six ends for her victory.