Playing Ditch Weight

After there being no play on Thursday due to the rain there was quite a bit of play at the weekend.

The conditions varied from sunny and windy on Saturday to being sunny and still on Sunday morning and quite cool and cloudy by lunchtime.

The first games in a section of the Region Men’s Senior Singles started at 10 am on Saturday with Harold Anderson playing Cliff Traynor and Peter Watts playing Russell Boyd.

Both games had the same scoreline with Cliff defeating Harold 21–6 and Russell defeating Peter 21–6.

In one second round game Peter was completely in control against Cliff with a winning score of 21–1. In the other game Harold was unable to complete the game with Russell leading 17–5.

The third round of games were scheduled for Sunday morning. Harold forfeited his game to Peter so only one game was played.

Cliff won the first 5 ends against Russell and established a lead of 13–0. From that point the scoring was more even with Cliff running out the winner 21–12.

Russell was the section winner based on the overall margins and has qualified for the Region semi–finals to be played at Henty at the weekend.

Three players from the club were involved in sectional play for the Open Reserve Singles at Temora on Saturday.

Glen Seward was in Section 3 and lost his first game 21–6 to Bevan Krause from Temora. He then defeated M Landrigan from Junee 21–16. Landrigan then defeated Krause 21–12 which meant that Krause won the section with the highest margin.

George Somerville was playing in Section 4 and with one player withdrawing that section was reduced to two players. George defeated P Cook from Temora 21–5 to be the section winner.

In Section 5 Joe Read lost two close games. The first was 21–16 to C Cole from Temora and the second was 21–17 to W Paterson from Cootamundra.

As a section winner George Somerville returned to Temora on Sunday morning and won his next round 25–5 to qualify as one of the 16 players to contest the Region Finals at Henty.

Good luck to both Russell and George at the weekend.

In local play on Saturday afternoon there were 12 male and 4 female players on the green.

Colin Chapman and Ian Schofield completely dominated the scoring in the second half of their game to win 32–11.

Tom Preston and Mark Anderson were very consistent in their game and had a winning score of 20 to 11.

Max Penfold and Geoff Holt staged a strong comeback in their game scoring 6 shots on the final 3 ends to win 19–18.

Sheila Traynor and Robyn Apps did best in the second half of their game to win 20–9.

This week will see the start of the current Guy Pickering Charity Challenge competition.

This competition is for teams of three players and teams are still able to nominate by calling the Bowling Club on 6382 1112.

Players are advised to check the notice board for details of a Pairs Tournament to be conducted on Friday nights starting on 7th November.

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