Webconna through to state champs

THE pennant finalists for Ballarat-Highlands Bowls Region played off on Saturday at the Kyneton Bowling Club.

Saturday and Tuesday Premier Division grand final winners played off against their counterparts from the other side of the region to decide which team would go on to represent the area in the State Pennant contest at Moama on Saturday, 21 May and Tuesday, 24 May.

Five Metropolitan regions make up one representative between them, coupled with 11 country regions. The high-class competition determines the champions across both midweek and weekend pennant competitions.

Both games were played with a strong gusty wind blowing across the green challenging all bowlers during the course of play.

 

Recent Saturday Primer Pennant winning side, Webbcona, had a close tussle in the early stages of the game before gaining shots over Lancefield and then took out the title comfortably.

Ben McArthur’s squad had a tight match with Lancefield’s Bev Holmes, and after taking the early lead by nine shots to nil four ends in, McArthur fought back to lead 21 to 13 at the conclusion of the 16^th.

The Lancefield rink then fought back into the contest reaching within two shots – 20 to McArthur’s 22 by the 20th.

In the last end the Webbcona rink withstood the pressure and got the final three shots to extend the lead to 25 to 20.

The Webbcona rink of Sarah Braybrook, Alistair Van der Ploeg, Greg Blackburn and Matthew Collins had a convenience win over their Lancefield counterparts winning 25 shots to 9 while the rink Matthew Blackburn’s foursome also enjoyed a good 20 to 12 shot victory.

 

In the mid-week competition City Oval got off to a good start before they foes Gisborne caught up.

At one point two of the three rinks were all on 12 shots each at the 13th end.

Ian Robinson’s squad bolted to a 11 to four-shot lead leading into the ninth end before his counterpart, the young Gisborne skipper Ethan Higgins lead his side to win 10 of the next 13 ends and taking the game by nine shots, 24 shots to Robinson’s 15.

The other two City Oval rinks of Peter Cameron and Wayne Roberts also went down to their Gisborne opponents by six and seven shots respectively.

 

– BY ANTHONY McCABE