Cardinia Waters midweek players visited Narre Warren for a practice game last Tuesday.
The ‘Panthers’ now play under the cover of a new roof structure at their Fountain Gate base.
For many of the Cardinia Waters players it was their first sighting of the new facilities at Narre Warren, and saw first hand the difficulties the club is facing, waiting for their refurbished club rooms to be completed.
However, nothing got in the way of a great workout on the bowling green.
Cardinia Waters took 17 players who played on four rinks against the home side.
In their two previous practice games Cardinia Waters had won fairly easily, but they knew Narre Warren – who will field five midweek sides in the upcoming midweek Pennant season – would be no cakewalk.
So, the final result of one win, a draw, and two losses satisfied the selectors, given Cardinia Waters only fields two midweek sides.
The winning rink was skipped by Ray Naylor, and included Jill Naylor, Ian Kennedy and Paul Brindle.
Ray reported that all players contributed to the win.
Bill Hite’s rink played out an epic draw with the final score of 21 each.
They were well behind early, and after 14 ends the scores were 7-21.
They then surged right back into the game, winning the last seven ends by fourteen shots to force a draw.
Bill played with Denis Patmore, Donny Gibson and Gary Bondfield.
Cardinia Waters still have two more practice games before the Metropolitan Pennant Competition starts on October 21.
On October 10 the midweek game will be against Kooweerup, and then a Saturday game against Lang Lang on October 14.
Cardinia Waters will celebrate Season Opening Day next Saturday.
This will commence on the bowling green at 9:30am, followed by a social game, then lunch in the clubhouse.
-John Moore-
