GARFIELD BOWLS
Garfield Bowling Club won two of their matches this week with one side now sitting on top of the ladder.
On Tuesday, the Division 4 Midweek side travelled to Moe for a match bathed in sunshine.
All three teams brought home the bacon, winning well overall by 64 shots to 37.
The team skipped by Gwen Fabris, and consisting of Lexi Taylor, Cheryl Breteler and Bob Lamport, had a to-and-fro beginning and scores were level at seven shots all after seven ends.
The Garfielders then ran away to be 13 to 7 at half time.
The second half was virtually a duplicate of the first half, with Garfield winning by 24 shots to 14.
Alan White’s team, consisting of Keith Cooke, Trevor Peters, and Gordon Moxey, took a watch and learn approach from Gwen’s team.
They were four-all after seven ends, 9-4 at halfway and won by 21 shots to 10.
The team of Gerry Wakefield, John O’Shea and Helene Newton, with skip Malcolm Newham, had yet another runaway – catch-up game, with Garfield in front most of the day.
Moe made an effort to catch them but to no avail, and Garfield won by 19 shots to 13.
The side remains in second place on the ladder.
On Saturday, the Division 2 side hosted the ladder-leading team from Moe.
Despite winning two rinks, and losing two, the overall result was a loss by 75 shots to 87.
The team of Brad Fowler, Bob Lamport, Jasmine Fowler and skip Shane Oliver had a very close game all day, with each team up and down culminating in the Garfielders being five shots down with just two ends to go.
However, they fought back with seven shots on the last two ends to come home winners by 21 shots to 19.
Geoff Pumphrey, Ray Biffin, John O’Shea and skip Les Pumphrey were well up by 12 shots to 6 at the halfway mark and kept on going to win the day by 24 shots to 13.
The team consisting of Gerry Fuller, Cheryl Breteler, Gordon Moxey and skip Alan White, played what looked like a very tight game in the first half, to be 11 shots all at half time,
However, looks can be deceiving as that closeness included one end where they scored seven shots.
Their opponents carried on in the second half, but there was no big end to allow the Garfielders to match them, and they finished up losing by 16 shots to 26.
Stephen Whyte, skipping the team consisting of Ron Saunders, Henry Breteler and Gary Helmore, were down all day and lost in the end by 14 shots to 29.
This result leaves them in fourth place on the ladder.
Meanwhile, the Division 5 Saturday side played against Warragul at their place.
With two rinks having good wins, and the third rink just going down, the side won well by 67 shots to 35.
The team of Jan Moxey, Lexi Taylor, Trevor Peters and skip, Gwen Fabris, dropped the first two ends, to be three shots down; then caught those up in the next end before striding away for the rest of the game to win easily by 25 shots to 8.
Rick Sillett skipped the team of Frank Prins, Gerry Wakefield and Les Dawes.
They too lost the first two ends and then caught them up on the third end.
Unfortunately, they didn’t go on with it, being five shots down at the halfway point.
With two ends to go in the game they were still five shots down, and they finished losing by 12 shots to 18.
The team skipped by Brian Fox and consisting of Keith Cooke, Len Preece and Robert Matthews, won their first two ends to be three shots up; but in this case, there was no catch-up as the Garfielders ran away from their opponents, winning comprehensively by 30 shots to 9.
Another good win moves the side up to the top position on the ladder.
-Damian Brick-
