BBC BROADCAST WEEKEND MARCH 16th/17th (Terry Norwood at the desk)
Pennants Grade Three (Stephen Della reporting)
Saturday saw Grade Three travel to Springwood and have a 10 – 0 win to make it four wins from four starts. A quick start from the Spong team with a 15 – 0 lead after four ends saw Bowral take a 23 – 15 lead after the first twenty-one ends. The hosts won the middle quarter 20 – 13 and Bowral had a one shot lead 46 – 45 on the big board. Team Braithwaite were down 3 – 12 after fourteen ends but led the Bowral comeback with a 19 – 5 spurt including a seven. Armstrong won the back end 10 – 7 and it was 5 – 5 on the other rink to see Bowral win all three rinks with a 69 – 51 win. Results on the three rinks were:
Ash Lewis, Nathan Boyers, Kev Stafford, Mick Spong 26 V Springwood 15
Terry Butt, Greg Lewis, Mick Anderson, Mick Armstrong 22 V Springwood 19
Al McGhee, Dave Coltman, Stephen Della, Dugald Braithwaite 22 V Springwood 17
In round 5 next Saturday Bowral will play host to St Marys.
Pennants Grade Six
The Grade Six team was host to the bowlers from Robertson. In a fairly tight opening, Bowral held a lead overall of 22 – 16 after the first seven ends. After fourteen ends Bowral was still in front leading 41 – 32, being ahead on all three rinks. However, Robertson came home the better to snatch an overall victory by one shot 56 – 55 and leave Bowral winless on the bottom of the table. Robertson took 9 competition points from the encounter leaving Bowral with 1 point. Results on the three rinks were:
Lynne Boshier, Terry Norwood, Margaret Lawless, Bob Crowley 18 V Robertson 21
Noel Fraser, Jim Neely, Gail Fraser, Gordon Lewis 22 V Robertson 15
Graham Hunt, Arny Lenczuk, Reta South, Bob Edwards 15 V Robertson 20
In round 5 next Saturday Bowral will be at home again to Bundanoon.
Major Pairs Championship
Despite the inclement weather the semi-finals and the final went ahead on Sunday 17th. The drizzly rain made things quite challenging for the bowlers as well as being fairly unpleasant. Nonetheless, all the contestants got their heads down and played some fine bowls. The results of the semi-finals were:
Dugald Braithwaite and Al McGhee 23 def Peter Flight and Dave Coltman 18
Mick Spong and Mick Armstrong 22 def Stephen Della and Kev Stafford 10
In the final, which finished late because of the wet, cold conditions was a very tight game. The scores were locked at 7 all after eleven ends and 9 all after fourteen ends. However, in an outstanding performance Dugald and Al won six of the last seven ends to take out the title with a 16 – 11 result. In the end, it was the conversion bowls from skipper Al McGhee that proved the difference over those last seven ends. Dugald and Al will now represent Bowral in the State Champion of Champions event late April/early May. Bowl well fellas!
Our Pairs Champions, Dugald Braithwaite and Alastair McGhee!