Manning soar in Premier victory
Women’s BCiB Tuesday Pennant Wrap The Manning Eagles have won their third successive BCiB Premier League premiership and a remarkable eighth in the last ten years winning the 2016/17 title on Wednesday. Manning defeated Mosman Park 64-54 in the grand final at Yokine and won on each of the three rinks.
Manning enjoyed an incredible year with their only loss coming against their grand final opponents Mosman Park. They still finished the year 14 points clear of second placed Mosman before defeating the runners-up twice in three days to win the flag.
Neither side could make any sort of head way early in the game with the scores remaining very tight for much of the first half. Just after the halfway point was when Manning kicked on as Kristina Krstic’s rink picked up nine shots in four ends while Therese Hastings’ rink put up eight in four at a similar time.
With all three rinks now holding leads and keeping their margins relatively steady it looked like Manning would do enough to kill off the game. With Hastings and Helen Morss doing enough to keep hold of their slight advantages until the end of the game a late charge from Kerry Andersen against Krstic wasn’t enough to get Mosman back in it. Ten shots separated the two sides at the end of the game with Krstic’s six shot win the biggest of the game.
The depth of talent available to Manning is evident in the State Side picked for the trip to Adelaide of which eight members represented Manning in the grand final.
In 1st White the Pennant was awarded to Melville as they finished on top of the ladder after the home and away season with an impressive 15 wins and a draw. However Melville surprisingly didn’t gain promotion, the change to the pennant structure forced them to play in the Challenge Play-offs against the 8th placed Premier League Leeming side who prevailed 65-48 to retain their spot. Safety Bay who finished 2nd in 1st White managed to move back into Premier League defeating Manning 2 63-57.
1st Green saw another triumph for the strong Leeming club as they claimed bragging right for the south of the river. They defeated their 1 Green North rivals Sorrento 54-45 in a low scoring and tense pennant final. Linda Davis and her rink providing the goods for Leeming with an important 10 shot rink win to sway the aggregate.
2nd Division saw a great result for Mt Lawley who took their first pennant since 2004 with a tight 57-52 victory over Kardinya. It was a great season for the Mt Lawley ladies losing only 2 games over the course of the 18 home and away rounds plus two finals. Janice Miles and her rink the real stars for Mt Lawley with a big 32-10 win making a huge difference.
The 2nd Division v 1st Green challenge finals saw the closest result of the day with Morley winning by just 1 shot over Scarborough 56-55 to keep 1st division status. Other winners were Rockingham 59-53 over Willetton, Merriwa AFA 64-45 over Quinns Rocks and Thornlie 83-45 over Warnbro, in the end no second division teams were able to claim a challenge final win and move up a division.
In the 3rd Division v 2nd Division challenge finals the winners were – Bassendean, Bullcreek AFA, Cambridge, Gosnells, Merriwa, North Beach, Victoria Park Carlisle with Rossmoyne also retaining second division through a forfeit.
And finally the fourth division v third division challenge final winners were Hollywood-Subiaco, Bayswater with Glen Forrest retaining their spot after a forfeit.
Congratulations to all pennant and challenge finals winners for 2016/17.
