Round 1 in Review
BCiB Bowls WA Pennants The pennant season officially kicked off this weekend with round one of the men’s and women’s Saturday pennant competition. Margins varied from 0 to 116 shots across the metro area on a beautiful day for bowls and, for the first time, 5th division was played by three rink teams rather than the traditional four and had five colours.
It didn’t take long for the first draw of the season with Mt Pleasant and Thornlie splitting the points in four white. At the other end of the spectrum we saw the season’s first 100+ shot margin in the very same division with Willettons monstrous 116 shot win over Melville. The same game saw the first fifty badge earned for the 2015-16 season with the rink of Michael Pearson, George Sheardown, Brian Gilbert and John Hadley raising the bat in their 48 shot victory.
Innaloo’s five blue team showed the value of having consistency across all your rinks in their 86 shot victory over Innaloo. All three rinks contributed with two 27 shot victories and one 26 shot win. In contrast the four gold encounter between Yokine and Bassendean showed that bowls can be a game of very small margins. Yokine claimed seven and a half of the eight points on offer but only won by six shots. Each of their three rink wins were by just two shots making the game the closest across the board encounter of the round.
The closest division was certainly premier league with the largest margin of the day Cambridge’s fourteen shot victory over Wanneroo. Hopefully this is a sign of tight finals race throughout the year.
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Biggest Rink Wins
Men
Premier League: M Mitchell, Knott, Perica, Kemp 33-11 (Manning)
1st White: D Trewhella, Norac, Marinovic, Dragicevich 29-11 (Stirling) & Devenish, Crosthwaite, Kuziela, Richards 30-12 (North Beach)
1st Blue: Petrich, Bandy, Blight, Hawkes 29-6 (South Perth)
2nd Division: McIlveen, Hutchison, Wright, George 38-2 (Rockingham)
3rd Division: Yates, White, Lee, Leeson 41-5 (Claremont)
4th Division: Pearson, Sheardown, Gilbert, Hadley 53-5 (Willeton)
5th Division: Pedrotti, Sims, Billi, Buckingham 40-11 (Gosnells 1)
Women
1st Red: Crabb ,Lyster, Mclean, Kershaw 23-8 (Gosnells)
1st Blue: Davis, Newton, McCavana, Bolt 32-14 (Leeming) & Neill, Shaw, Batt, Bennetts 25-7 (Leeming)
2nd Division: Birkbeck, Davids, Prince, Batista 36-14 (Melville)
3rd Division: Robertson, Booker, Muntz, Steel 26-7 (North Beach) & De Jong, Hudson, Rapley, Miskell 24-5 (Manning)
Biggest Aggregate Wins
Men
Premier League: Cambridge 83-69 Wanneroo
1st White: Gosnells 87-65 Osborne Park
1st Blue: Quinns Rocks 96-58 Bassendean
2nd Division: Joondalup 93-56 Nollamara
3rd Division: Cockburn 121-40 Byford
4th Division: Willetton 155-39 Melville
5th Division: Innaloo 106-26 Lake Monger
Women
1st Red: Gosnells 43-23 Victoria Park/Carlisle
1st Blue: Leeming 57-21 Gosnells
2nd Division: Melville 57-29 Gosnells
3rd Division: North Beach 53-21 Mosman Park
