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November 5, 2006
The Bedford Bulls are on a roll, following up on yesterdays win against the
Powerhouse with a huge win against Morley
this afternoon. Most would have tipped Bedford to win
Melville Magic have beaten Leeming 8/0 and are on top of the table, the $64
question is who is going to beat them?
Osborne Park break thru for their first win against the Powerhouse who are winless
at this early stage of the season
The Wanneroo Express are going well
with a tidy win against the giant killers of the competition Kalamunda
The Cockburn Roosters who had their feathers ruffled in the opening round came
back hard to send the Cambridge Knights back to Floreat with only one point
showing on the score sheet.
| Club | Played | Won | lost | Draw | rinks Wins | for | Agst | Points | % |
| Melville | 2 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 15 | ||||
| Bedford | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6* | 14.5 | ||||
| Wanneroo | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5* | 13.5 | ||||
| Kalamunda | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4* | 8.5 | ||||
| Cockburn | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| Osborne Pk | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| Cambridge | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7 | ||||
| Morley | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2* | 2.5 | ||||
| Doubleview | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Leeming | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||
Bedford Bulls
(7.5 ) DEF Morley (0.5) ......96/58
L.Strahan (skip), D.Wood, G.Hill, P.Healy-------------------29
J. Armstrong , B. Walter, M. Robinson, B. Urquhart ----------15
The
game started out with the Morley boys well on top and getting plenty of
Bowls around the head with Greg Hill finding the line and weight best
for the front three for Bedford, the Bulls leader and the third had not
adjusted to the conditions at the 5 end stage. Lance Strahan played a
great skippers backup role, saving the rink with with timely draw shots
or cutting the count down. The first 5 ends saw the score level at 5/5
and Lance would have nearly earnt them all.
From here on Greg hill came to the party and started to be of great value,
Lets not forget that the Morley rink were playing well but Lance Strahan
was on fire and no matter what the situation he either drew, drove or
played a mid range shot to secure the end. At the end of the 10th end
the rink lead 16/10.
Lance Strahan (pictured) Played a blinder, played
every shot in the book with aplomb, would have
given him a 10 but for dropping his chalk on the 9th end
From around this end Peter Healy, who was losing the battle with Bill
Urquhart started to find consistency
and started to pile them on the jack and Daniel Wood who also was having
his share of problems found his range and played a telling game from here.
In the meantime The Morley Players were still hanging in there but after
having so many shots taken from them suddenly found with the Bulls leader
and third playing far better they were under much more pressure
The added support
to Lance, who was still playing brilliantly and Greg "Mountain" Hill,
also was playing so well as a two for the second day in a row, the
score shot away for the Bulls to lead 27/10 on the 15th end.
This was the only lapse by Morley where they lost in each position at
the same time.
Bill Urquhart played a good game while Murray Robinson tho beaten in his
position played many fine bowls. Bruce Walter was busy and was in the
picture. John Armstrong who played many good bowls was powerless to stop
Lance .
By now the fire had gone out of the game and
the last 6 ends saw Morley pick up 5 shots against Bedfords 2.
The star of this game was undoubtedly Lance Strahan who rarely wasted
a bowl and when you think about it Last season he won only 2 games for
the season. So he is now 2/0 and playing state level bowls.
How I voted -- I do mark the card from end 1 to end 21 and it
really tells me the picture. Any Morley player could have got the third vote
but over all the best were,
3. Lance Strahan 2. Greg Hill, 1.Bruce Walter.
P.Harris (skip),
S.Shaw, N.Minchin, J.Carlson-------------------25
R. Urquhart , J. Heiden, J. Manning, A.
Elmer --------------------14
Pieter Harris has his boys were well drilled, they were leading 15/1 on the
8th end, 20/2 on the 11th end. For the next 10 ends they could only manage
to get another 5 shots, while Robbie Urquhart picked up 12 shots.
S.Bainbridge
(skip), B.Gartrell, M.Lemos, K.Burke--------------24
P. Aungier (skip) J Sheridan , A. Barron,
M. Callcott -------------11
The whole Stu Bainbridge rink played very well to shut out any chance of a
Morley victory. Kevin Burke led well Mel Lemos had a great day, Barry Gartrell
had a great weekend of bowls and Stu Bainbridge played an excellent game as
skipper and looks to be in for a very good season.
The Morley boys were all at sea and will have to lift their game if they are
to be able to enjoy Saturday pennants
The Jones Boy (skip), C.Graybrook, Paul
Hunter, V.Colley------18
W. Neilson , G. Grieve, B. Driscoll, B. Moyle -----------------------18
A great game and a terrific dual between the leaders Vaughan
Colley and Brad Moyle, a new comer to the Premier league and previously played
for Sportsmans. Both boys went hammer and tongs at one another, top class leading
from both boys.
The Jones boy was in peak form with many brilliant bowls for Bedford but had
to contend with Wayne Neilson, who by his own words had a bad first half of
the game, and a great second half where his driving saved many big scores going
against him, he was able to hold out the Bedford boys by continually changing
the head around and forced a draw in a great game.
SUNDAY 5TH NOVEMBER
Cockburn (7) DEF Cambridge (1 )
S. Srhoy (Skip), A. Petchell, I. Jakovich,
S. Vassallio-----. 20
S.Edmonds (skip) C.Lander,G.Kane, C.McKenna-----------15
G. Carberry (Skip), J. Galipo, C. Jones, S.West-------------18
R.
Stockton (skip) A.Heal,T.Walsh,H.Christensen---------17
R. Hughes (Skip), S. Cerff, G. Cairns,
D. Penman-----------.15
B.Katunarich (skip) M.McGann, W.Maher,
D.Irvin.--------17
D. Brown (Skip),
M. Zusman,J. Ravilich, P. Novak----------29
T.Smallacombe(skip) N.Lewis,B.Kiely,R.Bolton------------19
Melville (8) DEF Leeming (0) 93/70
Jon Sharp (skip), Steve Hughes, Roger Barns, John Birch-------------23
D. Comrie (skip)------------------------------------------------------------19
A. Provost (skip), Doc Oakley, Kiran Cousins, John Tyrrel..................25
W. Heldt (skip)-------------------------------------------------------------.22
Cam Girvan (skip), John Trewhella, Ray Kennedy, John Andrew........20
J. Richards (skip) ----------------------------------------------------------114
R.Butler (skip) ,Bomber Gearing, Shane Knott, M. Trewhella...............25
B. Edwards (skip)-----------------------------------------------------------..15
Wanneroo DEF Kalamunda 7/1
C.Adams (skip), Russ Bates, Gary Cox, Graham.Adamini-----------------17
N.Griffin
(skip), M.Clancy-E.Martin-M.Douthie----------------------------22
Stein Davies (skip), Ted.Alden, Murray Hulbert, Derrick
Griffin---------15
B.Brandsma(skip) B.Tie, R.Payne, L.Pewsey--------------------------------15
Geoff Ellis (skip), Ron Bates, Barry Parmenter, Sean Wright--------------32
R.Eddy (skip) M.Biglin-J.Rollnik-T.Nattalotto------------------------------10
Neville Stevens (skip), John Carter, Ken Boswell, Reg Humphryson-------26
N.Payne (skip) G.Payne-P.Coyle-F.Anderson----------------------.----------21
Osborne Park(7)DEF Doubleview (1)............79/77
J. Goddard (skip),Fred Di Giuseppe C. Guelfi P. Maynard..................20
B Urquhart (skip) C Slavich,
W Langdon,A. Dawson ------------------. 16
D. Trewhella (skip), Pat Caffell J.
Tyrer, S. Wattleworth.....................11
D Katunarich, A Delaporte, R Dempsey, J Bausor -----------------------27
Bill Galloway (skip), Ian Payne.G. Nicol,D. Appelton..........................24
L Thorn, J Slavich, D Slavich, J Wholohan-------------------------------20
Gary Caffell(skip),Wings Evans. G King, J Coleman..............................24
K McIlroy (skip), P Buller, M Mitchell, G Papadopolous----------------14
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