Thursday,
13 March 2025
Good results for Young bowlers over the weekend

The club’s three Pennant sides all recorded good results over the weekend.

The Grade 2 side was opposed to Temora Ex–Services Grade 4 at Young on Saturday afternoon and won on all three rinks – two by the smallest of margins – to claim all 10 points.

In the individual games David Quigley defeated Artie Stacey 29–13, Damien Miller defeated Ben Gersbach 23–22 and Brian Madden defeated Steve Cameron 21–20.

Both Grade 6 and Grade 7 played on Saturday morning.

Grade 6 played against Harden Grade 6 at Boorowa Ex–Services club and won with an overall score of 57–40 to obtain 9 points.

Glen Benson lost to Michael Patterson 13–15, Graeme Edgerton defeated Shane McKellar 22–8 and Cliff Traynor defeated John Balcomb 22–17.

At Cootamundra Ex–Services Club our Grade 7 side won overall 55–51 and scored 9 points.

Geoff DeBritt lost to Luke Cram 14–21, Mark Anderson defeated Eric Thorburn 23–13 and Denis Rosen defeated to Ashley Bettridge 18–17.

Saturday’s game was the final sectional game for Grade 6 in the Grade 5 / Grade 6 competition.

They were clear winners of their section scoring 46 from a possible 50 points from their five games.

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The side will contest the Riverina Murray final for Grade 6 at Leeton on the first weekend in May.

The club’s Grade 2 and Grade 7 sides will complete their sectional games this weekend.

The Grade 2 side will travel to Tumut and need to win this contest to qualify for the Region finals.

Grade 7 will be playing at home against Boorowa Ex–Services and even a 10–0 win will not ensure that they qualify for the Region finals.

Two games of Club Singles were completed on Sunday morning.

Brian Madden played Joe Read and after 13 ends Brian led 19–6.

Joe won the next 3 ends and this saw the score at 19–15 in Brian’s favour.

The final few ends were evenly shared with Brian winning 25–20.

Jonathon Watson played Cliff Traynor in the other game.

After 14 ends the score was 11–10 in Jono’s favour and after 18 ends he led 18-14.

On the 19th and 21st ends Jono played excellent conversion shots when he was 3 down and he went on to win 25–15.

Play during the week saw three games of pairs played on Thursday afternoon in very windy conditions.

The winning teams and their scores were Harold Anderson and Brian McNair 23–8, Ray Martin and Cliff Traynor 23–14 and Albert Carter and Les Fanning 16–14.

The winners for Guy Pickering Charity Challenge on Wednesday night were Noisy’s for the second week in a row.

The Blockers team had a very big win on Thursday night and scored 16 points.

The Bowl Terras and Kingsvale Workshop teams both scored 14 points.

CLIFF TRAYNOR