Parkes bowls
By MARTY TIGHE
Championship matches
Major Pairs action continued through the preliminary rounds with one Match played last Thursday evening.
Father and son – Warwick and Matt Parker, lined up against Bruce Orr and Pete McPhee.
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The pair of Parkers’ won by 18 shots to 9.
Warwick and Matt, relishing underdog status in the Championship, again displayed their title credentials by bowling consistent weight, line and length, comfortably accounting for Bruce and Peter.
Social bowls
Common sense prevailed last Thursday with social bowls moved to a morning time slot in an attempt to beat the hottest part of the day.
Eighteen bowlers rolled up to play one game of triples and three games of pairs.
Geoff Smith, Bob Freeman and Gary McPhee started like a house on fire in their triples game, scoring 4 shots on the first end, followed by 5 shots on the third end, only to completely lose their way when George Bradley, Phil Moran and Darryl McKellar got their acts together.
Team McKellar dominated the game after the 5th end, soundly defeating team Gary ‘2 wrong bias’ McPhee by 36 shots to 17.
Dave Parker and John Wright had a good game against John Carr and Ian Simpson, with Dave and John winning 24 shots to 21 over a gallant John and Ian.
Dave and John scored three 4 shot ends and a 5 shot end, all in the first half of the game, to establish a comfortable margin of 7 shots as they turned for home.
John and Ian mounted several challenges, and were within 2 shots after the 17th end, but were not able to quite draw level, losing a good game to watch, by just 3 shots.
It was a tense finish in the game featuring Col Miller and John Ward against Rob Hill and Colin Hayward as the scores were tied at 15 shots each after 17 ends.
Team Hayward finished the stronger by winning each of the remaining ends, winning another close game by just 4, final scores were 19 shots to 15.
Warren Bevan found himself bowling as a Lead to Skip Greg Townsend and wound back the clock with some great Lead Bowls, as he and Greg took apart Greg Davis and Steve Ryan.
In a dominant performance from the first end, Warren and Greg enjoyed a big win of 28 shots to 13.
Saturday social bowls saw 20 bowlers enjoy two games of triples and two games of pairs.
Rodney Ford led well for Dave Parker and Skip Ian Simpson against young up and coming Bowler Ethan Lacey, and the not so young pair of Bob Freeman and John Ward.
Simmo’s men started slowly, but came home strong like a Harvester racing home a storm, coming from behind to take the lead on the 14th end, to win the game by 23 shots to 18.
Simmo was euphoric after the win, and later in the club ordered 2 double whiskeys, took a mouthful and said to Mick behind the bar, ‘that I shouldn’t be drinking this with what I’ve got’.
Mick looked up and said, ‘why, what have you got?’. Simmo said ‘only 3 dollars’!
A closely fought pairs contest resulted in a very unusual scoring pattern in the game featuring Phil Moran, Colin Hayward and John Wright against Ron Hornery, Joanne Simpson and Rob Lacey.
Of the 20 ends played, only 3 ends resulted in a score more than 1 shot.
The final score of 16 shots to 15, in favour of Team Wright, was testament to the close and even game.
After 13 ends, team Wright led by 9 shots to 6, then led by 16 shots to 6 after 16 ends but conceded each of the remaining ends and were looking shaky when team Lacey scored 5 shots on 18th end, followed by scoring 3 shots over the remaining ends.
Team Lacey staged a good comeback, but fell just 1 shot short against Phil, Colin and John.
The weekly grudge match featured the turbo charged, but the nearly home-less, prime mover Steve Turner and Nathan ‘not Andrew’ Reynolds against Darryl ‘dazzler’ McKellar and Dave Reilly.
In a very closely fought game, upon which nothing was riding except the best sledges, Steve and Nathan went shot for shot against their top-tier opponents, with the scores level after 13 ends.
Dave and Darryl scored 7 shots over the next 2 ends to leap ahead by 17 shots to 10 after 15 ends, but they then seemingly put their cues in the rack.
Like a Truckie racing to beat a speed camera, big Steve and Dazzler stormed home to win each of the remaining ends, including an exciting 4 shots on the last end, to win the game on the last by 19 shots to 17.
Mick Simpson and Gary McPhee played Graham Dixon and Guy Ellery in another high standard game between top bowlers.
The final score of 20 shots to 15 in favour of Mick and Gary didn’t fully indicate the high standard close game in which neither team was able to create a margin greater than a couple of shots.
The scores were level at 13 shots each after the 15th end.
With the game up for grabs, Mick and Gary went for glory, and won 5 of the remaining 6 ends.
Team McPhee won by 5 shots over Graham and Guy.
There wasn’t a winner in Lucky Rink draws last week.
The jackpot now sits at $140 for next Thursday.
Gary ‘GOAT’ McPhee has consolidated his lead at the top of the Wrong Bias table, with 2 more Wrong Bias efforts, and now leads the table with 4, over his closest rival John Ward on 2.
Social bowls are played each Thursday and Saturday at 1pm, names in by 12.30pm and, as always, the ‘Friendly Club’ welcomes all visitors to play social bowls.
Ladies bowls are played on Tuesday.
Two raffles are held each Friday, as well as the lucky 100 number wheel and pick-a-box, together with the members draw. The members draw jackpot is now $1700. All the action starts from 7pm
