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The Berrigan Sports mid-week pennant team have made the Murray Bowls Division 2 Grand Final after a narrow victory over Cobram at Numurkah Golf on Friday.

Berrigan Sports won by five shots, 66-61: Faye Gibbs, Elaine Hawkins, Kura Goldsmith, Irene Whelan 25-22; Glenys McKay, Mary Curtin, Clare Harvey, Katie Vandermeer 20-16; Val Chisholm, Jill Loats, Marg Pola, Lesley Fankhauser 21-23.

Berrigan Sports will play Numurkah in the Grand Final at Tocumwal this Friday.

The news was not so good for the Saturday pennant teams. The Division 2 pennant team had to beat Numurkah Golf to stay in the hunt for a place in the finals, but unfortunately they were not good enough on the day, going down 103-89 (10-4).

Skipper and rink scores: M Rooney 17-29, R Bradbury 27-20 (picking up 7 shots on the last end), M Bush 28-20 and D Fruend 17-34.

The result means that Berrigan Sports cannot make the finals and next week’s match at home against Numurkah is for pride only.

Division 4 also lost narrowly, defeated by Numurkah 67-59. They play Cobram at Cobram next week.

The Men’s triples will be played on Sunday starting at 10am with entry for teams closing 5pm on Saturday.

Tocumwal

Tuesday, February 7, saw the final of the Men’s Triples Board event played between the up and comers of Pete Dyhin, Laurie Deering and a spiritedly experienced Wally Atkins up against the fancied team of Ed Jarvis Walker, David Whiteside and Alan Whiteside.

After getting first points on the board the Dyhin, Deering and Atkins combination were able to hold off their competitors, who came back at them over the final nine ends but left their run a little late.

This is a first win for Dyhin and Deering in a board event, and Atkins has his name already there for a couple other events.

Last Wednesday saw 16 players in women’s social bowls. Winners - V Dowling, A Read, A Brown, B Seamer and J Lewis.

Next week sees the start of the women’s triple Board Event.

Thursday Social saw 20 take part in pairs — three games over 10 ends.

Winners on the day were Laure Deering and Gail Welsh with 3 wins and +44 points. Runners-up went to Anne Read and Steve Bowie with +38 pts.

Best last game went to Bill Dunn and Vicki Dowling with +8. Social bowls is every Thursday at 12.30pm with entries closing at 11.30am.

Saturday Pennant Division 1 travelled to Barooga and didn’t have a good day but still collected 10 pts.

Skip and Rink score: B.Cosgrove 22/26; M.Szabo 25/29; P.Murphy 17/27; R.Brown 24./27.

Tocumwal took home +10 points, but has dropped to 3rd with one game to go.

Division 2 travelled to Barooga. Skip and Rink score: E.Eaton 30/17; W.Crawford 24/19; A.Brown 15/19; K.Munro 17/26. Tocumwal got +8 points.

Division 3 had the drive to Nathalia in a must win game to keep that finals chance open.

The bowlers toiled away against some good bowling to go down on three rinks by a total of 5 shots.

Skip and Rink score: L.Anderson 23/25; B.Van Huizen 25/24; K.DeGrey 31/20; J.Jones 22/24.

Tocumwal still won the day overall on ends won and walked away with +10 points.

The light at the end of the tunnel for a place in the finals is still shinning — they play 2nd on the ladder, Picola, at Picola in the last game of the home and away.

Tocumwal are just three points outside the four so a good win may see them grab 4th.

Division 4 travelled to Strathy, Skip and Rink scores: P.Simson, 25/31; D.Baguley, 24/21; W.Atkins, 29/15.

Division 4 keep their spot in the four and can’t be dislodged.

Monday Indoor bowls: 17 players over three mats playing 3 games of 7 ends. Winners on the day were Alan McLean, Pete Dyhin and Joan Ing with 3 wins.

The stars on the mats with Resting Touches were M.White 4, J.Lewis 3, P.Dyhin 2, D.Marantelli 2, O.Tomkins 2, M.Atkins 1 and C.Madsen 1.

Also we had a Birthday Girl with D.Marantelli celebrating.

Finley

Ofelia Cochrane and Di Retallick finished runners-up last Thursday in the ladies pairs MBA final.

Both players put up a good effort coming from behind in both their semi final match and also in the final to go down by 2 shots to the Numurkah team.

A group of local ladies were treated to a wonderful game of draw bowling when Magpie Smith competed in her game of Champion of Champion singles at Murchison last Sunday.

Nan and her opponent went neck and neck for the first few ends before Nan slipped to 6 behind. But in true Magpie style, she gritted her teeth and dug deep — the scores were level again on the last end but with the luck against her, Nan went down by only 2 shots.

The ladies pennant team went down to Barooga in the preliminary final at Numurkah Golf on Friday. Great effort girls to have got this far, well done.

Our Saturday pennant teams had success on the weekend with Div 2/1 defeating Numurkah 12/2 and 41 shots; Div 3/2 def Numurkah Golf 14/0 and 20 shots.

Both teams will take part in the finals.

Div4/3 with only nine players went down to Barooga by 40 shots.

Great team effort by all divisions throughout the season.

A BBQ for all players will be held Saturday night after bowls. Watch the notice board for more information.

Ash Haines, Karl Dempsey and Des Koschel won the trade day at Cobram last Thursday, good effort boys.

Trade day will be held at Finley Bowlo tomorrow at 10am — 4x10 ends and there is room for a few more teams.

Ash Haines will play in the finals of the Champion of Champions at Tatura on February 26. All members past and present wish Ash well for his game.

Two teams went to White Hills at Bendigo on Sunday for their tournament. Both teams had mixed results.

Both White Hills and Rosamond are bringing a large number of players to Finley at Easter. Easter entries are coming in and we hope the 5-day tournament will be a huge success.

The community fun Bowlalong is on again tonight at 6.30pm. Players are asked to bet at the club by 6pm. It’s a great night of fun followed up with a BBQ and raffles.

Friday is the ladies pennant final to be held at Tocumwal at 9am.

Duty roster raffles - Geoff Trevorrow & John Close and match committee is Des and Ash.

A big cheerio to Ellis Thornton who is in hospital at the moment.

Teams for Sat: Division 2 play Tocumwal Golf at Tocumwal at 1.30pm. Cars leave at 12.30pm. J McCullough (S), I Pyle, R Clayton & M Chaplin. B Smith (S), S Hipwell, N Wilson & K Frost. A Haines (S), D Koschel, G Close & B Robinson. S Kennedy (S), K Dempsey, G Trevorrow & L F Walsh. Manager Des Koschel.

Division 3 play Cobram at Finley at 1.30pm. O. Cochrane (S), J Groenewegan, R Koschel & H Tabe. G Haines (S), M White, M Koschel & B Boyd. K Bergmans (S), H Robinson, A Cowan & R Wood. D Mulroney (S), G Pate, D Retallick & L Bergmans. Manager R Koschel.

Division 4 plays Strathmerton at Finley at 1.30pm. L Walsh (S), G Flyger, R Ferry & M McCullough. S Johnson (S), M Lawlor, J Bolitho & S Walsh. K Tabe (S), N Barnes, B Cockayne & D Bunnett. If any player is unable to play please notify the club on 5883 1324 by Thursday so a replacement can be arranged.

Coming Events:

Thursday trade day at Finley, 10am start; Friday Ladies pennant final at Toc; Sunday mixed pairs 100 up, 10am start, names in Sat night 7.30pm; Sun Feb 20 Riverina Ford mix DFP Triples, 3 x 8 ends.

Finley RS

Members are asked to get themselves a partner for the mixed pairs — the sheet is on the board.

Also please study the notice of motion put to the board by Numurkah and voice your opinion.

The last game of Saturday pennant is this week so good luck to all.

Teams are: Division One to play Numurkah cars leave at 12 noon. Manager Max Lewis. M Krug (s), P Doble, M Maraldo, K Johnson. A West (s), D Polkinghorne, J Peacock, T Maher. M Lewis (s), B Godbolt, R Sullivan, K Bruce. J Townsing (s), J Ritchie, G Johnson, R Ameer.

Division Three at Wunghnu cars leave 12 noon. Manager A Thomas. E Thomas (s), M Pokrovsky, J White, J Wilson. B Hawker (s), M Henshaw, K Peacock, A Pokrovsky. A Thomas (s), P Wilson, K Brain, F Brunt. Nan Smith (s), N Smith, N Cole, A Hazell.