Cremorne prevails in cliff-hanger
Saturday Premier Division report by Connor Munnings
30 October 2021 (Round 3, 2021-22)
CREMORNE and Brighton played a tight tussle in the third round of the Saturday Premier Division, with the result in doubt until the last couple of ends.
On the Cremorne synthetic surface, Brad Knight led the home team to 12-2 six shot overall win. With the game in the balance at the halfway mark, Knight, with David Oates leading brilliantly, ran away to a 15 shot win over Matthew Breward. Cremorne’s Leigh Munnings got an early lead against Grant Wakefield through the work of lead Don McVilly and second Paul Hoddy. Wakefield was able to fight back to get a one shot lead going into the final end, but some brilliant draw shots from Pat Hoffman and Munnings saw Munnings win by one shot. With scores tied on the final end, Peter Marshall played a brilliant conversion shot against Brighton’s Greg Fehlberg to score a four and win the game. Tony Bartninkaitis secured two points for Brighton with a 14 shot win over Ralph Tieman.
Buckingham hosted Beltana on its synthetic fortress to have a decisive three rink 45 shot win. Some great conversion shots by Buckingham’s Grant Chamberlain, helped his rink of Robert Stringer, George Kovacs and Phillip Wheatley to a comfortable 34-13 win over Steven Midson. Alvin Cooke, with support from third Stuart Rees, was able to overcome Beltana’s Shane Young by 13 shots. Buckingham’s Todd Oakley was in scintillating form to defeat Michael Coppleman by 13 shots. Nicholas Courto was Beltana’s only winner, downing Andrew Chamberlain 22-20.
Playing at Dover, Kingborough showed why they are one of the premiership favourites with a 12-2 54 shot victory. Ryan Guy with his rink of Brent Forsyth, Jack Butler and Jeff Parsons had a convincing win over Josh Lording by 21 shots. With great support from Robert O’Neill and Shane Garth, Will Coad had a day out to defeat Josh Mazur 29-8. Jarod Long gave Kingborough a third rink win by defeating Roger Dale by 17 shots. Dover’s Jacob Sherrin-Wall had a close battle with Jason Fowler to win by five shots.
Glenorchy Rodman overcame Rosny Park 11-3 by six shots. Luke Turner and his rink of Anthony Clifford, David Sutton and Daniel Gahan led all game against Rosny’s Graham Rowbottom to win 26-19. Isaac Maughan was the other winner for Rodman, defeating Peter Bannister by one shot. Rodman’s Paul Cruise, with great bowls from second Jorja Maughan, was able to secure a thrilling draw against Dale Maundrill with his final bowl. Darren Monks came from behind against Steven Clifford to win 18-16 and secure Rosny two points.
Sandy Bay bounced back from its loss last week to Rosny to win against Claremont on all rinks by 22 shots. Keghan Booth beat Michael Taylor by eight shots, Ryan McCoull won against Paul Hart 21-11, Darren Beattie overcame Shane Peck to win by two shots, and Bryce Guy defeated Nick Chilcott 20-18.