Kingborough and Rodman dominate their opposition
A report for The Mercury by Peter Kirby
Top sides, Kingborough and Glenorchy Rodman recorded big winning margins to continue their undefeated run after 4 rounds of Bowls South’s Divergence Built Premier Division. The Kingborough juggernaut continued on its winning way, this week Brighton the victim on its synthetic surface of an all-rinks, 55 shot mauling, 109-54.
It wasn’t without a strong fighting effort from the home side, though, with Matt Breward giving Kingborough’s Nic Courto a hard time early, winning 9 ends in succession before Courto took control of the match for an impressive 9 shot victory, 26-17.
Grant Wakefield had a day to forget against Will Coad, who ran away with this match, heading Wakefield by 23 shots, 28-5. Ryan Guy added a third rink win to Kingborough’s tally through his 14 shot win over impressive junior, Riley Davie, 29-14.
Kingborough’s Jason Fowler rounded out a perfect day for the visitors, defeating a gallant Michael Daniels by 9 shots, 26-17.
Glenorchy Rodman extracted some revenge after losing to Dover at home last year, winning on three rinks by 48 shots overall, 100-52.
Jack Ellis and his rink of Kelvin Lynema, Joy Voss and Rod Turner were outstanding in beating Cam Norris by 27 shots, 35-8. Equally impressive was Anthony Clifford’s rink in defeating Roger Dale by 22 shots, 33-11.
Cam Tegg, with Dan Lenarcic giving great support in the three spot, got away to a comfortable lead against Rick Ormerod and, despite a comeback by Ormerod, prevailed in the end by 8 shots, 23-15. Dover claimed two points thanks to a brilliant performance from Chris Norris, who defeated his old teammate, Jacob Sheerin-Wall, by 9 shots, 18-9.
Cremorne’s Banks clan dominated the headlines at Sandy Bay this week with three of the big four taking on Lucas Howell, raising the shot rate by taking an early 17-1 lead. Ashley, Garry and Mitchell, ably assisted by Leigh Munnings, controlled the early transactions gaining interest as they went. Howell engaged the services of Glancy-Phillips Pty. Ltd. and Alby’s shot collection service to reconcile some of his losses to recover to a -33 per cent loss, 18-27.
In what resembled a wild west shoot-out, Cremorne’s Tex Marshall took on a new deputy, Kyron Daly. Tex drew first and was on target early but Daly eventually found the right ammo. Shot for shot they fought until finally the deputy prevailed with his trusty lead David Anderson dominating the contest. With Tex wounded, Daly overcame some accurate shooting to win, 21-15.
Sandy Bay’s undefeated skip, Josh Lording continued on his winning way, defeating Pat Hoffman 23-16, while a hydrated Ryan McCoull defeated Brad Knight 27-18.
Surprisingly, after 4 matches, the Seagulls, who were tipped by an expert in the preseason to be fighting relegation come season end, are currently sitting third on the ladder behind Kingborough and Glenorchy Rodman, but the moment of truth is yet to come.
Howrah took full advantage of their fast home green in their indoor centre to record their first win of the year, defeating Buckingham by 15 shots, 86–71.
Peter Jenkins led the way for the home side with a dominant 27–13 victory over Grant Chamberlain, while Danny Neal finished strongly over Craig Owen, 20-16.
Andrew Chamberlain’s rink was the best performed for Buckingham. After a slow start, trailing 4-16 after 7 ends, they clawed back for a 25–22 victory over Glenn Frame. For the second week running, Todd Oakley played out a tight 17-all draw, this time against Adam Butler, to salvage another valuable point for Buckingham.
New Norfolk defeated a very disappointing Claremont on all rinks by 28 shots, 83-55, at Claremont. Shane Winter played some good upshots to overhaul Chris Chalker by 10 shots, 19-9. After a great start by Alex McCoull’s rink, leading by 9 shots early against New Norfolk’s Lauren Banks, Banks, with great support lead’s bowls from her dad, Greg, overran the Claremont rink to win by 5 shots, 24-19.
After dropping a 7 on the first end, John McDonald’s rink fought back to edge in front of New Norfolk’s Kerry Hill, only to lose each of the final 5 ends and the match, 14-23. Barry Bone, with his three, Tony Hack, winding back the clock to his heydays, had the better of a luckless Mick Taylor, 17-13. Taylor held multiple shots on a number of ends only to be thwarted by Bone’s aggressive upshots.