2025/26 Weekly Game Reviews

Rossmoyne Oct 22

Again we travel to one of the nicest clubs on our calendar.  The turn out for this game from both clubs is tremendous.  A big thankyou again to Rossmoyne for providing the  sausage sizzle prior to the game.

8 Rinks apiece took to the undercover facilities.  The surface is fast but the weather conditions at each end is chalk and cheese. Away from the club house the breeze is ice cold and the clubhouse end is summer weather.

As the games commenced it was apparent early that Rossmoyne were going to have the ascendency tonight.  Over the majority of rinks we were only up on two and the others were quite heavily down.  A mini fight back across a couple of rinks brought the score to a more respectable level.

In the end a resounding win to the Rossmoyne Club 134-104 (6.5 rinks to 1.5) to win the trophy for the first time in quite a while.  Congratulations to Rossmoyne for the win and as always we will be like Arnold Schwarzenegger...i'll be back.

Obviously the world is out of balance as a feat unheard of in the real world since the dawn of time, Wayne Olive won the wine for the third time in a row ..yes i said third time.  Congratulations to Wayne, Wayne M, Margret and Shaun Figgy Peters.

At the other end of the scale and funnily enough at the other end of the green was our wine giverawayerers of Al Booth, Rob, Matt W and Billy Little, they did a play a strong team too.

1 T.Feasey D.Fielder K.Hutchinson P.Dobie 15-15
2 M.Kinnaird J.Fielder J.Humpleby A.Bartlett 14-20
3 S.Peters M.Booth W.Molloy W.Olive 14-9
4 C.Little R.Bailey G.Rowlinson I.Cornthwaite 14-15
5 M.Humphrey L.Smith R.Hutchinson B.Bandy 15-18
6 H.Larson T.Keating J.Rogalski M.Taylor 13-17
7 K.Rowlinson J.Mawson P.Rogalski S.Bermingham 15-16
8 B.Little M.Wiltshire R.Bellis A.Booth 4-24 

You'll notice in the blow photo's Scotty Holloywood photo bombing into each shot.

Ellenbrook Sept 30

A great night at Ellenbrook last night where we competed for the Peter Walsh Trophy.  As current holders the pressure was on us to perform against an always competitive home team.  We started the night two players short but our hosts kindly lent us a couple of bowlers. Both were fairly new to the game but bowled really well for the black and gold and helped us achieve a fairly comfortable victory. The rink results were fairly close but some big scores ensured the aggregate win was comprehensive. A shout out to Kerry Hutch who put her body on the line (literally). Kerry copped a whack from a big Ellenbrook drive and even got a fine at the end of the night for her troubles !!  Kerry didn't dispute the outcome - she knew she didn't have a leg to stand on !!   Kerry Rowlo also had a fun night, at one point nailing 3 touchers in a row - I'm pretty sure Dave Hitchman is buying a new Toucha spray this week.  To round out a wonderful night for our ladies - Tanya Belcher put on an outstanding display of Leading out on Rink 7 resulting in the Ellenbrook skip threatening to quit bowls if he ever had to play against Tanya again (He played against Tanya in the Past presidents game and couldn't believe his bad luck in drawing her again !!!)

Following the game we had some great laughs and fellowship with President Rob making a fine speech in regard to the Peter Walsh Trophy and Peter himself responding with very nice words of his own. A boisterous fine session followed with some handy $$$ raised for Legacy and the locals went home with the consolation of winning both the Scotch and the Bourbon.

I know it is a long way to travel for many of our members but it really is a highlight of our season going to Ellenbrook - thankyou to everyone who came along and helped us to a great win. 

Giving of the wine away was a very close affair between Corny's and Dave's team.  On the very last end Dave was down 5 and going to give the wine away, but a miraculous bowl from Dave moved the kitty and a huge cheer was heard from his team, but a resounding boo was heard from a nearby rink  with a come-on Ellenbrook from the same vicinity.  As a result the certain unnamed skipper was given a Legacy fine by an unforgiving colleague.

In the end Corny, Brett, Egon and Helen gave the wine away.

For the second week in a row our best performing rink was again Wayne Olive, life membership must be inspiring him to greatness, ably supported by Hutchy, Mark (this winning is easy) and local Shaun (Figgy).

WA Police 4 rinks  - 131

Ellenbrook 3 rinks – 75

C.Little /R .Bailey/ G.Rowlinson/T.KAY 23–7

H.Larsen/A.Fook/K.Hutchinson/J.ROLLNIK 24-7

M.Humphrey/T.Keating/R.Bellis/A.BARTLETT 13-15

S.Peters/M/Belcher/R.Hutchinson/W.OLIVE 25-4

H.Feaasey/E.Miko/B.McCance/I.CORNY 10-16

K.Rowlinson/T.Evans/L.Smith/D.HITCHMAN 13-14

T.Belcher/K.Fook/H.Arnott/S.BERMINGHAM 23-12

Past Presidents Sept 23 

Was an absolutely magnificent night, the slightest of breezes  and the great company of the PP's.

It was great to see their numbers increasing and able to put out 22 players. Some new faces  and some of the ladies and gentlemen that have been stalwarts of their club.

Due to traffic issues a new selector was put in place for the teams in none other than President Rob, more will be said about this later.

The game got underway with 6 rinks, 1 game of triples.

it was fairly even through the match, at one point our three losing rinks were down by 8 each.  With none other than Rob's triples ahead.

in the end a few rinks got away from us, and we only had one good winning rink, guess who's.

The final score ended up 105-90. I think that is the first time that anyone can remember that Past Presidents have won., but congratulations to them as they won 3.5 rinks to our 2.5.

Great fellowship after the game with party pies and the selling of all raffle tickets.

our best winning rink was none other that Wayne, Rob and Tanya. So Rob picked himself a jet side, he did say he had Wayne..but as we know he either wins or gives it away...so 50/50 chance.

our wine giverawayerers was Dave, Kerry H, Ralph and Kiera.

We may have to ban Tanya as she has now won the raffle  twice and a bottle of wine...

Michael H, Terry, John M, Bob 15-15
Kiera, Ralph, Kerry H, Dave 13-31
Harvey, Kerry R, Garry, Tony 18-15
Tanya, Rob, Wayne 25-10
Leslie, Mark, Harry, Arthur 8-18
Carolyn, Leon, Shaun, Corny 11-16 

THORNLIE Sept 16

 Our hosts were the Thornlie Ravens the home of Ralph, Lesley, Julie and Darryl (or now known as David).

A sausage sizzle was available to players before the game and the usual spread of food by Pav and his crew after was delicious and much appreciated.

 It is a special night as we play for the Peter Ball trophy, special guest Insp Kareene Santoro who worked with Peter before he tragically lost his life whilst on duty shared the lead role with Lesley and I can say that there was some potential there, a new recruit in the making perhaps. 

Another fresh evening was to be had. Only two brave souls ventured into the green in shorts, but many a beanie was seen.

Most of us got off the green before it started to rain.  The greens were quite slick as expected.

The comradery  around the green was great to see and lots of enjoyment was had.  It was very similar to South Perth in that there were a number of blowouts to both teams and couple of tight contests.

In the end the the scores were WAPBC 99 and Thornlie 99.  3 rink wins each. So a draw was declared. (in ends we won 6 more.)  But a fair result on the night.

Kareene spoke on behalf of Lesley and family outlining Peters dedication and his competitive spirit both within the job and in life.

Kareene presented the trophy to Rob Bellis and Thornlie captain Chopper.

Chopper and the crew at Thornlie then donated the raffle money to Police Legacy and Chopper donated another $100 of his own.  I big thankyou from all the police family to the crew at Thornlie.

The giver awayerers of the wine was a close affair this week and it came down to percentage as the score difference and ends were the same but in the end it was  Mick T,  Rob , Ralph and Kerry.

Our best performing rink were Kerry C, Hutchy, Bob and Phil.

Results  

Kerry C, Hutchy, Bob and Phil 23-8
Lesley/Kareene, Shaun, John Mawson, Mike C 27-14
Kerry R, Ralph, Rob and Mick T 6-25
Tanya, Darryl, Garry and Wayne 17-18
Harvey, Mark, Kerry H and Corny 19-8
Mal, Trevor Keating, Julie F and Dave 7-26 

SOUTH PERTH Sept 10

After a perfect sunny day 28 of us took on the might of the South Perth BC.  As always it is a sensational venue for playing bowls.  Ryan and his crew there are nothing but superb in facilitating our game.  Big thankyou for the roast beef and gravy roll before the game.

Over two greens we had 7 rinks.  Their greens are absolutely fabulous, it makes for perfect bowls.  There was the slightest breeze but the night got cooler as we progressed.  Was great to see that three of us braved the evening in shorts, but many a beanie was seen.

At about midway in the game it was looking quite even, on one green 3 South Perth rinks were up considerably with one WAPBC team in front.  On the other green 3 WAPBC teams were in front comfortably.

In the end it was a very tight affair with a lot of scores  balancing out each other.  We ended up sharing the rinks with Phil drawing against his opponent.

WAPBC  116 (3.5 rinks)

South Perth 112 (3.5 rinks)

M.Kinnaird/R.Hutchinson/J.Fielder/W.OLIVE 4-26

H.Feasey/M.Belcher/M.Taylor/A.BARTLETT 16-19

H.Larsen/R.Scupham/S.Bermingham/K.GUELFI 8-20

K.Redden/ R.Bailey/R.Bellis/P.DOBIE 14-14

L.Evans/E.Miko/D.Hitchman/T.KAY 28-10

M.Humphrey/ D.Fielder/K.Hutchinson/K.VANDERSLUYS 21-14

T.Belcher/L.Smith/B.Bandy/I.CORNY 25-9

Our bestest rink was our reigning consistency champ Tony Kay, Dave Hitchman, Egon Miko and Lina Evans ( who has a magic hat)

Unfortunately our wine giverawayerer was the rink by our new life member Wayne Olive ably assisted by Julie Fielder, Ron Hutchinson and Mal Kinnaird.