2025/26 Weekly Game Reviews

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.