Tea Gardens Women’s Bowling Club

TUESDAY 27th May: The Final of the Club Championship Triples and what a thriller of a game this was. Lorraine Murphy, Bev Harrington and Gay Pezet started strongly and had a 7 shot lead by the 8th end, 11 v 4. On the 17th end they were still ahead by 5 points, but believe it or not with just 4 ends left to bowl it was still anyone’s game. On the 18th end Jean Glover, Robyn Webster and Bette Saillard scored 4 points, now they were just losing by 1 point, 16 v 15. They won the next 2 ends heading into the final end with a 2 shot lead, here Bette’s team were holding shot until Gay delivered the last bowl of the game. Gay drove at the head taking the Jack back to where her team had positioned 3 bowls, hence winning the final by 1 shot 19 v 18. Congratulations to all competitors fabulous bowling by all. Social bowls played 2 games of Pairs 14 ends results as follows Jane Uff and Dale Winter 14 v Precy Swaddling and Sandra Leisemann10. Dawn May and Judi Polak 17 v Ingrid Luck and Dawn Jones 6. The winners on the day winning with the lowest margin were Jane and Dale.

Thursday 29th May: No bowls played due to weather conditions.

Tuesday 3rd June: Format for social bowls 3 games of 3 bowls Triples 18 ends, a win for Vicki McMillan, Lynda Richards and Bev Harrington 20 v Precy Swaddling, Dawn May and Robyn Webster 15.
Winners also were Lorraine Murphy, Dot Dallas and Jean Glover 17 v Sheril Johnson, Judi Polak and Sandra Leisemann 14 and finally a 14 all draw for Lyn Nightingale, Jane Uff and Bette Saillard bowling against Jo Plummer, Ingrid Luck and Karen Green. Winners on the day winning with the lowest score were Lorraine, Dot and Jean.

Thursday 5th June: No bowls played, yet again due to rain.

Well done to Colleen Ross and Robyn Beaumont who represented TGWBC at the State Champion of Club Champion Pairs ( 28th April-2nd May) in Sydney they played through to the Final Round 1 and were beaten here by a team from Figtree RSL 25 v 16. Congratulations to Robyn Beaumont on her success competing in the State Champion of Club Champions Singles (2nd-5th June), Club Merrylands the main host club. Robyn won her Section, Round 1 of the Final she was up against Natalie Lewis. Natalie is a State U25 player, an Australian Jackaroo High Performance player coached by Steve Glasson and bowled in the Merrylands Platinum Pennant team, that defeated Warilla in the final this year just to mention a couple of her achievements. Robyn did her club proud just losing by 1 shot 25 v 24 after 32 ends of bowling. Robyn was placed 17th out of the 80+ Club Champions that competed in this event. Robyn has now travelled to Queensland to compete in the Australian Lawn Bowls Open (7th-20th June), she has entered the Singles and over 60’s Pairs.

By Lynda RICHARDS