Despite beautiful sunshine, Thursday’s social bowls was still on the cool side, due to a light chilly breeze.
There was still a good attendance of bowlers, even though several regulars were away.
The bowlers were organised into teams of four and played the usual two games of 10 ends.
Only one team won both of their games, with the winners for the afternoon being Greg Rankin (skip), Lyn O’Brien, Dennis McCann and Ron Hatcher.
In contrast, spring came a couple of days early on Sunday, bringing perfect bowling weather for the first round of the latest Scroungers competition.
Numbers were slightly down, with several regulars still away, but even so, five of the seven rinks available were put to use.
It proved to be a very tight scoring round, with the highest point scorers for the day being Geoff Lynn (64), Bruce Kneebone (62) and Gwen Hatcher (61).
The next social bowls will be Thursday, bowlers are reminded to be at the club prior to 12.30pm.
DRILLS AND SKILLS
The weather stayed with its normal Saturday format of sunny with a cool breeze for the Drills and Skills session.
However, with several regulars away, it wasn’t the temperature that kept numbers lower than usual.
Ron Hatcher, the coach, used a different technique for the session, setting up several rinks, each with a different scenario.
One was a long end while others had markers that the bowlers had to either go out and around, or cut under to reach the jack, all while not cutting the head.
The bowlers had to rotate through the various rinks with Ron adjusting the set ups from time to time.
The last 30 minutes of the morning was a game between two teams, using two bowls to put what they had learned into practice.
The next Drills and Skills will be on Saturday.
