VIOLET TOWN BOWLS CLUB

By LEANNE RUSSELL-JONES

LAST Monday we travelled to Victoria’s Parliament House to play in the Inaugural Cleeland Cup on the oldest green in Australia.

Comprising of three rinks, in comparison to David’s green it was slow.

There were 24 bowlers and teams had been drawn by the bowls organizer, Pete from Heathcote.

We were split up so Harry Daley and myself played with two bowlers from Seymour’s VRI club.

Laurell Heckenburg and Mick O’Keefe played with Jake and James from Avenel.

We had a roll-up before Annabelle Cleeland threw the first Jack for the game.

We broke for a nice casual lunch after our first game, with Annabelle giving a talk, which showed how passionate she is in her role.

We played our second game and Harry and I were thrilled to have come runners up, so will receive a trophy to remind us of the day.

Afterward we had a quick tour around the two houses of our State Parliament.

The bus trip from and to Seymour did highlight many of the bumps still to be ironed out in our roads.

100UP Competition Semi Thursday night saw Harry Daley beat Ron Parr in a game I’m told Ronnie is to be proud of, as he is a new social bowler this year.

Ken Stanger beat Graham Crawford, and the winners play off this Thursday night.

Bowls Vic - Vic Open.

On a personal note, I travelled to Gippsland to play with Mooroopna bowler, Debbie Dunkley in the Women’s Pairs.

Our three sectional games of 15 ends (135 bowls!) were played at Morwell’s undercover greens, a great facility.

Unfortunately, we did not win any games, though we came close twice, and “if only” came into play, but we had a great day meeting new people and playing some lovely ladies.