Lawn Bowls

Basking in premiership glory

By Rachel Rodger • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

WINNERS: Colac District Ladies Bowling Association Division One winners Colac Pink yesterday.
THIS MUCH ROOM: Colac’s Carmel Watson instructs team-mates yesterday.
STEADY: City Gold’s Roxanne Donovan plays a shot in yesterday’s grand final against Colac.

JUBILATION: Colac premiership players, from left, Dianne Hynes, Leona Pekin and Jan Jones celebrate their win against City Gold.
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Bowling championship

By Brett Worthington • Mar 8th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls, Sport

CHAMPIONSHIP: Lawn bowlers from across the state converged on Colac’s City Bowls Club on Saturday. The Colac Paintright Invitational Pairs Championship featured 80 bowlers with Ocean Grove’s Paul Cameron and Greg Brown of Central Wendouree taking out the title. City bowler Danny Donovan and Colac’s Trevor Carr finished runners up. Pictured from left, are [...]



McMahon takes out club prize

By Loretta Wilmink • Mar 5th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

It was a case of fourth-time lucky for Colac’s Victorian lawn bowls representative Rebecca McMahon. McMahon won Colac Sportsmen’s Club’s Sports Star of 2009 award at the club’s monthly meeting on Wednesday night. The talented Victorian skipper won the award after being a sports [...]



Cobden aware of challenge

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 26th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

Lawn bowling veteran Keith Simmonds has endured his share of lean periods during a 40-year career with Cobden Bowling Club. The club’s oldest member has won a few Division Two premierships but it’s the Division One failures and near misses which stick in his head. [...]



Bowls fans must travel to finals

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 24th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

Lawn bowling officials have scheduled Corangamite’s top bowls finals on synthetic surfaces outside of Colac this weekend. For the third year in a row, Colac bowling fans will have to travel at least half an hour out of town to watch the association’s best players compete. The Division One semi-final [...]



Simpson loss costs top spot

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 22nd, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

Another fade out has cost Simpson top spot and jeopardised its tilt at a flag in a dramatic final twist to year’s Corangamite Bowling Association season. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong for Simpson on Saturday as the side pondered a missed opportunity to secure a top-two spot with a loss [...]



Simpson takes back ladder lead

By Loretta Wilmink • Feb 15th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

Simpson has snatched back top spot on Corangamite bowls’ Division One ladder after a powerful 13-shot win against City One. Simpson outbowled City 90-77 on its home rink on Saturday to relegate City to third on the Division One ladder. Simpson skipper [...]



Camperdown wants its say on top four

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

Camperdown bowlers have a new agenda with two matches left in the Corangamite season. Far from being a side simply fighting to remain in Division One, the side hopes to have a say on the shape of the top four. Camperdown meets third-placed Cobden [...]



Plenty at stake in defining game

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 12th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls

For years, reputation has played a big part in the success of City One, Colac’s most dominant bowling team. City One’s glowing history has generally afforded the side a distinct psychological advantage against its Corangamite Bowling Association rivals, often striking doubt in opposition teams before they [...]



Colac side back on track

By Rachel Rodger • Feb 8th, 2010 • Category: Lawn Bowls, Sport

Colac passed another test and sent a message to its bowling rivals it was coming after all but securing a berth in this year’s finals. Colac’s lakeside club outlasted Camperdown Golf 104 to 93 on Saturday, a week after beating top side City One, creating a handy buffer inside Corangamite Bowling Association’s top [...]