A change in bowling ball helped Colac ten-pin bowler Gary Black win a prestigious regional competition yesterday. Black produced a remarkable comeback to win the Neville Vagg Colac Cup at Colac Bowl at the weekend after changing balls three games into the final. He was third after Saturday’s [...]

Melbourne ten-pin bowler Chris Benson will attempt to claim back-to-back bowling cups 17 years after his first success. Benson is vying for consecutive Neville Vagg Colac Cups at Colac Bowl this weekend. He will bowl against a 60-strong field laden with Australian and Victorian representatives and nine top [...]

Colac’s junior ten-pin bowlers returned from a Victorian Junior Country Cup with a respectable fifth place finish. The young side, made up of five Colac bowlers and a Shepparton girl, won 10 of its 18 games to finish part of a group of teams well behind runaway winner Shepparton. [...]

Colac district’s top ten-pin bowler can now lay claim to being the state’s best senior player. Simpson’s Merv Billing, 57, has made his fifth Victorian masters’ team, qualifying with the highest average score at state selection trials in Melbourne. Billing achieved an average score of 227 during a two-round [...]

Colac’s men’s representative 10-pin bowling team continues to defy its minnow status. Despite being the smallest bowling centre in country Victoria, Colac again upstaged its more-fancied rivals to win the 29th annual Victorian Country Cup. Colac’s super-seven of Gary Black, Ian Poysor, Merv Billing, Stephen Hay, Mark McCallum, Daniel [...]

Colac ten-pin bowler Tyson Carr was grinning ear to ear after he bowled a perfect score of 300. Tyson, 15, bowled 12 strikes to record the perfect game, ironically becoming the second Colac district bowler in a week to achieve the rare feat. “Near the end, I was shaking [...]

Ten-pin bowler Stephen Hay is the latest member of Colac’s perfect 300 club. Hay achieved a perfect 12 strikes on his scorecard for the first time this week after 20 years in the sport. Hay, 38, becomes the third player in three years to score 300 at Colac’s ten-pin [...]

A Colac junior ten-pin bowler won the highest female game score at a country cup championship at the weekend.Colac Tigers junior ten-pin bowler Nadine McDonald, 14, won the highest female game score with a personal best of 236 at the Victorian Junior Country Cup Championships in Colac.Team manager Lisa Bentley said the youngster had a [...]

Colac’s top tenpin bowlers will attempt to win the city’s first state junior country cup this weekend.Colac Tenpin Bowl Association will host the 14th annual Victorian Junior Country Cup this weekend for the first time in a decade, taking on six-player teams from across the state.Team manager Lisa Bentley said Colac had assembled its strongest [...]

Tenpin bowling’s state country cup will return to Colac for the first time in more than a decade.Colac Tenpin Bowl will host the two-day tournament for junior teams 18 years and under on the weekend starting September 27.Six of Colac’s top junior bowlers will represent the district against nine other clubs from across Victoria. It [...]