News Flashes
1.Congratulations Sue Ferguson on becoming the Ladies Singles Champion for 2011/2012 and Pauline Smit as runner up.
Julie Wilkins
2. The Men’s Singles final was played today 3 January in somewhat hot and testing conditions between Lindsay Ridgwell & Mike Brown.
Lindsay began well and soon opened up a lead of 5/6 shots and he gradually increased this to 13 when he lead Mike 20/7. However, Mike was not done with yet & in a determined fight back he closed the gap to 5 shots with the score at 21/16. At this stage it looked like he might overrun the early leader but it was not to be with Lindsay gaining the necessary shots on the next 3 ends to win 25/16 in an impressive display of draw bowling.
Congratulations to our winner Lindsay Ridgwell who will now represent the club in Yarra Regions Champion of Champions Singles on Sunday 5 February 2012.
3. Our ladies pairs final was played yesterday. Marilyn Grant and Jill Wyllie defeated Pauline Smit and Margaret Colledge.
cheers Julie
4. Men’s Pairs Championship Final was completed last night with the Jason Manifold/Barry Ferguson combination defeating the Dennis Johnson/Eddie Azzopardi duo 13/12.
The game was of high standard with little between the teams throughout. The lead changed a number of times and despite Eddie killing the last end to force a replay Barry & Jason managed to hang on and win by the narrowest of margins. Standout players in the final were Jason and Eddie.
Barry & Jason will now represent the club in the Yarra Region Champion of Champions on Sunday 12 February at Alphington BC.
Welcome to Donvale Bowls ClubDonvale Bowls Club is approximately 20 km east of Melbourne located in the Mullum Mullum reserve at the corner of Springvale and Reynolds Roads. We are a "small friendly Club" and our objective is to maintain our facilities in excellent condition to enable our members to enjoy both social and competitive bowls together with a wide range of social activities. Our goal is to be a "vibrant, growing and successful Club". We have two greens, an excellent artificial surface which also has lights and enables all year round bowls and a Santa Anna couch grass green, which has been refurbished over recent years and is in top condition. Donvale currently fields 5 Saturday pennant teams and one Tuesday Night pennant teams together with 4 Tuesday Open pennant teams. Social bowls includes Twilight Bowls, Wednesday evenings during summer and Sunday bowls all year round, other days regularly organized. In addition members can bowl on other days / times. Our focus is to enable all members to strive to bowl at the level they want to, whether social or competitively and we provide coaching and development sessions to enable this to occur. New members are welcome, both experienced and new bowlers and free tuition is provided. Contact our Secretary - Jeffrey Grant phone 9842 3745 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it |
