Kate Bush and her Shepparton Park teammates scored an important win over Tatura-Hill Top on Saturday.
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By hook or crook, the good times are back and rolling at Shepparton Park.
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After dropping successive games in Goulburn Valley Playing Area’s top division to Tallygaroopna and Kyabram, Park turned the corner with a clutch victory over Tatura-Hill Top on Saturday.
Requiring victory to ensure its spot in the top four, the Parkers stepped up to deny the Bulldogs passage into finals contention with a 16-80 to 2-68 triumph on home greens.
Each rink was hotly-contested — two were decided by a single shot — yet Paul Nichols’ quartet stormed home with a 25-18 win in the fourth set of ends to help see off the combine’s cavalry.
Tatura-Hill Top's Mitchell Reeves has a look at the lay.
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Shepparton Park's Ray Sellwood ponders what his next move may be.
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Tatura-Hill Top's Tom Crawford winds up to rip one down.
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Shepparton Park's Ross Higgins steps out with bagfuls of confidence.
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Tatura-Hill Top's Peter Wallace gives it the berries.
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Tatura-Hill Top's Scott Adams visualises where he wants his bowl to land.
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Shepparton Park's Neville Winch loads one into the chamber.
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Meanwhile, Mooroopna came close to giving unbeaten Tallygaroopna an almighty scare.
The first versus seventh stoush was billed as a forgone conclusion, yet the Cats refused to bow down against a white-hot Redlegs unit.
Mooroopna took the first set of ends by a shot and the third by a margin of nine, but the eventual 2-2 rink split favoured Tallygaroopna as the visiting side eked out a 14-86 to 4-83 victory.
Kyabram resumed its surge up the ladder with its fourth win on the spin, upending East Shepparton 14-81 to 4-75 to cement its spot inside the four.
The Bombers suffered hefty losses in the opening two rinks, but opened fire in the last exchange as Greg Shilling skipped his four to a mammoth 32-13 result to whisk the win from under East’s noses.
Finally, Shepparton Golf put its foot on the throat of Euroa by order of a 16-96 to 2-57 triumph.
The Golfers won three out of four rinks, underscored by a John Gribble-skipped 39-5 beasting of Shane Drysdale’s rink.
