Bowls | Tallygaroopna and Tatura-Hill Top head to state pennant finals

By Aydin Payne

May 18, 2022

The Goulburn Murray Playing Region will be represented at this weekend’s state pennant finals.

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Tallygaroopna Bowls Club will fly the flag for the region in the weekend pennant action, while Tatura-Hill Top is set to do the same in the midweek pennant division.

The Champion of State Pennant event will be held at Moama Bowls Club from Saturday, May 21 to Tuesday, May 24.

Saturday will be a historic day for Tallygaroopna, with the club taking part in the Champion of State Pennant tournament for the first time.

Tally will be up against Ocean Grove in round one action.

Tatura-Hill Top also heads to the state event for the first time and the club’s maiden match will be played on Monday against Bundoora RSL.

Tallygaroopna and Tatura-Hill Top revealed their squads for the upcoming event during the week.

For the Redlegs, they have announced David Daws, Mark Ryan and Liam Crapper as the three skips.

Daws’ rink consists of Matt Robertson, Mick Hanna and Guy Madigan.

Ryan will skip Joey Lia, Kyle Pugh and Scott Adams.

Crapper will take up the skip duties for the rink that consists of Mitch Sidebottom, Rod Still and Brett Wright.

Over at the Bulldogs, they have named a potent line-up to deliver them success.

David Cartwright, Trevor Downie and Rod Madill have been selected to skip next week.

Noel Mulcahy, Jeanette Overall and Dot Best are set to play under Downie.

Cartwright will skip, with his daughter Olivia in third, Mark Bentley second and Dianne Downie to lead.

Phil Boyd will lead Madill’s rink, followed by Peter Wallace and Greg Toy.

Meanwhile, Kyabram P-12 College’s primary and senior secondary team represented the school, district and region at the bowls state championships in Sunbury.

The primary team is the state champion for the second consecutive year.

Half the team was made up of relatively new bowlers as they were successful at the State Final of the Sporting Schools Victoria Primary Division Lawn Bowls.

The championships were a round-robin format that was played on grass and undercover surfaces as Kyabram P-12 finished the top of their section to make the final.

They went up against Epping Primary School in the grand final, as it came down to their final two bowls to take the title 8-7.

Coaches David Cartwright and Darren Boswood helped lead the team as well as being bolstered from a large contingent of supporters who made the trip.

The group has had a long road to the final, beginning training in February at Kyabram and throughout the Goulburn Valley.

In March they played in the district event at Rochester, winning that event and then proceeded on to the Regional Finals Swan Hill where they won the right to play in the state finals.