An excited Ettalong Memorial grade 1 side give a
three-finger salute for three zone titles in three years
Ettalong Memorial Bowls Club won the number one grade flag for the third year in a row at the Bowls Central Coast pennant finals on Saturday, May 30.
The victory was thanks to a 31-7 win by Aron Sherriff’s team of Shane White, John Wiblen and Zac Robertson over Terrigal‘s Miro Preovic’s team.
The pennant finals were played at The Greens The Entrance.
It was a much closer contest than the final score of 61-48 suggested, with Terrigal skips Darren Morrison and Adam Pinkerton both winning their respective rinks over John Roberts 18-17 and Lee Trethowan 23-13, but the Sherriff margin was too great to haul in.
Ettalong also equalled its own club record of winning three flags, the ones, threes and fives in the one year across the seven grades.
The Gwandalan grade two side denied Ettalong the chance of a record-breaking fourth flag in the one year when it snared victory by two shots in an exciting extra end tie breaker.
For the Gwandalan club, it was their first pennant flag in more than 10 years and they now earn the right to play in the top grade in 2016.
After fielding eight teams across all the grades, Halekulani bagged the fours and sevens pennant flags to show the club hasn’t lost its competitive spirit.
Sporties at Woy Woy, who have been consistent winners in the lower grades in recent years, didn’t disappoint their supporters by winning the grade six flag for the second time in three years.
All grade winners will now contest the state final series from Saturday, August 1 to Monday, August 3, with grade one being played at Dapto, grade two Cabramatta, grade three Kahibah, grade four Leeton, grade five Dubbo, grade six Northmead, and grade seven at Orange.
Email, 31 May 2015
Kevin Dring, Bowls
Central Coast