Munmorah United win NSW Women’s State Pennant Finals

Munmorah Team members: Julie Coulson, Marrilyn Worrall, Debra Rae, Connie Goddard (S), Gail Sheehan (S), Olivia Crane, Beverley Inward, Vicki Moseley, Jennifer Armstrong (Manager)

On March 18th to 23rd Bowls NSW Women’s State Pennant Finals were played at Forster Bowling Club.

Munmorah United Women’s Bowling Club’s Grade 2 team started their competition on the 22nd in a game against Cabramatta.

Munmorah Ladies had the better game being on top for all of the game – the final score was 48 to Munmorah and Cabramatta 31.

The second game was against Engadine and was played out pretty much the same as the first game.

After 20 ends the score was 30 – 12 to Munmorah, with the final score Munmorah 54 and Engadine 30.

Tuncurry Sports were the opponents in the Semi Final and Munmorah led most of the way.

End 28 saw the score Munmorah 29 and Tuncurry 21.

The game continued on a steady line and until end 39 where the score was Munmorah 40 and Tuncurry 30.

Things changed here and Tuncurry started to catch up.

End 40 saw the score Munmorah 40 Tuncurry 34 and Tuncurry scored one more shot on end 41 and were holding 4 on the last end to bring them to 39 and Munmorah 40.

Munmorah skip had last bowl and decided not to play it – Munmorah won the game 40 to 39.

The Final was played against Bomaderry, another close game in the first half.

After 34 ends the score was 29 to 27 in Munmorah’s favour.

The Final score was Munmorah 43 to Bomaderry 30.

The Munmorah Ladies played very well together as a team supporting each other the whole 4 games and every game was played with good sportsmanship.

Munmorah have never won a State Pennant Flag in their 52 year history so there was lots of excitement after the game.

Some of the Ladies had never won a District flag until this year so it was double excitement for them.

Email, Mar 28
Helen Stevenson