Sunday. ▪ Photo contributed
Barry Bargwanna has been crowned the 2022 Cobar Bowling & Golf Club Bowls Singles Champion with a solid win over past champion, Gerard Livingston on Sunday at the club. In glorious bowling conditions, the pair put on a great show of quality draw bowling during the marathon 46 end decider.
Early on it was all Bargwanna as he quietly pulled away to a commanding 21-5 lead but a great fightback by Livingston saw that lead diminish to just six shots with the score 21-15.
From here the score remained fairly settled with both bowlers scoring regularly, however the early lead proved too much with Bargwanna eventually running away the winner at 31-23. Both players contested a great game that was thoroughly enjoyed by the crowd.
Sunday’s social bowls attracted 20 players this week with five games of pairs being played.
Rink 6 had the closest game of the day with the pairing of Mick Watts and Helen Boddy too strong for Bian Smith and Rob Renkin.
They won with a +2 margin.
The other four games were not so close with the margins large enough to be the winning score on most Sundays.
On rink 5 Doug Hudson and Stewart Simpson were winners by +15 over John Daly and David Thomas as were Peter ‘China’ Brien and Glenn Ratcliffe in their match with John Goonrey and Janet Renkin on rink 3. On rink 4 Peter ‘Skeet’ Goonrey and Kelly Beard were all over their opposition, Scott Mayne and Daryl Jermyn winning by a margin of +16 to claim second prize.
(Rumour has it that this was Kelly Beard’s first ever win and she now has the thirst of victory, so watch out future opponents!)
However the bragging rights for the day went to Shane Carter and Allan Gardoll who finished the day with an impressive +17 win over David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Jason Howell. (Of note was the big improvement that Gardoll has shown since taking up bowls recently – he is now even drawing shots on his backhand that he usually refuses to play!)
The main man of the day was without doubt the one and only Glenn ‘Kiwi’ Ratcliffe with his determined effort of three wrong bias deliveries to ensure he took out the ‘George the Giraffe’ honours.—Very
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David ‘Ooze’ Knight and Karen Daly teamed up to win the Golfie’s Twilight Bowls event on Friday night. Knight and Daly finished with a mighty +21 win over their opposition Tony Polack and Kelly Beard.
In the other games, Peter ‘China’ Brien and Travis Fraser had a +11 win against Shane Carter and visitor Merryl Cook (from Buderim on the Sunshine Coast); and Greg Clark and Allan Gardoll won by a margin of +10 over Jay Egan and Scott Mayne.
A relatively newcomer to bowls, Allan Gardoll was surprised and delighted to win the Spider event.—The Second
