Trevors Carpets Masters Mixed Fours

Winners

Runners up

The organisers were approached by our sponsor, SAFEWAY SECURITY SCREENS to appeal to teams to have a wider spread of abilities in their teams in future, and this be emphasised for future Dash for Cash events, as we commence our second decade of this popular event. The day was a great success, and thanks go to all who helped. Particular thanks goes to Anne Orton who once again assisted with the scoring, and to the team of volunteers coordinated by Jan Cook who again furnished the morning tea and lunch.

Trevors Carpets Masters Mixed Fours

Thanks again to generous support from Trevors Carpets, the second edition of this event was conducted on 27 and 28 September. Thirty-two teams entered: the same as last year: and a blind draw was conducted on the day to form eight sections of four teams. The eight section winners progressed to the second day’s knock-out matches. A total of nineteen players from Sorrento took part, with several in “composite” teams with members from other clubs. Players from as far afield as York and Northam participated. A very strong field was in attendance, with many State squad and State Champions present.

The weather was cool, cloudy and even a couple of passing showers which interrupted play made the playing conditions challenging. The greens still ran at a respectable 12-13 seconds, and no complaints about the greens were heard. Three matches of 15 ends were played on the first day, with a light served lunch after the first match. Two teams comprising four Sorrento players and one containing three current Sorrento players progressed through to the knock-out stages.

Former Sorrento member Brad Ball, with Pauline Bourne, Lee Leach and Chris Lander were narrowly eliminated 12-13 by William TePania’s rink in the quarter-finals. Bruce Eagles, with Jackie Maxwell, Coral Smith and Murray Hulbert were beaten by the second-last bowl which trailed the jack into the ditch in their semi-final match against the eventual winners. However Shane Loftus, with Liz Marshall, Robyn

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Van Mosseveld and Peter Flack made it through to the final by comfortably beating last year’s winning Skipper, Cody Packer 17-7. In the final, the Loftus team were ahead 8-7 after the 11th end of the 15-end final, but dropped six shots on the 12th end, leaving them not enough ends to recover and lost the final 10-15 to the winners, who were Blake Nairn, Brad Gillingham , Shari Solly and former Sorrento player Lee Bunney. Thanks to all who played and to the small army of volunteers who once again contributed to the outstanding success of this event.

Men’s Veterans Singles

The Men’s Veterans Singles Championship final was held in October. Defending champion Bruce Eagles defeated Stan Van Mosseveld in the first semi-final, while Allan Davis defeated Lindsay Baker in the other semi. In the final, Bruce started strongly and surged to an 18-4 lead but Allan fought back to then trail 22-13. However, the gap was too much to bridge and Bruce won the final 25-15. Well done!

Men’s 100-Up

The finals of the Men’s and Women’s 100 Up Championships were played on the same day in mid October. While the breeze did its best to redirect bowls later in the afternoon, there were some close games during the day.

The final was between Murray Hulbert (who had defeated Stan Van Mosseveld in his semifinal) and Peter Flack (who had defeated Phil Webb). Murray got off to a great start

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Winners: Handicap Triples Helen Teasdale, Jan PowerTuke and Barbara Lorencs

Runners up: Women’s Handicap Triples: Wendy Flack, Lee Leach and Denise Odell

Sorrento at Innaloo: Jeff Thomson, Murray Hulbert, Kerry Hutchinson, Lesley Hughes, Lee Leach, Coral Smith, Jan Power-Tuke and Jan Paniperis

Divorced Pairs Left: Winners: Coral Smith and Peter Flack

Right: Runners up: Allan Davis and Jan Paniperis

but Peter quickly caught up. A couple of strong ends by Murray gave him a 10 point lead, eventually winning the final 100-90.

Everest of Bowls 2020

Due to generous (but anonymous, by request) sponsorship, a qualifying event for the Everest of Bowls was held at Sorrento.. Twenty players entered, and play got under way on 26 September, but had to be abandoned due to rain. Play resumed on the following Thursday but again could not be completed.

The final between Greg Taylor and Steve Mortimer was ultimately played in early October. After an early tight tussle, Steve established a run of three consecutive scoring ends to set up a 17-10 win.

Steve then competed in the event at Dudley Park in Mandurah on 8 October. This major event, attracted 128 entrants from around the State and consisted of 16 sections of four. Steve was eliminated in the sectional play. Nevertheless, he is to be congratulated for his efforts, as are all who took part.

Congratulations to Rhett Butler who bowled his way into a quarter final against Shane Knott on the fourth and final day. After Shane (the eventual runner up) got an early lead, Rhett fought his way back to eventually go down 16-21 in a great game.

Jackie Maxwell was one of only 11 women entrants in the event and also won her sec-