Sorrento Does It Again

Sorrento Does It Again!

In late October the 2022-2023 WA Men’s State Fours had a field of 96 teams. The Sorrento team of Bruce Eagles, Murray Hulbert, Peter Flack, and Peter Morgan did very well to get to the semi finals where they had a 20-10 win over a strong composite team skipped by Segan Pasalich (Osborne Park), Shane Loftus (Osborne Park), Andrew Pasalich (Osborne Park), and Sean Niven (Joondalup)

The other semi-final saw a 18-11 win for South Perth’s Justin Opie, Glenn Pauling, Troy Kinane and Scott Walker over Doubleview’s Kyle Mcllroy, Stewart Gosstray, Steve Cerff and Gavin Faulkner

In the final the Sorrento team started well by winning the first two ends to go up 3-0 with Justin Opie drawing level on the third end with a three. Again, Bruce won two ends in a row and surged to a good-sized lead 11-3 by getting fours on both occasions. Opie again answered by grabbing a four of their own followed by a three to close the gap to a single shot of 10-11 after seven ends of the eighteen-end game.

At the halfway mark of the match, our team was leading 14-10 and were starting to gain the ascendency with more consistent bowls in the head. A two to Opie on the tenth end saw him close within two shots of Eagles at 12-14 but it was the start of the end for the South Perth team.

Three singles in a row followed by two, one, one and two saw Sorrento win seven ends in a row and take a 23-12 win with an end to spare. Bruce Eagles, Murray Hulbert, Peter Flack, and Peter Morgan the 2022-23 WA State Fours Champions are pictured on our cover

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