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Lisa makes the final By Nick Creely HSBC and the Australian Rugby Union have announced the finalists for the 2016 HSBC Volunteer of the Year, and Endeavour Hills Rugby Club’s very own Lisa Campbell is one of them. With over 400 entries overall, Lisa has made it down to the last five, with her impressive work as a hard-working volunteer at her club this season not going unnoticed. The award aims to recognise those individuals who volunteer their time and make a significant contribution to community rugby across Australia. Lisa has been heavily involved with the Endeavour Hills Rugby Club since moving from New Zealand four years ago. Over the past four years, Lisa has served on the committee, helping the struggling club in a variety of time-consuming jobs. She has served in roles such
as Director of Juniors, Junior Registrar, Team Manager of the Under 10 and Under 18 teams, Communications, Organiser of various fundraisers, merchandise as well as facilitating a preseason skills and drills program for the club’s junior players. Lisa is at the club for up to five days a week, and balancing work and family life at the same time. Her passion about the growth and development of rugby in Victoria has seen her reach great heights at the club. CEO of HSBC Australia, Tony Cripps, paid tribute to the hard-working volunteers, citing their utmost importance in rugby thriving at grassroots level. “Volunteers are vital to the success of rugby clubs across Australia. “HSBC is proud to recognise those who give so much to the game and keep rugby thriving at its grassroots. “Congratulations to all the finalists of this year’s Volun-
teer of the Year awards,” Cripps said. This was echoed by ARU General Manager of Community Rugby and Strategy, Andrew Larratt, who acknowledged just how valued volunteers are in Australia. “The finalists represent thousands of rugby volunteers in this country who are passionate about our game and the benefits it holds for young boys and girls,” Larratt said. “We were delighted to see so many nominations come in this year from all across the country, as we know each nominee makes such a difference to rugby in Australia.“ The finalists chosen will attend the John Eales Medal night on 27 October 2017, where the winners will be announced. If Lisa wins the award, she will receive a grant of $10,000 to improve the facilities and services of her registered club.
Lisa Campbell is down to the last five in the HSBC Volunteer of the Year. Picture: SUPPLIED
Great start to season for Cranbourne CRANBOURNE BOWLS SATURDAY CRANBOURNE'S top side started the season well, with the rink of skip Doug Boggie and his team of Gavin Wright, Nick Arnold and Roger Roscoe, who were all in sizzling form with a 29 shot victory. Also a great performance from skip Peter Elgar and his rink of John Stanley, Ron Gascoigne, and Barry Thomas who won by 11 shots. Cranbourne’s second side also started the season well with an outstanding performance with skip Gerry Dudink and his team of Vic Butera, Shane Morrison and Chris Griffiths, who won by 13 shots. Back at the club after the game, Chairman of Selectors, Graeme Wood, was very happy with the results. “A pleasing result first up makes the whole club feel good with the promise of a great bowling season ahead of us,” Wood said. All midweek games including ladies pennant were washed out this week. All the Cranbourne results for round 1. Side 1 Division 2 Cranbourne 88 defeated Dandenong Club 56 (P Elgar 20-9, D Boggie 37-8, I Barrenger 16-14, and P O’Day 15-25). Side 2 Division 3 Cranbourne 94 defeated Coatesville 81 (G Dudink 36-23; S Burnett 21-21; M Scotter 23-15 and G Farrington 1422). Side 3 Division 4 Cranbourne 64 lost to Narre Warren 92 (J McKenna 14-22, J Kent 20-26, S De Piazza 19-15 and C Wright 11-29).
Rain causes midweek washout HAMPTON PARK BOWLS HAMPTON Park’s midweek bowlers lined up against Narre Warren (Division 1) and Mentone (Division 3), but after a great start in both games, the weather intervened and both games were called off. Premiership points were shared. Saturday saw the start of another Pennant season, and Division 1 was at home to newly promoted Pakenham. The Parkers won two of the four rinks but not enough for the overall win. Sean McDonald, Chris Hendrie, Steve Barnes and Shane Collins won 18-10, while Geoff Ladner, Peter Hayden, Larry Simpson and Zak Storm won 19-16. Ian Bartlett, Chris Barnes, Clint Mills and Laurie Edwards lost 12-21 and Mark Paton, Neville Hendrie, Shane Hardy and Warwick Hardy lost 13-33. Hampton Park (1) 4-62 lost to Pakenham (1) 14-80. Division 3 travelled to Pakenham to play Cardinia Waters on their tricky carpet. Although they were outplayed for most of the day, teams made late challenges. Jen Sherry, Craig Richards, Blake Edwards and Geoff Ampt came from 13 shots down to lose 1826, Val Moore, Tracey Storm, Ellen Smith and Denise Eastick picked up 7 shots to lose 12-26, Vince Kovacic, Helen Lambert, Jim Westwell and Jos van Hout picked up 6 late shots to lose 1524 while John Wright, Heather Naismith, John Nunan and Ken Cobden went down 16-30. Hampton Park (2) 0-61 lost to Cardinia Waters (1) 18-106. Division 6 had the club’s only overall win for the day against Upwey/Tecoma at Pound Road. Biggest winners were Richard Pallet, Dave Clarke, Bill Webb and Ron Beverly with a massive 28 shot win 35-7, Gerry Cox, Lou Soligo, Rob Woff and Stuart Tokely added to the total with a 23-21 win, Val Simpson, Brian Diaper, Toni Sutton and Ian Kitt went down 14-20 and Andrew Brandolin, Wayne Grimsby, Janice Collins and Ray Wood lost 11-28. Hampton Park (3) 14-83 defeated Upwey/Tecoma (3) 4-76.
Chairman of Selectors Graeme Wood shows the way just before the first game of the new season in Pennant bowls. Picture: SUPPLIED
Mixed results for Berwick as pennant underway BERWICK BOWLS SATURDAY ROUND 1 of Saturday Pennant got underway in some of the best conditions for weeks. Berwick had two grass greens and the synthetic available and rolling very nicely for the first hit out of the season, playing host to sides from Montmorency, Burden Park and Glen Waverley. There were impressive performances
from some sides and two very close results with wins for our number one side and the fifth side. The third and sixth side also recorded wins for the day. Division 2 - Section 5: Berwick 1 defeated Montmorency by 3 shots. Division 2 - Section 6: Berwick 2 lost to Mulgrave by 15 shots. Division 2 - Section 8: Berwick 3 defeated Burden Park by 11 shots. Division 4 - Section 6: Berwick 4
lost to Mulgrave CC by 32 shots. Division 4 - Section 7: Berwick 5 defeated South Oakleigh by 6 shots. Division 5 - Section 6: Berwick 6 defeated Glen Waverley by 15 shots. Division 6 - Section 6: Berwick 7 lost to Mulgrave CC by 14 shots. THURSDAY - TRIPLES 1st - Peter Cairncross, Cheryl Cairncross, George Harris.
2nd - Ken Graeber, Richard Benning, Dave Reddy. 3rd - Bill Stilo, Keith Clark, Maxine Thompson. 4th - Ken Dorning, John Nicholson, John Wonnacott. MIDWEEK Midweek Pennant was declared a washout and points for all matches were shared.
Sean McDonald was in the thick of the action.
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