Sport
Cobar bowlers win first pennants round Tilpa Bushies win grand final in dramatic fashion The Golfie bowlers beat their Nyngan op- was Steve Manns. position in the first round of the 2023 pen- The outright winners of the evening were nant bowls competition for our region Damon Pike and Karen Daly who finished with played in Cobar on Sunday. +24. They soundly accounted for their opposiRink 3’s game was neck-and-neck with the tion in Tony Polack and Jim Nicholls. Cobar team of Dean ‘Bogger’ McLeod, Peter In the game on rink 11, Alan Knight and Tom ‘China’ Brien, Craig ‘Duck’ Grimmond and McKeown kicked off with a five point win Don Roberts’ two point win on the very last against Don Roberts and Peta Zazoniuk on the end ensuring the game finished as a draw. first end and they retained the upper hand in the John ‘Shark’ Daly, Shane Carter, Peter game right to the end. ‘Skeet’ Goonrey and Gerard Livingston’s game Visitor from Wyong, Mike Bryan teamed up with their Nyngan opponents was a cliff hang- with John ‘Shark’ Daly to win their match over er. Greg Clark and Steve Manns by a margin of With only two ends remaining, Cobar needed +3. six points to win and you could have cut the The Jackpot went off again with the magic tension in the air with a knife! The spectators number of five coming up for Knight and went wild as Cobar scored the points they McKeown.—The Second needed and they claimed a +1 win. It doesn’t get any more exciting than that! Over on rink 4, Barry Bargwanna, Doug Hudson, Michael Sargent and Greg Read held on tight to the mat from the get-go and held out to finish with a four point win on the 15th end. Cobar won the day by +9. The Cobar sides DC & C Barracudas and Red Hot Chilli will travel to Bourke this Sunday to play Steppers went toe-to-toe in Round 3 of the Open Mixed Touch competition on ThursBourke in the next round. Sunday’s social bowls was light on numbers day night at Ward Oval. as most seasoned bowlers were otherwise occu- After trailing 2-3 at the half time break, DC & pied playing pennants games against Nyngan. C Barracudas stepped up in the second half to From the social field, Alec Fraser and Helen score three more tries and, with one of them Boddy blitzed their opponents Karen Daly and being recorded by a female player, Aisha Schofield, that meant it was worth double Greg Clark. Boddy led the charge with outstanding preci- points, and it helped to seal an eventual 6-5 sion and Fraser’s masterfully executed deliver- win. ies further enhanced their stranglehold on the Ash Davies (2) and Ryan Urquhart (2) were green winning the day by a whopping 17 DC & C Barracudas’ other try scorers. Jack Brown (2), Sione Fakahua, Joseph points. Jay Egan and Paul Kershaw also had a great O’Connor and Thomas Plater were Red Hot day on the green ending up with +14 victory Chilli Steppers’ try scorers. Davies, Brown and Urquhart shared in the over John Claus and Justin Patzwald. While Egan certainly earned bragging rights match’s Best & Fairest points. for the most “chalkies” (bowls are marked with In the other games played last week, J&K chalk when they touch the jack) his wrong bias Butchers accounted for Phat Athletes 12-5; also earned him the George The Giraffe Rusty Snails had an easy 12-1 win over Gold Bars; and DJW Dingoes were in fine form Award! Friday’s Twilight Bowls Spider event winner trouncing Haymans Snowflakes 21-7.
Touch teams go toe-to-toe
Tilpa Bushies won the Twenty20 cricket grand final on Friday night in a dramatic fashion against the heavily favoured Whackers team. The low-scoring match went down to the final wicket and second last ball of the match, with Tilpa Bushies unexpectedly coming out on top. Whackers had won the toss and elected to bat first. The Tilpa Bushies’ bowling unit did their job well restricting Whackers to only 64 runs. Despite having an easy target to chase, Tilpa Bushies then struggled under the grand final pressure and Whackers’ strong bowling line-up. The Whackers’ batting order failed to get going, with only Tristan Everett (20 runs) making any significant contribution to their final total. The Tilpa Bushies’ bowlers were exceptional. Robert Childs took three wickets and conceded just eight runs, Nabeel Rashid (3 wickets for 12 runs) and Bryan Manns (1 wicket for 19 runs) all contributed to restrict the Whackers to such a low total. Tilpa Bushies’ batting order didn’t have the easiest of times chasing a small target. For what should have been a relatively easy run chase, only Robert Childs (19 runs) and Nabeel Rashid (12 runs) made it into double figures. Whackers’ bowlers put on a solid display, with Thomas Plater (2 wickets for 16 runs), Edward Paul (2 wickets for 12 runs) and Tristan Everett (1 wicket for 6 runs) all performing well. In a thrilling end to the match, Tilpa Bushies found themselves needing nine runs off the last over with only two wickets in hand, as the Whackers turned to Paddy Harris to close out the game. Harris’ first ball of the over was a no ball and went for a single. His next two deliveries were wides, adding further pressure to the already-tense situation. With still six balls left in the over, the Bushies now needed just five runs to win. Harris found his mark with the fourth ball, getting the wicket of Bryan Manns and leaving the Bushies needing five runs off five balls to win. The Whackers only needed one more wicket to seal the victory. The last man in for Tilpa Bushies, Adam Buckman, came to the crease and smashed a crucial four on his first ball, to level the scores. The excitement was far from over, as Buckman was nearly bowled out on the next delivery. With just one run needed off the last two balls, Harris unfortunately bowled a no ball, gifting the title to Tilpa Bushies in what was a remarkable finish to the Twenty20 season.— contributed
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