THE opening of the Ballarat District Bowls Division season was held at Victoria Bowling Club on Sunday.
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Victoria Bowling Club president Bob Whitcher rolled the jack before Bowls Victoria director Helen Stenning rolled the first bowl and declared the season officially open.
More than 70 BDBD representatives were in attendance, including 17 club presidents from the Ballarat region and four representatives from the Geelong Bowls region.
The proceeds of the day tallied $500 and went towards the Chairman’s Charity.
The Ballarat Junior Gold Diggers are well into their coaching and have already completed two sessions.
The next coaching day will be at Webbcona at 10am on Sunday, October 20.
The Diggers squad will be named on November 10 and will play in Bendigo on November 17.
All under-18 girls and boys are welcome and do not have to be registered bowlers to attend.
The men’s fours championships will be held at Victoria on Sunday, October 13, with roll-up to begin at 9:30am.
The draw is as follows:
Section 1: P Lovell, J Burt, R Crawley, P Clamp
Section 2: G Brown, N Peoples, D Fletcher, I Warner
Section 3: A Myers, B McArthur, A Callow, W Roberts
Section 4: G Flapper, C Bolte, K Coad, R Lock
The men’s over-60s singles will be played at Linton and Webbcona on Thursday, October 10 with a 10am roll-up at both venues.
Draw for Linton: G Lucas v D Speechley, J Maher v J Ryan, C Bolte v W Burge, D Williams v W Silbereisen, R Storey v H Johansen, B Phelan v P Kelly, B Hickman v D Knight, A Johns v R Watson.
Draw for Webbcona at 10am: R Broemmer v B Wells, J Glenton v T O’Farrell, I Warner v W Roberts, N Constable v D Flintoff, B Gallagher v G Candy. 12.30pm: S Walters, L Vincent and G Jenkins.
The first named players are to provide a marker for first round while the losers will mark the second game.
Good bowling to all bowlers as we start the pennant season on Saturday.
The draw and my round one selections (in bold) for divisions two to nine are as follows:
DIVISION 2: Beaufort v Victoria; Waubra v Creswick; Clunes v Sebastopol; Midlands v Central Wendouree; City Oval v BMS
DIVISION 3: Creswick v Linton; Mt Xavier v Sebastopol; Webbcona v Victoria; Ballan v Ballarat North; Avenue v Central Wendouree
DIVISION 4: Ballarat East v Buninyong; Victoria v Ballarat; Sebastopol v Learmonth; BMS v Smeaton; Daylesford v Midlands
DIVISION 5: City Oval v Avenue; Sebastopol v Webbcona; Victoria v Mt Xavier; BMS v Central Wendouree; Linton v Midlands
DIVISION 6: Smeaton v Victoria; Beaufort v Ballarat East; Ballarat North v Sebastopol; Webbcona v Clunes; City Oval v Invermay
DIVISION 7: Creswick v Linton; Mt Xavier v Ballarat; Central Wendouree v Waubra; Midlands v Sebastopol; Buninyong v Learmonth
DIVISION 8: Ballarat East v Buninyong; Sebastopol v Daylesford; Clunes v Webbcona; Invermay v City Oval; Midlands v BMS
DIVISION 9: Victoria v Beaufort; Central Wendouree v Ballarat North; Learmonth v Ballan; Avenue v City Oval
Rod Lindsay is the Ballarat District Bowls Division secretary.
