Country Week singles 2009

March 5, 2009
Today we saw some great games of singles in the 1/4 finals, and semi finals of Country week.
Silky Wilkins from Cunderdin has made to play in the final while the other place has yet to be decided and will be played between Eaton's Gordon Jones and Geraldton's Colin Morgan to see who meets Silky Wilkins

L/R: Gordon Jones (Eaton) and Henry Slawinski (Wonthella) fought out a tough game where neither were prepared to call it a day
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The game between Henry and Gordon was a high class affair, firstly Gordon who is as tough as teak got away to lead 9/0. It looked mission impossible for Henry form this position but sure enough Henry wasn't going away without a fight and fight he did.

Henry soon had the game squared up at 11 - 11 and from here it was anyone's game.

Gordon shot away to lead 19 - 15 and Henry really looked to be on the ropes but found another leg to come back to make it 19 - 19.

Gordon applied the pressure to Henry who was dreadfully unlucky finding the gap between Gordon's bowl and jack 3 times in the last two ends, any touch and Henry would have won but all credit to a very good bowler in Gordon Jones who went on to win his next game against S. Kahler from Comet Bay 21- 10

Henry last played in Country week in 2006 when he won the Country week Singles. Illness has stopped Henry in those 2 years but he has a heart as big as Phar Lap and to come back from those situations tells much about Henry Slawinski

Silky Wilkins showed how good he is when the pressure was on today. He Played Glen Dunn from Mandurah and was just too steady.
Glen Dunn had beaten Maurice Crameri 21 - 3 in a sensational display of lawn bowls. Maurice would never have won this game but he bowled far better than his score indicates. There was nothing that Glen Dunn could not do, any draw or shot play he was spot on.
Silky Wilkins had Played Neville Woods earlier had had his measure in a good game, it was Silky who had the magic working for him in this game which he won 21 -12
Its all over and the best of friends after the game As
--------------L/R: Silky Wilkins shakes hands with Neville Woods
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In the game between Silky and Glen it promised to be a goodie but Glen left all his good bowls back in the game against Maurice Crameri.
Glen suffered the same fate as Maurice Crameri, Silky was on fire and answered all the challenges he faced and came out a comfortable winner and will play in the final tomorrow as well as play in the fours semi final

This was a very good contest between two Geraldton Bowlers, Mike Ford and Colin Morgan and both players were soooooooooooo good with several outstanding heads.
The score board showed there was never much in the game,

The score went 4/4, 6/6, 10/7, 10/9, 14/13, and from there is where colin Morgan got the vital break to get away and win 21 -16. This game was all class and a shame there had to be a loser.



Mike Ford delivers while Colin Morgan watches on

February 27, 2009

Men’s Country Week Singles,

At the conclusion of sectional play today there are many chances left to win the Country Week singles.
Past winner Keith Doncon remains in the field as does another past winner Henry Slawinski who was also the recent winner of the over 60's State Triples

Sectional Winners and venue played at

Dalkeith-Nedlands:
R Singh, B King, J Williams, D Main, P Brown, J Ward, S Parkin, A Yandle, G Crisp, H Smith, H Slawinski, P White, D Coombs, V Wellstead, B Andrews, R Bowron, N Wass, K Robartson.
Henry as mentioned and Rob Bowron is a player who could do well if he can play to his obvious potential and Keith Robartson is another top liner from Geraldton who could do very well


Melville:
K Morrell, G Jones, N Giles, S Davies, A Cousins, A Pinzone, A Dinnason, P Suckling, J Collard, A McCullagh, G Perks, E Steicke.
Some good names here but Glen Jones looks the best bet to go from here

Leeming:
R Cobley, A Shaddick, A Bartlett, B Taylor, G Reading, R Roberts, I Broad, R McTaggart, M Burgler, M Barnes, B Eva, E Ditchburn

Morley:
A White, G Slavin, S Beckwith, P Herbert, B Waddell, S Mackin, R Cowcher, M Kemp, M Nottle, S Chester, Jc Robertson, M Davis,

Sorrento:
L Dowdell, A Grundy, S Kauler, R Jasper, T Watson, L Payne, K Toster, K Henderson, D Brown, A Guelfi, R Grinbergs, K Bell,
Les Payne from the Geraldton Club won his club singles at 77 years of age and still has the eye of the tiger

Yokine:
J Milloy, D von Horn, P Smith, W Price, W Holt, K Jolly, Ja Robertson, B Calthorpe, E Tenardi, P Cavanagh, T Roberts, P Jones,
Two standout in the group of winners are Brian Calthorpe and David Von Horn while we see the name of E.Tenardi pop up quite often

Victoria Park:
M O’Hare, J Symes, M Erridge, P Gerrand, D Cliff, P Lane, A Wolfenden, R Argent, J McElroy, N Warner, W Coyle, P Barber,
Wayne Coyle is one to catch the eye as is Jim McElroy

Nollamara:
Da Thomson, C Morgan, M Fox, R Forsyth, A Jefferys, L Sanders, M Chaplin, M Lancaster, G Ilich, D Haig, P Waterhouse, K McKenzie,

Mt Pleasant:
A Spence, G Blacklock, P Malins, K Adriens, A Grieves, M Nilson, R Whitfort, C Squires, D Buegge, B van Elburg, R Filimski, P Nicholls,
Peter Nicholls is another who can play a bit while D. Buegge played in the final of the State Fours a few years ago

Manning:
D Warner, D Wilkinson, T Cabassi, R Guilfoyle, D Rubery, J Rowe,M Lanigan, M Ford, T Reynolds, K Crane, R Wheeldon, G Whyatt,
Geoff Whyatt is still getting them away well

Doubleview:
B Johnson, T Reudavey, R Allen, J Pickering, K Sumner, S Trowl, T Hughes, M Grigsby, R Warburton, R Bergin, B Thompson, I Eva
Wagin Player Steve Trowl will be hard to beat

Bedford:
D Fiegert, T Wilkins, B Starbuck, G Bell, W Lee, P Lee, B Driscoll, P Monagle, R Wiese, A Harding, D Hubbard, G Smith
Cunderdin's Silky Wilkins is another who has done well in the past

Warwick:
J Jones, B Hobden, G Kern, N Woods, D Smith, I Young G Stewart, K Meers, L Donnes, G Helliwell, K Doncon, J Roach
Keith Doncon would be the favourite to take this title

Cambridge:
B Butcher, R Bender, L Miguel, W Button, G Dunn, B McKenna,C Funazzi, G Twist, S Clarke, C Kirkpatrick, T Beswick, S Manuel
There are two beauties in this group, Glen Dunn from Mandurah who did so well in the Mt Lawley Consistencty two years ago and Charlie Funazzi is a regular in this Country week series

Osborne Park:
M Crameri, W McDonald, R Searle, A Crabbe, K Heberle, D Miguel T Melotte, J Park, M Wood, T Williamson, K Rolleston, T Edwards, J Duggan, C Carruthers, R Pennington
Maurice Crameri is the name that catches the eye and could go all the way