Women’s Pennants Wrap Tuesday Pennants Another great season of the Professional’s Women’s Tuesday Pennants came to a close when six clubs received a pennant flag during a bumper finals day of action across two venues at Bassendean Bowling Club and Manning Memorial Bowling Club on Wednesday March 16th 2022.
Premier Division This season came down to the wire with 2nd-5th spot up for grabs throughout the entire season. Manning sat comfortably on top whilst, Mosman Park, North Beach, Osborne Park and Melville all fought it out for the remaining spots. Manning won the semi-final 67-56 against Mosman Park to secure their spot in the Grand Final. Whilst in the first Semi-final North Beach downed Osborne Park 64-55 to take on Mosman Park in the Preliminary final. Mosman Park proved to good for North Beach with a dominant 3 rink win 71-44, making it a Manning v Mosman Park final once again. With a seven-title winning streak under their belt Manning looked to make it 8 against old rivals Mosman Park. After a strong start by Mosman Park, the experience of Manning began to show with the rinks of Matthews and Hastings fighting back to win whilst the rink of Krstic kept it tight against a dangerous Warburton who stepped up to skip after Poletti was a late out. Winning 71-50 this makes it 13 titles out of the last 15 for Manning.
• Manning – Premier Division Pennant winners.
1st Division Green – North The finals of the 1st Division Green North was a close contest with the both Semi-finals won by just two shots. Warwick 1 defeated North Beach 2 55-53 and Sorrento defeated North Beach 1 6967. The Preliminary final was a different story with North Beach 2 defeating Sorrento comfortably, 75-41, mainly due to the rink of Wendy Robertson with a dominating 31-10 win. Warwick 1 proved too good for North Beach 2, winning 61-49 to win the 1st Division Green North Pennant for the third time in recent history. As well as the Pennant, Warwick has earnt a place in 1st Division White next season after finishing on top of the ladder for the season.
1st Division White The battle for the guaranteed Grand Final spot between top of the tables Leeming 1 and Mundaring was a close contest with no more than 3 shots deciding the winner. In the end Leeming 1 was victorious 55-52 leaving Mundaring to face a Manning side coming off a three rink dominant performance against North Beach 75-51. The Preliminary final was another nail biter between Mundaring and Manning coming down to another three point aggregate difference. Despite 2 rink wins with a four shot difference from Manning the rink of Shirley Ellis did enough to hold on to the aggregate with a seven shot win, to make it 6259 and take them into the Grand Final to face Leeming 1 once again. Leeming 1 showed why they finished on top defeating Mundaring 67-55 to win the Pennant. Leeming and Mundaring both earned promotion finishing top of the table and will once again join Premier Division next season.
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• Leeming – 1st Division White winners.
1st Division Green – South Warnbro went into these finals looking to cement their own slice of history and make it back-to-back Pennant titles and were set to face off against top of the table Rossmoyne. Despite finishing top of the tables Warnbro proved too good for Rossmoyne defeating them 64-50 to book a place in the Grand Final once again. The Semi-final between Byford and Cockburn was anyone’s game with both teams finishing the season with 61 points each. The result showed how close these two are with Cockburn winning by just 3 points to face Rossmoyne in the Preliminary final.
BowlsWA • Jack Hi • Autumn 2022
