Hijackers steal the show at Hilton Park

Corporate bowls champions from across the metropolitan area converged on Hilton Park to contend for the 2023 Corporate Shield. From Quinns Rocks to Safety Bay, some experienced, and some new to the sport, but very many that were lively characters, produced some great bowls throughout a day played in great spirit.

Bassendean’s HiJackers team of Andy Sullivan, Nigel Seymour, Mick Burman and Paul Roberts emerged victorious after a nervous wait while final results were tallied and checked again. Quinns Rocks’ Bowling Stones finished in second position, and Bassendean featured again with it’s Cavi Crew coming in third.

2023 Bowling Arm Challenge

Glenister – Bowling Arm champion for '23

Geraldton’s Warwick Glenister is the 2023 Bowls WA Bowling Arm State Singles champion after a great event hosted by Wanrbro Bowling Club.

With a strong field of 54 players competing, it was a big two days of bowls to get to our final champion.

Glenister progressed through the sectional rounds defeating Donald Carter and Derek Boardman to progress to the last 16. It was then that he faced his most stern test of the tournament as he survived a tight 19-17 win over Halls Head’s John Lysaght.

The tough win certainly steeled Glenister for the rest of event however as he had two big wins to book a place in the final.

Alongside, Eddie Gollan was also making his own path through to the final with six or seven shot margins in the majority of his matches.

Certainly Gollan, with his Premier League bowls experience would’ve been one of the shortlisted favourites for the event.

In the final, Gollan grabbed the first two shots of the match, before Glenister raced away, winning eight ends in a row, and amassing 13 shots in the process.

A change of length saw Gollan trim the margin, but again it was Glenister stringing together runs of ends that saw him close to within one shot of victory.

A couple of ends later that one shot came and Glenister was crowned champion.

Hilton Park hosted a wonderful event, with all 24 teams in attendance having a great day – we are sure we will see many of them competing on the greens for many years to come.

2023 Women's Metro IZRR

Northern Region takes Metro IRRR

The Northern Region are the Women’s Metropolitan Inter Region Round Robin Champions after a bold showing at Morley during April.

The Northern crew were quite dominant throughout the event, conceding only a drawn rink in the first match against the Southern team – with six rinks competing this represented a very solid start.

From there it was two further wins, firstly against the South Coastal crew, and then finally against Eastern.

Standout performers were the rinks skippered by Pauline Bourne, Lily Rughoobur and Cathy Taylor who all completed the event unbeaten. Bourne the best performed with a mammoth +68 shots across the three games.

The traditional all-star match to round out the weekend was also claimed by the Northern Region completing a big weekend.