Metro Pennants
, Men s Pennants played in perfect conditions Men's Saturday Pennants Absolutely perfect weather conditions graced bowlers lucky enough to make finals over the weekend March 27 and 28 as they took to the greens for the last time in the Blooms The Chemist Men’s Saturday Pennant Competition for season 2020-21. All results from Pennant, Challenge and Promotion Finals from Men’s Saturday Pennants can be found on the Bowls WA Competition Portal. Divisions 2-5 played their pennant finals on Saturday and it was four very happy clubs at the end of the day. Congratulations to Hollywood-Subiaco in second division, Gosnells in third division, Fremantle in 4th division and Stirling in fifth division. Also well done to Mt Lawley • Osborne Park win Premier League. who were awarded the flag with no finals played after finishing on top of the ladder in sixth division. All first division finals were hosted by Yokine Bowling Club on Sunday. A huge crowd gathered to cheer on six strongly supported clubs who were looking to claim victory. The first flag to be decided was in 1st Blue where the North and South top of the ladder sides in Mt Lawley and Cockburn battled it out for the title. Mt Lawley who had started slowly took the win as they over ran Cockburn for a 87-64 victory. The surge came in the middle stages at all Mt Lawley rinks turned up the pressure scoring well, most notable was the team of Mark Masel, Paul Sinden, John Cottier and Peter Callison who trailed 0-11 before going on to win 20-15. In 1st White Mosman Park held the advantage nearly all day but had to survive a late change from Safety Bay who to their • Manning win Women's Premier League. credit never gave up in a very good match. Both sides are headed back to Premier League and the flag The Men’s Premier League final lived up to its billing with is really icing on the cake, they had finished with just 0.5 of the two best teams all year in Osborne Park playing South a point separating them in the regular season. Perth in the grand final. Those two teams had finished over Mosman Park were beaten in the semi-final by Safety Bay 16pts clear on top of the ladder and they went shot for shot by just 3 shots but managed to reverse that when it mattered during a lot of the final. most winning by 5, showing that there really wasn’t much Osborne Park got the jump at the start of the match on between the two teams. a green that was running beautifully and with almost no Best on the day for Mosman Park was the rink of Dale breeze spectators saw a great array of shots from sublime Marsland (skip), Steve Swanson, Willie Tan and Tristan pinpoint draws to outstanding conversions. Massang who won by 8. Leader Massang effectively snuffed The Saints led 20-5 in the early stages with the rinks out the Safety Bay challenge when he nailed the jack on the skippered by Neville Stevens and Ryan Brown doing the last end with Safety Bay needing a big score. majority of the damage. 12
BowlsWA • Jack Hi • Autumn 2021
