Metro Pennants Wrap

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 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 credit never gave up in a very good match.

• Osborne Park win Premier League.

• Manning win Women's Premier League.

Both sides are headed back to Premier League and the flag is really icing on the cake, they had finished with just 0.5 of a point separating them in the regular season.

Mosman Park were beaten in the semi-final by Safety Bay by just 3 shots but managed to reverse that when it mattered most winning by 5, showing that there really wasn’t much between the two teams.

Best on the day for Mosman Park was the rink of Dale Marsland (skip), Steve Swanson, Willie Tan and Tristan Massang who won by 8. Leader Massang effectively snuffed out the Safety Bay challenge when he nailed the jack on the last end with Safety Bay needing a big score.

The Men’s Premier League final lived up to its billing with the two best teams all year in Osborne Park playing South Perth in the grand final. Those two teams had finished over 16pts clear on top of the ladder and they went shot for shot during a lot of the final.

Osborne Park got the jump at the start of the match on a green that was running beautifully and with almost no breeze spectators saw a great array of shots from sublime pinpoint draws to outstanding conversions.

The Saints led 20-5 in the early stages with the rinks skippered by Neville Stevens and Ryan Brown doing the majority of the damage.

Metro Pennants Osborne Park claim Premier double

Men's Saturday Pennants – continued

As the match progressed South Perth steadied themselves and started to lay down a challenge, as the match approached the half-way mark they had narrowed the margin and actually drew level when the Justin Opie rink for South Perth picked up a 6 after an unusually poor end from Cody Packer's team.

Osborne Park however once again steadied the ship and then continued to once again build a double-digit margin.

South Perth then made another run for the title. Glen Pauling’s rink of Tyrone Alberti, David Mortley and Derek Angell were the best in the home and away competition and they started to close the gap on the Stevens rink with the other rinks also scoring at the same time the gap once again reduced to just a few shots.

Osborne Park then saved their best for the finish and across the board they all had good ends. Gary Caffell’s rink with some excellent leading from Ian Lilburne with Robbie Lawrence and youngster Connor Biddle who played extremely well started to get on top of the rink skippered by Scott Walker.

You can watch a replay of the Caffell v Walker game on the Bowls WA Facebook Page. Caffell himself played a match winner trailing the jack for a 4.

Packer’s rink narrowed back the margin against Opie whilst Brown and Stevens again asserted their dominance. Suddenly with just 9 ends to play the margin was back to 13 shots and Osborne Park had their tails up and looking unstoppable at this stage. They eventually played out a 85-67 victory.

• Action in the Men's Saturday Premier League Grand Final. • Osborne Park claimed the Saturday and Midweek Premier flags.

Presentations were made by Bowls WA President Larry Bandy with Andria Aird from Blooms The Chemist handing over the Pennant badges and flags to the winners.

Other Pennant Competitions

Men's Midweek Pennants

Premier League - Sorrento 56 def by Osborne Park 57 1st Division White - Manning 75 def North Beach 41 1st Division Blue - Joondalup 55 def Warnbro 50 2nd Division - North Beach 2 68 def Safety Bay 58 3rd Division Pennant - Joondalup 67 def East Fremantle 58 4th Division Pennant - Mt Pleasant 62 def Rossmoyne 56 5th Division Pennant - Joondalup 43 def by South Perth 68 6th Division Pennant - Bullsbrook 43 def Warnbro 38

Women’s Saturday Pennants

1st Red Division - Warnbro 28 def Sorrento 25 1st Blue North - Wanneroo 30 def Mosman Park 28 1st Blue South - Bassendean 37 def Manning 28 2nd Division - South Perth 41 def Sorrento 31 3rd Division - Cockburn 38 def Bayswater 23

Women’s Friday Night Pennants

1st Red Division - Bedford 36 def Thornlie 18 Well done to all teams who made finals, a big congratulations to our champion clubs and a special thank you to everyone who participated in the Blooms The Chemist Metropolitan Competitions for 2020/21.

Women’s Tuesday Pennants Six Clubs receive Flags

Another great season of Blooms The Chemist Women’s Tuesday Pennants came to a close when six clubs received a pennant flag during a bumper finals day of action at Yokine Bowling Club on Wednesday March 17th. It was a rather tough season for the players in this competition with two rounds abandoned due to heat and a third due to the covid lockdown but here is how it all panned out.

All Women’s Tuesday Pennant Competition Finals results are available at Bowls WA Competition Portal

In Premier League it was tradition rivals Manning and Mosman Park who dominated this division once again as they have done for the past 11 seasons however what was great about this year was the competitiveness across all 10 teams.

The last round of play saw four teams fighting to save relegation whilst three others were trying to secure the last finals spot. Commiserations must go to Leeming and Wanneroo who both finished on 39.5pts and head back to 1st Division White next year. Melville 40ps and Safety Bay 42pts will be thankful they survived.

In the finals North Beach produced a great fighting effort to come from behind to defeat Osborne Park 64-59 whilst Manning overcame the home ground advantage held by Mosman Park beating them 68-56.

Mosman Park quickly hit back to qualify for the final steam rolling North Beach 63-36 to set up the grand final that everyone would have predicted at the start of the year.

So into battle went both sides full of optimism and hope, Mosman Park had sat top of the table all year whilst Manning are always up to the task in the big matches. Both teams were playing well and the scores were close for most of the first half of the match but as the game progressed it was Manning who began to once again establish themselves as the powerhouse in Women’s bowls.

The stars of the day without doubt were the rink of Therese Hastings, Liz Matthews, Sharon Lyster and Saffronne Alden who demolished a rink who had barely lost a game all season in Lee Poletti, Linda Warburton, Judy Allen and Jill Adam 32-11.

WA State Coach Therese Hastings showing she hasn’t lost any of the skill that made her a four time WA Bowler of the Year with a great display.

Congratulations once again to Manning who are building a dynasty that will surely be tough for any club to replicate. Other pennant winners were North Beach in 1st Division White, Osborne Park in 1st Blue North, Warnbro in 1st Green South, Bassendean in second division, Forrestfield in third division and South Perth in fourth division.

• South Perth claim their first flag in 60 years.

• Hailey Adams in action for Manning.