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Yea bowls goes down in tight grand final tussle: Community Challenge begins

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Mar 12, 2025

IN the Grand Final, Yea Bowls Club went down by just three shots overall in a tight tussle against Kyabram on Saturday.

With the game allocated to start at 10.30am, Yea had an early start to get to Shepparton in time for a practice at 9.30am.

In beautiful conditions, the game was tight from the start, with Yea holding a slender lead after 12 ends, 32 shots to 30. In the following four ends, Kyabram fought back to take control with a 51 shots to 36 lead.

Yea fought back very well from that point on to go down narrowly 60 shots to 57.

Rink one with Mick Barrot, Terry Muller, Darren Sherman and skipper Justin Branch were 13 to 10 up after 12 ends, slipped to 13 to 16 down after 16 ends, before flying home in the last five ends to win their rink convincingly 25 to 17.

Rink two with Cliff Sinclair, Maureen and Rob Marks and skipper Terry McInnes, were six shots all after eight ends, fell behind 11 to 21 after 20 ends, but finished with three shots on the last end to go down 14 to 21.

Rink three with Angela Finn, Viv Cavanagh, Neil Rieschieck and skipper Maurie Finn, started well to hold a 13 to eight lead after 12 ends. However, Yea went from holding multiple shots, to going multiple shots down on successive ends, which led to a change in momentum.

Yea was then down 13 to 18 after 16 ends. The last five ends were hotly contested, with the final score 18 shots to 22 in Kyabram’s favour.

The club says congratulations to Kyabram for winning the day, but also…

Image: Congratulations to all the members of the 2024-2025 pennant team. Terry McInnes, Terry Muller, Michael Barrott, Arthur Parish, Leonard Sheahan, Rob Marks, Neil Rieschieck, Viv Cavanagh, Dick Dashwood, Darren Sherman, Cliff Sinclair, Maurie Finn, Angela Finn, Maureen Marks, Barb Tanner. Absent: Justin Branch.

by Angela Finn

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