The Women’s Pairs Championship commenced with Sectional Play on Wednesday 24th February with 12 teams over four sections of three, the finals then continuing on Sunday 28th March.

In the first semifinal, Coral Smith and Wendy Flack had a close game against Jan Cook and Liz Marshall with the final score being 16-14 to move Smith and Flack into the final. In the second semifinal, Barbara Lorencs and Pauline Marsden took charge of their game against Kaye Martin and Carmel Hyde from the beginning, giving them a win of 15-4 and a place in the final.

The final match was exciting to watch with spectators seeing excellent bowling from both teams. Barbara and Pauline took the lead up until the 10th end when Coral and Wendy equalised with them on the 11th end making it 9 all. The next couple of ends went to Coral and Wendy, giving them a lead of 5 shots up. With three ends still to play, Barbara and Pauline took charge of the game and took out the Pairs Championship event with a score of 19-14.

Congratulations to our Men’s Thursday Premier Pennant team who finished on top of the ladder this season.

Unfortunately, in the final for the Pennant Flag last Thursday they went down by just one heartbreaking shot to Osborne Park in front of over 100 spectators.

Back L-R: Peter Flack, Rhett Butler, Mal Burton, Steve Mortimer, Murray Hulbert, Ross Cunningham, Bruce Eagles, Paul Knight.

Front L-R: Geoff Murray, Chris Lander, Rick Munt, Shane Loftus (absent)

The Sorrento Men’s Singles Championship was completed on Sunday 21st March, under relatively hot, still conditions and a nicely paced ’B’ green conducive to good bowling.

One semi-final had been completed on the previous Sunday, with Kyle McIlroy progressing 25-10 over Frank Tyson.  The second semi, between Dan Greig and Steve Draper, was a closer, fluctuating affair which saw scores tied up at 21 apiece before Dan drew two shots on each of the last two ends to close out the match 25-21.

The final between Kyle and Dan was a relatively one-sided match, with Kyle’s very consistent drawing, allied to the occasional drive, proving too much for Dan, resulting in a final score of 25-5 and Kyle’s name on the Singles’ trophy for the first time.

Friday the 19th March Sorrento Women welcomed 36 teams to take part in our annual Trevors Carpets Invitation Fours. This event is probably the biggest competition on our Women’s Calendar with Division One and above players invited to compete in this prestigious event with the prize money offered at $4000.

Within our 36 entries we had teams from as far as Gingin, York, Meadow Springs, Safety Bay, Dudley Park and most of the Metro clubs taking part. The winners (pictured above) were the Manning team of Liz Matthews, Robyn O’Brien, Sue Hogg and Sue Barrow. Second place was also a Manning team, with Gosnells taking third place.

A wonderful day was had by everyone at our Club, everyone going home happy and full of praise for their day at Sorrento.

Thank you to our sponsor, Ray Green of Trevors Carpets, without his generosity the Invitation Fours would not be as successful. A big thank you to our Croquet ladies for supplying our delicious home baked goodies for the morning tea, it was amazing. Thank you also to our women and men from Sorrento who do their utmost to make this day such a memorable occasion.

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