By DI DAY
LIFE is a journey, a game, a dance, a dream … and Premier League was all of those things and more for the Yarra Glen Bowls Club.
The club has 76 members, none of them flown in from interstate or overseas and, apart from the coach, not paid to play. They play because they love the club and the club supports them in return.
This is what makes YGBC so special. The club gave third-placed Essendon a huge fight, leading for most of the match and finally being overrun in the final stages of the game.
The team gave it everything they had, unfortunately this wasn’t good enough, so back to Division 1 they go with heads held high, hopefully to give Premier Division another crack in 2017.
Now the club has its sights firmly set on Saturday’s Division 4 and 7 teams and the Tuesday Division 1 and 4 teams.
Not bad to get four out of six teams in to the finals.
Division 4 plays Boronia at Boronia and it’s one apiece between the teams, however Boronia does have the home-ground advantage.
Division 7 has lost only four games this season and will play Donvale at home. Again both teams have won their home games so you would assume Yarra Glen has the upper hand in this battle.
In Tuesday’s final series, Division 1 takes on Heathmont at Heathmont, similar conditions to ours. Both teams have won one each so this will be a tight finish.
Division 4 has only lost one game for the season and finishing on top, look hard to beat and will play Whittlesea at Yarra Glen.
