By Ian McGregor
Last week promised to be a tough one for Yarra Junction Bowling Club with both the Weekend and Midweek Pennant sides drawn to play away at clubs with heavy grass greens.
On Tuesday Yarra Junction Bowling Club players travelled to Yarra Glen on a cold, breezy, showery day wondering if the game would go ahead after the recent heavy rain.
The Eagles side was surprised, and felt somewhat privileged, to find that they would be taking part in the first Pennant game to be played on Yarra Glen’s brand-new synthetic green.
Unfortunately, Yarra Junction was again surprised at how slow the new green turned out to be and failed to adjust to the conditions losing two rinks to one and overall by 26 shots.
The Weekend Pennant side travelled to another picturesque location, at Eastwood Golf Club. The recent rains had rendered the normally slow green even slower but a couple of fine warm days meant that the green was playable for the first Saturday this season.
Yarra Junction was made to battle hard throughout and won two of the four rinks to achieve an overall 11-shot win. Once again A. Holmes, B. Ganson, S. Anderson and T. Ganson were the standout rink for Yarra Junction.
The improvement in the weather towards the end of the week came just in time for Round 1 of the Yarra Junction Community Cup to be played on Friday evening. Eight teams from local community organisations, sports clubs, businesses, and family/friends groups have entered and all enjoyed an evening of fun on the Green. A little more competitive than Barefoot Bowls but first and foremost – fun.
