Tara Murray
Romsey is making the most of early games at home in the Central Highlands Bowls Division’s top flight.
Romsey has won its first five matches and has opened up a 22 point gap at the top of the table already.
President Andy Laing said they couldn’t have asked for much of a better start.
“This is our best season for many years,” he said.
“We’ve had a bit of new blood and everyone is very compatible and we’ve had four really good wins playing on our synethic green which helps.”
Laing said playing so many games early at home was a good thing, but it also had some negatives.
They will play on the road on grass greens in the second half of the season.
“A couple of games got transferred to our green due to water damage,” he said.
“After the half way turn, we’ll be playing on their grass greens. We’ll take what we can get.”
On Saturday, Romsey was on the road against Kyneton Golf, winning a thriller 59 (12)-56 (4).
Matthew Brundell was the winning skip for Romsey, winning 29-16.
While Romsey has had a nice start to the season, Laing said they weren’t getting ahead of themselves.
He said they would get to half way and look at how they were placed.
“Finals were the aim at the start of the year,” he said. “We’ll wait until Christmas and then look at things.”
Their second side is sitting midtable while their two midweek sides are also in the top four at this stage, with the club hoping all will play finals.
The club’s third Saturday side sits bottom.
Laing said they had some good numbers this season, with 48 players available to be picked.
“We’re heading in the right direction.”
In other results, Lancefield had a strong win against Trentham, winning 64 (16)-51 (0).
Bev Holmes’ rink won 18-15, Jeff Holmes rink won 22-19 and Aaron Young’s rink won 24-17.
Lancefield sits second on the table.
Gisborne was too strong for Broadford with a massive 81 (16)-40 (0) win against Broadford.
David Beardmore’s rink did most of the damage, winning 33-8.
Kilmore beat Kyneton 75 (14)-55 (2) in the other match.
In division 2, Romsey 2 and Gisborne 2 drew, Kyneton Golf 2 defeated Diggers Rest, Macedon beat Woodend and Kyneton 2 beat Kilmore 2.
Meanwhile in division 3, Diggers Rest 2 beat Kilmore 3, Gisborne 3 beat Lancefield 2, Macedon 2 was too strong for Woodend 2 and Trentham 2 beat Romsey 3.
