Tara Murray
Club Sunbury let slip a lead as it crashed to its third loss in four rounds in the Bowls Victoria weekend pennant, division 1, section 1.
In their first game back after the Christmas break, with last week being heated off, Club Sunbury travelled to Kingsbury.
The match went down to the wire, with Kingsbury coming away with the win, 77 (15)-75 (3).
Marc Bullows’ rink was the only winning one for Sunbury, winning 20-17. Lee Wesley’s rink had a tie, 20-all, while Mark Cowan’s rink lost by one shot and Sebastian Pretty’s rink also lost.
Club Sunbury’s David Glennon said they always expected it to be tough on Kingsbury’s green.
“Sunbury had a big lead toward the end, about 15 to 20 shots with about 12 to 13 ends left,” he said.
“Kingsbury was able to get over the top of them.”
Bullows, Wesley and Cam Ryan were the three standouts for the Club Sunbury in the loss.
While disappointed to drop the match, other results went the way of Club Sunbury, with the other sides in the top four all losing.
Club Sunbury remains in second spot on 126 points, 32 points behind Lilydale.
Bundoora RSL sits on 118 points along with Kingsbury and Blackburn is two points behind and Middle Park another six points behind them.
Craigieburn is still in the finals mix as well.
Glennon said despite not getting a win in the last five rounds, there were no panic stations about their season.
“It’s always difficult at Kingsbury on the carpet,” he said. “We need to keep winning the home games and pick up some points on the road and try to win those games.
“There’s no concern, we’re still sitting second and it’s onwards and upwards. It’s still a really good position to be in.”
It was a good day overall for Club Sunbury with four of the six sides in action coming away with wins.
With the lower grades only having three rounds remaining it’s getting to the pointy end of the season.
The second side sits in second after winning its fifth consecutive match, while the fourth side is also in second and the fifth side on top.
The other two teams are both still in finals contention.
Club Sunbury’s top side this week face Club Dandenong which is second bottom.
‘Meanwhile, Mark Cowan won the Northern Gateway over 60’s singles title.
