Tara Murray
Club Sunbury has a start to the season to forget in the Bowls Victoria pennant, division 1, section 1 competition on Saturday.
Having rescheduled its opening match due to players away with state representation, Sunbury kicked off its season a week later on Saturday against Glenroy.
It was all one-way traffic, with Glenroy winning 94 (18)-59 (0) to continue its strong start to the season.
Carla Krizanic’s rink lost 21-14, Marc Bullows’ rink lost 27-12, Lauchlan Davies’ rink lost 21-19 and Harvey McAlister’s rink lost 25-14.
Club Sunbury’s David Glennon said it was a disappointing start for the side.
“Glenroy are a strong side and they had an 18-0 win in round one against Kingsbury,” he said. “We blew out the cobwebs.
“We were missing a couple of key players. Mark Cowan who is a regular skip was missing and Lee Wesley was unavailable and was on crutches.
“They were two crucial outs. Hopefully they’ll be back next week.”
On Saturday, Sunbury had three different skips to who finished last season skipping.
All three are new additions to the squad this season and are expected to have a big influence in the side.
Krizanic returns after not playing the past couple of seasons in a most coup for the club.
Glennon said the former Australian representative was excited to get back out there and play with her home club.
“It’s good to have her back,” he said. “She is one of the icons of the club.
“A lot of people look up to her and she’s a role model for the younger ones.”
McAlister is a player who has joined the club this season and will fly in and out each week. He is currently an ACT state player.
“He is a young up and coming player,” Glennon said.
Davies joined the club late in the off season from Yarraville Footscray. Glennon said his rink looked good on Saturday before falling away late.
After a disappointing exit from finals last season when it missed out on a grand final after being on top for much of the year, Club Sunbury is keen to be among the contenders this season.
It has been in the mix for a number of seasons without tasting success.
“I don’t think it will be too long before we are back on the winning side,” Glennon said.
Club Sunbury has six sides again this season in weekend pennant.
There were mixed results on the weekend with the second and third sides both getting wins.
The division 1 side will be in action twice this weekend.
It will face Brunswick on Friday night in the postponed round one match and then Yarraville Footscray 2 on Saturday.
