Category: Match Reports
Pennant Report Round 2 Season 2020/2021
SATURDAY Pakenham’s Div 1 side all chipped in to hire a bus, with Dave Wood as double zero driver, for their trip to Parkdale where it was well known that parking was extremely limited (ironic – no parking at Parkdale!). Their opponents on the other hand were largely an unknown quantity, even though some of…
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PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB After a long delay, the 2020/21 Pennant season finally got under way last Saturday. Even without the problems caused by Victoria’s lockdowns, the coming season was always going to be shorter than in previous years as the number of teams in each section has been reduced from…
READ MOREPennant Report Semi Final 2019 – 2020
PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – PENNANT SEMI FINAL – 14 MAR 2020 SATURDAY With the ever present threat of the Coronavirus in mind, Bowls Victoria issued a direction late last week that finals games were to be spectator free and that the usual hand shakes and high fives were to be discouraged. The practice of picking…
READ MOREPennant Season 2019 – 2020 Round 18
PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – PENNANT ROUND 18 – 7 MARCH 2020-03-08 The last home and away round of Weekend Pennant was played last Saturday, whereas the final round of Midweek Pennant is scheduled for Tuesday 10 March. SATURDAY There were two parts to the equation which would see Pakenham One advance into the Div1 finals…
READ MOREPennant Season 2019 – 2020 Round 17
PENNANT REPORT – ROUND 17 – 29 FEB 2020-03-01 SATURDAY Following the loss of a number of key players at the end of last season, the doomsayers predicted that Pakenham’s Division One side was destined for relegation in 2019/20 – however that has been far from the case and the side has been as high…
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PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – PENNANT REPORT – ROUND 16 – 22 FEB 2020 SATURDAY When Pakenham’s First Division side met Cheltenham in the first half of the home and away rounds it was the Lions who claimed the win, as well as 16 of the 18 available Pennant points. However the Cheltenham team which turned…
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PENNANT REPORT – ROUND 15 – 15 FEB 2020-02-16 SATURDAY With only one of the four weekend sides recording a win, the mood in the Pakenham clubrooms on Saturday evening was in keeping with the weather which had been gloomy with light drizzle for most of the afternoon – bizarrely, on a day which had…
READ MOREPennant Season 2019-2020 Round 14
PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – PENNANT REPORT – ROUND 14 – 8 FEB 2020 SATURDAY Pakenham One (Div 1) had a pleasant drive in the country to Warburton where they fully expected to regain second position on the ladder, taken from them in round 13 by a cruel fluke of the weather – however the game…
READ MOREPennant Season 2019-2020 Round13
PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – PENNANT ROUND 13 – 2019/20 SEASON SATURDAY Whether it was through the intervention of the rain gods or simply the fickle finger of fate, Saturday’s weather did not provide any favours for Pakenham’s Weekend Pennant sides – all of the Lion’s games, both home and away were washed out, yet many…
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PAKENHAM BOWLS CLUB – 2019/20 PENNANT SEASON – ROUND 12 Play resumed in both the Weekend and Midweek Pennant competitions last week after the longest Christmas break in recent memory. SATURDAY At third place on the ladder and having won five on the trot, Pakenham One (Div 1) was keen to resume hostilities, looking for…
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