FOUR City Memorial Bowls Club members are hoping to continue their winning form at a number of West Coast Region events in the coming weeks.
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The ladies fours team of skip Pauline Burleigh, second Moira Cooknell, third Julie Dosser and lead Kate Lloyd kicked off their winning form with victory at the regional fours at Portland RSL over the weekend.
"We went there with no expectations and then we got the first game and thought we are in with a chance here," Burleigh said of the way the day played out for the team. "Then we went out for the second game and we were slow starting and then we got up and got going and won both games very easily."
The City Memorial fours side defeated a team from Far Western Bowls Division's Grangeburn and one from Corangamite Bowls Division's Colac Bowls Club.
The win will kick-start a busy month for the quartet, who are playing in a number of different regional events.
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Dosser and Cooknell also won the Western District Bowls Division's pairs event and will compete in Camperdown this Sunday.
The triples team of Lloyd, Cooknell and Burleigh play under the roof at their home green the following week (February 16) after finishing runner-up for three years before claiming the WDBD title this season.
Burleigh and Cooknell, who also play for City Green in the WDBD top-grade midweek pennant, then travel to participate in the over 60s pairs at Colac the week after the triples tournament.
"We are just having a really good season," Burleigh, who is the skip of City's women's fours side, said of their outstanding results so far this season. "I have so much confidence when I get on the mat because I know the bowls are going to be there and because of who I have bowling in front of me."
Burleigh said the quartet shared a special relationship off the green as well. "We belt each other up all the time," she joked.
Dosser, who is the club's general manager, said that when it came time to step onto the green they were focused on the task at hand when their white-line fever kicks in.
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Sean Hardeman
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
I'm a sports journalist for the Warrnambool Standard who covers a number of different sports across the south-west of Victoria. I enjoy watching cycling, surfing, football, soccer and Formula 1.
