General News
11 August, 2024
Rink of change: Clubs on the move
BIG change is coming for Loddon bowls with one club wanting to enter a team in the Maryborough-based Goldfields pennant next summer. Bridgewater has submitted its proposal to Bendigo Campaspe Goldfields area officials. The club would enter a second...
BIG change is coming for Loddon bowls with one club wanting to enter a team in the Maryborough-based Goldfields pennant next summer.
Bridgewater has submitted its proposal to Bendigo Campaspe Goldfields area officials.
The club would enter a second team in Goldfields’ second division competition and continue with a division seven combination in the Bendigo pennant.
President Glenn Catto said the decision had been driven by participation of more members.
“We had a club meeting and there was little opposition to the move, more a lot of questions,” he said.
“If we had stayed with a second pennant team in Bendigo, our division would have meant only fielding two rinks.
“The Goldfields move would allow us to have a team of three rinks. That’s more players and that’s good for our club and the sport.”
Catto said that if the proposal was approved, Bridgewater’s No 2 side would compete against teams from Maryborough, Dunolly, Talbot, Newstead, Maldon and Carisbrook.
Meanwhile, Inglewood club has voted to drop out of the Bendigo competition’s premier league after failing to win a game last season.
Said secretary Lindsay Kelly: “We have some good players but not enough to be competitive in the very high standard premier league. The standard of division one, where we will be in 2024-2025, is still very high and our aim remains to be competitive and at the same time rebuild, perhaps getting back into the premier league in future.”
Kelly said the club’s flag-winning division six side would stay in that section next season.
“Again it’s numbers. We don’t have enough to add an extra rink and step up a division,” Kelly said,
Serpentine, who won the division three flag, has been promoted to division two.
And Bridgewater, after an absence from the Monday pennant, will return in the new season, Catto said.