Ocean Grove showed it will be thereabouts come the business end of the Geelong Region Bowls Pennant Division with a hefty win in the opening round of matches.
The Grovers have two sides in the top flight this season and the No 1 team swept aside City of Geelong by 39 shots, 79 to 40.
Ocean Grove won all three rinks on offer with Brad Pavey skipping team two to a 29 to 12 win.
Peter Loe won 21 to 10 and Chris Price had a 29 to 18 victory.
Things didn’t fare so well for Ocean Grove’s No 2 team going down to Highton by 22 shots.
Dan Priddle’s rink of Robin Chambers, Craig Polwarth and Adam Lee enjoyed the biggest win of the afternoon for Highton, a 25 to 15 triumph.
Queenscliff edged out Lara by three shots in a thriller at Lara.
Don Grellett gave Lara a massive advantage with a 32 to 10 win, but Queenscliff won the other two rinks.
Ben Russell won by eight and Ray Butler won by 17 to give Queenscliff a 60 to 57 win.
Bareena defeated Bell Post Hill, 71 to 56 and won all three rinks in a competitive match.
Ryan Jones won by seven and Ben Wilding and Shane Jones both won by four.
Eastern Park travelled to Drysdale and came home with the points.
Cal Inderberg’s rink of Mathew Hommelhoff, Sheldon Miles and Phillips Rees gave Drysdale a shot at winning with a superb 25 to 12 win.
A 30 to 11 win by Vince Chapman and a 21 to 15 win by Adam Martin, however, saw Eastern Park return home with the points with a 63 to 51 victory.
This Saturday’s games sees Ocean Grove 2 hosting City of Geelong, Queenscliff hosting Bareena, Ocean Grove 1 entertaining Drysdale in an all-Bellarine fixture, Lara travelling to Eastern Park and Highton making the drive across town to Bell Post Hill.
