Bowls: Rare clean sweep for Taieri teams

The Taieri club's Wednesday-afternoon bowlers achieved a rare feat last week when they won all their nine games.

Taieri manager and greenkeeper Robbie Gibson could not remember when the club last went unbeaten in interclub competition, but thought it was probably more than 20 years ago.

Taieri and Fairfield both have nine teams in the interclub competition and have the largest turnout each Wednesday.

Seven of the Taieri teams played against St Kilda last week, with four games at St Kilda and three at home.

The other two teams had away games against Outram.

Rod St John was the skip in the biggest win of the day, his team beating St Kilda 36-8.

The other team members were Denny Kennedy, Alan Ketchen and Clarrie Thompson.

Bill McClenaghan's four had the hardest task and came from behind on the last five ends to win the game 19-12.

They trailed St Kilda 12-8 but scored 11 shots on the last five ends to win the game.

The other members of the team were Brian Gulliver, Kevin Dale and Jimmy Downes.

The skip who has been a member for the longest time is Charlie Burrell, who joined the Taieri Bowling Club in 1959 and celebrates his 50th year of bowls this year.

Life member Richie McDonald joined in 1972.

The other Taieri skips were Gerry Butler, Gordon Ramsay, Neil Tomlinson, Robbie Gibson and Bob Davidson.