Night Pennant – Eltham Bowling Club
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Night pennant begins around mid-October and runs for 11 rounds with finals commencing in January. Tuesday is competition night. The competition is restricted to local clubs nominally in the north east of Melbourne. Apart from Eltham, the other clubs that field sides are Rosanna, City of Heidelberg, Ivanhoe, Greensborough, Bundoora, Heidelberg Golf and Montmorency.
The finals system is unusual in that while there is only 1 division and each side plays each other once, at the end of the season the top 4 sides play off for the division 1 pennant and the next 4 play off for the division 2 pennant. Night pennant sides consists of 12 players who play in teams of 4. This means that a pennant match between 2 sides has 3 separate games in progress. The aggregate scores over the 3 games determines the winner of the match. The usual starting time for matches is 6.45pm. Each week all players vote for the best player on their rink. The player with the most votes wins the David Sidwell Trophy as the most consistent player. Players of the 2021/2022 Division 2 Night Pennant Winning Side – Joe Bartolo, Helen Smith, Tom Ridi, Chris Jaques, Dan Henery, Gareth Toovey, Vicki Williams, Noel Spargo, Paul Hickey, Jim Yarwood, Rina Baker and Brent Blackwell. Steve Spargo, Lisa Bartolo, Tim Smith & Eddie McMillan also played throughout the 2021/2022season. See the Pennants Won – Eltham Bowling Club page for a picture of the 21/22 players and for the previous Pennant wins of 2008/2009, 2009/2010, 2012/2013, 2015/16, 2018/19 and 2020/2021.
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