2022 / 2023 Club Champions

Worthy winners.

Lancefield Bowling Club’s singles champions were decided on Saturday 14th January 2023.

Bev Holmes captured her 10th women’s singles title at Tigerland.

It was inevitable that Aaron Young would emerge as a Lancefield Champion, such is his unflappable talents in any company, and the 27 year old finally broke through.

The scores for the favourites in both finals were 15 – 13.  Holmes eclipsed last year’s first-time champion Ann Shipcott with a consistent brand of bowls in the women’s final.

“I was pleased with how I played today,” Holmes said.  A regular division one skipper in Saturday Pennant, Holmes has long been rated as one of the district’s top players – being skipper in last season’s division one premiership victory with six shots on the final end is one of her many highlights.

In the men’s semi-finals, reigning champion Gordon Charles our drew Peter Shannon to advance 25-11, while Young had his work cut out to fend off a strong challenge from the talented Aaron Andrews.  They both played in metro last season.

Andrews led 15-12 before Young’s greater consistency prevailed for a 25-17 margin.

In the final Aaron Young took an early lead against Gordon Charles and the score blew out to 22-3 at one stage before Gordon played some of his best bowls to collect 10 shots and delay the inevitable.

Young actually began bowls as an 11 year old at Romsey.  Championship victories as a 15 and 17 year old at Romsey followed and he eventually came to Lancefield to play on turf, rather than synthetic surface.

This was Young’s third championship final in eight season at Lancefield being eclipsed by multiple champion Jeff Holmes in the previous two.

The club wishes Bev Holmes and Aaron Young well at Champions of Champion level.