Lawn bowls: Karingal caps testing season with premiership success
Karingal Bowls Club has overcome obstacles to taste premiership success in a remarkable season.
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Karingal Bowls Club has overcome obstacles to taste premiership success in a remarkable season.
With the building of the club’s Skyedome going on and Skye Road being deemed a construction zone, Karingal had no set training venue or home ground until the new year.
Players couldn’t even go to the club for a drink — not to mention covid restrictions.
After eight weeks of gypsy existence at a number of kind-hearted clubs, Karingal played its first home games on Skye Road on January 9.
Last Saturday, Karingal’s top side defeated hot favourites Frankston at Hastings in the Division 1 grand final, following on the club’s Midweek top side defeating Mount Eliza at Mornington Civic the week before to also claim the Division 1 crown.
“We’re not sure if this double has ever been achieved before, but we’re honoured to assume the mantle as the peninsula’s undisputed champion club,’’ Karingal Bowls Club chairman David Allen said.
“It’s a classic case of the agony and the ecstasy.’'
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