The division two Goulburn Valley Bowls Division midweek pennant decider went right to the final bowl of the match before East eventually held on for a one-shot victory.
It was a triumph which also earned East promotion to the Edna Harling Shield competition next season — a firm goal the club had set at the start of the campaign.
“We're so thrilled because we've come from division three straight to division two, so I think it's been a really good team effort all throughout the year,” East's Lynn Barber said.
“If one's not there the other is and you can't ask for better than that. Today was the icing on the cake.
“It was really good, we're so happy.
“We all bond together and we all have a good social life at the club and I think that's what brings everybody together and makes us a team”
With Stacey Collier, Lee Beattie (third), Dennis Newby (second) and Kenneth Martyn (32-19) already off the green with a win for East — and Golfer Stephen Hawkless also banking a 34-22 rink win over Janis Delmenico, Allan Hueston, Val Le Lievre and Sharon Newby — it came down to the final two ends of the battle between East's Graeme Barber, Karen Trewren, Mick Italia and Lynn Barber and Golf's Geoff Cobbledick to decide the fate of both clubs.
The overall board showed a two-shot lead to East, but Cobbledick held two close shots on the penultimate head which would have levelled the game going into its last end.
Barber was in no mood to leave a premiership and promotion up to chance though — playing a pearler of a bowl to sit on the shot bowl and rock in to hold one.
Cobbledick's reply missed its mark and gave his rink a three-shot target to send the match into extra ends.
When Bev Myers and Jenni McClure put a bowl closer than their East opponents, though, an outright victory was there for the taking.
Enter Trewren.
Arguably the two most important bowls of the day were sent down by Trewren in the game's final moments, sitting in for third shot with her first before splitting a potential Golf number with her second.
It gave her skipper nothing to do but draw for cover as Cobbledick attempted to change the picture and, while Golf did claim two shots on the end it still left it one short overall.
A fitting result for a contest which could have gone either way for its entirety.
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