Both the male and female events are scheduled for Sunday, February 20, at the Bendigo East Bowling Club, with competitors aiming to walk away with the most prestigious individual titles on offer in 2021-22.
The draw for the event was released last week and two of the Campaspe clubs’ champion players have opening round byes, enhancing their path to the semi-finals, which will be contested on February 27.
With the midweek and weekend competitions approaching the final month of home and away competition there is a variety of tournament and state-based play on the Bendigo Campaspe Goldfields agenda.
Moama club champion and Moama Steamers Bowls Premier League star, Kevin Anderson, has an opening round bye and is drawn in round two to play Golden Square’s Gary Beckham.
Beckham is a third with the sixth ranked club’s Premier League team.
Deniliquin’s Jamie Shields is pitted against Calivil/Serpentine champion Lindsay Gronow in the opening round, while Mathoura’s Anthony Hulm has a tough opening round match against Dean Carter.
Carter is the seventh ranked bowler, overall, in the Premier League competition and the second ranked skip in the competition.
The Eaglehawk club champion has some big scalps this season in weekend competition, while Hulm bowls as a second with the Mathoura division one team in the Campaspe competition.
Echuca champion Steve Cunnington has an opening round appointment with Lindsay Kelly from Premier League club Inglewood.
If he can make it through the opening round he will face either Maryborough Golf champion Kevin Prime or Rochester’s Bruce Major.
They are pitted against one another in the opening round. Major has spent much of the season as second to Kelvin Wiffen.
Rich River champion Stan Barker has an opening round match with Bendigo’s John Dullard, a win would set up a round two match with either Talbot’s Bobby Van Roosmalen or Lockington club champion Ken Main.
Tongala club champion Jack Hammond has an opening round bye and is drawn in round two against Strathfieldsaye’s Geoffrey Curnick.
• Tongala women’s bowls club champion Ruth Lennie is punching well above her weight in the opening round of the women’s Champion of Champions event.
The Campaspe weekend Division Four second bowler has drawn Moama club champion Cassandra Millerick in the opening round.
Millerick, who bowls third to Bradley Campbell with the Moama Steamers Premier League team, has Rich River’s Liz Easther waiting for her in the second round if she can beat Lennie in round one.
Easther, a skip in the Campaspe midweek Division One competition, has an opening round bye.
Echuca club champion Pat Schram is drawn against Bendigo’s Sharon Koch in round one, while Deniliquin’s Linda Harris has Michelle Harris from Maryborough Golf as her round one opponent.
Rochester club champion Heather Curnick is pitted against Bendigo East’s Sharyn Vowles in her round one match.
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