Manning 94 (8) defeated Sorrento 58 (0) at Manning Memorial

Rink Scores (Home Team First):

Lewis Grigg/David Downey/AJ Heal/Jaxon Butler 27 defeated Rhett Butler/Peter Auguston/Peter Morgan/Steve Mortimer 12

Shane Knott/Mark Wunnenberg/Andy Lill/Joe Angel 20 defeated Bruce Eagles/Murray Hulbert/Peter Crow/Greg Taylor 14

Tom Mitchell/Nathan Jones/Brad Hogg/Scott O’Brien 22 defeated Paul Knight/Peter Flack/Steve Buckley/Geoff Murray 17

Cody Packer/Blake Butler/Peter Ker/Jason Titheradge 25 defeated Ross Cunningham/Ron Rogers/Brian Lucas/Matt Sharrett 15

As for the game, it was a pretty straight-forward win for the home team, backing up the 7 points against Joondalup with our first 8-point win all season, which was probably the least we could achieve given Sorrento were struggling for form and had been hit hard by player movements, having just lost one of their starting skips Shane Loftus (Who went to Mt Lawley a few days prior), and another starting skip Chris Lander wasn’t playing away games, which threw out their rink cohesion…

The end result was that pretty much every Manning rink led from start to finish – In fact, the only rink that ever trailed was the Cody Packer rink (With yours truly) against stand-in skip Ross Cunningham, when we trailed 2-0 after 2 ends thanks to Cody Packer saving about 6 shots, the second end we got extremely lucky with a wick on a drive and only went 1 down…

After that, we picked up a 5 and a 4 in the space of 2 ends and proceeded to race away with the win, although the game wasn’t quite that quick, because both teams combined to kill 4 ends and were comfortably the last rink off, which didn’t help during the last 3 ends when the peanut gallery goaded us on and I set an end that was a good 18 metres, which became 13 when Ronnie Rogers smashed the head with a drive, and Ross and Cody went at it in a game of carpet bowls.

Ross got the shot.

In the end, we went through the motions with the 8 points secured, dropped off slightly in performance and won 25-15, missing out on the pots for the biggest winning rink that Saturday, which ultimately went to Lewis Grigg’s rink with their 15 shot win against Rhett Butler’s four.

It’s hard enough to win the pots in a Premier League rink, yet up to that point in the season we’d had 3 Premier League rinks win the pots in 8 weeks – More than all of last season combined