Serviceton are out to an early break in Division 2, they grow some pretty big bean crops up there, and the other nine sides will have to keep chopping away to shake them out of the top.

In Division 1 Midweek, Dimboola had a two shot win over Horsham City 1, the City won two of the three rinks, but a 13 shot win to Lorraine Ross and her rink over Margaret Dolan's team made up for Betty Cozens and Sandra Knight getting their City fours up.

It was the same story up at Nhill, the home side got wins on two rinks but that one big win of 26 shots by Mavis Janetzki was enough to get the Siders home. On the green green grass of Coughlin Park, the Parkers seem to be the big improvers, after realising that if you can't beat them, join them. This year they have some strong male bowlers filling the third spot, as many clubs do, and it seems to have helped lift the club from where it finished last year. Coughlin Park defeated Kaniva 15 shots.

Division 2 Midweek saw Serviceton have a 75 shot win over Edenhope, but as they are with their second weekend side Edenhope are growing their depth of bowlers and will see the benefits farther on. A couple of more really close ones, Sunnyside 2 went down by one to City 2 49 shots to 50, Goroke and Coughlin Park 2 played a draw, Bev Hadden getting up by seven over Carmel Officer in their rink and Val Lowe going down by the same amount to Gwen Antonucci to see a 51 tie. The other Coughlin Park side No 3 had a valuable win over Natimuk, Lyn Tregenza up by six and Bev Phillips coming from a long way back to get over Jenny Brown and her team by one shot.

The weekend pennant bowlers would have wondered what was coming after the wind on Friday, but a still Saturday morning turned into a mixture of squalls, sunshine and wind, not enough to stop play but I'm sure that at times bowls would have played up like secondhand motorbikes.

Weekend Pennant Division 1 sees the perpetually strong City 1 and last year's runner up Dimboola unbeaten and sitting clear in the top two spots with Sunnyside 1 and Nhill 1 next in line, and Golf 1 and Coughlin Park 1 not far away, but with work to do. The final two sides, Kaniva 1 and Coughlin Park 2, will play this week and each have the chance to notch up their first win. The Hindmarsh sides met for the Kiata Cup, Dimboola too good for their Highway rivals Nhill down among the red gums. The rink of "Boof", Both, Greg Cook and Geoff Gazelle 18 shot winners over Graeme Lynch's rink, or as someone up at Nhill calls them " Sparras Hawks". A 23 shot win for Ron Pyers team over "Fox" Jones and his crew on their rink meant that a win to Nhill on the other rink made little difference in the 37 shot win to Dimmy.

Golf 1 and Coughlin Park 1 were each missing a few bowlers, but the Parkers got the job done to keep in touch. Craig Decker relished the chance to get back to skipping and had a 21 shot win which was basically the margin for the day, and the other rinks were split. Sunnyside keep grinding it out, Kevin Smith and Chris Trotter leading their rinks to comfortable victories, and Rex Bergen and his new look team going down by just one to their Kaniva opponents. Coughlin Park 2 put up a pretty solid effort against the top of the table City 1 outfit, but the rink lead by Ron Goudie and Derek Ballinger had a sizeable win, Kevin Clyne and his team had it wrapped up about four ends before anyone else for City 1, but Coughlin Park got one rink back with a fighting one shot win by Chris Oliver and his team over the rink of Daniel Gloury.

The closest match in Weekend Division 2 was the four shot win by Nhill 2 down at Goroke. The Southerners got wins in two rinks, Geoff Lowe skipping his team home against Barry Schultz, and Polly Robinson picking up eight shots on Col Pryor. But it was the Muller rink of big Kelvin Deckert, "Bruiser" Beacom and Robins who swung it to Nhill with a 17 shot win. Edenhope 1 had a big win over Sunnyside 2, another big win to Wayne Caldow and his four, 17 shots their margin and Trevor Mulraney had a five shot win over his old neighbour Neil Magor who was leading for Dale McRae. The closest Sunnyside came to winning a rink was the old Apsley man Dick Hood fighting to the end against the Edenhope opposition rink lead by Bruce Ackland, but going down by a shot. Sunnyside 3 were too good for Coughlin Park 3, by 30 shots, taking every rink, and Golf 2 got their second win in Division 2 with a 27 shot margin over Natimuk and took maximum points as well.

All comfortable victories in Weekend Division 3, in fact there was just one match where the winners didn't win all three rinks. Roger Bethune took a two shot win for his rink over Sandra Knight's four in the match between Horsham Golf 3 and Horsham City 3, but City got home by 19 shots overall. A win to City 4 over Sunnyside 5 sees them sitting just above their City 3 sibling side on the ladder, and Nhill 3 were 17 shot victors over Nhill 4 to gold third spot. Fourth side Sunnyside 4 had a big win over Kaniva 2 who wouldn't have escaped the wind on their first visit to the Sunnyside synthetic. Stan Walter and his rink had win over Bruce Meyer. Coughlin Park 4 got their first win for the year against Edenhope 2.