One of the Wimmera's best and most respected bowlers doesn't even bowl in Division 1, and for Goroke champion and club president Geoff 'Blackduck' Lowe it's more about club and community than his own ambitions.
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The 56-year-old Gymbowen farmer remembers first having a roll on the green at night bowls in the late 1970s as a teenager. He played football in winter and tennis in summer, but knee soreness following the 1985 footy season had doctors advising him to have a rest over summer.
Geoff didn't see that as an option, so bowls became his summer sport, managing another 15 years of football before retiring in 2010.
He likes bowls as it is a game for all ages, playing bowls with and against bowlers aged 14 to 95, and because it provides the opportunity to meet lots of people from different places and backgrounds. Some of his favourite memories are the bus trips to pennant.
He regards Goroke winning the 2011-12 Division 2 pennant final and being part of the Wimmera-North Wimmera team which won the Provincial title in 2016-17 as his most successful days on the green, modestly neglecting his own record. In his sixth term has club president, he thinks he might have won 13 Goroke men's singles championships, and three Wimmera Association titles and made the final on one other occasion.
He believes the move to 12 per side has helped Goroke maintain a pennant side due to their limited numbers, and while he would be happy to play Division 1 at some stage, as long as Goroke has a bowls side he will play in the grade Goroke plays in.
At 56, an age when many are just thinking about taking up bowls, Lowe has achieved much. His wonderful temperament and consistent draw bowls have made him a walk-up start for representative teams and that dicky knee has been a significant gain for bowls and a loss for tennis.
But the nickname 'Blackduck'? Apparently when former Goroke bank manager Barry 'Fishbones' Fry saw a photo of 12-year-old Lowe shooting his first duck, 'Fishbones' christened him 'Blackduck'.