I have a pretty detailed report on this thriller from the home of the Mariners. My mate from Leeming tells me that the game was played on a fast grass surface and was an absolute thriller, only won by the visitors with the very last bowl of the day.
The hero for the Lions was Phil Dobie won was five shots down on his rink and with his very last bowl, he drew a pearler to grab second shot and the aggregate.
Their was a huge crowd of Freo players from other divisions watching, but they were left disappointed ☹️ at the end of eight four pulsating ends.
Mark Gill, Mark Lindsay, Mathew Ngui and young Daniel Piromalli outgunned the Dobie rink though to win by the impressive margin of twenty shots.
But it was the brilliance of Karl Vandersluys who put Dinko Bacich to the sword, to carry the aggregate for the visitors, who went home with a valuable six points.
Jimmy Newton and his team were too good for the Wachmer rink, to beat them by seven shots, a solid win.

Not so much the win by the visitors, but the size of the win pm away from home.
Eight points and a forty plus margin, a great afternoons work for the prowling Cougars from the hills. Arthur Bartlett, the talented Greg Trevaskis, Ian Quayle and Vince Hughes were a massive twenty shot winners over the previously unbeaten Campbell rink.
This Cougars rink now four from four, with a plus forty eight shot margin, great stuff.
The Cougars showing that they could be serious flag contenders, now sitting second on the ladder.

The Hawks once again being beaten soundly, this time by twenty four shots.
Seven points a good afternoons work for the Ravens, now sitting with two wins out of four so far.
Jim Stean, backed up by Carruthers, Walker and Mitchell were big winners by sixteen shots over Tony Maxwell and team. The other winners for the home side were Pohe and Separovich. Gary Dodd, as he often does, taking home one point for the Hawks, still winless.

GAME OF THE DAY

The Eagles really didn’t give the visiting Kats a sniff, in a game played at Manning on a sluggish green.
They won by a whopping forty five shots picking up seven points along the way. The big winner for the Eagles was the rink skipped by Murray Piggott, third in Alan Pryce, Phil Herbert and the solid lead in Andy Lill. They thrashed the Fewings rink by twenty two shots. Matty Allen and Graham O’Brien picking up the other wins for the high flying Eagles. Darryl Radford was the sole winner for the visitors, when his rink pipped Carey by just two shots.The Eagles now with three wins and sitting third on the ladder. I thought the Kats might put up a bigger fight than that, but alas, it was not to be.

If we thought that the Manning game was a thriller, then apparently this clash topped it.
I guess when you have Scott Walker skipping a rink and winning by fifteen shots you could be expected to win, but that was not to be.
The other three rinks were all topsy turvy affairs, which resulted in the game being a draw in an entertaining, sometimes noisy clash.
Hunter and Regan winning for the Kats, while the reliable Kelly won for the Kats.