Day 2 competition

The day started out as usual. Breakfast and then boarding the bus at 7:45 am. An interesting trip to club as the road the bus travelled along divided the catholic and protestant areas. You could see the protestant areas by the union jack flags on poles and the high wire fences.
The ladies team had their first game against England.
The team comprises

Dianne Reddick.
Plays at Corinda Queensland
Bowls. Henselite standard

1st time player for Australia
Singles Result  21- 17

Pairs
Robyn Larkin
Club:Ocean Grove  Victoria
Bowls Drakes Pride Professional
 Representative for 3 times international
Gail Dellar
Club: Mooloolaba
Bowls Taylor Vectors
1st time representative
Pairs result :Won 19-15

Triples
Lead Dianne Reddick
3rd Maureen Prudden
Skip Janet Hogan
Maureen Prudden
Club Seymour
2nd International
Bowls Dreamline
Janet Hogan
Bowls Taylor Ace
1st International.
Won 18-15

Fours
Lead : Robyn Larkin
2nd Maureen Prudden
3rd Gail Dellar
skip Janet HOgan
Lost 7-22













The day started with great anticipation. The greens were running in an East West configuration as compared to North South the day before. No team had practiced East West.

The ditches are quite unusual. Not your sand based as in Australia.

Yes they are river pebbles.

 Once again the greens were running around the 8-9 seconds. However they seem to take more grass than would expect  which certainly confused the Aussies.
The bowls was a day to forget for the men but a day the ladies rallied. The ladies having been soundly beaten in the fours came out in the afternoon and won both the triples and the pairs. This added to the singles win and gave them a 3 wins 1 loss record against a side that won well the day before.
The men had a day to forget. In the morning both the singles and fours got off to a terrible start as they could not come too terms with the slow green and an opposition that loved and played like machines on the long ends. 
The afternoon didn't fare any better, however the men were very competitive well into the game, only again to have a couple of bad ends which gave the opposition the confidence to run away with a win.
Men 0 wins today.
Interesting call.
Men's triples. Aussie team brought mat right up to minimum. Threw jack cm short( 1 of 5 measurements so far in competition and all have been less than 5 cm short). English team threw jack into ditch. Jack placed at 2 m length. Aussie team puts mat behind minimum length marker. Oppositon skip calls for umpire and measures length, Aussies were bemused.
Also no line markings so there is always a lengthy ritual to get the mat aligned properly.
 To place the jack on the 2m T marker,  the teams have to get a 2m stick on the bank and place it against the wall..