Progressive youth programme bears fruit for Plett bowlers
Plettenberg Bay Bowling Club last week concluded its 2019 Mens and Ladies Novice Championships. Explains the clubs Derek Rushton: ‘To compete as a novice, you need to be a bowler with a maximum of three years playing experience, and no contenders who had won the tournament previously are allowed to participate as a novice.
“The club is in a very pleasant position in terms of young blood, since this year’s ladies novice champion is none other than Jaylin Beukes – a pupil from Wittedrift High School,” he says, adding that men’s novice champ Steve Serfontein but narrowly beat Ethan Andrews, another Wittedrift student, to claim this year’s title.
“Club members are very proud of our youth programme, which has been run by Willie Lane – their coach and teacher at Wittedrift High, who has tirelessly driven them around the district for tournaments, in addition to the recent Bloemfontein National Tournament.
“We are also indebted to our club coaches John Everson, Neville Whitaker, and Graham Morris, amongst others, who have gone out of their way to coach these up-and-coming scholars,”
Rushton concluded that, in addition, Plettenberg Bay Bowling Club received a special accolade from the Eden District Bowls committee for currently boasting the most progressive youth programme in the district.