THE past weekend saw the completion of the Lawn Bowls 2020 National League, which, in reality, ended up as the Windhoek league, as only the Windhoek Clubs were able to play all their home and away games against each other.
With the Erongo region being locked down for longer than the Khomas region, this meant that Namib Park Bowling Club from Walvis Bay and Rossmund Bowling Club from Swakopmund were unable to travel to Windhoek for their fixtures and the Windhoek clubs were unable to travel to the coast.
The four Windhoek teams that participated were Omeya Bowling Club, Transnamib Bowling Club, Eros Bowling Club and Windhoek Bowling Club. The disciplines contested in this league were a men’s fours team, a women’s fours team and two mixed triples teams (Division 1 and Division 2).
For a win, six points were awarded, with three points for a tie. The Windhoek Bowling Club’s women’s team made a clean sweep by winning all their games and ending on 36 points to win the league. The runners-up were Transnamib Bowling Club.
In the men’s division, the victors were Transnamib with 33 points, while Eros Bowling Club were the runners-up.
The first division trips league was won by Eros on 33 points, followed by Transnamib, while the second division trips was won by Windhoek Bowling Club with 18 points, followed by Transnamib. Omeya Bowling Club did not field a second division trips team, hence the lower scores in this division.
The overall winners of the league were the bowlers from Transnamib Bowling Club who ended on 84 points, followed by Windhoek Bowling Club on 72 points.
It was a closely contested league (what could be salvaged of it in a year fraught with difficulties and restrictions on sport) and, once again, players produced some excellent bowls, some not so good bowls, but most importantly, in the end it was a most enjoyable league.
The competitions secretary, Colin Peake, acquitted himself most admirably in this role, what with having to constantly change the calendar of events as each new stage of Covid-19 regulations came into effect. The bowling community hopes that next year will be a better year sport-wise.
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