Learmonth’s Addy Ryan makes state debut in winning Victoria U18 Tri-Series team against NSW & QLD

Learmonth’s Addy Ryan made her state debut in this week’s inaugural Tri-Series against NSW & QLD with her fellow U18 Victoria teammates, with the Vics bringing home all three trophies!

The side came away with the overall win, as well as the trophies for best performing girls and boys, and Bowls Victoria couldn’t be prouder.

With six debutantes in the side, and under the supervision of the best coaches going around in Matt Flapper and Assistant Coach Steph Priest, assisted by Josh Thornton & Pat Schram, our juniors came out firing and kept up the pace for the whole series.

U18 Vic Debutantes L-R Charlie Boswood, Bailee Randell, Josh Carwright, Jorja Ponton, Addy Ryan & Maddie Jacobs.

With 6 tests up for grabs our results were solid;

Test 1 started things off with 2 from 4, Test 2 saw a clean sweep and 4/4, Test 3 & 4 saw excellent results and 5 from 8, Test 5 was 4/8, and going into the final Test, the boys needed to win 3 to get the silverware, and they achieved that with a final Test 6 result of 5/8.

Here’s the final ladder and score tally:

Addy’s rink was featured on the Bowls NSW you tube page below.

Coach Matt Flapper said, “We were privileged to sit sideline to watch forty eight of our country’s best U18 players battling it out across all the various disciplines, in preparation for the Nationals in October.”

Matt went on to reflect that the introduction of a Tri-Series of this kind should be a message to other States and Territories to experiment in providing opportunities for our country’s future stars.

“On this occasion our whole squad of Victorian athletes performed remarkably well to claim the inaugural Tri-Series championship.”

“We travelled with sixteen players, six of which were on debut. I couldn’t be prouder of their performance, especially the way they conducted themselves both on and off the green,” said Matt.

Congratulations to the Victorian U18’s on such a successful campaign, and a big congrats to the Ballarat Highland Bowls Region’s Addy Ryan on her U18 Victorian debut.

Tri-Series Victory for Under 18 Vics!

Article and photos courtesy of Bowls Victoria website.