Grovers sit atop bowls ladder

Ocean Grove sits on top of the Geelong Bowls Region’s Pennant competition after 12 rounds.

The side’s latest win came against Bareena at home on Saturday.

Matt Flapper’s rink of Craig Rippon, Mark Featherstone and Michael Sloper enjoyed the biggest win of the afternoon by 12 shots.

Overall, the Grovers won 92 to 74 and face fourth-placed Lara tomorrow.

Ocean Grove has two sides competing in Division 1 with one side in fourth spot and the other in seventh.

In Division 3, Ocean Grove is in third spot and is well placed to play finals.

A 22-shot win against Inverleigh was made possible thanks to a 30 to 10 rink win from Jim Rogan, Barry Hair, Jackie Webb and Warren Davis.

In Division 5, Highton leads the way from second place Ocean Grove.

Highton defeated the Grovers by 23 shots and remain premiership favourites.

In Division 6, Ocean Grove lost a thriller by two shots against City of Geelong and has a lot of work to do in order to play finals.

Ocean Grove caused an upset in Division 7, beating Geelong RSL by one shot.

Grove (seventh) won just one rink for the day against the third-placed Geelong RSL, but it was a big one.

Harold Curwood (skip), Jen Le Cerf (lead), Jodie Whiteley (second) and Bob Brooks (third) were superb, winning by 19 shots.

While finals seems out of the equation for the combined Division 8 and 9 side, Ocean Grove is finishing the season off strongly.

It defeated Queenscliff by 31 shots with Albert Touwslager’s rink coasting to a 21-shot victory.