The finals rounds of the Bowls North West Pennant were played in near perfect conditions.
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Latrobe finished the season as minor premiers, easily accounting for Wynyard defeating them on all rinks.
The big winners for the Demons were the Anthony Johns, Philip Moore, Erin Moore, Neville Smith rink who defeated John Neal 33-15.
Burnie with David Gamble leading the way, made sure they would stay in the double chance position by defeating South Burnie on three rinks by 12 shots.
Ulverstone shared the rinks but easily defeated the Devonport Eagles by 22 shots.
An interesting occurrence in this game was the Mike Higginson rink losing an eight but still managing to win their game by one shot.
Penguin finished their season off with a win over the disappointing Port Sorell combination winning by ten shots after sharing the rinks.
With the pennant now over we start the final series with the first semi-final or knock-out final between South Burnie and Ulverstone getting underway on Sunday at Wynyard.
As mentioned South has involved themselves in an end-of-season slump, losing their past three games.
Despite this their effort on Saturday against Burnie was reasonable and with their team once again nearing full strength this scribe is placing his hard earned on them to end the Robins' season.
The second semi-final between Latrobe and Burnie should be a bottler.
Little separates the two sides as indicated by the ladder which shows the Demons on top by eight points.
Latrobe finished the season as minor premiers ... accounting for Wynyard ...
Both teams are experienced final contenders.
Having to make a selection we will stick with the Tigers to win by single digits.
The finals in all divisions commence Sunday at 12.30pm
Ulverstone missed a good opportunity to move into the four in Division 1 when they could only muster up a draw against the wooden spoon recipients Devonport Eagles.
It left them six points in arrears of Turners Beach who were comfortably defeated by Latrobe 113-79.
The big winner for Latrobe was the Michael Gaffney, Mary Beaumont, Colin Stephenson, Kevan Gaffney rink who won 39-12 over Peter Sands.
These two teams meet each other again on Sunday in the knock-out semi-final.
Going on results from Saturday it is hard to see the Beach reversing the results.
We have the same scenario in the second semi-final between Burnie and South Burnie.
The same two teams met on Saturday with Burnie completely demolishing South by 49 shots.
Bruce Frith, Gavin Smith, Graeme Blair and Mick Filluel set up the massive win with their 41-17-shot defeat of Mark Smith.
It must be extremely doubtful that South can reverse the result.
Sheffield moved to the Minor Premier position in Division 2 albeit by just one shot.
They play East Devonport on Sunday in the second semi-final with the winner going through to the grand final and the loser playing the winner of the Smithton versus Railton knock-out semi-final.
The first semi-final in Division 3 will be between Port Sorell and Burnie with the second semi between Ridgley and Ulverstone.
Division 4 sees Penguin versus Ulverstone in the knock-out semi and Ridgley versus Sheffield in the second semi.
In Division 5, Ridgley versus Ulverstone in the knock-out and Port Sorell versus Turners Beach in the second semi.