Another gold medal for collection

Ettalong Memorial Bowling Club's Aron Sherriff added another gold medal to his collection on Friday, December 7, during the 2012 World Championships at Lockleys Bowling Club, South Australia.

Skipping his team of Mark Casey (third), Brett Wilkie (second) and Wayne Ruediger (lead) in the Men's Fours, the Australian Jackeroos snared their gold medals with a 22-13 victory over South Africa.

Lead Wayne Ruediger from Adelaide achieved his life-long dream of achieving a world gold medal on his home soil and declared, "Words can't describe how I feel right now, I'm so happy".

"I never expected to be a World Champion.

"A year ago I didn't think it was possible," said Wayne.

In the semi-final thriller against the powerhouse Scottish team, Aron steered his team to an 18 shot margin before they squandered the advantage as the Scots rallied and staged a fight back to fall just short of the Australians, 23-22.

"What a game," said National coach Steve Glasson.

"We got off to a really good start and began to run away with it, but we took our foot off and, full credit to Scotland, they fought back".

Aron also won silver in the Men's Pairs on Thursday, December 6, when he led for world number two Leif Selby in a final that saw the duo lose by five shots to arguably the world's best pairs team of Alex Marshall (skip) and Paul Foster (lead) representing Scotland.

Media Release, 9 Dec 2012

Bob Bourke, Bowls Central Coast