Weipa Bowls Club added yet another win to one of its most successful seasons in recent history. Photo: Supplied.
The Weipa Bowls Club’s remarkable 2026 season continues in impressive fashion as a representative quartet celebrates victory in the 2026 Innisfail Bowls Club Two-Day Classic on 26-27 September.
With a lucrative $10,000 prize pool up for grabs, the event attracted an 18-team field, with sides travelling from as far north as Weipa and south to Townsville to battle it out for North Queensland lawn bowling glory.
It was the Weipa combination of Louis Drake, Fraser Maguire, Carl Schapel and Scott McDowell that ultimately came out on top, finishing the tournament undefeated with four wins and an outstanding +83 shot margin.
The Weipa quartet held off a strong Townsville team, which also recorded four wins but finished on +79, just four shots behind the triumphant western Cape York pack.
Edge Hill Cairns Bowls Club claimed third place with four wins and a +77 margin, while fourth went to a composite side featuring Weipa Bowls Club president Ben Moore, finishing on +73.
With Weipa bowlers continuing to make their mark across North Queensland and beyond, the Innisfail Classic victory added another significant result to what has been one of the Cape York club’s most successful seasons in recent history — and 2026 is far from over.
