Sixteen-year-old Josh Cartwright and Charlie Boswood, 12, from the Kyabram club and Jorja Ponton, 17, from Stanhope will travel to Cabramatta Bowls Club with 13 other bowlers for the event against NSW and Queensland.
Eight boys and girls will compete in the three-day event with the aim of impressing state selectors sufficiently to win a place in the Victorian team for the Australian championships at Sorrento in Western Australia from October 5-8.
Kyabram regional bowlers have dominated regional and state events throughout the past 12 months, with all three members of the recently named state squad earning individual honours.
Boswood and his elder brother Henry were crowned state -nder 18 pairs champions only a matter of months ago and Cartwright — part of an extraordinary lawn bowls family which has dominated headlines for most of the past 12 months — played alongside his father David and Brent Reiner to win the state triples championship.
All three youngsters played division one pennant bowls in the Goulburn Valley Playing Area last season, Ponton with her father Robert and the Kyabram pair in a losing division one grand final team.
Cartwright and Ponton also combined with another Stanhope teenager, Hayley Hancock, to win the School Sport Victoria state bowls title in May this year.
They have all been involved in a dominant period which has seen Kyabram P-12 win successive state school lawn bowls titles.
Boswood is in Year 7 at St Augustine’s College, while both Cartwright and Ponton are at Kyabram P-12 College.
The Tri-Series event will involve the trio playing singles, pairs, triples and fours and is further evidence of the focus of David Cartwright’s Goulburn Valley Devils program — an elite junior lawn bowls program all three attend.
There were four teenagers — a quarter of the team — involved in a round last season when the club hosted world champion Alex Marshall at its rinks, with Cartwright and Boswood joined by their brothers Jacob, who played all season, and Henry, respectively.
