IN their first year of lawn bowls, three 15-year-old girls are relishing the opportunity of playing finals in Saturday pennant.

Miami Bailey, Ashley Rogers and Hailey Cornish play in Division 4 for the Racecourse 6 team, winning their first final — a do-or-die first semi-final.

The trio will now line-up against fellow club side, Racecourse 4, on their home greens tomorrow, where the winner will book their place in next Saturday's grand final.

The year 10 Swan Hill Secondary College students first tried bowls during summer sports, and were quickly hooked.

"One of our teachers, Mark Snell, encouraged us to join the club," Cornish said.

"We began to play outside of school and we're really enjoying it.

"We've been playing here since October and all the other players have been so welcoming, helping us out to better understand the game.

"We don't always play together on game days, but we always have fun whoever we're with."

Rogers said she tried to convince some of her friends to join them, but could not overcome the stereotype that bowls is an old person's game.

"They consider netball, football and basketball the cool sports and said bowls is boring," Rogers said.

"I'm starting to find it's a lot more fun than hanging out with people my age — they've got great stories and you laugh a lot.

"I think you've got to try bowls before you knock it."

Cornish said unlike the other sports on offer for youth, bowls is an opportunity to reach the highest levels of the sport quicker and stay there for longer.

"Playing netball in a small country town, you can only reach interleague and that's as far as you'll go for a while until you go into a career," Cornish said.

"As for bowls, you can be playing at state and national level in your teens."

Miami Bailey is already being touted among the club as a future star and is flattered by the compliment.

"I'm already being told I'll be in the Victorian team in no time, but I think they're joking," Bailey said.

"The other players always ask when you do a good bowl, 'How's your memory?' because you need to replicate it again.

"My memory is never good enough to do it again though — it's hard to remember exactly how you bowled it."

While the trio have aspirations of taking out the premiership, they also have the goal of defeating their teacher Mr Snell at training, who is a division one bowler.

"You can get that resting toucher on the jack, then he'll drive his bowl into yours and destroy it — he doesn't take it easy on us, but it's still fun," Cornish said.

Rogers said there is no shame in rocking up and giving it a try, remembering her first couple of attempts at bowling.

"We've definitely improved compared to when we started — the bowl going the wrong way, failing to make the halfway mark or putting the bowl into the gutter," Rogers said.

"But the best thing is none of the players are judgemental compared to some other sports, you'll just have a laugh then they'll give you tips to improve.

Bailey has ambitions of Swan Hill one day having a team of young bowlers to conduct their own competitions and attend tournaments.

"We encourage younger people to join not only here, but at other clubs as well and experience bowls for themselves," Bailey said.