By TARA SHAW
PRESENTATION – Don’t forget the presentation for the 2024 Championships will be held this Sunday 15 June, at 1pm. All welcome to attend.
CHAMPIONSHIPS – It's happening this weekend so mark your calendar; the Minor Singles Championship 2025 will be played on Saturday at 1pm. Who will win?
The consistent and can pull out the tricks when needed, Robert (Pooch) Dukes or the underdog, you can’t let down your guard against him Geoff Brown?
We are winding down our Minor Pairs and getting to the pointy end now. Two games were scheduled to play but only one game was played last week due to illness.
After re-constituting the team Ange Dwyer and Kerry Roach played Ben Parslow and Dale Scott.
The girls started out strong but dropping a 6 on the 3rd was going to hurt. 13-4 on 9, the girls had to dig deep and start their comeback. Taking the 4 ends the girls clawed back to trail by 3, 10-13.
Ben and Dale showed no signs of slowing down but Ange and Kerry were not rolling over and made them work for every point. Ben and Dale were 20-14 on 18, with the girls taking the last 3 ends it unfortunately wasn’t enough to take the win. Ben and Dale progressing through with a 20-17 victory.
Clint Hurford and Brett Davenport play John Baass and Cliff Nelson on Sunday morning at 10am for their minor pairs game.
WEDNESDAY BOWLS – In Wednesday morning bowls you play with and against those drawn from the ‘hat’. Not so last week.
“What a flogging we got this morning. Draw against a visiting champion, she could play,” was how our man commented after play. Checking the score card this shouldn’t have been.
Let’s explain. Two skips are drawn matched with two leads. Skip 1 naturally plays with lead 1, skip 2 with lead 2.
Easy, not so. Skip 1 takes lead 2 and vise versa so skip 2 now drew Polly Lay from the Stanthorpe Bowlie. Read on to find out more, just part of Wednesday bowls. You never know who you are going to play with or against. Sometimes.
Card draw winners were Robyn Mattiske and Laurie Crouch with a 19-14 victory over Gail McKay and Tim Everest in 20 ends. They were never headed leading 8-1 after six but did drop a five on end 18 to see the score 17-14.
Runners-up Ann Mackay and Lyall Strudwick in 22 over Wayne Wright who was making his maiden game on Wednesday vowing to be back leading for Kerry Dunstan. It was only 11-8 after 11 before experience told on the run home.
Another to play his first Wednesday game was Phil Bayley who showed he has ‘that Bayley’ sporting talent leading for Phil Hocking and Paul Doust but had to settle for second best going down to Cheryl Hodges, Terry Molly and Barry Shine in triples over 16 ends. In a game featuring plenty of ‘ones’ had the winners only leading 8-7 after 11.
Eddie Gould and Ross Williams won 16-13 in 20 over Bill Scott and John Baass after it was 7-all after 11.
Sue Smith and Billy Cowell showed no mercy early winning 27-15 over Geoff Coles and John Gorton in 20 leading 26-4 after 13.
Polly Lay and Geoff West were smiling after play winning 29-8 over Anne Nixon and Peter Mackay in 20.
They lead 15-6 after 11 to run away late once our city visitor got the pace of the green. In-club winners, Wayne Wright and Kerry Dunstan.
THURSDAY BOWLS – with the chilly weather gracing us with it presence, it didn’t show on the greens. 14 bowlers braved the chilling winds for an afternoon of bowls.
Terry Molloy and Glen Kearney won by 6 when they came up against Alan Hilder and Al Phillips. The Alans were off to a flying start picking up a 4 on the 2nd.
Terry and Glen fought back and answered to the level the score board on the 8 at 10 all.
Forging ahead and picking up 3’s and 4’s Terry and Glen were just to good for the Alan’s 26-20.
Nothing was working well for Tara Shaw and Scott McKellar when they drew Ivan Hodges and Cherie Vincent. Ivan was having a blinder of a game as a lead and Cherie backed that up as skip and it showed on the board. Ivan and Cherie lead 10-3 on 11 and continued to pick up 3’s and 4’s to take the game 22-6.
Our triples games was played by Bobby Grant, Grant Stevensen from Merimbula and Bruce (Posso) Jones drawing Lyndy Bokeyar, Billy Cowell and Wayne Burton.
Wayne's team were marking their territory early leading 14-3 on 9 when Posso’s team gained a 4 to trail by 4 in 12. Posso’s team got a 3 on the last end but it wasn’t enough for the gold with Posso’s team taking the win 21-13.
Resting touchers: Tara Shaw, Terry Molloy and Alan Hilder. Raspberries: Lyndy Bokeyar, Posso Jones and Scott McKellar.
Jackpot of $70 was won by Terry Molloy.
SUPER SATURDAY – We held Super Saturday on the weekend where 12 very keen bowlers tried their luck at taking home the prize money.
Two games of 10 ends were played and teams drawn at random, there were some great bowls and a lot of luck spread across the greens.
The victors of the day were Grant Stevenson, visitor from Merimbula who lead for Bobby Grant. Runners up were Ange Dwyer and Christian West.
SUNDAY BOWLS – early showers prior to the game must of scared a few players off but it didn’t stop 12 die hard bowlers on Sunday morning.
Kelly Stringer teamed up with Bobby Grant to take on Tara Shaw and John Cutler. Going into the break on 8, Tara and John had a handy lead 15-2. They say half time makes or breaks you and Kelly was hoping it would fix them. Unfortunately that wasn’t the case and Tara and John took the win 22-7.
Jax Murphy and Al Phillips proved to be a well oiled machine together when they played Ross Williams and Terry Murphy.
Going into oranges, Jax and Al had the upper hand of 12-3 and hoped to keep it after they returned to the greens. Jax and Al picked up 2 4’s and they sprinted to the finish line 23-6.
Our last game of the morning was between Darryl Burley and Alan Hilder who played a stalwart of our club which we welcomed back for the day, Denis Byrnes who was paired with Terry Molloy. Denis played well for having some time off and only trailed by 3 at half time. Darryl and Alan topped up the tank and put the pedal to the metal to take the game 16-5.
The only resting toucher recorded was Jax Murphy.
Chicken raffle winners: Juss Scifleet, John Cutler x 3, Jax Murphy, Bob Grant, Terry Molloy, Luke, Chris Hodge.