Bowls Notes and Club Blog

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CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS.
Major Singles.
Col Hayward and Mark Dwyer will contest the Final of the Major Singles next Sunday, May 28. Play will commence at 1pm and we wish both players the best of luck.
Minor Pairs
In Minor Pairs match, played on Thursday, May 18, Steve “Nimo” Mills and George Bradley took on Bob Freeman and Wally Austin.
The early ends were very close and after eleven ends Steve and George had a narrow lead, 9-7. Steve and George won the next six ends and extended their lead and ran out winners 23-10.
2017 Classic Pairs.
This Event, sponsored by Casey Surveying & Design, was played on the weekend, May, 20-21. .
The tournament was well supported with teams from Hazelbrook, Condobolin, Parkes Railway Club and one team from Tasmania in attendance. Each team played five games over the weekend in what was perfect weather for bowling, resulting in some great bowls and exciting finishes.
The winners, Pat Cooney and Tom Furey from our home Club, were the only team to win their five matches, scoring 97.5 points in doing so.
A father and son team from Hazelbrook, Henry and Adam Bielderman won four matches, scoring 82 points to take out the second prize.
Garry Carberry and Graham Barby, from our Club, also won four matches but fell one short of second place, scoring 81 points.
A team from Parkes Railway Club, John Corcoran and Mike Valentine and our Club team, John Hodge and John Ward, both scored 77 points with John and Mike taking fourth place on a count-back and the two Johns winning the fifth place prize.
Three Mystery Prizes, drawn from a hat, were won by the teams of Steve Mills from Our Club and Ian Simpson from Condobolin, Scott Rawson and Scott Rixon from Hazelbrook and Bernie & Rose Mitchell and Liz Byrne (who substituted for Rose on Sunday).
Congratulations to all the winners and to all Bowlers who played over the weekend.
Many thanks to our Major Sponsor, Casey Surveying and Design, and our Co-Sponsors, Telescope Tyres and Parkes Couriers – your support was greatly appreciated and produced a fantastic weekend of Bowls.
Thanks also to all those who made the event possible.- I don’t intended to try to name them all but I must mention Graham Barby and Tom Furey who put in so much time and effort to ensure a great weekend and the volunteers who maintain the greens in such great shape.
Tom Casey indicated he saw no reason why he would not be sponsoring the event next year and we all look forward to another great weekend of Bowls.
COMING EVENTS.
Pennants.
Best of luck to our No.2 Pennants team who travel to Dubbo next weekend to play Cowra in the Zone finals of the 2017 Pennants.
Old Bowls Day.
On Sunday, May 28, leave your regular bowls at home and come along for fun day playing with your old bowls (or there are plenty of old sets of bowls available at the club).
Entries can be made by putting your name on the sheet provided at the bar or ring the club on 68621446 before 6.00PM Saturday, May 27.
Format will be 2 games of 15 ends commencing at 10.00AM.
Entry is $15, which includes lunch, and there will be raffles and prizes on the day as well as a “spider” (gold coin donation) before the first game.
Charity Day – Prostate Cancer Day.
A Charity Day to support the local Prostate Cancer Group is being organised by Graham Barby, Chris Dunn and Keith MacRae for Saturday, June 3.
No need for early entries, just contact one of the organisers or phone up on the day by 12-30 for a 1.00 pm start.
Social Bowls.
Thursday, May 18.
A small field of eighteen players competed in three games of Pairs and one of Triples.
In the Pairs matches:
Geoff Freeman and John Dunn had a win over Warren Bevan and Gordon Dickson, 24-12.
John Davies and Ted Wright proved too strong for Keith MacRae and Ron Hornery, 23-9.
Graham Barby and John Ward had a convincing win against Les Kent and Rob Irving, 34-16.
The Triples was won by Col Mudie, John Watson and Bill Skinner, 27-16, against Mike Valentine, Steve Turner and Jim Blake.
The Prize winners were John Dunn and Geoff freeman Barby and the Runners-up prize went to Ted Wright and John Davies.
Friday Night
The Badge Draw was not drawn last Friday and will be worth $2200 in this week and the draw will take place after after the meat and voucher raffle.