BOWLS
CHAMPIONSHIPS
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Just the one scheduled match was played over the weekend which resulted in a comfortable win to Brian Payne, John (Man of the match – took the bribe) Woolfe, AKA Hodgo & Skipper Geoff Cape who defeated Paul Hilder, Murray Woolfe (Sub) for Jimmy Daley and “Legs” Hartas 28/08 in a delayed semi-final match of the “B” Grade Triples. This now sees this event out to the finals status, which will be played next Saturday at 1.30pm and will feature Brian, “Hodgo” & Geoff, go into battle with Tom Newlands, Trent Jacobson & Alex Sambrook. Great to see Brian & Tom in particular through to the final, it augers well for the future of bowls at Narromine to have these new bowlers, enjoying a modicum of success so early in their careers.
Also up next Saturday will be the Final of our “A” Grade Triples event, in which Riley Cape, James Daley (Sub) for Dad & Robbie Stanford pit their skills against Aaron Clark, Sam Crook, & Peter Cross in what promises to be an intriguing Clash.
The Consistency Singles have almost reached the pointy end of the contest, and to that end we have added a quarterfinal match to Saturdays afternoon of championship events. In a deferred game Ben Clark will play Mick Wright, with the winner advancing to the semi-finals the following week, where it is envisaged that we will play both semi-finals Saturday, and if winners agreeable the final on Sunday. This will finalise the Men’s championships for 2016 and allow us to programme a few SUPA SATURDAY’S over the course of the summer.
SUPA SATURDAY
With that in mind our first outing will be Saturday 6th November. Just a reminder that this event is open to any and all interested bowlers, men & women. Full details of the day, including costs times conditions of play etc can be found on the flyer on the notice board, but with numbers limited to 56 players, I suggest sooner rather than latter, should be your trip to the notice board to avoid missing out on what is always an interesting event, and with a few little extra incentives added to this year’s calendar more the reason to have a go.
SOCIAL BOWLS
The fields for social bowls are slowly but surely on the improve, with 18 going around both Thursday and Sunday morning and it especially “nice” to see a few more ladies having a run on Sunday, keep on coming along ladies. Now here is what happened on Thursday out on rink 04. Don Gibson, David Price & Kevin Rider defeated Peter Kelly, Bob Davis & Aaron Clark, with Kevie, somewhat surprisingly happy with the win over the Rookie. On Rink 05. Robert Bateman, John Heterick & Don Sullivan had too many answers for their opponents Noel Delboux, Bob Ashdown and Peter Cross winning 18/07.
Interesting scorecard though, with Cranky & Co winning 7 ends of the 18 played but only singles scored on each winning end, must have been hard to get a shot indeed.
On Rink 06 David McNair & Clifton Harris certainly made life easy for skipper Steve Buttsworth as they carved out a telling 24/09 win over Des Lincoln, Mal Dawes & Danny Carnevale, and in doing so got the winners cheque for the day’s best score. The trio of Don, David & Kevie were awarded the refreshments prize, whilst Sully & co had to be content with just another Win added to their Bowls CV.
Sunday Morning’s Chook Run saw three games of triples contested in warm, but windy conditions, which made for some interesting bowls. On rink 03 Gordon McIntyre, Geoff Bohm & Arnold Gillespie jumped out of the blocks to lead Barb Lincoln, Bill Wilkie & Danny Carnevale 13/03 after just 5 ends, and despite dropping a couple of telling “multi’s” on the way home they managed to hang on and win 19/15.
On Rink 04 Peter Kelly, Robert Bateman & Steve Buttsworth defeated Des Lincoln, Heather McIntyre & Peter Cross 19/10, whilst in the final Triples confrontation Betty Purvis, David Price & Aaron Clark got off to flyer against David McNair, Clifton Harris & Kevin Short, which proved the difference in the match, for despite the vanquished winning the back half of the game 12/08 the telling start was the difference in the end with Betty, David & Aaron winning 20/12, with their 14 points scored just enough to edge out “Buttsy” & co for the lion’s share of the loot on offer.
THE LADIES
Some 5 consistency singles matches were played last Tuesday which resulted in wins for Heather McIntyre 152 over Janet Coote 128, Carol Carnevale 150 defeated Thelma Clark 115, Pat Young had a good win 151 over Felicity Powell 139, Pam Roberts used those “special bowls” and her experience to get the nod 150/102 over Caroline Egan, whilst Rosalie Woods had a day out against Bev Shields winning very comfortably.
With the Ladies requiring Markers for their Consistency Singles Matches, there were a couple of first round encounters that had to be delayed until this week, and so the makeup and the round 2 clashes won’t be known till later this week, but hopefully a full report on the delayed first round matches and whats happening further down the track will be in next week’s column.
We also had three of our ladies travel to Peak Hill for their President’s day last week, the ladies namely Mavis Leak, Barb Lincoln & Heather McIntyre didn’t bring any of the spoils on offer home, but speaking to a couple of them during Sunday morning’s chook run they advised me they had an enjoyable day, which is what it is all about anyway isn’t it?
Not much more to report on, but the notice board should contain some information regarding next year’s calendar and the Pennants schedule very shortly, so as they say in the classics watch this space, till next week, keep ‘em rolling.
Men’s Golf
Last Saturday we had 15 starters in a 4BBB sponsored by Peter Perry. Chris & Tony Harding won on a count back with 48 points from Col Shepherdson & Dudley Alcorn.
Third on 46 points also on another count back were Mick McKean & Ash Bullock. NTPs 9th Ron Green & 10th Jamie McKinnon.
On Sunday we had 19 starters in a 4 Ball Aggregate sponsored by Russell Young & Robert Hunt. Nathan Walker & Alan Mann had 75 points to win from Mal & Tracy McIntyre on 73 points. Tony & Alan Mann combined to have 72 points to finish third. NTPs 9th Tony Mann & Jenny ward 10th Tony Mann.
On Tuesday 15th Nov we had 90 starters in the Business House Comp. Treseders won the night with 84 points. Best scores came from Mal Richardson 24, Dave Bayliss 23, Rob Handsaker 23, Col Shepherdson 23, Matt Brown 23, Bud Cape 23, Peter Treseder 23, Greg Barling 22, Steve Thompson 21, Luke Brown 21 & Ben Rush 21. NTPs 3rd Peter Gainsford, 9th Daniel Treseder, 10th Tony Harding & 17th Mike Gordon.
Last Saturday saw a good roll up for our Presentation Night with members enjoying their steak & salad before the trophies were handed out. Next Saturday we have a 2 Person Ambrose sponsored by Steve Barlow Transport & Sunday a 4BBB sponsored by Christie Hood.
Gerries Golf
Last Saturday a huge field of Gerrie golfers turned up for the weekly stableford competition at Royal Narromine. The weather was fine, the course was in great order and everyone enjoyed the day. There were 27 players,12 ladies and 15 men.
The ladies even saw four players tied on 19 points for the major prize.
The count back was adopted and the winner was Jean Richardson who defeated Dale Harding. The other ladies in the count back were Carole King and Bev Woods who under the system will not loose any handicap points.
The men's competition was also close with Jamie Roberts the outstanding winner with 26 points on a count back from Gus Smith also on 26 points.It is rumoured Gus could have won if the person doing the scraping had provided him with a good line for his final putt.
The NAGA trophy went to Bob Fletcher with 16 points closely followed by 3 other players. Excitement for the day came during the presentations when Gus spill a full tray of peanuts on the floor.
Their were sufficient players for the pool comp which saw some exciting matches. Tiger Berryman and Chris Harding defeated Terry Willis and Mal Richardson to advance to the final where they met Gus Smith and Ross King who defeated Bob Fletcher and Mal McIntyre in the other preliminary match. Gus and Ross were too good on the day to become pool champions for the week.
Next Saturday the golf competition will be held with the ladies on the front nine and the men on the back nine and the hit off at 9.00 am.Gerries don't for get the Gerries Chrissie day on Christmas eve. See you all on the tee.
SHOOTING
Members are reminded that the Pistol Cub will hold its Christmas gathering next Sunday with a Novelty match on Range ‘C’.
Members who register on the day will go into a draw for prizes including a succulent Christmas ham. We might even have some Christmas cake to share so get there early, get your name in the draw and celebrate the coming festive season with us.
The sudden shift to summer heat on Sunday did not deter three participants for an Unrestricted Service Pistol match on Range A and a Centrefire/Sports match on Range ‘C’.
Over on Range ‘A’ Paul Williamson had an excellent score of 889 (866, 23). Visitor Ivan Gould shot 680 and Peter Davidson came away with 666 (366, 300).
On Range ‘C’, Peter Howell and John Salter contested the Centrefire match. Peter had a very good 550 (538, 22) and John fired 501 (399, 102).
In Sports Pistol, top place went to new member Luke Gibbs with a very good score of 557 (364, 145). Second was Geoff Luck with 553 (403, 150) and third was young Noah Thomas with 548 (248, 300).
Other results were Laurence Campbell-Rogers 537 (406, 131), Craig Hyland 536 (465, 71 – great to see Craig back on the 25 metre range and still able to score the best off-pistol for the day), Joan Boyle 529 (374, 145), Russell Shinn 498 (198, 300), Brian McMullen 483 (370, 113), Rebekah Watson 472 (270, 192) and Bob O’Keefe 455 (405, 50). All activities were conducted under the control of Range Officer Pistol Packin’ Pete Caligeros.
Members of both the rifle and pistol clubs are reminded that normal start time is 1.00 pm. And preparation time starts before 1.00 pm. The saying is cleanliness is next to Godliness; so I suppose timeliness is next to… I have no idea.
The pistol club committee held its monthly meeting on Sunday morning. There may be some upgrade work on Range C in the near future putting it out of action for a little while.
The next committee meeting will be held on 11 December, a week earlier than normal, to avoid the Christmas turmoil.
Don’t miss the Christmas gathering next Sunday. Enjoy your week.