Narromine sporting news

Of our many Players competing at these tournaments, no doubt the best result was recorded by Puddy Gillespie, Don Sullivan and Terry McDonald who defeated all comers to win the Annual Easter Triples at Trangie.

The Boys won all 6 of their matches in what is always a great little tournament. 

Once again a number of our teams got some recompense out of the weekend, but spare a thought for “Young” Clifton Harris who from Thursday afternoon till Sunday morning put down some 450 Bowls, all for a salad roll and some rice, tough going for this Panther.

We managed to get one game of consistency singles played whilst I was away and congratulation to Eddie McPhee who defeated Aaron Clark in a very keenly contested affair.

This win by Edddie now sees him through to the Final, where he will play either Ross Edden, Phil Harding or Glen Miller depending on who wins that section of the Draw. 

Hopefully we will get these couple of matches out of the road in the next week or so, but if not I’m sure a suitable time slot will jump into play once the pennant season is over:

Nominations for the A pairs are coming in nicely and with only a couple of weeks left to get in the draw. 

Intending Players should get themselves organised sooner rather than later to avoid missing out.

 The first Round action plus any Mirrored Round 2 Matches for this event will be played on Saturday, April 29.

Social Bowls this week saw Doug Potter, Kevin Heatrick and Danny Carnevale atop the podium on Thursday, whilst Alan Shannon played some very nice shots with his new bowls, which was enough to enable him and partner Bill Wilkie to collect the loot on Sunday.

At this stage the Grade 3 squad to travel to Baradine on Saturday Looks like this. 

Trent Jacobson, Eddie McPhee, Glen Miller, Robbie Stanford, Alex Sambrook, Mark Hilder, Adam Jermyn, Ben Clark, Aaron Clark, John Edwards, Sam Crook, and Robert French. 

Players are to be at Clubhouse before 8am.

The Grade 5 Squad to Play Parkes Railway Sunday Morning at Home is:

Danny Carnevale, Steve Buttsworth, Peter Payne, James Daley, Ross Edden, Phil Harding, Peter Cross, Kevin Rider, Arnold Gillespie, Bruce Maher, Don Sullivan, and Terry McDonald.

At this stage yours truly will be managing both Sides, and hopefully I can last the distance, this time around, shouldn’t be a problem only 24 “rowdy” Bowlers to keep in check.

Well that’s it for another week, but please if you have a chance to roll your arm “UNDER” before the pennants, even if only for a lousy 15 minutes, please do so, its surprising how much “luckier” you can get with a little practice.

-by Norman Bohm

Last Saturday we had 24 starters in our first Monthly Medal of the year which was sponsored by Elders Insurance. The winner of A grade on a count-back was Alex Williams with a 66 nett while the winner of B grade was Peter Treseder with a 64 nett.

Ball winners were Josh Coen, Mal McIntyre and Craig Duff all with 66 nett. Best individual score was Peter Treseder. NTPs ninth Rob Gainsford and tenth Richard Duff.

On Sunday we  had a 4BBB sponsored by Elders Insurance which was won by Alex Williams and Luke Hutchison with 52 points. Runners up were Mick McKean and Rob Gainsford with 48 points with third place going to Tony and Chris Harding on 46 points.

Best individual score was Luke Hutchison with 44 points. 

NTPs ninth Ross Smith and tenth Rob Gainsford Next weekend on Saturday we have a two Person Ambrose sponsored by Steve and Megan Buckley and Sunday we have the Keno 4BBB sponsored by Keith Elrington

-by Peter Treseder

Opening of Winter Competition: Last Saturday, the Narromine Veteran golfers played their opening comp of the 2018 winter season with a field of 11 golfers which included three new members, Rob Williams, Rob Gainsford and Greg Kearines. Welcome to the club.

The event was a Stroke on the front nine and was won by the popular Captain Peter Treseder with a net score of 31 1/2 from Ron Williams 32 1/2, with Mal McIntyre third on 33 1/2 and John Butcher fourth on nett 35.

The NTP went to Rob Gainsford.

The next local Veterans event will be on the April 14, a stroke event on the back nine.

Some other Veteran's event are : Gilgandra Vets Open on April 5, and the Dubbo Vets Open on May 4 which is also the WDVGA singles championships. That's all for this week-See you at the 19^th.

Win for Kearines: Last Wednesday a field of 12 golfers faced the starter for the opening round of the Gerries winter golf competition played at Royal Narromine.

The course was in good condition considering the recent dry weather and the weather was slightly on the ward side for opening day.

Once again the scores were competitive with two players tied on 24 points, Greg Kearines and Chris Harding.Kearines won the count back after revealing he had a 3/5 on the par five eighth hole.

Not to be out done Harding revealed he had a 3/5 on the par four first hole so it was a tight competition.

Malcolm Fraser won the NTP competition collecting three golf balls for his effort.

There was no NAGA prize awarded due to insufficient players.

Due to the late start there was no pool comp playedbut it will be on again in earnest next week.

This afternoon the Gerries will play their comp on the back nine with a hit of at the earlier time of 3pm.This change was due to the change from Daylight saving.

-by Norm Lewis.

Lightning Ridge raced Easter Saturday, March 31

At the third attempt with More Of The Zaim, the Goondiwindi ( QLD ) trainer Sheree McEwan has won the $8,000 Lightning Ridge Cup and the much sought after $15,000 associated trophy, a magnificent opal bracelet.

Runner up to Dabamirak in 2016 and second again last year to Miss Mellencamp, the eight year old More Of The Zaim ( Bridget Rooney, $4 ) raced close to the lead in the 2018 Cup (1200 metres ) on Easter Saturday, at the famous opal mining town, and won by a half neck from Attalea ( Kaylee Kirkwood, $1.80 favourite ) and Friendsinlowplaces ( Ronald Simpson, $4.20 )

Gilgandra trainer Bryan. W. Dixon led in a winning double, Jesse’N’James ( Daniel Pitomac, $8 ) coming from fourth to win the Benchmark 47 Handicap ( 1200 metres ) while Firebird Ballet ( Katelyn Jenkinson, $5 ) defeated stablemate Same Here ( Daniel Pitomac,$4.50 ) in the 900 metres Maiden Plate.

Collarenebri trainer Kelly Smith and Ronald Simpson, an apprentice jockey at Dubbo and formerly from Brewarrina, combined to win the Maiden Plate ( 1200 metres ) with $4.40 Chance, Krug.

Mudgee raced Easter Saturday, March 31

Following recent wins with Double Halo and Outta Space, 82 year old Gilgandra trainer Bruce Parker won the Gooree Park Maiden Handicap ( 1400 metres ) at Mudgee on Easter Saturday with Wanted Trio.

Rushing down the outside from back in the field,Wanted Trio ( Adam Spinks, $12 ) was a one length winner over Regalia ( Eleanor Webster-Hawes, $101 ) and Strykingly So ( Alena Skerritt, $13 ).

Scone trainer Stephen Jones landed a longshot  winning double with Sparkling City ( Josh Oliver,$151 ) and Bon Allen ( Courtney Van Der Werf,$17 ).

Producing a strong finish from a long way back the Dar Lunn, Dubbo trained Darpra ( Travis Wolfgram, $3.90 favourite) was impressive when beating Lily’s Little Girl ( Robbie Dolan, $15 ) and Angelic Trune ( Alena Skerritt,$19 ) in the 1400 metres Benchmark 51 Handicap.

Tullibigeal Picnics raced Easter Saturday, March 31

Leading to an exciting finish to the Frampton Feedlot-Dunk Insurance Tullibigeal Picnic Cup ( 1600 metres ) on Easter Saturday,6 of the 8 horse field were stretched across the track at the top of the straight.

Trained at Wagga Wagga by Trevor Sutherland and ridden by Narromine based Michael Gray,the $9 chance Dream On Stan reached the lead nearing the finish for a close win over the unlucky Butterfly Sky ( Michael Wade, $3.50 ) which flashed home after being blocked for a run while Sergeant Bilko ( Maddison Wright, $6 ) was a half length away,third.

Canberra trainer John Rolfe led in the first three winners,The Fancy Jonesgirl ( Ricky Blewitt ( $1.70 favourite ),Time Of Her Life ( Maddison Wright, $2 )and Old Maribo ( Ricky Blewitt, $2.50 fav.)

Narromine jockey Ricky Blewitt following his wins on The Fancy Jonesgirl and Old Maribo made it four for the day with an all the way win on Lord Mij ( $1.80 fav.) for Parkes trainer George Wright and on the Neil Smart, Cowra trained Princess Strada ( $2.25 fav.) which came from back in the field.

-by Colin Hodges.