Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending 6 May.

Monday to Thursday saw The Port City Singles played in very favourable conditions .

Monday and Tuesday saw Players vie for Section winners to play on the Wednesday .Section Winners Being :- Monday Sec.1 K.Paulsen /Westport ,Sec. 2 B.Morthorpe / St John’s Park , Sec .3 B.Anderson / Westport ,Sec 4 D.Richardson / Tuncurry , Sec 5 W.Jacobs / Double Bay , Sec 6 A.Wares / Kew , Sec 7 R.Cooper / Old Bar , Sec 8 D.Nielson / Terrigal , Sec 9 P.Westacott / North Mead , Sec 10 M.Gallop / Cabratta , Sec 11 R.Brassey / Cabramatta , Sec 10 D.Morrison / Terrigal .

Tuesday Sec 1 N.Burkett / Merrylands , Sec 2 B.Ahoy / Valentine, Sec 3 W.Buckley / Hat Head , Sec 4 I.Taylor / Kingscliff , Sec 5 B.Waterhouse / Port City , Sec 6 J.Henry / Warilla/Ireland , Sec 7 S.Laguzza /Swansea , Sec 8 S.Gittoes / Musgrave Hill , Sec 9 R.Glasser / Musgrave Hill , Sec 10 G.Smith / StJohn’s Park , Sec 11 T.Farrell / Dubbo , Sec 12 B.Morton / Warners Bay .

Wednesday Sec 1 N.Burkett / Merrylands , Sec 2 I.Taylor /Kingscliff , Sec 3 S.Laguzza / Swansea , Sec 4 D.Morrison / Terrigal , Sec 5 B.Morthorpe / St John’s Park , Sec 6 M.Gallop / Cabramatta .

Thursday  Qtr Finals  W.Buckley / Hat Head def B.Morthorpe / St John’s Park , I.Taylor / Kingscliff def D.Morrison / Terrigal , M.Gallop / Cabramatta def N.Burkett / Merrylands , J.Henry / Warilla/Ireland def S.Laguzza / Swansea .Semi Final W.Buckley / Hathead def I.Taylor /Kingscliff , M.Gallop / Cabramatta def J.Henry / Warilla / Ireland .

The Final saw some of the best Draw Bowling seen in a long time with the winner being Matt Gallop from Cabramatta (the third time a Player from Cabramatta has won the Title ) def Wayne Buckley from Hat Head .

Friday pm :-96 Bowlers played in Windy conditions with the day winners being :- $10.00 A.Fakes and K.Roach $7.00 T.Newell and K.Lipscombe . The Jackpot of $150.00 was not by K.Hercus and M.Pye

Saturday am :-$10.00 J.Wallis , M.Doyle and R.Roach  $7.00 P.Murphy , E.Ramsay and B.Owens.

Saturday pm :-  Round Nine  Of Pennants with the Results Being Grade 1Westport def  Port City 6-0,Grade 2 Port City lost Wauchope   2-4, Grade 3 Port City lost Kew 6-0 , Grade 4 Port Panthers  def Port City 6-0, Grade 5 North Haven def Port City 5.5-0.5 , Grade 6 Port City lost Westport 1-5 ,Grade 7-1 Lake Cathie lost Port City 1-5,Grade 7.2 Westport def Port City 6-0 .

Sunday am :- The Minor Singles Continued :- K.Atkins def J.Sharp, M.Wallis def W.Kempster ,T.Scholz def K.Ashdown , S.Harris def C.Halls, P.Davidson def D.Wilson, ,G.Laird def P.Flanagan , S.Matheson def G.Keft, J.Sallustio def L.Collins , P.Ascott-Evans def R.Bowman .The Day Winners were :- $10.00 G.Laird and the Marker T.Schollum.

Sunday pm :- 82 Bowlers Played in the Vision Australia Charity day with all proceeds going to Vision Aust. They Raised $700.00 including $500.00 from green fees . The Day Winners were :- $10.00 M.Poulter ,J.Keene ,M.Doyle ,M.McCrow and B.Keats,$7.00 M.Carkeek ,I.Lennox ,I.Code ,B.Crutcher ,N.Hayes ,B.Campbell ,M.Glasse ,J.Love and N.Schwartz.Vision Aust. Raffle   1^st M.Cornock 2^nd B.Gunn 3^rd J.Harris 4^th M.Edwards 5^th G.Greenaway 6^th J.Munson 7^th Brian Smith 8^th M.Lynch 9^th J.Barry  . and  Next Week Jackpot $90.00 .

Upcoming Events :- NSW Green Keepers State Carnival 21^st May till 25^th May . Ladies 83 State Carnival 28^th May till 1^st June .

Pennant Teams are on the Notice Board PLEASE Tick Your Names so as to help the Selectors  

Don’t forget the Friday Night  Monster Meat Raffle buy $5.00 get $5.00 free ,Tickets go on sale from 5pm .And our after bowls raffle on Sunday of $1,000.00 of Meat Trays Tickets go on sale from 4.30 pm .

Thanks to Trevor Scholz, Bowls Organiser, for this report.