PMQ Mixed Pairs Winners & Runners-up

 Winners - Joy & Mike Dennis from Northmead BC

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Final Results.

The final game 5 was played this morning under cool, cloudy conditions. Several teams finished with 5 wins with margins and ends determining the winners.

The winning team was Joy & Mike Dennis (Northmead) with 5 wins + 54 shots.

Click here to review the detailed results for all teams. 

Thanks to Bill Hubbuck, Westport, for the consolidated scoring detail. 

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Day 2

The weather improved today in Port Macquarie with only light showers during the day and sunny breaks.

Due to the rain on Friday afternoon games were cancelled and it was decided to play three games of 12 ends today (Saturday). Round 5 will be played tomorrow morning.

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Day 1

The Port Macquarie mixed pairs tournament commenced today at Port Panthers, Port City & Westport bowling clubs. Not the best weather but we had some sunny breaks during the morning then some showers during the afternoon.

North Haven Men's Triples - August 2013

The North Haven $8,000 Men's August triples will be held on the 17th - 18th August.

Click here for full details and the entry form. 

Thanks to Shane Globits, North Haven, for this news release.

Mixed Pairs Tournament Starts Tomorrow

The annual Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs Tournament starts tomorrow with games at Port Panthers, Port City & Westport. Let's hope the forecasted showers are only in the evening!

Click here for the entries for each club. If all goes well results for all clubs will be posted daily.

Thanks to Charlie Buchanan for the entry lists.

Port City WBC Weekly News 27th June

 Out of Hat Triples - Shirley Devine, Grace Greenaway & Daphne Sumsky.

We congratulate our No 1 and No 2 Grade Pennant Winners last week for winning the Regional Play-off at Wingham. These two teams will now compete at Port Stephens for the State title.

NSW Junior Championships at Port City

The NSW Junior Inter-Zone 7-A-Side Championships will be held this year at Port City on Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th August.

Port City Men' BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 23 June.

Wednesday pm :- $15  Bernie Apps & Tommy Smith ,  $10  Bill Greenaway & Fred Pearson

Tooheys Grade 6 & 7 Results

The following are the results for the Tooheys Gold $20,000 Men's 2 bowl triples held at Port City.

Grade 6 & 7 Men's Triples - Day 2

Another fine day in Port Macquarie with games 4 - 6 completed in the Tooheys Gold $20,000 Grade 6 & 7 two bowl triples at Port City.

Tom Robinson (Port City) is leading at this stage with 5 1/2 wins and is closely followed by 9 other teams on 5 wins. It is still anyone's tournament to win.

Click here for the detailed scoring for all teams after 6 games. Click on the tab at the bottom of the spreadsheet (2 bowls triples 4 - 8) for the updated scoring.

Thanks to Trevor Scholz & Charlie Buchanan for this report.

Grades 6 & 7 Men's Triples

The Tooheys Gold $20,000 Grade 6 & 7 men's 2 bowl triples tournament commenced today with a full house of 4 greens in play. The weather was cool but we had clear skies in Port today.

Click here for the detailed results of all games. 3 games will be played tomorrow (Sat) plus 2 on Sunday morning.

Additional photos from today's play, courtesy of your unofficial photographer, are available - click here to view.

Thanks to Trevor Scholz and Charlie Buchanan for these results.

Jack33 Now Available

Jack33 from the Bowls NSW Development Squad is now available - click here to view.

LNC District Umpires Meeting

  Click here for the notice of the District Umpires AGM

Winning Pennant Sides

Grade 1 (L-R) Judy Brady, Lois Bishell, Janine Stockham, Lynne Thompson, Carol White, Karen McFarlane & Shirley Devine. Insert - Morgan Salmon-Stewart


 Grade 2 (L-R) Carol Banks, Carol Bowman, Debbie Amor, Beth Schubert, Barbara Barrett, &Eveline Ramsay. Insert - Faye Schollum, Jenny Wallis

Thanks to Barbara Owens for this report 

Port City WBC Weekly News 20th June

We had our usual Social Bowls on 19^th June, although numbers were down owing to many ladies going to Wingham to watch our Grade 1 and Grade 2 Pennant players competing inthe Regional Playoffs.Congratulations to both our teams who won the Regionals and will now go to play for the State Title in August.

Rink Winners: Pat Murphy - Dorothy Hopkins - Ros Stone

R/U:        Barbara Griffiths - Enid Ingram - Maureen Orsulich
Consolation:    Norma Schwartz , Rita Koenig , Lorraine Conroy

Raffles: - 1st Joan Bird, 2nd Enid Ingram

Out of Hat Triples will be played on 25^th June, so don’t forget to put your name down for this event, members only.

Carol White will be playing in the Regional Singles Play-off at Westport on 27^th June. Good Luck Carol.

Major/Minor Pairs opened on 11^th June, will close 2^nd July and be played on 16^th July.

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs Tournament will be held on 28^th, 29^th and 30^th June at Panthers, Westport and Port Macquarie.

Club Triples closed on Tuesday 18^th June. The first round will be held on 2^nd July.

Port City ladies AGM will be held on Monday 15^th July at the bowling club.

Thanks to Barbara Owens for this report

 

Regional Play Offs

To our Number One and Two Pennant teams on winning the Regional Play off at Wingham.

They will now contest the State Final which will be held on 12-15 August in the Port Stephens area.

Congratulations also go to Blackhead on winning the Regional Number 3 Pennant, and to Wauchope on winning the Number 4 Pennant.

 

Thanks to Robyn Biddle for this report 

Regional Pennant Play Offs

 

News from Wingham where the Regional Pennant Play offs are being held. Congratulations to Port City (1) defeating South West Rocks in Round One and Taree Railway in Round Two.

 Port City (2) had a bye in the first round and defeated Forster in Round 2. Tomorrow they play South West Rocks.
Further results will be published when to hand.

Thanks to Robyn Biddle for this report

Zone 14 Side Selected

The Zone 14 side has been selected for the annual Pat Geary Memorial Shield contested between Zones 2, 6, 14 & 15. This competition will be played at Halekulani BC on the 10th - 11th August.

Local players from the LN C District include Mitch McCann & Greg Keft from Port City plus players from Westport, South West Rocks, Kempsey Heights, North Haven & Wauchope.

Click here for further details from Zone 14 including all teams selected.

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 16th June.

Wednesday pm :- $15 Ted Langdon & Tom Cornforth,  $10  Les Scholz, Adrian Fakes & Keith Roach

District President's Reserve Pairs

The first round and the quarter final of the LNC President's Reserve Pairs were played at Westport today under some chilly conditions.

Update Sunday 5:00 pm (thanks to Alex Kair)

Final: Bernie Biddle & J. Scott (Port Panthers) defeated M. Pearson & D. Handsaker (Westport)  to take out the District title. 

Semi Finals:

M. Pearson (Westport) def. W. Hubbuck (Westport) 23 - 10

B. Biddle (Port Panthers) def. J. Hrabak (Westport) 25 - 24

Click here for detailed scoring of the rounds today. 

Additional photos are available - click here to view.

Thanks to Bill Hubbuck, Westport, for the details of today's play.

District Men's Pairs at Westport

The LNC District President's Reserve Pairs commences tomorrow, Saturday 15th June, at Westport. Click here for the draw with the final scheduled for Sunday afternoon.

Come out and support the players.

Last year the Port City team of Jim Ecclestone and Gary Russell went all the way to a state title in this event, let's hope a local team can do the same this year.

Thanks to Alex Kair, District Bowls Co-ordinator, for the details.

Notice Of Men's Bowling Club AGM

The Port City Men's Bowling Club AGM will be held on Saturday 20th July at 9:30 am in the bowlers lounge at the club.

Nominations are now open for the committee and will close on Saturday 6th July.

I would encourage any members interested to nominate.

Voting will take place from Friday 12th - Thursday 18th July at the club.

Click here for the notice of the meeting and agenda 

Many thanks to David Lomas, Secretary of the Men's BC, for this news release.

Port City WBC Weekly News 13th June

Today is the 59^th Birthday of the Port City Women’s Bowling Club and we were visited by District President Maureen Bradford and District Secretary Carole Graham. After lunch, Life Members Frances Green and Robyn Biddle cut the birthday cake.
President Barbara congratulated Grade 1 and Grade 2 District Pennant winners and President Maureen presented them with their pins and flags. On 17^th and 18^thJune the Regional Pennant Playoff will take place at Wingham. Congratulations to both our teams.

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 9th June.

Wednesday pm :- $15 Julian Duczynski, Len Grambau  &  Bert Sainsbury,  $10 Jim Lobley, Gordon Nelson  &  Ted Langdon,  $7 Brian Smith  &  Brian Sharman.

Finals at Port City

Geoff Ball (left) & Geoff Worley 

The final of the Port City Men's Major Pairs was completed today with Geoff Ball and Jim Cranna taking out the title with a 18 - 14 win over Geoff Worley and Allan White.

LNC District President's Reserve Singles:

Winner John Hrabak (Westport) & David Lomas Senior Vice President LNCDBA

John Hrabak (Westport) def. John Williams (Crescent Head) 31 - 19 in the final.

Port City Women's Fours Final

 Winners (L-R) Judy Brady,Margaret Doyle, Barbara Barrett and skip Debbie Amor 

The final of the Port City Women's Major Fours was played yesterday with Debbie Amor and team taking out the trophy. Lynne Thompson and team were the runners-up in a well played final.

 Runners-up (L-R) Eveline Ramsay, Fay Schollum, Carol White, Skip Lynne Thompson

Thanks to Barbara Owens for this report

Tooheys Grade 6 & 7 Triples

The popular $20,000 Tooheys Gold Grade 6 & 7 two bowl triples will be held this month from Friday 21st - Sunday 23 June at Port City

A full field of 54 teams has entered - click here for details. 

All teams will be out to claim the $6,000 first prize. The program and full details are available in the tournament flyer - click here to view.

Thanks to Charlie Buchanan, Bowls Co-ordinator, for this update.

District Singles and Club Pairs at Port City

 

Games abandoned last Sunday due to the rain will be resumed on Saturday 8th June at Port City including the LNC District President's Reserve Singles and the Port City Major Men's Pairs final.  

President's Reserve Singles - status round 3: Matches to commence at 9:00 am on Sat.

R. Eriksson (PC) leads R. Johnson (WP) 11 - 10
J. Williams (CH) defeated M. Mayes (PC) 31 - 16

R. Guthrie (WP) leads R. Smith (NH) 11- 10
W. Hyde (NH) leads J. Hrabak (WP) 11 - 8 

The semi-final and final will follow when these matches are completed.

Port City Major Men's Pairs - final to be resumed at 12:00 noon on Saturday with the scoreline Geoff Worley & Allan White leading Geoff Ball & Jim Cranna 7 - 3

Come out and watch some great bowls in all these matches.

NSW 2013 Senior Side Trial

Following the 2013 Senior Interzone Championships, NSW State Selectors have chosen a squad of 16 to attend a trail at Cabramatta Bowling Club on the 12th & 13th August 2013.

Local players include Ken Paulsen, Port City, and Westport bowlers Bruce Anderson and Col Baldwin.

All the best to these bowlers in the trials.

Click here for full details of the selected players on the Bowls NSW web site.

Port City WBC Weekly News 6th June

 

On Monday, 3rd June and Tuesday 4th June we held our Versatility Fives Carnival played under very trying conditions on the first day, battling strong winds. Nonetheless we were very pleased to welcome bowlers from many clubs – North Haven, Westport, Kew, South West Rocks, Panthers, Lake Cathie, Wauchope and Kempsey Heights and, of course, Port City. All four of our greens were filled.

Jack32 Now Available from Bowls NSW

"Michael's Mad Murmurings", better known as Jack, dated 4 June, is now available.

Click here for Jack32.

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 2 June. 

Wednesday pm :- $15 AJ. Uptin , Paul Sheridan  &  Greg Laird;  $10 David Robertson, Jim Lamb  &  Jim O’Brien;  $7  Brian Smith &  Brian Sharman.

Port City WBC Versatility Fives Tournament

 Winners - Port City 152 Pts. +80 margin

The popular annual Port City Women's Versatility Fives tournament was completed today after two challenging days of chilly winds and some showers. 

Winners were A. Cutler, B. Schubert, M. Doyle, R. Roach & E. Ramsay taking it out on margin with equal points to the runners - up. 

Changes to the Bowls NSW Magazine

Not the "Latest" news but Bowls NSW is restructuring their magazine and have advised that after the June edition members will no longer receive a copy in the post. Bulk supplies will be sent to each club and will be available to all members.

Click here for full details from Bowls NSW

North Haven Hosts Junior Championships

The following news release has been received from Shane Globits at North Haven.
 
"North Haven Bowling & Recreation Club is hosting the 2013 NSW CHS State Triples (top 16 Schools in NSW)  next week Wednesday 12^th and Thursday 13^th June 2013

If you do have any juniors coming down I will be more than happy to run through a brief coaching session with them while they are here. We also have Greenmaster in attendance on the Wednesday Morning with a display of bowls that all can try or purchase."

Click here for the flyer from Shane.

Port City WBC Newsletter June

 

CONGRATULATIONS

To Margaret Walsh and Shirley Devine who won the Club Pairs on Saturday 18^th May.

Congratulations also to Lois Bishell and Beth Schubert (Sub Morgan Solman-Stewart) who were the runners-up.

President's Reserve Singles & Pairs

Alex Kair, LNC District Bowls Co-ordinator, has advised the following:

Because play was abandoned today at Port City in the President's Reserve Singles it has being decided to play the remaining games next weekend 8-9 June, 2013.

This will mean the President's Reserve Pairs will be played on the weekend of the 15-16 June, 2013.

Sorry for any disruption to your weekend but we can not control nature.

Yours in bowling,

Alex Kair

LNC District President's Reserve Singles

Play commenced today at Port City in the President's Reserve Singles. 

Click here for the results of round 1 & 2. Play continues tomorrow (Sunday) with rounds 3 & 4.

Thanks to Alex Kair, District Bowls Co-Ordinator, for this report.