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Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 28th July.

Wednesday pm :-$10  Bill Harding & Fred Mulligan; $10  Kevin Atkins & Trevor Scholz;  $7 Jim Bultitude, Ron Apps & Brian Collis

Port City WBC Weekly News 25th July

Despite a frosty start to the day the final of the Club Triples was played in perfect weather.

President Barbara welcomed Margaret Dornan back to bowls and Betty Kenneally.

Port City WBC

Winners Club Major Triples - 2013
Gail Carmody, Carol Bowman, Debbie Amor

Thanks to Barbara Owens for this photo

Latest Edition of "Jack" now Available

Attached is "the latest menagerie of Michael's mad musings and murmurings....better known as Jack!" - click here to view.

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 21st July.

The AGM of the Port City Men’s Bowling Club was held on Saturday 20^th of July starting at 9.30am . Results of voting are as follows :- President  Paul Brady, Senior Vice President  Trevor Scholz ,  Vice President   John Rossiter,  Bowls Organiser  Garry Lawer ,  Secretary  David Lomas ,  Treasurer  Ralph Eriksson , Committee (3)  Terry Schollum , Greg Keft , Keith Ashdown;  Selectors (4) Bryce Stewart , Trevor Scholz , Bob Counsell , Keith Hall;  Welfare Tom Cornforth . Congratulations to all those elected for 2013/14.

Port City Men's Triples Champions

Triples Champions - (L-R) Callum Murray, Graeme Light & Laurie Dodd

The final of the Port City Men's Triples was played this morning under clear skies with Callum Murray, Graeme Light & Laurie Dodd  def. Steve Matheson,  Bill Greenaway & Garry Lawer  by 23 -19.

Thanks to Charlie Buchanan for the results and photo.

Port City Men's BC AGM

 
Men's Committee: Back row - (L-R) Paul Brady, John Rossiter, Garry Lawer, Ralph Eriksson & Keith Ashdown. Front row (L-R) David Lomas, Terry Schollum, Greg Keft & Trevor Scholz 

The Port City Men's Bowling Club annual AGM was held this morning with an excellent turnout of over 100 members. Results of the election were as follows:

Prestige Pairs Final Results

Winners of 2013 Prestige Pairs (L-R) Glenn Hayes & Colin (bunger) Young

The Australian Unity Men's Prestige Pairs were completed at Port City today with the 5th and final game played this morning.

Winners were Colin Young (skip) & Glenn Hayes (Westport) with an impressive 5 wins + 77 shots.

Click here for detailed scoring of all teams. 

Port City WBC AGM

 

Elected Committee for 2013 - 2014

 

President                        Barbara Barrett

Vice Presidents              Carol Bowman - Margaret Edwards

Secretary                        Judy Brady

Treasurer                        Anne Connell

Match Chairperson         Joy Barry

Match Committee           Faye Schollum, Lynne Thompson, Mary Bennett

Selection Chairperson    Carol White

Selection Committee      Margaret Doyle, Brenda Burge, Rhonda Evans, Ingrid Code

Social Committee           Robyn Biddle/Gail Carmody

Welfare                           Betty Hall

Publicity                          Barbara Owens

Life Members                  Norma Schwartz, Robyn Biddle, Frances Green

                                        and newly elected Shirley Devine - congratulations

 

Thanks to Anne Connell for this report

 

 



Prestige Men's Pairs - day 2 at Port City

Great weather again today for games 3 & 4 of the Australian Unity Prestige Men's Pairs at Port City.

Click here for the progressive results today.

6 teams are now on 4 wins and it could depend on margins after the 5th game. Last year Ken Paulsen and Tony  Miller took out the tournament with 5 wins + 50 shots.

Port City WBC Weekly News 18th July

Tuesday 16^th July was a great day weatherwise for the start of the Major/Minors Pairs.
Faye Schollum wof. Shirley Devine d Ella Wright, Jan Gauld d Trish Mitchell, Joy Barry d Adriana Cutler, Judy Scholz d Mary Norman.

Port City Australian Unity Prestige Pairs

Port Macquarie turned on some great weather today for the start of the Australian Unity Men's Prestige Pairs. With 4 greens in play and a full entry list this promises to be another successful tournament for Port City.

Click here for detailed results after the first 2 rounds today. 

Photos are available from today's play - click here to view.

Many thanks to Trevor Scholz for the detailed results of today's play. 

NSW Men's State Pennant Finals

The Bowls NSW Men's pennant finals will be held on Saturday 3rd - Sunday 5th August at various clubs around NSW.

Click here for the RNSWBA web page with details for all grades in the state finals.

NSW Women's State Pennant Finals

The 2013 NSW Women's Pennant finals will be held on Monday 12th - Friday 16th August in the Port Stephens area. (date for start of finals corrected - thanks to Des Hancox who wins the reader award for the day!)

Click here for the NSWWBA web page for the pennant finals.

Local clubs through to state finals include Port City in grades 1 & 2 and Wauchope in grade 4.

Men's Prestige Pairs at Port City

The Australian Unity $10,450  Men's Prestige Pairs starts this Wednesday 17th July at Port City. With an open draw this tournament has 5 games of 21 ends finishing at noon on Friday 19th July.

Click here for an updated entry list. With a strong entry list this tournament promises competitive bowling to the players and some enjoyable viewing for spectators. Progressive scoring results will be posted on this site nightly.

Thanks to Charlie Buchanan, Bowls Co-ordinator, for these details.

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

The AGM of the Port City Men’s Bowling Club will be held on Saturday 20^th of July starting at 9.30am .Voting will be between the Hours of 12 noon & 12.50 and 4.20 pm & 5.30 pm on Friday 12^th , Saturday 13^th ,Sunday 14^th ,Wednesday 17^th ,Thursday 18^th .Voting will Close on Thursday 18^th  July at 5.30 pm .

District Champion of Club Champions

 

The following update has been received from Alex Kair, LNC District Bowls Co-ordinator, regarding the Champion of Club Champions in singles & pairs.

"Due to the over booking it has been decided to play the champion of club champions singles on Sat. 17th - Sun. 18th August at Port City and the pairs on Sat. 24th - Sun. 25th August at Westport."

These are always competitive events - come out and support your club's champions.

Port City WBC Weekly News 11th July

  

On Tuesday 9^th July we had great weather for social bowls and the 2^nd round of the Club Triples.

We welcomed our non-playing members to morning tea and some of the ladies joining us were Beryl Young, Rosemary Aylett, Gwen Turner, Muriel Whitbourne, Veronica Davey, Marianne Smith, Irene Turner and Val Grambau.

Open Singles at Park Beach

The $30,000 Open Singles at Park Beach BC is now into the 3rd day of play in Coffs Harbour.

With some well known bowlers such as Burkett, Holt, McGillivray & Turley through to this round it promises to be a popular tournament again this year.

Click here for the Club's web site and results. 

Lawn Bowls fights Equal Opportunity Tribunal Demand in SA

 Lawn bowlers are fighting an Equal Opportunity Tribunal ruling the competition in South Australia must abandon single-sex teams.

The Tribunal ruled last year that Bowls SA must abolish separate male and female competitions by 2014 or risk being in breach of the Equal Opportunity Act.

 Click here for the full article from ABC News.

Port City Men's BC Weekly Newsletter

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 7th July.

Wednesday pm :- $15 Jim Lobley, Tony Smith & Jim O’Brien;  $10  Bob Keats, Winston Pallot & Peter Flanagan.

Winter Mixed Pairs at Westport

The annual Winter Mixed Pairs was played at Westport this weekend under clear sunny skies. Port City's Jennifer Munson & Geoff Worley took out 1st place with an impressive 4 wins and a margin of 62 shots.

Click here for detailed scoring for all teams.

Thanks to Bill Hubbuck, Westport, for the detailed scoring.

Port City MBC Nominations & Voting

The following is a news release from David Lomas, Secretary MBC, regarding the upcoming AGM:

New Bowls Web Sites

Due to the change by Bowls Australia and associated organisations to IMG STG as the standard provider for web sites the following now have a new web address:

Bowls Australia:  http://www.bowlsaustralia.com.au

NSWWBA:   http://www.womensbowlsnsw.org

Men's Zone 14:  http://www.zone14.bowls.com.au

I would suggest you change your favourites listing or shortcuts to the new sites.

Port City WBC July Newsletter

Click here to view the Port City Women's Bowling Club newsletter for July 2013.

Thanks to Barbara Owens for this newsletter

Port City Men's BC Weekly News Report

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 30th June.

 

Wednesday pm :- $15 Fred Williams & Peter Ascott-Evans, $10  Ron Thompson & Ian Binder