Women's Champion of Club Champions Pairs

Women's Bowls NSW has announced the draw for the State Champion of Club Champions Pairs. This event will be held at Warilla from Monday 30th June - Thursday 3rd July.

Update Monday 30th June. Well done to the local teams from Lake Cathie and Port City for their wins in round 1. Click here for additional details on the Women's Bowls NSW web site.

Men's News from Port City

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 29th June.

Wednesday  :- $15.00  Barry Smith & Tommy Smith .  $7.00 Eric Rowsell & Alan White  .

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Final Results

1st Place - Leanne Patterson & Shaun Richards (Merrylands)

A great mixed pairs carnival finished today with the concluding game 5 played this morning. A very successful carnival thanks to all players and organisers at Westport, Port City and Port Panthers.

Click here for the final results for all teams.

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Day 2

Games 3 & 4 of the Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs were completed at all 3 clubs. After a chilly start the sun warmed things up and then the wind gave the bowlers a real challenge. Clouds came over later in the day but the rain held off during play.

Click here for the results of game 4 and the progressive totals for all games. With several 4 game winners the winning positions will depend on the results Sunday morning.

Additional photos from Port City are available - click here to view.

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs - Day 1

The popular Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs started today under ideal winter weather conditions. With play at Westport (host club), Port Panthers & Port City, games continues tomorrow (Sat.) and Sunday morning.

Click here for some photos from today's play at Port Panthers & Westport. Your scribe is umpiring tomorrow at Port City and I'll take some photos then to complete the album.

I have received the scoring results for all teams but unfortunately I'm having problems copying them into my system. My apologies.

Bowlers Arm Tournament

Local player Roger Sydenham, from South West Rocks, has been selected to play in NSW Woomeras upcoming tournament.

Click here for the NSW selected team on the Bowls NSW web site.

Borg Bowls for Malta

Local player off to the Commonwealth Games.

"The team's coach and one of the bowlers involved is Wauchope's John Borg." Click here for the full article on the Port Macquarie News website.

Port City WBC Weekly News

Entries for Club Triples closed 24 June and the draw is on the board.

Major/Minors opened 24^th June, will close 15^th July and will commence 29^th July.

Lucky Rink Winners – 1^st Noelene William, Helen Cooper, Fay Martin,

 2^nd – Jan Opitz, Fay Walsh, Beth Schubert, Consolation – Loris Muir, Joan Bird, Barbara Barrett.

Raffle Winners – 1^st Carol Banks, 2^nd Carol Bowman.

50’s Club Winners – 1^st June Harris, 2^nd Barbara Barrett, 3^rd Ella Wright.

Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs Entries

The popular Port Macquarie Mixed Pairs commences this Friday, 27th until Sunday  29th June.
With a great turn out it promises to be an enjoyable 3 days of bowls for players and spectators at all three clubs.

Updated 25 June with Port Panthers entries.

LNC Umpires Meeting

The AGM for the LNC Umpires panel will be held on Sunday 6th July @9:30 am at Port Panthers. All umpires are encouraged to attend.

Click here for the notice for the meeting thanks to Paul Brady.

LNC District Singles Draw

The LNC District draw for the 2014 singles is now available with play to commence on Saturday 5th July with venues as follows:

Grade 6 & 7 Men's Triples - Final Day

Winning team from East Cessnock

 

The Grade 6 & 7 Men's Tournament concluded today at Port City with the winners, Steve Davis, J. Hodge, & Ian Jackson, scoring an impressive 7 wins, 1 draw and a margin of 53 shots.

Men's News from Port

Port City Men's Bowling Club news report for the week ending Sunday 22nd June.

Wednesday :- $15  John Davies & Russell Carkeek . $7 Ed Dasczyk & Ken Lipscombe .

Jack46 now Available

"This is Jack 46 - Creeping inexorably toward a half century of drivel" (quote from Michael Beaumont, editor of Jack)

 Click here to view Jack from Bowls NSW.

LNC District Pairs - Finals

The finals of the LNC District Open, Senior & President's Reserve Pairs were played at Westport today.

Full details will be posted on the LNC District web site - click here to view.

Some "happy snaps" from this morning are available in the photo album - click here to view.

Grades 6 & 7 Men's Triples - Day 2

There has to one in every team !

 

Day 2 of the Port City Grades 6 & 7 Men's Triples was completed today under cloudy skies. With 6 games now completed the results will depend on the final 2 games to be played Sunday morning.

 

Results after day 2 for all teams are now available - click here to view.

 

Click here for a few more "happy snaps" from today's play.

Grade 6 & 7 Men's Triples - Day 1

Bowls - a game for all ages !

The Port City $10,000 Grades 6 & 7 Men's triples commenced with 3 games played today. With a further 3 games tomorrow (Sat.) followed by 2 games Sunday morning the winning team will take home $3,000.

5 teams have posted 3 wins today for a great start. Click here for details of all teams.

Additional photos are available - click here to view.

Women's Pennant Finals

Port City grade 4 team (L-R) Barbara Owens (lead), Barbara Barrett (second), Mary Bennett  (third), Maureen Cutting (skip), Robyn Biddle (skip), Eveline Ramsay (third), June Edward (second), Lorraine Cannon (lead).

The Women's Regional Pennant finals concluded on Tuesday at South West Rocks.

Online Entry for Social Bowls

One of the more progressive bowling clubs, Tweed Heads, has introduced online entry for their social bowls. With more people using their smart phones or computers for banking, searching etc. this would appear to be an initiative other clubs should consider.

Click here to view the web pages with the program and online entry form.

Shield Challenges - LNC vs. MNC



"The battles for the 2014 Kelly and Shelley Shields were contested between the Lower and Mid North Coast selected sides at the Kempsey Heights Bowling Club last Sunday, 15^th June, with the Lower North Coast retaining the Kelly Shield Open event and the Mid North Coast retaining the Shelley Shield in the Juniors."

Click here for the full article on the LNC web site.

Port City Men's Grades 6 & 7 Triples

The popular Tooheys Gold Men's Grade 6 & 7 Triples will be played this week Friday 20th - Sunday 22nd June at Port City.

With $10,000 prize money this is an opportunity for players with pennant grades of 6 or 7 to participate in a major $ tournament.

Click here for an article thanks to the Port Macquarie News and click here for the entry list thanks to the Port City web site.

Zone Sides Announced

Zone 14 has announced the sides for the Pat Geary Memorial Shield (2 - 3 Aug.) and the State Junior 7-A-Side (23 - 24 Aug.).

Click here for the Zone 14 web site and follow the links under "Breaking News" for details of the sides.

Women's Regional Pennant Play

Play commenced today at South West Rocks in the Women's Regional Pennant playoffs. Here is a "slightly biased" report from Barbara Owens, a player in the Port City Grade 4 pennant side.

"We had a fantastic win this morning against Old Bar. Unfortunately we were beaten by Stuarts Point this afternoon.
It all now depends on whether Old Bar beat Stuarts Point tomorrow morning."

Further details will be posted as they become available.

Port City Women's Fours Final

Fours Winners (L-R) Faye  Schollum, Eveline Ramsay, Carol White & Lynne Thompson

 

The final of the Port City Women's Fours resulted in Lynne Thompson and team defeating Robyn Biddle and team. Well done to all for reaching the final.

Men's News from Port

Port City Men's BC news report for the week ending Sunday 15th June.

Wednesday :- $15 John Davies & Russell Carkeek . $7 Brian Smith, Fred Mulligan & Brian Sharman .

Port City Men's Minor Singles Final

Matt Lacey (left) & Paul Webster

 

The final of the Port City Men's Minor singles was played on Saturday 14th June under indifferent weather conditions. Scores were level for the first 10 ends until Matt Lacey found his form and went on to take the title 31 - 16 against Paul Webster.

LNC District Pairs Results

Play in the LNC District Pairs progressed today at Hat Head, Westport and Port City today with the following results.

Bowls NSW Rookies - Men's Singles & Pairs

Bowls NSW has announced the 2014 Bowls NSW Rookies singles & pairs competitions for new bowlers who have played less than 30 months (ie not a bowler prior to April 2012).

In both singles and pairs, the initial stage of play will be round robin in sections at Crescent Head (LNC) and Macksville (MNC) for Zone 14.

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

Women's Regional Finals

Open 4's Winners - Tuncurry - (L-R) Keeley McGuire, Sarah Boddington, Robyn Flanagan, Di Smith (skip)

 

The finals of the Women's Region 2 Open 4’s and Senior 4’s were held on Thursday at North Haven.

In the Open Tuncurry WBC defeated Port City and in the Seniors North Haven defeated Old Bar.

Jack45 now Available

The latest edition of Jack from Bowls NSW is now available. Click here to view.

Michael's article on No Smoking makes reference to bowling greens - "As of the 30th May, whether you are standing watching your daughter play netball or watching a game of bowls, all sport spectator areas are now smoke free."
I was not aware of this and would ask if someone could clarify the situation for bowls clubs.

Port City WBC Weekly News

Tuesday 10^th June was Port City Women’s Bowling Club 60^th Birthday and it certainly went off with a bang, thanks to all the many helpers who made the day such a success.

60th Birthday Celebrations

(L-R) Robyn Procter,  Women' Bowls NSW President & Diana Upcroft, Hastings Haven District President. 

The Port City Women's Bowling Club celebrated their 60th birthday today with a great turnout of members to enjoy the occasion. Full details will be posted later in Barbara Owen's report.

Additional photos, thanks to Barbara Owens, are included in the bowls photo album.

Men's News from Port

Port City Men's BC news report for the week ending Sunday 8th June.

Wednesday :- $15 David Lomas , Warren Francis & Tony Newell . $7 Jim Burge & Brian Stokes.

Women's Bowls NSW E-News

Click here to view edition #42 of the E-News from the Women's Bowls NSW web site.

Women's Pennant Winners

The winners of the Hastings Haven District Women's Pennant for 2014 have been awarded their flags for this year. Winners of Grades 1 - 4 will now progress to the Regional playoffs at South West Rocks on Monday 16 - Tuesday 17 June. (click on "more" below to view all teams.)

Commonwealth Games Update

The release today of the uniforms for the Commonwealth Games is a reminder that it is only a few weeks until they start on the 23rd July. The following 2 links will be of interest.

Click here for the "Road to Glasgow" from Bowls Australia and click here for the official site for the games - scroll down on the page for the link to lawn bowls.

Port City WBC Weekly News

After a showery start on Monday the weather was brilliant for our two- day Versatility Fives Carnival played on 2^nd and 3^rd June. The 24 teams (120 players) filled every green and the following clubs were represented. Kew, Forster, Wauchope, Tuncurry, Frankston, Forster/Tuncurry Sports, Panthers, Westport, South West Rocks, North Haven, Soldiers Point, Lake Cathie and, of course, Port City.

Sherriff takes flight with Aero Bowls

In the continuing "battle of the bowls" here is a news release from Bowls Australia regarding Aron Sherriff and the Aero brand of bowls.

Click here for the full article from the Bowls Australia web site.

BCiB State Carnival returning to Port

After two years on the South Coast, the Women’s Bowls NSW BCiB State Carnival is set to return to Port Macquarie-Hastings in 2015 and 2016.

Click here for the full article from the Women's Bowls NSW web site.

Port City Women's Versatility 5's

The Port City Women's Versatility Fives tournament was completed today under ideal conditions with a perfect winter day. Winning teams were:

A. Pobje - 165 points
S. Thomas - 153 points
E. Eames - 147 points

Click here for the final results for all teams - scroll down to day 2 and the final results.

Port City Versatility Fives

The popular Port City Women's Tooheys Versatility Fives commenced today with the first rounds completed under variable weather conditions. 

Play continues tomorrow, Tuesday, with  games of pairs, triples (am) and singles & fours in the afternoon.

Click here for detailed scoring after today's play. Your "happy snapper" is umpiring tomorrow and I'll do my best to get some photos for tomorrow's report.

News from Port City

Click here for the weekly bowls report for the Port City Men's BC thanks to the Port City web site.

LNC Men's District Pairs

Rounds 1 & 2 of the LNC District Men's Pairs were completed today at the Hat Head BC. - click here for full details.

Play will continue with the quarter finals on Saturday 14th June at Hat Head

Port City WBC June Newsletter

HAPPY 60^th BIRTHDAY

You are all probably aware by now that next Tuesday is our 60^th Birthday and we will be celebrating this in a big way.

 To make sure you don’t miss out on the fun, please enter your name on the list as it will be taken down on Wednesday

 There will be a Spider and Raffles

 You will be required to wear club uniform and the cost for the day, including lunch, is $15.

$6 (green fees) of this is to be donated by Club Limited to the Hastings Early Intervention Centre. This is our nominated charity for the day.

Bowls Club AGM Notices

It's AGM time of the year again and the following are two notices from local clubs.

Lake Cathie Men's BC - AGM to be held on Saturday 12 July at 10:00 am.
 Port City Men's BC - AGM to be held on Saturday 26 July at 9:30 am.