Women's Pennant Photos

Here is a message and some great photos from Eveline Ramsay.

"Hi - I am sending photos of the No.4 State Pennant Finals at Raymond Terrace. Luckily it was all under cover so we were able to play despite the rainy weather. We tried our best and had some fun along the way with our great support team."

Over 60's NSW Selections

Congratulations to Carol White, Port City, who has been selected to represent NSW at the National Interstate Over 60s tournament to be held at Tweed Heads from October 6-10.

Click here for full details of the selections from the Women's Bowls NSW web site.

State Pennant Play Off

At last - results from the Grade 4 State Pennant Play-off

Winners Narrabri

Runners-up Lithgow Workmens Valley

Third Nyngan

Fourth Port City

Congratulations to all our girls in getting into the finals. 

Port City WBC Weekly News

Bad weather caused the cancellation of social bowls on Tuesday, but the Grade 4 Pennant Play went ahead at Raymond Terrace. Our Team made us proud, winning their first 3 games which took them into winning their section. The other section winners are Nyngan, Narrabri and Lithgow Workmens Valley.

State Pennant Play-Off

    
Our Port City Grade 4 had one win against Narrabri in the morning 46 - 33 but lost overall in the afternoon game against Nyngan (not sure of the score). The finals will be played to-day and we all wish them good luck in their game against Lithgow. The point Score as of last night - Narrabri 6 - Nyngan 6 - Lithgow 4 - Port City 4.

NSW Pennant Play-Offs

Update on the Grade 4 Pennant Play-offs at Raymond Terrace.
Section 1 was won  by Port Macquarie City
Section 2 was won by Nyngan
Section 3 was won by Lithgow Workmens Valley
Section 4 was won by Narrabri
The four section winners will play a finals Round Robin on Thursday with the Final being played at Soldiers Point on Friday.
Congratulations Port City and Good Luck in the Finals

More results will be posted when to hand.

Women's State Pennant play-off

The Pennant Play-offs at Port Stephens have had many disruptions due to the heavy rain in the area.

Our Port City ladies Grade 4 were very lucky to be playing at Raymond Terrace which has two greens which are under cover. Results for to-day Port City defeated Dapto in both rinks and in the afternoon game defeated Cooma overall. Tomorrow they play Bateau Bay. More results will be posted as soon as received. 

News from Kew

The news report for the Kew Men's Bowling Club for the week ending Sunday 24th August is available - click here to view. Many thanks to Brian Charters the "Driving Lead" for this report.

News From Port City

Port City Men's BC News report for the week ending Sunday 24th August thanks to Colin Halls.

Club Championships: No club championship games were completed this week due to the wet weather. Please check on the notice board for rescheduled games. Entries are open for the mixed  fours.

LNC Pairs

Kevin Williams, LNC Bowls Coordinator, has advised the following regarding the play scheduled for this weekend in the Champion of Club Champions.

NSW Junior Inter-Zone 7-A-Side Championships

The Junior Inter-Zone Championships are underway at the Figtree BC from the 23rd - 24th August.

Click here for the detailed results on the Bowls NSW web site.

$11,000 Classic Pairs

Entries are open for the $11,000 Classic Pairs at the Forster BC to be held from Monday 20th - Thursday 23rd October. This is the 20th annual event for this popular tournament.

Click here for full details and the entry form.

Rookies Draw now Available

The draw for the NSW Men's Rookies is now available. LNC area players from South West Rocks, Kempsey Heights & Wauchope will play at Crescent Head on Saturday 30th August.

Click here for the Bowls NSW web site and follow the link for the Zone 14 draw.

JACK50 now Available

Michael Beaumont's introduction to his 50th edition of Jack from Bowls NSW

Things people have said about JACK, “I like some of it” ,“I don’t agree with everything in it”, “Sometimes it makes me laugh”

Click here to view - as always there are some interesting articles.

Australian Indoor Finals

The finals of the Women's & Men's Indoor Championships were held today at Tweed Heads BC with Jamie Lee Worshop and David Holt taking out the titles.

Refer the previous posting for links for details to be posted later.

Port City WBC Weekly News

 

Tuesday was the first round of the Minor Pairs and the weather wasn’t very kind, very cold and windy with rain. For many of the players it was their first competition, but they handled the conditions very well.

Australian Indoors Finals

The 2014 Australian Indoor Champions are down to the final rounds with the semi final and finals tomorrow and Thursday.

Click here for the results on the Tweed Heads Bowls web site. Bowls Australia also has postings on the competition - click here to view their report and some excellent photos.

News from Port Panthers Men's Club

Click here for the Port Panthers Men's news report for the week ending Sunday 17th August thanks to Terry Merchant.

Zone 14 Election Results

The AGM for the men's  Zone 14 Bowling Assoc. was held yesterday and the committee was elected under the new "Zone Alone" structure. Congratulations to President Ken Errington and his team.

Click here for the results on the Zone 14 web site.

Port City Men's Weekly News

Port City Men's BC news report for the week ending Sunday 17th August.

Club Championships: Unfortunately the wet weather caused some games to be cancelled. Of the matches played the triples final saw J. Hrabak-R Trow- G. Brims 25 def G. Keft-C. Buchanan-G. Worley 13, congratulations to all. Major/Minor pairs P. Webster- D Dickman 22, def W. Kempster- K.Hall 11

LNC District Champion



Congratulations to Darren White, Lake Cathie, the 2014 Singles Champion of Club Champions for the LNC District. Darren defeated "Tiger" Kelly", Port Panthers, 31 - 26 in the final at Smithtown RSL today.

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

Women's State Pennant Finals

The NSW Women's Pennant finals will be held in the Port Stephens area from Monday 25th - Friday 29th August. Local teams represented are South West Rocks in grades 2 & 3 and Port City in grade 4.

Click here for the schedule and draw on the NSW Women's Bowls web site.

Lake Cathie Bowler in State Side

Congratulations to Jenny Roberts, Lake Cathie BC, who has been selected in the Country side to contest the annual series against the Metro side at the Cabramatta BC on the 27th - 28th September.

Click here for full details of the Metro & Country sides for this series.

New Bowls Web Site

A new Port City bowls web site is now available.

Well done to Paul Webster, Port City, for setting up this great site and his work on the "Live Scoreboard" for the Grade 2 Pennant Finals last week-end !
Click here for the new site.

Australian Open

Bowls Australia has opened a new web site to cover the Australian Open next June at the Gold Coast. You may want to consider entering this event or possibly volunteering as a marker, umpire or scoreboard attendant.

Click here for the web site and full details of the event.

Port City WBC Major/Minor Pairs

Major/Minor Pairs Winners Lyn Zahra and Judy Brady

Congratulations to Lyn Zahra and Judy Brady winners of the  2014 Major/Minor Pairs.

Congratulations also to Shirley Devine and Brenda Burge on reaching the finals.

Runners up Brenda Burge and Shirley Devine

Golden Nugget Finals Today

The finals of the Golden Nugget from Tweed Heads BC will be held today (Thursday). In the men's it will see Casey vs. Bester and the women's features Scott vs. Cottrell.

Click here for the web site for the tournament and the live scoreboard. They also note the final will be televised on Fox Sport.

Taren Point Power to Consectutive Titles

"Taren Point has become the first club to win successive Grade 1 State Pennants since 1989-90 after claiming the 2014 Grade 1 State Pennant, beating Belrose in a rematch of the 2013 final."

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

Port City WBC Weeky News

Tuesday 12^th August was another cool and windy day which made it a little bit tricky, but nevertheless everyone appeared to be enjoying their games.
 

It was the second semi-final of the Major/Minor Pairs, Shirley Devine and Brenda Burge def Karen McFarlane and Daphne Sumsky.

North Haven $8,000 Men's Triples

Shane Globits advises that entries are still open for the $8,000 XXXX Gold Men's 2 Bowls Triples to be held on Saturday 30th - Sunday 31st August.

Click here for full details and give Shane a call on 02 6559 8259 if you would like to enter.

State Pennant Playoffs at Port City

Click here for an excellent article covering the State playoffs by Ken Errington as published in the LNC area website.

NSW Men's Pennant Winners Decided

What a great weekend of bowls at Port City with the State Pennant Finals ! Well done to the team at the club for making this major bowls event a success and one to remember for all players and spectators.

 

Cabramatta were too good for Taren Point in the Grade 2 final at Port City.

The local team from Westport went down in the final in Grade 6 - well done in reaching the final!

Click here for final scoring for all grades on the Bowls NSW web site.

A few photos from play today at Port City are available - click here to view. Additional photos by Julian D. are also included.

NSW Men's Pennant Finals

The NSW Men's Pennant finals will be played tomorrow (Monday) morning with the following teams contesting the State flag: Well done to our local team from Westport for reaching the final in Grade 6 - all the best guys !

Grade 1: Belrose (Zone 9) vs. Taren Point (Zone 13)
Grade 2: Cabramatta (Zone 12) vs. Taren Point (Zone 13)

Grade 3: Malua Bay (Zone 7) vs. Molong (Zone 5)
Grade 4: Tomakin (Zone 7) vs. Cabra Vale Diggers (Zone 12)

Grade 5: Narrendera (Zone 8) vs. South Tamworth (Zone 3)
Grade 6: Westport (Zone 14) vs. Lawson (Zone 5)

Grade 7: Gulgong (Zone 5) vs. Coonamble (Zone 4)

Results for the finals will be available for all grades on the NSW Bowls web site - click here to view.

Port City has a live scoreboard for grade 2  including the final - click here to view.

NSW Pennant Summary

Sectional play has been completed in the NSW State Pennant Finals. Some great news with one of our Zone 14 teams, Westport, taking out their section with an impressive 6 points +70 in Grade 6. They now progress to the semi finals this afternoon.

Finals will be played tomorrow (Monday) morning and you can follow the progress on the web with the links below.

 

Click here for semi final results for all grades and click here for the finals from Bowls NSW. 

click here for live scoring of Grade 2 results from Port City.



Port City Grade 3's Leave on a High Note

Roving reporter Ralph has advised that the Port City Grade 3 team finished on a high note with a 69 - 53 win in game 3 of the sectional play.

Click here for the photos emailed by Ralph during the competition.

State Pennant Finals - Saturday 9th August

Games 1 & 2 of sectional play in the NSW Men's Pennant finals were completed today. Game 3 will be played tomorrow, Sunday morning. Sectional winners will be decided on points (2 for a win & 1 for a draw), if tied then margins will decide the winner.

Click here for scoring for all grades from Bowls NSW. Live scoring for Grade 2 is available on the Port City bowls web site - click here to view.

Photos from play at Port City in Grade 2 are available - click here to view.

Port City Grade 3 Pennant at Mt. Lewis

"Happy Snapper" Ralph Eriksson is with the Port City Grade 3 pennant team contesting the State Finals at Mt. Lewis.

Ralph has emailed some photos from the bus trip and roll up prior to the games tomorrow. As photos are received I will post them to the pennant photo album  - click here to view.

Update Saturday am - a few "foggy" shots have been added as play starts at Mt. Lewis
Update Saturday pm - additional photos thanks to Ralph have been added to the album.

State Pennant Results Online

Results for sectional play from the 2014 Bowls NSW State Pennants commences tomorrow Saturday 9th August.

Scores will be posted at the completion of each round of Sectional Play.

Click here for the results for all grades on the Bowls NSW web site.

Grade 2 live scoring results from Port City will be available from the new Port City Bowls site - click here to view.

Golden Nugget at Tweed Heads

The prestigious Golden Nugget Singles will be held next week at the Tweed Heads BC from Monday 11th - Thursday 14th August 2014.

With an entry list that reads like the "who's who of bowls" including Glasson, Kerkow, Wilkie, Henry, Cottrell & Edward to name a few, this top bowling club will showcase bowls at it's best.

Click here for full details on the Tweed Heads BC web site. They will be posting a live scoreboard with progressive scoring on all days.

Hibbard Sports Club Name to Return

Bill Wheeler (left) & Terry Merchant

 

Today's Port Macquarie News features an article on the sale of the Panthers Sports Club. Local members have formed an entity to take over the sports club from the Panthers Group.

I am confident all local bowlers will do all possible to support the new entity, to be named the Hibbard Sports Club, to ensure the Club remains viable and continues to contribute to bowls activities in the Lower North Coast Area.

Read the full article on the Port News web site - click here

Port City WBC Weekly News

Congratulations to Lynne Thompson, Margaret Doyle and Faye Schollum on winning the club triples for this year. Well done to Beth Schubert, Janine Stockham and Lois Bishell on reaching the final.

Men's State Pennant Finals

The Bowls NSW Men's Pennant Finals will be held this weekend from Saturday 9th - Monday 11th August. The program includes sectional play on Saturday am & pm & Sunday am, the semi-finals Sunday pm followed by the final on Monday morning.

Port City WBC August Newsletter

CONGRATULATIONS

To our Club Triples Champions

Lynne Thompson, Margaret Doyle and Faye Schollum

Congratulations also to the Runners up – Beth Schubert, Janine Stockham and Lois Bishell.

News From Port City Men's BC

News report from the Port City Men's BC for the week ending Sunday 3rd August.

 Remember :- We are in an era of smart phones and stupid people -anon

News from Kew

Click here for the Kew Men's BC news report for the week ending Sunday 3rd August thanks to "the driving lead" Brian Charters.

Mixed Fours Tournament at Manning Point

Entries are still open for the Manning Point BC $4,200 Mixed Fours Tournament to be held on Saturday 9th - Sunday 10th August 2014. (Manning Point is east of Taree on the coast.)

Click here for details or contact Rod Purnell on 0412 220 695 for further details.

Women's Triples Carnival

The Port City Women's BC are holding the popular Coca-Cola Women's Triples Carnival on Monday 22nd - Tuesday 23 September, 2014. With daily prize money of $1,155 you can enter for either or both days.

Click here for full details including an entry form or click on the link to the right "List of Tournaments & Major Events"

Commonwealth Games Update

Daily updates on the Australian bowls team are available from Bowls Australia.


Saturday 2nd August am - Click here for today's update. 3 medals added by the bowlers in the final 2 days.

Bowls for Sale

The bowls for sale & wanted listing has been updated. Beth has some size 3 Taylor Redline for sale, Keith some Taylor Redline SR & Pam a set of Greenmaster Premier Size 1.

Click here for the complete listing with details.