Bowls NSW Magazine

Official publication of the royal new south wales bowling association ltd • Print Post approved ISSN 1839-3470 • volume 75 • SEP-OCT 2013

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Inter-zone sides championships

NSW claim State of Origin Junior NSW vs QLD

Around the Zones Regional News

Wrap-up of all grades

State Pennants 2013

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The Royal New South Wales Bowling Association Ltd Level 5, 309 Pitt St, Sydney P.O Box A2186, Sydney South NSW 1235 Telephone: 02 9283 4555 Fax: 02 9283 4252 Email: rnswba@rnswba.org.au Website: www.rnswba.org.au ABN 76 821 647 707 Patron: Her Excellency Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of NSW President: Vince Beard (The Rules Club, Wagga) Deputy President: Ian McKnight OAM (Cudgen Leagues) Finance Director: Ron King (Pennant Hills) Directors: Vince Beard (The Rules Club, Wagga) Lyle Keats (Taren Point) Ian McKnight OAM (Cudgen Leagues) Bob Moran (Warrawee) Jay Porter (Dubbo Railway) Pete Rake (Blakehurst)

Welcome back Vince Beard, President

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hile this is the first edition of our new magazine it is, as well, one step in the evolution of our printed dialogue with the bowling community. We hope you will find something of worth and value in its pages. We hope you will enjoy reflecting on recent events whether you have been a part of them or whether you are wanting to keep your finger on the pulse of what’s happening. We hope inklings of upcoming issues tickle your curiosity sufficiently to delve deeper into our other arms of communication to complete the circuit of information

The Bowls NSW Team: Greg Helm (CEO), Jennifer Hirama (Executive Secretary) Bowls Operations: Michael Beaumont (Manager), Andrew Lynn, Chris Green, Declan Kelly Administration: Courtney Allouche (Supervisor), Shontelle McKeown, Santosh Gupta Communications: Tricia Breuer

The Royal NSW Bowling Association board members

Magazine September-October 2013 ISSN 1839-3470 Postal address: PO BOX A2186, Sydney South, NSW 1235 Telephone: (02) 9283 4555 Fax: (02) 9283 4252 Managing Editor: Troy Dodds Communications co-ordinator: For story and editorial contributions Tricia Breuer tricia@rnswba.org.au Advertising: Simon Gould simon.gould@westernweekender.com.au Design: Alex Galanakis Printed by: Spotpress Disclaimer: While every attempt has been made to ensure the accuracy of content, the Royal NSW Bowling Association and Spotpress assume no responsibility of any errors or omissions. Individual contributors options may not be endorsed by or reflect those of the Royal NSW Bowling Association and its Board.

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You must set yourself on fire.

Arnold Glasow available. We hope, if there are hurdles, we find the way to get over them together. We hope there is something here for all our members.

Other media are more interactive or are faster but still, for many of us, there is nothing quite like the feel of paper as you turn a page. We encourage you to continue to keep in contact with us this way too, and, with any luck, a little bit of figurative fire-setting too.

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Inter-Zone Sides Championships

Southerners too good

FINAL RESULTS AT END OF SECTIONAL PLAY Section

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one 13 ‘Southerners’ have successfully defended their maiden 2012 Inter-Zone Sides Championship title, with a 79-61 win in the final over their ‘southern’ neighbour Illawarra Zone 16 at Blacktown City Bowling Club.

The replay of last year’s Inter-Zone final had been booked earlier in the day when Semi Final action saw the defending champions Zone 13 defeat hosts Zone 5 84-62, while Zone 16 scored a hard fought 88-72 win over the surprise packet of the championships Zone 8, who proved they can be more than competitive at this level.

For skippers Wayne Turley and John Green, the win completes a ‘grand-slam’ of victories in all major ‘sides’ events for 2013 having been members of the Australian Sides Championship-winning NSW Side in April, as well as winning the Number 1 State Pennant Flag with Taren Point at Merimbula last month. The in-form pair also recently combined to claim both the Zone 13 Pairs and Triples titles with fellow Zone 13 team-mate Reg McCulla.

After a solid 23-15 win over Zone 16’s Robbie Warren in the final to finish the weekend undefeated, Green was quick to praise the performance of his rink of Alex Lee, Peter Hughes and Matt Miles.

“The boys were awesome up-front, and backed each other up well,” commented Green.

Despite the support of Turley’s regular Taren Point pennant rink of Joel Mitchell, Reg McCulla and Cy Threlfall with him in Zone 13 colours, it was not all smooth sailing in the final against the enigmatic skills of Shane Garvey, who in the early BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

stages played a number of freakish conversion shots to race to a 13-1 lead.

Garvey’s Zone 16 rink of Jesse Noronha, Matt McIntyre and Aaron Teys were not quite able to capitalise on their early momentum, and the results swung back in favour of the Southerners in the latter half of the game, allowing the Zone 13 rink to claw their way back and salvage a 17-all draw in a very entertaining game.

With Zone 13’s Steve Garry and Ashley Mitchell teaming with joint 2012 NSW Bowlers of the Year, Cameron Curtis and Carl Healey, there was much anticipation leading into the clash against the experienced Zone 16 rink of Brett Pieper, Steven Green, Jamie Mitchell and Eric Johannes with both teams entering the final without a loss. It was Healey’s four however that kept their perfect record intact, dominating proceedings against Johannes from the outset to finish 24-11.

The Zone 16 rink of Warren Hamilton, Wayne Crane, Kyle Johannes and Jeremy Henry retained a narrow lead over Craig Scott’s four of Adam Hyland, Neville Hession and Chris Green with the scores at 18-15 after 19 ends when the Illawarra Side shook hands and conceded defeat.

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2013 Junior Championship

Juniors fire at Warilla

2013 NSW State Junior Championship Winners Singles Dylan Skinner (Mount Lewis)

Dylan Skinner

Chris Green

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arly July saw all the top juniors in NSW Bowls converge on Warilla Bowling Club to contest the 2013 NSW Junior Championships, with the zone winners from across the state competing for glory in the disciplines of Singles, Pairs and Fours.

The Singles was the first event played and it ensured the event got off to a quality start, with the final sectional game on the first day providing four critical matches between undefeated bowlers vying to secure a win to claim their spot in the semis. Dylan Skinner (Mount Lewis), Dylan Wells (Manilla), Corey Wedlock (Urunga) and Mason Lewis (Merrylands) made the semis.

The semi finals provided some brilliant bowls but two players really shone through to claim their spot in the final, Skinner de-

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feated Wells 31-10 and Wedlock defeated Lewis 31-4.

With both Skinner and Wedlock firing on all cylinders following their commanding semi final performances the final was sure to be a fine spectacle. Wedlock jumped out of the gates early to lead 9-1 before Skinner caught up at 14-15, from that point on Skinner had the upper hand before a slight fight back at the end from Wedlock. Despite the late fight back, Skinner held on for a 31-28 victory and the title as 2013 NSW Junior Singles Champion.

The Fours sectional play was highlighted by the final game of Section 1 with an entire girls side from Zone 16 (Samantha Noronha, Jessica Hili, Dawn Hayman and Natalie Noronha) claiming a one shot win to progress through to the semi finals. Section 2 was won by Zone 7 (Brad Griffiths, Jay Breust, Dylan Cuthbert and Anthony McKenna), Section 3 saw Dylan Skinner keep his dream alive for a second State

Pairs Zac Cottam (Alstonville) and Luke Jones (Evans Head) Fours Jack Williams (Guildford) Caroline Allomes (St Johns Park) Chase McKiernan (St Johns Park) and Dylan Skinner (Mount Lewis) title for 2013 with his Zone 12 side of Jack Williams, Caroline Allomes and Chase McKiernan.

The final spot of the semi finals went to Zone 1 (Joshua Bruggy, William Hounslow, Zac Cottam and Luke Jones).

The first semi final between Zone 16 and Zone 7 saw a nail biting affair with Zone 7 claiming the last end and the match to beat the girls 17-16. The second semi final saw Zone 12 lead from the outset and claim a 29-19 victory over Zone 1.

In the final, Zone 7 led from the

Top: Luke Jones and Zac Cottam Bottom: Jack WIlliams, Caroline Allomes, Chase McKiernan and Dylan Skinner

start before Zone 12 fought back to level the scores on the 19th end. Zone 12 then scored four shots on the 20th end and held on for a 21-19 victory to claim the Junior Fours Championship.

In the Pairs, only four country sides remained in the running and progressed to the semi finals. The semi finalists were made up of Zone 1 (Zac Cottam and Luke Jones), Zone 3 (Jack Whitton and Justin Bullen), Zone 7 (Dylan Cuthbert and Anthony McKenna) and Zone 15 (Jacob Casswell and Luke McBeatty).

In the first semi final Zone 1 pushed away to claim a 2212 victory over Zone 3 and in the second semi final, Zone 7 claimed a 26-15 over Zone 15.

The Pairs was a great game to finish the Championships with Zone 7 jumping out to a lead before Zone 1 levelled the scores twice on ends 14 and 17. Zone 1 then with all their might to clinch a 20-18 victory and the title of NSW Junior Pairs Champions.

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2013 Junior NSW vs QLD State of Origin

NSW claim State of Origin Chris Green

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fter nine straight days of rain the sun finally shone through to mark the opening day of the NSW and Queensland Under 18 Test Series played at Taren Point Bowling Club. With fresh faces mixed with some experienced state juniors from both sides the stage was set for a great series.

NSW jumped out of the gates early and never looked back on the opening morning with Ellen Ryan winning her opening singles match 21-4. Dylan Skinner closely followed in his singles match recording a 21-15 victory. The fours battles were both very close knit affairs with NSW gaining the upper hand towards the end in both. In the Boys, Corey Wedlock played a match winning bowl with his last to claim a one shot victory.

After a break the second half of the First Test was to be played and QLD were determined not to let NSW continue on from the morning

games. The NSW Boys triples had other ideas and went on to record a strong 27-10 victory.

The other match ups were neck and neck all the way with many lead changes throughout. NSW grabbed late leads and held on in both the Boys Pairs and Girls Triples, in the Girls Pairs the QLD pair led by 3 heading into the last end before a brilliant display of draw bowls from the NSW duo of Dawn Hayman and Lauren Shaw saw them pick up a 4 and the match 20-19.

A new day and the start of the Second Test saw Queensland come out as determined as ever to stop NSW from wrapping up the series.

Queensland started strong but the NSW side built on the momentum from the First Test, claiming solid wins in both Singles encounters courtesy of Luke Jones and Ellen Ryan, JamieLee Worsnop then guided her Fours side to a 17-14 win before the Boys Fours held on for a crucial draw. Queensland needed to win all the games in the second session to stop NSW from claiming the series before the third test and they started off in the perfect way, jumping out to a lead in all matches. With Queens-

land claiming both pairs matches the triples matches would decide the Second Test, NSW fought all the way and claiming a five shot win in the Girls and a nail biting one shot victory in the Boys. These victories ensured NSW would secure both series still with a Test to play.

With NSW having already claimed the series the Third Test was all about pride between the two ‘State of Origin’ counterparts. The NSW Boys and Girls didn’t hold anything back and fought from start to finish claiming all the boys’ matches and three out of four girls matches with Queensland claiming the Girls Singles 21-11.

This resulted in NSW claiming 20.5 out of the 24 rink wins available and the series 3-0 in both Boys and Girls.

NSW Girls Side: Jamie-Lee Worsnop (St Johns Park), Ellen Ryan (Goulburn Railway), Lauren Shaw (Warilla), Dawn Hayman (Fairy Meadow) and Molly Wilton (Maitland City).

NSW Boys Side: Greg Jeans (Glenbrook), Anthony McKenna (Tathra Beach), Dylan Skinner (Mount Lewis), Luke Jones (Evans Head) and Corey Wedlock (Urunga).

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indang Bowling Club was again the host for the NSW Girls Championships from 4-7 July and with a mix of experienced junior girls and new faces the event was fiercely contested.

The Singles was played over the first two days with 25 girls spilt up into 4 sections to battle for a place in the semi-finals. Four girls went through their section undefeated. These section winners were Dawn Hayman (Fairy Meadow), Ellen Ryan (Goulburn Railway), Natalie Noronha (Warilla) and Jamie-Lee Worsnop (St Johns Park).

With four players in great form and with plenty of confidence, the semis were always going to be great tussles. Ellen Ryan claimed herself a finals berth with a 21-19 victory over BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

Dawn Hayman and Jamie-Lee Worsnop also recorded a victory with the same score line over Natalie Noronha.

The final also produced end after end high class shots and telling conversions with Ellen Ryan claiming victory over Worsnop to take the 2013 NSW Girls Singles Crown 21-13.

In a different format to the Singles, the Pairs was played over three sections with the sections winner and then next best performed side over the three sections progressing through to the semi finals.

Hot off their run in the singles, Dawn Hayman and Jamie-Lee Worsnop claimed Section 1. Section 2 went the way of Warilla twin duo Samantha and Natalie Noronha, with Jasmine Kew (Gilgandra) and Maddison Fen-

nell (Gwandalan) also progressing through this section as the next best preformed overall side. Section 3 was claimed by Singles winner Ellen Ryan and her lead Jodie Marshall (Goulburn Railway).

Marshall and Ryan progressed first through to the final with a 16-8 victory over Kew and Fennell. The other semi final went all the way down to the wire with an extra end required for the other finals spot. Hayman and Worsnop fought back to force the extra end and then claim the match 17-16 over the Noronha twins.

In the final it was Worsnop’s turn to take the trophy with partner Hayman defeating Marshall and Ryan 16-7 to be crowned 2013 NSW Girls Pairs Champions.

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Communication:

The new approach Greg Helm, CEO

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t is hard to imagine that in 1936, when the first edition of Bowls in New South Wales Magazine was published, that the NSW Bowling Association’s Board of Management and Managing Editor would have anticipated that some 77 years later (almost to the day) the ‘Journal’ as it was then known would still be an integral part of the Association and the sport in NSW. The objective of producing an official monthly journal at the time is best summarised in the editorial feature of the first edition; ‘Every public body requires a medium through which ready communication may be made with its members, as well as to express publicly its policy’.

It is doubtful that anyone in 1936 could have foreshadowed the future advances in technology and communication that today many of us take for granted as part of everyday life. However, it is this founding principle which has ensured the longevity of the official publication of the Association in its various forms for nearly eight decades.

This month, the Bowls NSW Magazine enters a new era with a fresh image and new format, following the recent decision of the Bowls NSW Board to outsource its production to an external publisher.

While this was not an easy decision to reach given the inherent connection between the Magazine and the Association, it was in the end a consideration of the cost benefits which have been achieved by outsourcing its production and the opportunity for the Association to invest in diversifying how it communicates with members.

As part of the Board’s new communication strategy, Bowls NSW has moved to embrace new technologies and ways of interacting and engaging with our members. The Association has never been more accessible and available through our various forms of online and social media communication including the Bowls NSW Website as well as our Facebook and Twitter Pages, which are monitored and updated almost 24/7 by Bowls NSW staff.

Together with the printed Magazine, each form of our online communication plays a slightly different role in the overall strategy to ensure that there is something for all our members.

We have never been more accessible

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n a time of consistently declining membership numbers, how can we possibly think that we are winning, or chalking up successes?

The simple truth is, that membership numbers are only one measure of success. Agreed, they are a really important measure, but in truth the state and national association do not have much control over the membership numbers in spite of what many people believe.

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worthy of inclusion. Accessibility, administration, community engagement and social capital.

I believe we are more inclusive than just about any sport, and the measure of that would be in the participation levels of our inclusion programs, the diversity of those programs and the number of participants in those programs that go on to become main stream players.

Administration. I think we are more focused than we have ever been on making the sport accessible to more people. With several programs either up and running or in pilot or trial mode the sport is working hard at remaining relevant.

By any measure of community engagement the sport is in a better position than it was five years

ago. Those clubs that have made an effort to connect or reconnect with their communities have reaped the benefits and those clubs that have failed to change from their isolationist stand have largely gone by the wayside. In today’s society no club can put up the virtual brick wall around their club and greens and expect to be there in five years. Those clubs that fail to connect will vanish.

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Wrap-up of all grades

2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 1

By Mike Driscoll

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aren Point are the kings of Grade 1 bowls and have left Belrose bridesmaids for a third straight year after the 2013 CashBackCity State Pennants final at Club Sapphire Merimbula Imlay Bowling Club.

Belrose were desperate for a breakthrough win following a heartbreaking loss to Cabramatta last year and defeat to St Johns Park in the 2011 decider.

But Taren Point - who won their only previous Grade 1 flag in 1998 - followed up their 70-43 thrashing of one of the favourites Warilla in their semi-final to post a 65-33 victory at the picturesque South Coast club.

Taren Point dominated the final, leading 38-15 after 30 ends, 41-22 after 35 ends and 55-29 on 45 ends.

Taren Point skips Wayne Turley and John Green were outstanding, with Green named player of the final.

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‘‘We went through the season undefeated and the whole finals was an awesome team effort. To pick up an individual award just tops it off,’’ Green said.

Turley, a Commonwealth Games gold medallist, was rapt to have won his second Grade 1 flag with Taren Point. ‘‘I’ve been at Taren Point 19 years and am the only survivor from the 1998 win so it’s a great feeling to win again with a club I love,’’ Turley said. ‘‘It was a true team effort from all 12 players. It wasn’t easy, Belrose are a very good side and we just played really good bowls when we needed too.’’

Belrose’s Michael Harvey was full of praise for Taren Point. ‘‘We didn’t play poorly, they just played some whopper bowls at crucial times. We held shot many times but they took us down with some magnificent shots,’’ Harvey said.

‘‘And Wayne Turley, what can you say, I was playing against him and he was just unbelievable.’’

In the sectional rounds, Belrose were pushed hard by Kurri Kurri before winning 58-54 in the opening match at Merimbula, but then cruised past Wagga Rules (69-50) and outclassed Lightning Ridge 74-44 to win their section with a whopping +53 shots.

Also in the top half of the draw, Dubbo Railway (Zone 4) had three strong wins and a +49 shot deferential in their section but found Belrose - with Crawford Linton, Steve Vanderveer and Steve Rawlings leading their charge - in another class and went down 67-43.

Tura Beach, who were hosting their first state finals, were proud hosts of sections two and three, featuring defending champions Cabramatta.

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HOW YOUR CLUB AND ZONE FARED

ment - winning only one of their three games - with their semi-final hopes ending with a 68-39 thrashing by Taren Point in the final pool game.

Champions Taren Point began with a 69-53 win over Wentworthville Leagues, but the section was up from grabs when Taren Point drew 58-58 with Valentine (Zone 2).

But with the inspirational Turley leading the way and current New Zealand representative and world champion of champion singles winner Ali Forsyth, Taren Point clinched the section by beating Cabramatta and then knocked out Warilla in the semi-final.

Warilla had already clinched their Warilla section after big pool wins on the Saturday against Tathra Beach (68-40) and Cowra (83-30).

But they stumbled in their final pool game 54-53 to Alexandria-Erskineville and though section winners were overwhelmed in the last 30 ends by Taren Point in their semi. In a remarkable turnaround Warilla led Taren Point 40-39, but were then belted 70-43.

Meanwhile, Michael Wilks, bowls co-ordinator for Club Sapphire Merimbula said the finals were probably the biggest bowls event held by the club. ‘‘The interest was enormous and not BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

just from the bowls community but nonbowlers,’’ Wilks said. ‘‘The build up was fantastic, there was a real buzz around the town that the likes of Leif Selby, Jeremy Henry, Wayne Turley and some the other best bowlers in Australia were coming to our clubs. ‘‘It has been a long time planning for such an event and an enormous amount of hours have gone in. We held the grade four finals back in 2010 so we had some idea of what to expect but getting the number 1 grade was really special. It’s the pinnacle of bowls in the state.’’

Club Sapphire Merimbula boast one of the biggest age gaps of members of any club in Australia and in the coming year will have four-year-old Jamie Taylor signed up as a full junior member and 94-year-old Peter Bradley still actively participating in their Tuesday social competition.

The club literally has a place for bowlers of all age and experience.

Meanwhile for Tura Beach Country Club hosting the state finals was a whole new experience, according to Wilks. ‘‘They really embraced it. I don’t know if they have even hosted a zone final before.

They were really happy to show off their club and facilities and what they have to offer.’’

Zone 1: Kingscliff (0 wins, -80 shots) Zone 2: Valentine (1.5 wins, -3 shots) Zone 3: Lightning Ridge (1 win, -72 shots) Zone 4: Dubbo Railway (semi-finalist) Zone 5: Cowra (1 wins -48 shots) Zone 6: Kurri Kurri ( 1 win, -2 shots) Zone 7: Tathra Beach (1 win, -48 shots) Zone 8: Wagga Rules ( 1 win, +21 shots) Zone 9: Belrose (finalist) Zone 10: Wentworthville Leagues (1 win, -10 shots) Zone 11: Alexandria-Erskineville (2 wins, +16) Zone 12: Cabramatta (1 win, -32 shots) Zone 13: Taren Point (champions) Zone 14: Kempsey Heights (2 wins, +14) Zone 15: Ettalong Memorial (1 win, +17) Zone 16: Warilla (semi-finalist)

FINAL SCORES Taren Point: Stephen Garry, Simon Lyttle, Matthew Miles, John Green 26 DF Belrose: Peter Lynn, Lachlan Sturrock, Rod Hummelstad, Steven Vanderveer 10 Taren Point: John Canute, Neville Hession, Chris Green, Ali Forsyth 13 DREW Belrose: John Campton, David Shearer, Brad Franklin, Shawn Thompson 13 Taren Point: Joel Mitchell, Reg McCulla, Cy Threlfall, Wayne Turley 26 DF Belrose: Matthew Blackburn, Michael Harvey, Crawford Linton, Stephen Rawlings 10 15

2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 2

by Bob Moran

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elson Bay BC welcomed sides to the CashBackCity State Pennant Grade 2 Finals. With clear skies, little wind, and a sparkling sea there was the promise of superlative bowls. The greens were in great condition, and worthy of a finals playoff.

In Round 1 many early matches were competitive after a few ends, however several clubs showed improvement midmatch to edge ahead.

Walgett staged a late recovery over Cootamundra Country Club, while Narromine fell just short of catching Grenfell.

Maitland City and Bulli had good wins, as did The Entrance, with Narooma having a narrow win over Soldiers Point. There were two close matches in Section 4 with St Johns Park and Alexandria-Erskineville defeating Kew and Harbord.

While the breeze had increased at the start of Round 2, a similar pattern emerged, with Cootamundra Country

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Club, Narooma and Harbord showing good form. St Johns Park and AlexandriaErskineville had a close tussle, with St Johns Park getting good results later in the match to emerge comfortable winners.

After two rounds, Bulli, Narooma and St Johns Park, with 4 points each, led their sections while Section 1 was open with all four clubs holding 2 points.

The third round produced some upsets.

Narromine defeated Cootamundra Country Club to win their section, while Bulli won all three rounds to progress to the semi-finals. Narooma had a loss to Alstonville, and scraped home in the section, 2 wins +10 to Soldiers Point 2 wins +9. In Section 4, Harbord defeated St Johns Park and won the section with 2 wins +45 against 2 wins +21.

The semi-final between Bulli and Narromine got off to a flying start for Bulli, who went on to win comfortably, which

showed good prospects for the final the next day. The other semi final between Narooma and Harbord was much closer, with Harbord eventually winning by 12 shots despite losing two rinks.

The weather for the final was perfect for bowls, with a clear sky and no wind. Harbord took a small early lead, and despite Bulli getting close on several occasions, and the rinks being 1½ each, Harbord finished as winners of the Grade 2 Pennant.

The eventual winners, Harbord, showed excellent form as a side through the whole of the competition, with one team performing sufficiently well to cover any problems with the other two teams. The strong Harbord rink varied from match to match and it was a great effort from all 12 players. The weather during the event was good, and Nelson Bay BC is to be congratulated for staging this event which was top class in every aspect.

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HOW YOUR CLUB AND ZONE FARED Zone 1 Alstonville (1 win, -11) Zone 2 Soldiers Point (2 wins, +9) Zone 3 Walgett (1 win, -21) Zone 4 Narromine (2 wins, +26) (semi-finalist) Zone 5 Grenfell (2 wins, -20) Zone 6 Maitland City (2 wins, +28) Zone 7 Narooma (2 wins, +10) (semi-finalist) Zone 8 Cootamundra Country Club (1 win, +15)

Zone 9 Harbord (2 wins, +45) (runners-up) Zone 10 Gladesville (1 win, -9) Zone 11 Alexandria Erskineville (1 win, -21) Zone 12 St Johns Park (2 wins, +21) Zone 13 Blakehurst (0 wins, -47) Zone 14 Kew (1 win, -45) Zone 15 The Entrance (1 win, -8) Zone 16 Bulli (3 wins, +28) (champions)

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2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 3

By Mike Driscoll

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evesby Workers showed the value of experience to win a see-sawing final against Taren Point and clinch the CashBackCity State Pennants Grade 3 championship.

The Zone 12-based Revesby Workers went through the three days at co-hosts Towradgi Park and Wiseman Park-Wollongong City bowling clubs unbeaten, and outlasted Taren Point 60-56 in a terrific final.

Taren Point won two of the three rinks and led 51-46 but Revesby Workers stormed home in the final 11 ends.

Revesby Workers skip Frank Schocher and his team proved the difference with a 30-14 win over Murray Chapman and partners.

The Zone 13-based Taren Point won the other two rinks with Spencer Puttick beating Geoff Barron 17-16 and Alan Layton overcoming Warren Gibson 25-14.

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‘‘It’s big to win a state flag,’’ Revesby Workers team manager Ray Hopkins said. ‘‘We’re a pretty experienced group who love our bowls. ‘‘About five years ago the Workers club merged with the Revesby club and last year we amalgamated from the bowls side of things. ‘‘A few of the team from the Revesby era have won a state flag back in 2009 but it is new territory for Revesby Workers.’’

While it was a first state flag win for Revesby Workers BC, Revesby beat Taren Point in the Grade 3 decider in 2009.

Taren Point’s Grade 3 team manager Garry Williams has been involved with the club since 1995 and even though they didn’t win the state title he said it was still a great day for the club. ‘‘It’s terrific for Taren Point to have a team in the final in a lower grade,’’ Williams said.

‘‘There’s sometimes a big focus on the top grade but we have seven grades at our club and want to encourage players through all the grades. ‘Getting to a final shows we have depth but also that you can come on down and play in a lower grade and still have a shot at winning the zone and getting through to state title.’’

Taren Point have around 120 bowlers and while the club was cheering on their No 1 Grade to the state flag at Merimbula, the Number 3 grade have done the club proud with two finals appearances in five years.

Williams’ only regret was that he was left to manage to side, rather than take his place as a player. ‘‘I lost my spot basically due to taking an overseas holiday to the United States.

The guys were going so good there wasn’t a spot back for me, so I added the managing duties.

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‘‘It’s a great group of players who have played so well to make it to a state final.’’

Taren Point were in good touch right through the three days and beat Temora (Zone 13) 65-60 in a hard-fought semifinal.

Taren Point won their three sectional games comfortably - beating The Hills District (Zone 10) 75-45, then Woolgoolga (Zone 14) 70-60 and Leichhardt (Zone 11) 73-51. They were the only team in their section to win more than one game.

Revesby Workers also had three section wins, beating Ettalong Memorial (Zone 15) 61-50, Lismore City (Zone 1) 59-47 and Bega (Zone 7) 70-46.

Revesby Workers were strong 72-48 winners over Picton (Zone 5) in their semi-final.

Towradgi Park played host to one of

the most bizarre sections of any grade in the finals. Temora and Inverell both won two games but finished with an identical -1 shot differential. Temora advanced to the semis having conceded 11 less shots to their opponents than Inverell over the three pool games.

Ironically, the only team in the section with a positive shot differential was Forbes (+2) but they only won one game.

The three day carnival was also of huge benefit to its Zone 16 hosts - Towradgi Park and Wiseman Park. Both are among Illawarra’s most progressive clubs with Towradgi BC having some the finest facilities in the region.

Under new bowls coordinator Wes Falconer, who moved from Warilla BC at end of 2012 to join Towradgi, the northern Illawarra club managed to stay in the tough

HOW YOUR CLUB AND ZONE FARED Zone 1: Lismore City (1 wins, -40 shots) Zone 2: Beresfield (1 win, -38 shots) Zone 3: Inverell RSM (2 wins, -1 shot) Zone 4: Forbes (1 win, +2 shots Zone 5: Picton (semi-finalist) Zone 6: Denman (1.5 wins, -4 shots) Zone 7: Bega (2 wins, +22) Zone 8: Temora (semi-finalist) Zone 9: Harbord (1 win, +22 shots) Zone 10: The Hills District (1 win -42 shots) Zone 11: Leichhardt (1 win +7 shots) Zone 12: Revesby Workers (champions) Zone 13: Taren Point (finalist) Zone 14: Woolgoolga (1 win, -27 shots) Zone 15: Ettalong Memorial (0 wins, -29 shots) Zone 16: Warilla (1 win, -2 shots)

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Premier Division of Zone 16 after winning promotion in 2012. Ironically, Towradgi is the last Illawarra club to win the state No 1 pennants title, back in 2007.

Meanwhile Wiseman Park boast Australian squad member Shane Garvey as their bowls coordinator and the club has shown ambition in 2013 by not only hostBOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

ing a state final but also hosting the NSW vs Victoria series in Mens, Womens and under 25s earlier this year.

The club wants to be at the forefront of major events in coming years and won widespread praise for how the New South Wales v Victoria series and state playoffs were run.

Revesby Workers: Colin Heaslip, Edward Boyan, Stephen Jessep, Frank Schocher (skip). Lindsay Murray, Nathan Spencer, David Raper, Warren Gibson (skip). Douglas Hawkins, Christopher Fitton, Adam Whalan, Geoffrey Barron (skip).

Reserves: Chris Fitton, Brian Barrett, Chris Chown Taren Point: Mark Caple, Rob Hood, Stewart Murray-Prior, Murray Chapman (skip). Phil Bennis, Jacob Bobeldyk, Barrie Benson, Alan Layton (skip).

Rick Clarke, Phil McGregor, Paul Sullivan, Spencer Puttick (skip). Reserve: Garry Williams.

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2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 4

By Ian McKnight OAM

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small piece of history was created when Tweed Coast clubs Kingscliff Beach and Cudgen Leagues Bowling Clubs were bestowed the honour of hosting the Grade 4 State Pennant Finals as a State Pennant Final series had never been held previously north of Ballina in the State’s far north.

Both clubs with the pivotal assistance of their staff and all the volunteers did a magnificent job in playing the role of the perfect hosts and certainly deserved all the accolades that came their way from the players and supporters. Prior to the event the Tweed had experienced yet another bout of heavy rain which had plagued the area for much of the year but the winter weather was on its best behaviour over the 4 days of the event which allowed the greenkeepers to present their greens in an immaculate condition.

The 16 finalist sides which had travelled from many parts of the State began to ar-

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rive on the Thursday and by Friday all had arrived and quickly took the opportunity to gain valuable practice and familiarise themselves with the greens at the two clubs. The contesting sides represented clubs from both large to the very small but all were determined to do well and were hopeful of being able to claim the ultimate prize by the completion of the competition.

On the Saturday the sectional play began in brilliant sunshine and a number of sides including Harbord, St. Johns Park, Scone, Bathurst Majellan, Grafton, Nelson Bay, Bulli and Francis Drake all began well but a number of upsets were forthcoming including St. Johns Park which was held to a draw by North Ryde RSL then beaten by Harbord who had earlier been beaten by Cootamundra Ex-Services. Scone retained its good form by knocking both Inverell East and Majellan out of contention while The Entrance had found the going tough and fell to both Scone and Majellan.

Nelson Bay had stamped itself as one of the favoured combinations but after 2 wins was upset by Grafton which had suffered an earlier setback at the hands of Merimbula which also made a late run for the semi finals following an early loss but Maroubra RSL found the opposition a little too hot on the day. Bulli also established itself as a favourite despite being held to a 3rd round draw by Baradine which had also made a late tilt at being a section winner while Francis Drake had its chances severely dented by Bulli and Nambucca Heads did not have much luck at all in experiencing 3 narrow losses.

The eventual section winners were: Section 1 Harbord with 4 points + 29 margin; Section 2 Scone 6 points + 50; Section 3 Grafton 4 points + 31 and Section 4 Bulli 5 points + 41.

The semi finals provided excellent spectator entertainment as Scone took on Harbord and the scores were close early before BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

Scone began to get the better of the duel to open up a handy lead and appeared destined for victory and despite a fight back

by Harbord towards the end of the match Scone held on to score a fighting 60/49 victory and a place in the final. The remaining semi final between Grafton and Bulli eventuated in to a real cliff hanger after Grafton led early but were overtaken and Bulli then built up a 7 or 8 shot lead which it maintained for much of the match and victory was certainly within its grasp. As the match entered its final stages, the lights

entering the final ends held a 14 shot lead.

Scone battled valiantly and managed to more than halve the leeway but finally time and the ends ran out and Grafton grafted out a well deserved 63/58 victory to claim the much sought after winner’s flag while Scone which was gallant in defeat had to settle for the runner up flag. The players and side managers of both sides also received their respective State pennant badges in recognition of their fine achievement.

The winning Grafton side was B. Rapley, D. Morgan, K. Garner, R. McWaters, R.

Full results are available to view online at

www.rnswba.org.au

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had been switched on as ends were killed and darkness began to fall and suddenly Grafton hit the front after it had grabbed a vital 7 shots on one end. The spectators were on the edge of their seats as both sides traded shots as they strived for victory but as the ends ran out Grafton finally held on grimly to claim 2 shots on the final end for a dogged 61/57 win and the remaining place in the final.

The final commenced in brilliant weather and it was Scone which had the flying start and led 20/6 before Grafton hit its straps and began to make inroads into the deficit to trail 20/25 after 25 ends then eventually hit the front and led 27/26. Scone appeared somewhat shell shocked as Grafton built on its lead and led 52/44 after 50 ends on BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

Power, S. Mepstead, W. McLeod, K. Landrigan, G. Harrison, I. McMillan, G. Maxted, A. Knox, W. James, R. Toovey and Side Manager R. Robinson. The gallant Scone side was B. Cone, D. Campbell, G. Davidson, W. Styles, G.Simpson, T. Wells, K. Katon, M. Mabbott, H. Bourke, J. Jenkins, J. Wicks, D. Riley, G. Riley, N. Crandell and Side Manager B. Johnstone.

The players and supporters from all of the visiting sides were extremely high in their praise for the two clubs and their facilities as well as the hospitality afforded to them and while number of them and supporters remained to take in the many areas of interest around the Tweed District, many others vowed that they would certainly be making a return visit to the Tweed in the future.

Zone 1 Grafton (2 wins, +31 )(semi-finalist) Zone 2 Nelson Bay (2 wins, +19) Zone 3 Inverell East (0 wins, -74) Zone 4 Baradine (1.5 wins, -10) Zone 5 Bathurst Majellan (2 wins, +42) Zone 6 Scone (3 wins, +50) (semi-finalist) Zone 7 Merimbula Imlay (2 wins, +17) Zone 8 Cootamundra Ex-Services (2 wins, +11) Zone 9 Harbord (2 wins, +29) (runners-up) Zone 10 North Ryde RSL (0.5 win, -42) Zone 11 Maroubra RSL (0 wins, -67) Zone 12 St Johns Park (1.5 wins, +2) Zone 13 Francis Drake (2 wins, -8) Zone 14 Nambucca Heads (0 wins, -23) Zone 15 The Entrance (1 win, -18) Zone 16 Bulli (2.5 wins, +41) (champions)

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2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 5

By Ron King

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he final was played between Goodooga and Soldiers Point Bowling Clubs with Goodooga winning by 74 to 44.

The weather was fantastic for the three days of the finals with barely a cloud in the sky but occasionally a breeze, strong at times. The matches were played at Taree Leagues and Taree Railway Bowling Clubs and the greens were in excellent condition. Someone said that the greens at Taree Leagues are the best in the State.

On the Saturday morning at Taree Leagues, after proceedings were opened by the Mayor of Greater Taree City Council Paul Hogan, Bathurst City had a big win over Carlingford as did St Johns Park over Dalmeny. St Johns Park struggled early in the game but then established their superiority. Goodooga had a big win over Windang and Dee Why finished on top of Umina Beach. Over at Taree Railway Tumbarumba, North Haven, Dubbo Railway and Soldiers Point all had wins.

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In the company of Bruce Elliott, Zone 6 President, I spent the afternoon at Taree Railway where Gladstone Park and East Maitland had the wins in Section 3, as did Maclean and Soldiers Point in Section 4. Back at Taree Leagues the winners were Goodooga and Windang in Section 2 and Bathurst City in Section 1, while St Johns Park and Carlingford played a 64-64 draw.

At the end of the day Bathurst City, Goodooga and Soldiers Point had all had two wins to lead their sections. In Section 1 St Johns Park with a win and a draw were sitting right behind Bathurst City and in Section 3 all clubs had one win each.

Round 3 on Sunday morning is always the critical round. Bathurst City and St Johns Park were drawn to play each other. What a game it turned out to be! It ended with a four point difference in favour of St Johns Park but it was a gripping match where the scores were close all the way.

In Section 2 Goodooga had another big win to finish on top with three wins and a margin of 68. In Section 3 where all clubs had been equal the night before, Tumbarumba and Gladstone Park were the winners and Tumbarumba won the Section with a plus 29 margin.

The shock of the morning occurred when Dubbo Railway defeated Soldiers Point in Section 4 64-53. This win meant that Maclean, Dubbo Railway and Soldiers Point had all had two wins. However Soldiers Point won the Section with a superior margin of 32.

The semi final at Taree Leagues was between St Johns Park and Goodooga while the semi final at Taree Railway was between Tumbarumba and Soldiers Point. I would have liked to have seen both matches but it was not possible so thinking that Goodooga would win the first I chose to spend the afternoon at Taree Railway. I was correct but the result was a margin of 2 and as the old saying BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

goes it “went down to the wire”. Everyone who saw it said it was a wonderful game of bowls.

However Goodooga was the sentimental favourite of the crowd and drew resounding applause for their efforts.

The match between Tumbarumba and Soldiers Point was also a thriller with the scores very close at the end and the lead changing at the end. The margin was 3 with Soldiers Point winning 58-55. The match all depended on the last bowl and the Soldiers Point skip moved his own bowl a little too far.

The final day, again with wonderful weather, was played at Taree Leagues. Dave Penman at Taree Leagues had the match under way on time again as he had each day. During this

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match our photographer, who had a drone with a camera in it, flew the drone at the back of the green to take numerous photographs of the action without disturbing the players. There were some wonderful action photographs.

This was always going to be an interesting game as Goodooga had tremendous support from the local crowd. We had heard that one of the Goodooga skips had lost his bowls in the river and had to borrow a set from a local player. We also heard that Goodooga did not have their bowling green capable of being used so they had been driving to Lightning Ridge to play bowls including their pennant matches, a two hour drive for each game.

For those looking for a tight match to finish off proceedings, this was not to be, as Goodooga, although threatened in the middle of the match, when the gap in scores closed to 6, alBOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

ways appeared to be in control. One particular game between Jackson and Braye was very close all the way through with Braye of Soldiers Point eventually winning by 2. He was down 4 with one bowl to play and drew the shot.

The final was played with tremendous sportsmanlike spirit between the two sides, a great advertisement for the sport of bowls.

This event was very well organised in a very professional manner by the two clubs. All the people involved undertook a magnificent effort but the following people should be thanked: from Taree Leagues –Annette Campbell President Taree Leagues Sports Club, Greg Campbell President Men’s Bowling Club, David Brann Sec-Mgr and Dave Penman Bowls Co-ordinator and from Taree Railway – David Lynch President, Peter Lane Sec-Mgr and Tony Chicken Bowls Co-ordinator.

Zone 1 Maclean (2 wins, -7) Zone 2 Soldiers Point (2 wins, +32) (runners-up) Zone 3 Goodooga (3 wins, +68) (champions) Zone 4 Dubbo Railway (2 wins, +13) Zone 5 Bathurst City (2 wins, +41) Zone 6 East Maitland (1 win, +15) Zone 7 Dalmeny (0 win, -51) Zone 8 Tumbarumba (2 wins, +29) (semi-finalist) Zone 9 Dee Why (2 wins, +22) Zone 10 Carlingford (1.5 wins, -10) Zone 11 Gladstone Park (2 wins, -18) Zone 12 St Johns Park (1.5 wins, +20) (semi-finalist) Zone 13 Cronulla (0 win, -38) Zone 14 North Haven (1 win, -26) Zone 15 Umina Beach (0 win, -50) Zone 16 Windang (1 win, -40)

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2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 6

By Greg Helm

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llawarra’s Fairy Meadow has secured their first ever State Pennant Flag after an 80-39 victory over Grafton.

For five of the Fairy Meadow players the match provided an opportunity to make amends for their 2011 Grade 6 State Pennant Final loss at the hands of Mounties.

And it was an opportunity which they grabbed with both hands.

Fairy Meadow were the stand-out side following sectional play, finishing as the only 3-game winners in Section 3. The Zone 16 Club served up solid performances against the fancied St Johns Park from Zone 12, South Sydney Juniors (Zone 11) and country boys Cootamundra Country Club to take the section with a plus 70 shot margin.

Runners-Up Grafton cruised through day 1 with two easy victories over Woy

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Woy (Zone 15) and Moruya (Zone 7), but struck a small hurdle with a narrow 2 shot loss to a determined Sylvania Side from Zone 13 on Sunday morning. With two wins and a plus 50 shot margin, Grafton were able to claim the section over Sylvania who could only manage a shots difference of plus 12 from their two wins.

Section 2 was taken out by Stuarts Point (Zone 14) with two wins plus 46, from Zone 5’s Wallerawang who also finished with two wins, but a lesser margin of plus 10 shots despite beating the section winners in round 2.

Zone 9 champions Dee Why looked promising after round 1, scoring a comfortable win over Wallerawang, however after an agonisingly close 1-shot loss in round 2 against West Tamworth, the north shore side had nothing left in the tank for

Sunday morning against Stuarts Point going down by 45 shots. Section 4 saw one of the closest finishes ever witnessed at a State Pennant Final with a count-back of shots scored against the only way that Zone 10’s Merrylands and Zone 4’s Gilgandra could be separated after both finishing their sectional rounds with 2.5 wins and a plus 47 margin.

With Merrylands playing on their home greens, there was a feeling of ‘what could have been’ for players and supporters alike, after it was announced that Gilgandra had claimed the section having had 154 shots scored against compared 156 scored against Merrylands.

It was certainly bittersweet for the host club’s players, who whilst unlucky not to advance to the semi-finals, could optimistically hold their heads high knowing that BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

they had finished the weekend undefeated. Both Semi-Finals produced some amazing bowls from all four sides culminating in nail-biting finishes.

Grafton after their loss earlier in the day overcame Stuarts Point in the final ends to claim a 66-59 win and book a place in the final, whilst the semi-final between Fairy Meadow and Gilgandra required an extra end to find a winner.

Trailing by a shot heading into the 63rd and final end of the match, Fairy Meadow managed to tie up the scores at 53-all with their final bowl, with players and spectators glued to the edge of their

chairs with the shot bowl only confirmed with a close measure.

After all rinks had completed one extra end, it was Fairy Meadow who came up trumps, with two of their rinks scoring 2 shots each, while Gilgandra claimed just 2 shots on the remaining rink to give the Illawarra Side a 2-shot win 57-55 to progress to the final.

The determination of the Fairy Meadow side was clear from the outset in the final, with all rinks jumping out of the blocks to set up an early lead which they maintained throughout against a valiant Grafton.

HOW YOUR CLUB AND ZONE FARED Zone 1 Grafton (2 wins, +50) (runners-up) Zone 2 Nelson Bay (1 win, -24) Zone 3 West Tamworth (1 win, -26) Zone 4 Gilgandra (1.5 wins, +47) (semi-finalist) Zone 5 Wallerawang (2 wins, +10) Zone 6 Sporties Tuncurry (0 win, -70) Zone 7 Moruya (1 win, -22) Zone 8 Cootamundra Country Club (0 win, -54) Zone 9 Dee Why RSL (1 win, -30) Zone 10 Merrylands (1.5 wins, +47) Zone 11 South Sydney Juniors (1 win, -32) Zone 12 St Johns Park (2 wins, +16) Zone 13 Sylvania (2 wins, -16) Zone 14 Stuarts Point (2 wins, +46) (semi-finalist) Zone 15 Woy Woy (1 win, -12) Zone 16 Fairy Meadow (3 wins, +70) (champions) BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

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2013 CashBack City NSW State Pennant Finals

Grade 7

By Vince Beard

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ubbo, with a population of 40,000 people, is situated in the centre of NSW and is the hub of the Central West. Just five hours drive from Sydney, the city is also halfway between Melbourne and Brisbane.

Dubbo has a myriad of tourist attractions, most notably the Western Plains Taronga Zoo and the Old Dubbo Gaol. With plenty of accommodation available, Dubbo offers the keen shopper a wide variety of outlets for their pleasure. Dubbo has four bowling clubs, all within 3 minutes drive from the city centre, and visitors are most welcome at all four clubs – Dubbo City, Dubbo Macquarie, Dubbo Sporties and Club Dubbo.

The 2013 Cashback City State Number 7 Pennant was held in Dubbo on the first weekend in August, with Sections 1 and 2 at Dubbo Sporties (Dubbo Railway) and Sec-

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tions 3 and 4 at Club Dubbo (West Dubbo).

The speed of the greens at both clubs was about 15 seconds, and the breezy conditions on the first two days provided a stern test for all bowlers.

Bowls NSW President, Vince Beard, was in attendance to open the tournament on Saturday morning, and to present the winners and runners-up with their flags and badges after the final at Club Dubbo on Monday afternoon.

In Section 1, Grafton went through to the semi-finals, despite losing its last round against The Hills District, who finished with the same number of points but could not match Grafton on points for and against.

Lightning Ridge went through Section 2 undefeated with big wins in their first 2 matches, but Coleambally put it right to

them in the last round, going down by three on the last end.

In Section 3, Figtree RSL were also undefeated in their preliminary rounds, but survived a scare in their last game when they had to produce 12 shots in the last three ends to beat a determined St Johns Park and deny them victory in the section. Harrington won Section 4, again undefeated in their three games. All teams in Section 4 (Morisset Hospital, Ettalong Memorial, Sawtell and Harrington) were evenly matched, but Harrington was spurred on in all their matches by their very large and vocal group of supporters.

And so to the semi-finals!

At Dubbo Sporties, Grafton and Lightning Ridge were evenly matched and after 18 ends, Grafton led by 5 shots (21 – 16). At the BOWLS NSW • SEP-OCT 2013

halfway stage (30 ends), there was nothing in it, with Grafton just ahead 30 – 29, and by the 44th end, the teams were locked at 40 – all. Lightning Ridge then used all their experience to apply the screws to their opponents and surged to a 55 – 44 lead after 51 ends. From there, Lightning Ridge were not to be denied, and they held their advantage to triumph 68 to 58.

In the second semi-final at Club Dubbo, Harrington went to an early lead after 10

ends, but Figtree RSL soon found their range and began to claw their way back into the match. After 30 ends, Figtree had opened up a 6 shot lead (33 – 27), but Harrington struck back to level the match at 37 all after 38 ends. Not to be overawed, Figtree dug deep and started to apply the pressure, and by the 50th end, had forged to a 55 – 42 lead. The Figtree boys, inspired by their ardent supporters, came away for a 66 – 54 victory.

RESULTS ROUND 1 Section 1: The Hills (Zone 10) 64 def Marrickville (Zone 11) 52 Grafton 58 (Zone 1) def Dubbo Railway (Zone 4) 57 Section 2: Lightning Ridge (Zone 3) 72 def Sylvania (Zone 13) 41 Orange Newstead (Zone 5) 75 def Coleambally (Zone 8) 45 Section 3: Bega (Zone 7) 60 def St Johns Park (Zone 12)54 Figtree RSL (Zone 16) 72 def Harbord (Zone 9) 54 Section 4: Morisset Hospital (Zone 2) 65 def Sawtell (Zone 14) 62 Harrington (Zone 6) 60 def Ettalong Memorial (Zone 15) 53 ROUND 2 Section 1: Grafton 76 def Marrickville 46 Dubbo Railway 71 def The Hills 62 Section 2: Sylvania 78 def Coleambally 43 Lightning Ridge 84 def Orange Newstead 35 Section 3: Figtree RSL 75 def Bega 66 St Johns Park 83 def Harbord 36 Section 4: Harrington 68 def Morisset Hospital 53 Sawtell 55 def Ettalong Memorial 48

A bright and crisp morning greeted the Lightning Ridge and Figtree RSL teams and supporters for the final at Club Dubbo on Monday morning. After 10 ends there was not much in it, as Figtree, 11, led Lightning Ridge, 10. However, by the 20th end, Figtree had opened up a 24 to 12 lead over the boys from the Ridge. At the 30th end, Lightning Ridge had edged closer to Figtree, but still trailed 23 – 31.

Into the second half of the final and Figtree were still in front 37 – 31 after 40 ends.

Then the boys from the bush put their foot down. After the 46th end, the Ridge had hit the lead 42 – 39, and were still three ahead after the 52nd end (49 – 46).

Figtree hit back and on end 56, the scores were locked at 51-all. What tension!

However, when it came to the nitty gritty of the concluding ends, Lightning Ridge rose to the occasion and came away to win 62-54.

The difference was the rink skipped by Rob Williams, whose team won 26-16.

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Full results are available to view online at

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throughout the game. It was the boys from the bush who managed to overcome their coastal opponents.

500 players and supporters converged on Dubbo for the event, and everyone was glowing in their praises of the greens and organisation at both clubs. Bowls’ Managers, Vic Simpson (Dubbo Sporties) and Anthony Brown (Club Dubbo) and their respective committees, did a mountain of work to ensure everything ran smoothly and that all players’ and spectators’ needs were met.

ROUND 3 Section 1: Marrickville 58 def Dubbo Railway 50 The Hills 58 def Grafton 56 Section 2: Orange Newstead 60 def Sylvania 57 Lightning Ridge 63 def Coleambally 60 Section 3: Bega 48 def Harbord 47 Figtree RSL 58 def St Johns Park 48 Section 4: Ettalong Memorial 72 def Morisset Hospital 49 Harrington 54 def Sawtell 51 SEMI-FINALS Lightning Ridge (Zone 3) 68 def Grafton (Zone 1) 58 Figtree RSL (Zone 16) 66 def Harrington (Zone 6) 54 FINAL Lightning Ridge 62 def Figtree RSL 54

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Buddy Day was a chance to introduce prospective new bowlers to the surprising game of Lawn Bowls. The concept has been tried elsewhere and was proposed to the Club by the Bateau Bay Bowls Coordinator Kevin Trezise.

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for a game of bowls. The hope was to get 25 bowlers and 25 non bowler buddies onto the greens.

What happened? Over 200 people attended Buddy Day Of that, there were 84 bowlers and 84 buddies out playing bowls. Three greens full with 168 bowlers all having a great time! Buddy Day was supported and sponsored by the Peck family business NEUsolutions, The Bay Sports Club and parent club Canterbury.

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What started as a very simple idea brought a large number of happy people, grandparents, parents and teenagers, all together in a great environment.

The game of bowls has been around for a few centuries, but in 2013 it is now being rediscovered as a sport of choice for men, women and families of all ages.

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Monday was the first game WA against NSW, where NSW won 5 to 1. Tuesday morning WA played Victoria: WA were the winners 5 to 1. Tuesday afternoon NSW played against Victoria, with NSW runaway winners 6–nil.

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Wednesday night was the presentation dinner dance at the Floriat Athena Soccer Club.

Over 120 bowlers and guests enjoyed a wonderful evening, where the President of the WA club, Teli Yakalis, presented the Shield to the NSW President, John Prineas (Maroubra Club member). Next meet will be in Melbourne March 2014.

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Valentine Lakes Win Zone 2 Denis Broad

Valentine Lakes bowlers have created history by winning the Blue Ribbon Zone 2 Major Singles Championship and the State Senior Singles Championship for the second consecutive year.

The finals in both championships were outstanding games of bowls John Lindsay (Hamilton North) recorded his biggest success in lawn bowls winning the Restricted Singles title with a hard fought 25/21 victory over Bruce Alexander (Raymond Terrace). Lindsay

recovering from a slow start being down 11-6 after 12 ends. He performed similarly against Jim Hillhouse (Valentine) in the semifinals fighting back from an 8-0 deficit after 6 ends to win 25-19.

Alexander led all the way to beat Danny Moore 25-18 in the second semi-final. A report will be in next month’s Bowls NSW on the Mens Fours, Mixed Pairs, Mens Open & Restricted Pairs & the Frank Neat Memorial K.O. Club Nominated Mens Triples.

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Outstanding performance from outback areas

Noel Soane Junior Pairs Zone 4 Rick Bohm

Zone 3 John Hamel Congratulations go to both Goodooga and Lightning Ridge clubs for their success in the State pennant playoffs. The Goodooga Number 5 side’s effort was particularly noteworthy as their side was the only Pennant team entered from that club.

A number of years ago Goodooga won a No 7 State flag, so they will now have two State flags which is an excellent effort for a club which only fields one pennant team. Lightning Ridge also excelled themselves in winning the No 7 State flag. When 32

one considers that Goodooga travelled to Armidale Ex-Services (also in Zone 3) for the Zone 3 playoffs, it makes their effort all the more meritorious, as the trip to Armidale is a six-hour drive.

The Lightning Ridge bowlers also travelled a long way, and one trip was 4.5 hours. Zone 3 looks forward to the flag unfurling’s.

Both clubs could be regarded as being in the outback areas of New South Wales, and their performance is highlighted by the very long distances these sides have to travel to compete. Lightning Ridge also competed in the No 1 pennant playoffs, and Goodooga is a one-team club which relies on voluntary labour for the administration of their club.

Club Dubbo with West Dubbo Men’s B owling Club conducted Noel Soane junior lawn bowls recently. Played over two days in beautiful spring weather, twenty nine teams competed in both divisions, the local teams doing zone 4 proud! In the under 14 division West Dubbo junior Kalium Jones & Soldiers Point Mitch Bellingham won their five games!

They were the only team to do so. Runner up in this division was the team from St John’s Park Jamie Allomes & Grey Hemington, winning four games and 79 points. 3rd was Troy Xue & Luke Cronan from Asquith, four wins and 74 points, 4th spot Jamie McDonnell (Halekulani) & Tyson Pennell (Kandos).

In the 15 to 18 years: winners from Dubbo City & Dubbo Railway Brad Barrow & Jono Davis winning 5 games and 85 points, they were the only team in this division to win all 5. In 2nd spot also local team from Gilgandra &

Nyngan Jasmine Kew & Jake Waterhouse 4 wins & 80 points. 3rd spot went to Ethan Mills & Jamie Lee-Worsnop (St John’s Park) 4 wins & 77 points. 4th spot Kane Agar & Jessie Herbert from East Maitland 4 wins & 75 points.

The event had 2 state junior selectors at this event casting an eye over the junior’s bowlers for the 2014 squad. Bowls manager (Anthony) on behalf of West Dubbo Juniors presented a gift to Sharyn Renshaw (St John’s Park Junior Bowls Coordinator) for bring 5 teams from this event.

West Dubbo juniors are hoping to do a reciprocal for their event in late October. Stand by for more information on that.

The tournament was great success for the sport lawn bowls in Dubbo, with great accolades from all the parents and children who attend; they all comment they will be back in 2014.

The tournament director Anthony thanked all the club Dubbo members in assisting the tournament over the two days special mention goes Dina Moore Zone 4 junior coordinator and the West Dubbo women’s Bowlers.

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Zone 5 Championships Zone 5 Mick Gilfoyle The Zone 5 Championships have been completed, in the Triples, Geoff Waters, Mick Djatschenko and Phil Gray (Bathurst City) defeated Charles Bryant, Graham Amery and Gerrard Beath (Cowra) on an extra end 21 – 20. Ron Pittaway, Gary Adnum and Trent Whittingham (Penrith) and Samuel Forbes, Robert Brown and Jeff Madden (Lithgow

Workers) were the semi-finalists.

The Fours was a match that you wish you could have televised.

For 18 ends it was shot for shot but Noel Huber, Luke and Russell Nobes along with Gerrard Beath (Cowra) forged ahead to defeat Les Serle, Kevin Perrett, Wayne Moore and Matt Slager (Blacktown City).

Paul Sharp, Nigel Watkins, Danny Baskerville and Dave Walters (Mudgee) and John Frame, Trevor Schram, Mark Sheppard and Brian Judge Lithgow Workers played the semi-finals.

Zone 7 Jeff Rudd

Mollymook Beach purchases a new world class Synthetic Green State Triples and Fours Zone 7 State Triples and fours Finals were contested between the four District Champions at Malua Bay on Saturday August 17 and Sunday 18. Central South Coast District wins Zone Triples.

The first Semi Final was between Central South Coast team from Moruya Matt Dart, Ray Emerson and Shane Quinlivan who defeated Far South Coast District champions Terry Wilson, Bruce Tate and Jarrod Michael from Tathra 28-21.

The second Semi Final between Monaro District Triples Champions Geoff Venables, Peter Schroeder and Gordon Cox from Cooma who played very strongly to win the other Final spot against South Coast District champions Geoff Steinhour, Gary Melluish and Jim Hibbert from Culburra winning by two shots 24-22.

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over Monaros champion team.

Nowra wins Zone Fours Title.

The first Semi Final was fought out between South Coast District champions Nowra’s popular foursome Bill Toohey, Peter Flanagan, Tim Flinn and Mark Hobill who played Far South Coast District Champions Merimbula’s mighty foursome of Warren Harding, Norm Pinne, Dylan Cuthbert and Michael Wilks. Nowra team’s form was hot and they won 21-10.

The other semi final was between Central South District Champions Tomakins Chris O’Brien, Bill Stone, Bob Brown and Henry Butler who were defeated by Monaro champions Graeme Russell, Mark Buckley, Peter Caldwell and Peter Schroeder from Cooma 23-14 The final was won by the South Coast District Champions 24-17.

All Zone Winners now go on to play State finals against the other 15 Zone winners from around the State in their event.

Mollymook is proud to announce that after 10 years of service the old synthetic green has been upgraded with a new generation polyethylene Promaster Super Grass green that is World Bowls approved.

The installation was completed in August.

specialists were very happy with how the new greens installation was completed. It is normal practice to return a few weeks after installation for its final tuning and tweaking and this will be done in the near future assuring bowlers the Green will be fully run-in well before the XXXX Gold $5000

Mollymook Beach’s new green was decided on after extensive consultation and investigation by the Club even inspecting many synthetic and carpet greens between Southern Sydney and the mid north coast to decide on the green best suited to the Club’s needs. The installation

Carnival October 14-18 incl.

Mollymook’s head green keeper Tommy Wilson is up to date on how to maintain the new Green while working diligently on Green 2 and the clubs surrounds. Bowlers at Mollymook are assured of great bowling conditions at the club.

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Juniors victorious in 7-a-Side Championships

Zone 10 Mark Waters The Zone 10 Juniors travelled to Port City Bowling Club recently to compete in the NSW Junior 7-a-side Championships.

Finishing 1st in their section after wins against Zones 1 & 2 and a loss against Zone 16, they played Zone 3 in the Semi Final.

This saw a win to Zone 10 by 2 matches to 1 with the Fours winning on the final end which then qualified them to play off against Zone 14. Unfortunately the winning run came to an end with a defeat 2 wins to 1. The Zone should be proud of the boy’s efforts both on and off the green and I would like to acknowledge the support of the parents who came up to Port Macquarie for the weekend.

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Zone 9 Don Wall

Some BC’s in Zone 9 are experiencing a decline in membership This is disturbing because every aspect of the sport of lawn bowls generates enjoyment, goodwill and cements a strong bond between members of the fraternity. This applies to people of all ages and gender.

Because those who have not played bowls cannot be expected to appreciate the enjoyment experienced throughout the bowling fraternity, the avenue is open for clubs to give potential members the op-

Youngster Champion of Mosman The president of Mosman BC Barry Evans, reports that the youngest club champion Mosman BC has ever had, 25 year old Sam Owen who won the 2010 Minor Singles Championship and 2012 Consistency Singles Championship, has developed into a formidable opponent in all levels of the game.

Taking on his boss, Head Greenkeeeper Scott Denham, Sam gave a classic example of his skills to win this year’s Major Singles Championship, 31-20. He then paired with Bruce Atkins to win the Pairs’ Championship by defeating Snowy Kable and Scott Denham 23–20.

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Merrylands trio to represent in City vs Country

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An ‘Open Day’ could attract a large number of interested people. Careful planning and marketing, supported by bowlers with personality and skill, would generate an interest to which potential bowlers would respond.

The degree of the showcase is dependent on each individual club, with those displaying the best marketing skills obtaining the best results.

Merrylands trio, Mason Lewis, Josh Cadman & Nic Cadman together with Putney Tennyson’s Sam Hatch-Caccamo have all been selected to represent City in the 2013 Junior (Under 18) City v Country series to be held at Cabramatta BC 23rd & 24th November.

Nic Cadman has also been selected in the Combined High Schools side to compete at Port City BC 10th to 12th September.

Trevor Imer from The Hills BC has been selected to represent NSW in the Australian Senior Sides Championship at Belmont BC in Victoria from 23rd to 25th October.

NSW won the series with an undefeated record in 2012 and they will be very keen to repeat this success this year.

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Zone 11 Michael Wilson

Barefoot bowls season is open It is with great enthusiasm that we commence a new chapter for our Bowls Magazine.

Zone 11 looks forward to contributing to the magazine and bringing the news from our 27 clubs that encompasses the most densely populated area of the State. With the warmer weather approaching, brings about the busy time and profitable time of the year for our Clubs. Barefoot

Bowls is very popular in the warmer months with some Clubs turning over up to 200 to 250 people per weekend. Just a few years ago barefoot bowls was seen as a threat, but now not only is it for most Clubs, their major income source but many of the barefoot bowlers have progressed to registered bowlers playing regular Championship games and pennant Games.

Leichhardt to celebrate Leichhardt will be celebrating their 90th year Birthday on the weekend on 28th / 29th September 2013 with the club inviting guests and the local residents to join in on the weekend of festivities. Saturday 10am start for all invited guests and dignitaries including the Mayor of Leichhardt and Reps from Bowls NSW and Zone 11.

On the Sunday the club will be open to all, offering free activities to the local community such as free barefoot bowls and sausage sizzle, and for the kids, face painting, clowns and jumping castle.

A day of fun and enjoyment guaranteed so come to Leichhardt and help celebrate this milestone event.

Turn of the Year Tournament Zone 11 will be again conducting the Annual Turn of the Year tournament over Christmas and New Year. It is the 56th year of this event. Many of us have time off over the Christmas and New Year’s period and do not go away.

There are also many people

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Pennant Appreciation Day Zone 12 Merv Elder Pennant Appreciation Day was held for the first time at our Revesby Workers Spence St Premises on July 27 & was a very successful event, run smoothly by the men’s committee.

The main celebration of the day was for our grade 3’s, who won their zone & at the time of writing are still to feature in the play-offs for the state titles, we 36

wish them good luck. Chairman of selectors Frank Schocher was very lavish in his praise for the 3’s and also didn’t forget the battlers in the lower grades, still an integral part of our club, but unfortunately, played without the success of our sharp shooting SEVENS. Our high-flying sevens were (in alphabetical order) Brian Barrett, Geoff Barron, Peter Day, Chris Fitton, Warren Gibson, Doug Hawkins, Colin Heaslip, Stephen Jessep, Lindsay Murray, David Raper, Nathan Spence,

Adam Whalan & of course our own Frank Schocher (couldn’t leave him out).

No matter what the results are in the State play-offs these players have done our club proud to get where they have got to, especially with the fierce competition we get from some of those silvertail heavy hitters in zone 12.

Special mention went to LAURIE WILSON, TONY GILLESPIE & SHANE MATAKAIONGO, in those lower grades for their efforts and dedication to their club and teammates.

visiting Sydney over this time. Entries are open to all bowlers and all events singles, pairs and triples are open to men and women.

Prize money is in excess of $4,000 so check out the Zone 11 web site for entry forms www. zone11.lawnbowls.org.au

Finals were closely fought Zone 12 Merv Elder The finals of the Revesby workers major and minor singles championships were played at Spence St on July 28.

On what was just about a perfect day for bowls, Warren Gibson & David Raper fought out the Major & Tony Gillespie & Ken Whetton contested the Minor final. Both games were close early but the winners gradually overcame their opponents once they got to the lead and were never headed, Warren beating Dave 31-18 and Tony defeating Ken 31-13. Both games were of a high standard and good to watch and were much closer than the scores indicated.

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Zone 13 Cameron Curtis

Officers Elected in Zone 13 At the recent Zone 13 AGM, Ray Tozer was unopposed as President for another term.

Ian Tait-Kerr Vice President, Frank James Treasurer and Peter Sprotte State Councillor.

We would all like to acknowledge and thank Steve Wilson, for his last four years as Treasurer,

who did not seek re-election this year. Chairman of Selectors is Wayne Turley, along with Peter Hughes & Ray Tozer.

Match Committee Chairman is Cameron Curtis joined by Steve Garry and Geoff Frost. Curtis continues as Sports Administrator for Zone 13.

Taren Point a winner Zone 13 is very excited with the performance of Taren Point Bowling Club in recently claiming the state’s ‘blue-ribbon’ event – the no.1 State Pennant Flag.

This confirms Zone 13s place as the premier zone in NSW, having claimed the NSW State Inter-zone title in Tamworth last year along with five state titles to

the Sydney South Zone over the last two years, to the Roselands ‘Flames’ boys.

Taren Point was also runners up in the Grade 3 State Pennant, which was also a marvellous effort. It was certainly great to see the top 3 state pennant flags being won by the city ‘slickers’ for a change.

Pat Geary Shield wins for Zone 14 Zone 14 Ken Lowery Thanks to the smart zone selectors for assembling a magnificent set of keen and compatible in-form bowlers, Zone 14 won the prestigious 2013 Pat Geary Memorial Shield played at Helekulani Bowling Club over the weekend of August 10-11.

This is only the second time Zone 14 has been successful in the fifteen year history of the competition and all 24 of the winning Zone 14 bowlers are sincerely congratulated for their brilliant efforts and performanc-

es both on and off the greens.

Trailing early game one against the strong Zone 15 squad, the Zone 14 teams had to dig deep to overcome a 20+ shot deficit and come home 127 to 119 victors.

Second winning contest was less stressful against Zone 6 with the final score 132 to 108 setting up an exciting finals clash against the confident Zone 2 brigade.

With the contest fairly even up to the half way stage, Zone 14 gradually edged ahead and defeated their Zone 2 opponents 122 shots to 103 to the acclamation of the many appreciative spectators.

Zone 16 Brain Gibson

Triples The Zone 16 Triples Championships were decided at Albion Park Bowling Club (who were the sponsors) during July.

The early rounds were played in windy conditions and featured many upsets. The Semi Finalists were John Heidtmann, Adam Rodgers & Kevin Pepper (Kiama) who defeated Stuart Tyrrell, Brett Pieper & Chris Macauley (Figtree RSL) 25–18, and in the second semi-final Rod Busst, Dave Wakeling & Mal Lyons (Tow-

Pairs The Zone Pairs were also completed during July with the 3 events played concurrently at Windang – Bulli and Fairy Meadow Bowling Clubs. In the Open Pairs Daniel Ellem & Shane Garvey (WPWC) ran out winners over Brett O’Leary & Warren Turner (Albion Park) 18–15.

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Once again the upsets continued with the heavily fancied teams from WPWC and Figtree RSL being defeated, the final was played on a glorious winters afternoon, with the Towardgi team of Rod Busst, Dave Wakeling and Mal Lyons proving too strong for the Kiama team of John Heidtmann, Adam Rogers and Kevin Pepper winning 31–11.

The Kiama team although disappointed, did exceptionally well to make the final.

The Presidents Reserve Pairs was won by Taylor Davis & Jamie Nabbe (Warilla) who defeated Peter Pearson & Stuart Greenshields (WPWC) 30–11.

(Jamie Nabbe has since been disqualified). In the senior pairs Peter Tolias & Ron Herrick (Windang) defeated Peter Thomson & Rick Malley (Windang) 27–19.

This is the first time club mates have played in a final.

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Ettalong Memorial sets the pace on the Central Coast

Winners of the 2013 Ettalong Prestige Fours Bruce Jewell (skip), Darren Morrison, Jeff Watson and Tony Swaine.

Zone 15 Kevin Dring At a time when many clubs across the State are struggling to keep their doors open, Ettalong Memorial Bowling Club on the Central Coast is going from strength to strength and is the envy of many.

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trading profits. It boasts the biggest bowling membership on the Central Coast with 335 men and 120 lady bowlers and a strong social membership in excess of 7,000. But the records don’t stop there. Under the leadership of their popular Bowls Coordinator and State Senior representative player John Roberts the Club has won 19 Zone Pennant Flags and this year they were the first club in the Zone to ever win three pennant Grades (1’s, 3’s & 7’s) in the one year.

They are also the home club of the high profile World, National and State champion Aron Sherriff who first played for Ettalong in their Premier league side in 2001 and 2002 as a junior and has been a permanent playing member since 2011.

Their major tournament of the year is the “Prestige Fours” which is into its 21st year is the most prestigious tournaments on the Coast and attracts international and high profile

players from across the State.

The tournament usually commences with a sportsman’s dinner followed over the next 3 days with eight games of bowls.

This year 40 teams took to the greens with the Terrigal “awesome foursome” of Tony Swaine, Jeff Watson, Darren Morrison and Bruce Jewell taking out the honours.

Yet another outstanding and unique achievement that Ettalong can boast is that it has a player represented in three of the Bowls NSW State Sides, Aron Sherriff in the NSW Keno side, John Roberts in the Seniors and Harley McDonald in the under 25’s. It is unlikely that any other Club in Australia can boast of such a record and what is more, all three players were named “Player of the Series” in their last representative events.

Now that is some bragging right.

Ettalong Memorial is a dedicated Bowling Club in every sense and is committed to fostering

and developing the sport of lawn bowls at a local and Zone level. To this end, Bowls Central Coast recently announced that Ettalong had become a major sponsor of the Zone which in part will entitle them to host the Zone Pennant finals every two years. Zone President Max LeGuier said: “This generous sponsorship underpins the financial status of the Zone and will benefit all our bowlers on the Central Coast.”

Full Zone reports are available to view online at

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