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Coochiroff edges in to a win at Teven Ian Coochiroff has emerged from a three-way countback to win last weekend’s Teven Golf Club Men’s Section nineholes Stableford competition. Runner-up Steve Blackmore (21 points) was closely followed by Paul Beckey (21) points. Next home were: Graham Mains (20), Ray Griffiths (20), Ian McDuff (19), Stephen Marks (18) points, Peter Blackwood (18), Denis Leard (17). NTPs: fourth Ian Coochiroff, eighth Paul Gumbleton (within flag length). Putting: Ian McDuff and
Coochiroff, Beckey and Blackmore at Teven. Photo supplied
Bernie Julian – 12 putts each. Next comp: Saturday February 3, 18-holes Stroke
for the Monthly Medal and first round of the Stableford Championship.
Top sides pile on big scores in third-grade cricket The Tintenbar-East Ballina Weeds third-grade cricket team have proved themselves worthy competition leaders after chasing down 264 set by Lennox Head on Saturday. The Lennox side playing at home won the toss and elected to bat. After losing their openers cheaply, the third wicket partnership of J Somerville (70) and GW DuPlessis (30) added over 100 runs. M Hickey (80) then chimed in with the side’s top score supported by J Lenaghan (35). The best of the TintenbarEast Ballina bowlers was B Full moon 1 Feb Third quarter 9 Jan New moon 6 Feb First quarter 23 Feb Day of Sun Sun Moon month rise set rise 1 T 0616 1942 2018 2 F 0617 1941 2105 3 S 0618 1941 2146 4 S 0619 1940 2225 5 M 0619 1939 2302 6 T 0620 1939 2338 7 W 0621 1938 8 T 0622 1937 0015 9 F 0623 1937 0053 10 S 0623 1936 0134 11 S 0624 1935 0216 12 M 0625 1934 0302 13 T 0626 1933 0351 14 W 0626 1933 0441 15 T 0627 1932 0534 16 F 0628 1931 0628 17 S 0629 1930 0723 18 S 0629 1929 0818 19 M 0630 1928 0914 20 T 0631 1927 1010 21 W 0632 1926 1109 22 T 0632 1926 1208 23 F 0633 1925 1310 24 S 0634 1924 1412 25 S 0634 1923 1514 26 M 0635 1922 1615 27 T 0636 1921 1712 28 W 0636 1920 1805
Top-flight surfing takes King to quarterfinals at Burleigh
Dirou, who finished with 3/45 off eight overs. Lennox Head finished with 8/264 off their allotted 40 overs setting a run rate of 6.6 per over for the visitors. A challenge the Weeds successfully dealt with in just 36 overs. P Leeson came to the crease with his side at 1/45 and was still there when the winning runs were hit, sitting on 81 not out. Opener B Parrish contributed a solid 77 and K Hamilton was also among the runs scoring 64. All up the comp’s top side reached their target with the
FEBRUARY 2018
12.26am 9.25am 8.05am 7.09pm Moon High tide, set height (m) 0636 1003,1.97; 2218,1.39 0743 1048,1.94; 2305,1.40 0848 1131,1.85; 2351,1.39 1213,1.72 0950 1049 0039,1.36; 1252,1.57 1146 0129,1.33; 1332,1.41 1242 0227,1.30; 1415,1.27 1336 0335,1.30; 1511,1.16 1429 0446,1.33; 1623,1.09 1521 0550,1.39; 1739,1.08 1611 0642,1.47; 1842,1.11 1700 0727,1.54; 1930,1.16 1746 0807,1.61; 2012,1.21 1829 0845,1.66; 2049,1.26 1910 0920,1.70; 2125,1.31 1949 0955,1.72; 2200,1.35 2026 1028,1.71; 2237,1.38 2102 1101,1.69; 2315,1.40 2138 1135,1.63; 2356,1.42 2214 1210,1.56 2253 0040,1.42; 1249,1.46 2334 0130,1.42; 1335,1.35 0232,1.43; 1435,1.25 0020 0347,1.46; 1552,1.17 0111 0505,1.54; 1718,1.17 0208 0616,1.65; 1835,1.22 0309 0716,1.76; 1937,1.30 0414 0810,1.85; 2030,1.39
Astronomical data and tides
Low tide, height (m) 0310,0.08; 1625,0.17 0359,0.10,1709,0.18 0446,0.16; 1751,0.22 0535,0.27; 1831,0.28 0625,0.39; 1911,0.35 0718,0.52; 1951,0.41 0821,0.63; 2037,0.47 0940,0.70; 2131,0.51 1104,0.71; 2236,0.52 1216,0.66; 2339,0.50 1312,0.58 0031,0.45; 1356,0.51 0115,0.40; 1433,0.44 0155,0.35; 1507,0.40 0230,0.31; 1539,0.36 0305,0.28; 1610,0.33 0341,0.27; 1641,0.31 0418,0.28; 1714,0.31 0458,0.32; 1747,0.32 0540,0.38; 1823,0.34 0628,0.46; 1902,0.37 0725,0.54; 1949,0.41 0838,0.61; 2049,0.44 1008,0.62; 2200,0.45 1137,0.57; 2314,0.41 1249,0.47 0021,0.34; 1346,0.36 0119,0.25; 1434,0.27
Times are Eastern Standard Daylight Savings Time. Time lags: Ballina Boat Dock: 15 min; Byron Bay: nil; Brunswick River Hwy Bridge: high 30 min, low 1 hr; Mullumbimby: 1 hr 10 min; Billinudgel: 3 hr 55 min; Chinderah: high 1 hr 15 min, low 2 hr; Terranora Inlet: high 2 hr 10 min, low 2 hr 25 min; Murwillumbah: high 2 hr 30 min, low 2 hr 50 min. Tides in bold indicate high tide of 1.7m or more and low tide of 0.3m or less. Data courtesy of the Bureau of Meteorology.
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loss of just four wickets. Best bowling for the home side was from J Hooper who delivered 2/57 off his eight. Lennox Head now sit on third place behind Bangalow on the Ballina District Cricket Third Grade ladder. The Bangalow side also had a good win over Byron Bay, playing at the beachside Recreation Ground Bangalow’s strong batting side hit up 7/237 off their allocated 40 overs. Lachy was Byron’s best bowler taking 2/56. Byron chased hard but Sunny (4/21) and Tommy (3/13) spearheaded the Bangalow attack, taking seven wickets between the two of them. Alas Byron were all out for 138 with Mick (26), Lachy (18), James (17no), Zac (16), George (12) and Tom (10) all getting a starts but not able to go on with it.
MONTHLY MARKETS 1st SAT Bruns Heads
6628 4495
1st SUN Byron Bay 6685 6807 1st SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 2nd SAT Flea, Byron YAC 0490 026 840 2nd SAT Woodburn 0439 489 631 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN 2nd SUN
The Channon 6688 6433 Lennox Head 0419 369 609 Alstonville 6628 1568 Tabulum Hall 0490 329 159 Coolangatta
3rd SAT Mullumbimby 6684 3370 3rd SAT Murwillumbah 0413 804 024 3rd SUN Uki 0487 329 150 3rd SUN Lismore Car Boot 6628 7333 3rd SUN Ballina 6687 4328 4th SAT Evans Head
0439 489 631
4th SUN Bangalow 6687 1911 4th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000 4th SUN Murwillumbah 0422 565 168 4th SUN (in a 5 Sunday month) Coolangatta 5th SUN Lennox Head 0419 369 609 5th SUN Nimbin 0458 506 000 SATURDAYS Byron Artisan Market 4-9pm 6685 6807
FARMERS MARKETS Each TUE New Brighton Each TUE Organic Lismore Each WED 7-11am M’bah Each WED 3-6pm Nimbin Each THU 8-11am Byron Each FRI 7-11am Mullum Each SAT 8-11am Bangalow Each SAT 8am-1pm Uki Each SAT 8.30-11am Lismore
6677 1345 6628 1084 6684 7834 6689 1512 6687 1137 6677 1345 6687 1137 6679 5530 0466 415 172
Kyuss King made the most of small waves at the World Surf League Qualifying Series 1000 event at Burleigh Point. Photo Tom Bennett/WSL Crystal Cylinders
Byron Bay’s Kyuss King had a fantastic result by winning through to the man-on-man quarterfinals against one of the most impressive international fields gathered for the Burleigh Pro on the Gold Coast last week. There were small wave conditions to start the event but it slowly built and featured up to one metre for the final day at Burleigh Point. With tiny, barely rideable waves in the early rounds, positioning, wave selection and good decision making regarding the priority system were vital to gain two solid scores. Jack Murray (Lennox Head) got the highest-scoring ride of the heat but couldn’t get a good backup wave so finish 97th. Zac Condon (Lennox Head) got a coveted WSL Wildcard entry to join seeded surfers Mikey McDonagh (Lennox Head) in round two where they progressed with solid second rides. Condon and McDonagh struggled to find quality waves and were both eliminated in round three while King marched on with another solid display of wave selec-
tion and fast radical surfing. King then sneaked through in a very close decision in a stacked round four heat involving older and more experienced surfers. In round five he faced a truly international heat with competitors from USA, Brazil and South Africa and took to the skies with a grab rail, tail-high, air-reverse 360 to score an excellent eight-point ride. He backed it up in the dying seconds of the heat with a snap and a rare barrel for a nine-point ride and a berth in the man-on-man quarter finals. Kyuss lost his quarterfinal against 2017 winner Oney Anwar, last year’s Burleigh winner. The event was won by 36-year-old Nick Squiers from the NSW south coast.
Pro juniors Byron Bay’s Joel Paxton is sitting in third place on the Australasian/Oceania Pro Junior ratings after his impressive third place at Bells Beach with Kyuss in 17th and Mikey in 32nd place. There’s two more events close to home for our junior surfers with events in Newcastle and then Sydney
in February and with such a great start this could be Paxton’s year to shine.
Facebook home World Surf League and Facebook have announced an historic partnership that makes the social media platform the exclusive digital home for the top live events in surfing in 2018 and 2019. This includes all elite men’s and women’s Championship Tour events, the Qualifying Series 10,000 and Big Wave Tour events, as well as the World Junior Championships. The deal builds upon the non-exclusive live rights agreement that Facebook and WSL struck last year, in which all men’s and women’s Championship Tour events, as well as Big Wave Tour events, were simulcast on Facebook and WSL’s website and mobile app. Aside from the significant reach on WSL channels, more than 13.9 million people watched a World Surf League event on Facebook in 2017 and they came from countries all over the world. The top three countries in terms of unique viewers were the United States, Brazil and Mexico.
$100 for sporty kids Parents can claim a $100 voucher for the registration and participation costs of sport from January 31. Apply online through a MyServiceNSW account, then redeem the voucher at sporting clubs. Phone 13 77 88.
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