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Mullum Bowling Club wins district triples crown Michael Burke
Beez basketballers qualify for state country team Deb Milgate
The Mullumbimby Ex-Services Bowling Club has narrowly won the 2019 District Bowls Triples final against Kingscliff played at their home greens last weekend. With the semifinals contested in the morning and the finals in the afternoon it was a big day of bowls with a happy ending for the Mullum club. The reserve title was won by Bangalow while Condong took out the seniors contest. The open final produced the best bowls of the day with Kingscliff moving to a 5–1 lead after five ends. The Mullumbimby side of Paul Gray, Ben Leeson and Richie Northcott fought their way back into the contest and by the tenth end they were in the leading by 8–6. The match then settled into a battle with neither side able to secure a big score to break away. By the last end the
Ben Leeson, Richie Northcott and Paul Gray (L-R) won the District Triples shield last weekend. Photo supplied Mullum team were clinging to a two-shot lead. With only the skips to play Kingscliff held two shots but the Mullumbimby skip, Richie Northcott, produced a great bowl to move the jack and give Mullumbimby a shot. Kingscliff were not to be denied, however, and skip
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The second leg of the Shire Shootout at The Macadamia Castle last Sunday was a handicap event with entrants from Grafton, Yamba, Murwillumbah, Byron Bay and the Ballina bicycle clubs. Hayley Oakes came in first place followed by Marco Golberg and Richard Tabaka. Photo supplied
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Steve Massey took Nothcott’s bowl away to give Kingscliff one shot. Neither skip was able to change the situation and Mullumbimby hung on to deservedly take the title over a gallant Kingscliff by the thinnest possible margin, 18–17.
Byron Bay Basketball’s expanding talent pool this year saw four players representing the club at the 2019 Australia Junior Country Cup in Albury/Wodonga, and two of them going on to be selected to represent their state Byron Bay Beez players Laila Campbell, Isis Crawford, Harley Kent and Jackson Ware competed for NSW against the top country teams from Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. Harley and Jackson also went on to be selected for the U/16 NSW Country squad owing to their performances. ‘I am extremely proud of the players. Last year we sent three players to the Country Cup; this year it’s four, and two have been selected into the country squad, which is a great achievement for a relatively new club,’ club president
Local player Jackson Ware on the charge at the Australian Junior Country Cup in January. Photo supplied Alvin Caoyonan said. The NSW country team will compete at the 2019 U/16
Australian Junior Championships in Darwin, over July 6–13, later this year.
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Matt Irwin drives his way to 68. Photo supplied
Soli Bailey surfed a ‘Houdini wave’ at the Bonzai Pipeline in Hawaii. Photo Heff/WSL
Syl Reid The Byron Bay second XI collected a good win in their top-of-the-table game against Lennox Head playing away at Megan Crescent oval last Saturday. The Cellars seconds won the toss and elected to bat and eventually hit up 8/207 off 40 overs, but had to recover from a precarious 3/19. Matt Irwin top scored with hit 68 runs closely followed by Mitch Loane on a lusty 59 and Ryan McGuiness hit a rapid 36 runs. Lennox Head started their chase well with captain/ wicketkeeper and opening bat Bruce Young topping
their score with a solid 71 runs. Late in the order James Barnes got 44 not out, but their innings finished in the 36th over on 184, 23 runs short. Toby Schott returned figures of 3/32 and Heath Chigwidden got 2/26 on his return to the Byron side. Lachlan Whiteford, Levi Shouldice and skipper Matt Irwin (who got their skipper out LBW) shared the other wickets. There were two run-outs as well. So the Cellars seconds batted strongly, then bowled and fielded well to get a great win putting themselves seond on the ladder behind Lennox Head.
Crystal Cylinders Byron Bay’s Soli Bailey maintained his excellent barrel-riding reputation with a quarterfinal finish at the Volcom Pipe Pro on Hawaii’s North Shore. He top scored with an excellent 8.5 super-deep Pipe wave where he disappeared, and then when all looked lost, re-appeared in a Houdini-like manner. With his result Bailey has kick-started his year goal to back up his Championship Tour debut at Snapper Rocks with more appearances in qualifying events. He scored US$950 at the QS 3,000 level event.
Byron Bay’s Kyuss King made it into round five. Bailey is a former winner, taking out the prestigious event in 2017. Nyxie Ryan from Lennox Head finished on the podium at the 2019 Lake Macquarie City Pro Junior with her third-place finish netting her $600 and valuable points on the JQS ratings. Nyxie has a chance to qualify for the World Pro Junior championships.
Sign on This year’s Byron Bay Boardriders signon day is scheduled for Saturday 23 February, 2–4pm at the Park Hotel, Suffolk Park.
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