Trevors Carpets Men's Invitation Day

The winning team of Don Leeson (Cambridge), David Opie (Cambridge), Sam Scott (Doubleview) and Chris Lander (Sorrento) with Maureen Green who presented the prizes

Ray was unfortunately unable to attend the prize giving due to ill-health, but was represented by his wife Maureen • Pauline Marsden who ensured the list of teams was rigidly maintained and that all payments received and recorded • John Godfrey who was involved in advertising this event and ensuring the day went well

• Jan Cook's Catering team consisting of David from Melt Hub Catering who cooked, carved and served the meat, Cheryl Greig, Kaye Martin, Liz Marshall, Wendy Saul, Maureen Green, Jan Paniperis, Coral Smith, Shona Carter, Lee Leach, Jenni Lockwood, Anne Orton, Carmel Hyde, Lorraine Hyde Helen Teasdale and Pauline Bourne. A huge thank you to all you amazing people for helping to make the day such a success. Unfortunately we could not get everyone into the above photo: • Lee Leach, Dan Greig, Neville Odell, Evan Cosh and Anne and

Trevor Orton who managed the set-up and clean-up of the Club and grounds • Anne and Trevor Orton for maintaining the scoring records for the day

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• The greens staff who prepared the greens and surrounds for play.

Veterans Mixed Pairs Championship

In mid April, 28 players took to the greens to play in this event. An enjoyable day was had by all on our well-maintained greens. With two games of 14 ends, one in the morning and one after lunch, our winners of the day were Denise and Neville Odell, with two wins and 25 shots up. Runners up were Bob Jeffs and Pauline Marsden with two wins and 22 shots up and third place went to Lorraine Hyde and Peter Snow with two wins and 14 shots up.

Men's Over 60s State Singles

In this event Chris Lander's great draw play was a feature of his game. On all three days he regularly beat his opponents to the jack and when they knocked him off he just put the next bowl back there again. In the final against Peter Cole both players took a few ends to adjust to the conditions before Lander began to hone in on the jack with regularity. He proved far too good for Peter and went on to win 21-10.

Women's Dash for Cash

In April we saw a fabulous day of bowls with our inaugural Women's Dash for Cash, proudly sponsored by Safeway Security Screens. Thank you to all players for following our guidelines to adhere to government restrictions in place.

Congratulations to the Sorrento team of Barbara Lorencs, Pauline Marsden, Wendy Flack and Charmain Harris with sponsor and fellow member Barry Bradshaw – all socially distancing who took out third place. Well done to the organisers who managed to pull together the event within restrictions under such short notice, and to all those who took part.

Women’s Handicap Triples

In May we played the last Women’s Championship for the season. This event is probably the most popular on our Calendar bringing in thirty entries giving us 10 teams. It is a pleasure for all ladies involved being able to play with different people from other divisions. A points system was used to determine selection and to make all teams equal.

It was a beautiful day and the greens were in good condition, we played two games of 15 ends, one in the morning and one after lunch. Winners were Pauline Bourne, Shona Carter and Denise Odell

• Second: Charmain Harris, Cheryl Greig and June Gregory • Third: Pauline Marsden, Shirley Palmer and Sandra Minette • Fourth: Lorraine Hyde, Glen Larcombe and Liz Marshall.

We would like to thank our Sponsor for the day Dickies Trees who donated towards our prize money for the event. This enabled us to award prizes to four of the 10 teams. I feel sure everyone enjoyed their day on the green and will all look forward to doing it again next season.

Women's Champion of Champions Singles

Pauline Bourne drew a tough section and had to wait on the outcome of the final game between her opponents, eventually missing out on progressing to the knock outs. Jennifer Page won her section in the Novice Singles and her first knock out to progress to the quarter final. Unfortunately, despite some great bowling, she went down in that game 16-17.

Men's Dash for Cash June 2021

The coldest morning in five years did not deter the 26 teams who turned out for the second Dash for Cash for 2021, sponsored again by Safeway Security Screens. Unfortunately, in May the first Dash for Cash had to be cancelled due to poor weather. The men’s Dash for Cash has been held up to four times each year for 10 years and has become well-established as a very popular event on the off-season bowling calendar. Four rounds of 11 ends are played with a soup and a roll lunch provided by our team of volunteers. This was very welcome, especially so on Saturday which enabled some thawing of cold bowlers.

Prize money was again well distributed, with the winners as listed below:1st M Sweeney, J Post, S Richards and A Zis (4 wins + 33)

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