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Trying new experience. Don’t be afraid to ask for help. Maintain optimism.

Winning my first SCC Mixed Drawn Pairs Plate Final partnering with Shermeen Lim when I was a newbie in bowls and Amira giving me a set of her Henselite Classic II bowls. They were both nurturing and caring mentors who encouraged me to pick up the game and to excel.

Making new friends in the Section and especially getting together to drink and chat after bowling. That includes 4km to 6km of walking exercise during bowls.

Don’t expect anything and you won’t be disappointed.

Have positive attitude. Listen and learn. Remember BLCCF: Understand your BOWLS. Know your LINE. CONTROL your Weight. Maintain your CONSISTENCY. Keep your FOCUS.

Newbies Finalist Marianne and winner Kelvin at the competition on 14 April 2022.

First of all, this tournament is to try incorporating new bowlers to the game. Let them feel the excitement and draw them to love the game. With that in mind, I tried my best to encourage them on to love the game and to love us.

The most memorable moments would be to see the new bowlers getting the hang of the game and wanting to play more tournaments.

The friendship, the travel and the celebrations after winning or losing after game.

No one wants to play bad bowls so tell yourself to correct on the next bowl.

When you are down, make sure your bowls must reach the head. Tell yourself to cut down the number of shots to give away. Tell yourself you can do it.

Keep practicing the draw shot - The line, the weight and bank on the luck you may have. Mixed triples finalists Alan, Kelvin and Albert with the winners Menon, Jo and Susan on 4 June 2022.

Hockey Convenor: Subhas Nathan | Article by: Julian Michael

Since our last update, we’ve had some proper hockey to report on. Our U19 boys’ and girls’ teams have competed in the SHF’s season-opening leagues and have both come out as champions. The Club has its first double of the year. Will more titles find their way to the famed trophy cabinets of the SCC? The Hockey Liga season, a 9-a-side variant of the regular game with 25-minute halves, is largely used by teams as a tune-up for the national leagues. Our men’s 3rd XIs opened their Liga campaign on Saturday, 28 May 2022. They put in a stellar performance to beat Orient 5-1 and on Sunday, 29 May 2022 we got past Tornados 5-0. Their last outing was on 5 June 2022, where they were leading 1-0 against Hockey Innovative before a lightning alert put a damper on the potential barrage of goals that was to follow the opener. Meanwhile, our Men’s 2s opened their MHL2 league campaign in the sweltering heat at Sengkang Sports Complex. They were beaten 4-0 by SRC who boasted players from their previous MHL1 squad after the Padang club pulled out of the top flight. Our Ladies’ 2s too were on the wrong side of a 4-1 scoreline against Crescent Hockey club, who will be looking to return to the top flight following their relegation in 2019. Our Ladies’ and Men’s 1st XIs will begin the defence of their 2019 titles on Saturday 11 June 2022 against the Hollandse Club and Tornados respectively. Yes, it’s been that long since we’ve had some proper hockey but we’re finally back. Look out for updates from Coach Kanan and social secretary Abi on fixtures if you want to make your way to Sengkang on the weekends to show your support. Moving on to some grass hockey news. One 1 June 2002, we hosted some of the sailors from the HMS Spey of the British Royal Navy to an 11-a-side hockey game. Since these seamen did not plan on playing any hockey during their travels, we kitted them out with plenty of spare sticks. This would probably explain the final scoreline of 10 – 1 in favour of the Club in which we fielded a mixed team. It was a great evening of fun and the social after was better. We even organised a boat race to even the challenge. Unfortunately for the Navy men and ladies our team of Jeyaputra P, Paul , Janice T and Gabriel Y drank their way to sink the HMS Spey’s boat! At the time of writing, on the same weekend as our 1st XIs embark on title defences, our Section will field a football team to play in the InterSection category of the SCC Soccer 7s 2022 tournament. Hopefully we will be boasting of a footy cup win too in our next edition.

Finally, the not-so-great news. We bid farewell to Adrian Cowell and Paul Topfer, the former being a long-serving member of the Section and the latter, a (relatively) recent arrival who is currently serving as the men’s social secretary. Perhaps they’ll return sometime soon with teams for the hockey sixes? We’ll keep you updated on that front.

From top left, clockwise: U19 Boys; U19 Girls; Paul Topfer and Adrian Cowell.