Social Bowls

Wednesday’s Drawn 3 Bowl Jackpot Pairs 23 January

Winners M Campbell-K McMillan

Runners up S Woodgate-R Pearman

Jackpot $1200 Not won by J Batson-D Manovski

Rink Results

Rink 1 D Morgan-L Williams lost to M Campbell-K McMillan 25/16

Rink 2 I McKinnon-R Musgrove beat B McMahon-I Biggs 21/20

Rink 3 G Price-W Huntriss beat F Larter-W Toohey 21/16

Rink 4 G Chittick-D Platt lost to S Woodgate-R Pearman 20/17

Rink 5 S Ferchow-I Woodgate beat J Batson-D Manovski 22/20

Rink 6 J Pratt-T Houldsworth lost to B Pritchard-B Hollands 29/21

Australia Day held on 26 January, 80 people attended our day having breakfast a game of bowls then lunch.

Prizes for best dressed Aussie’s were ladies Betty Mills, Judy French and Maria Middleton.

For the men, Bob Dix, James Haywood, Chris Browne.

Social Bowls

Friday’s Nominated Jackpot Pairs 26 January

Winners F Larter-R Marquis,Runners up J Ireland-S Ferchow

Jackpot $1200 Not won by S Christison-G Clarke

Rink 1 R Jones-W Parnell lost to J Ireland-S Ferchow 27/5

Rink 2 B Pritchard-W Huntriss beat T Kinnear-T Houldsworth 16/12

Rink 3 S Christison-G Clarke beat P Flanagan-M Mitchell 18/9

Rink 4 B McMahon-D Platt lost to F Larter-R Marquis 19/18

Rink 5 R Pearman-J Pearman beat K McMillan-P Hewat 21/11

Rink 6 T Reksmiss-G Maude beat S McDermot-I Woodgate 25/8

Shoalhaven Ex-Servicemen Men

A very humid week of bowls resulted in a struggle for all bowlers to keep their concentration. Wednesday was an overcast muggy afternoon with no breeze that created a sauna on the green. 32 players battled through 18 ends with 2 game of Social Triples and 5 games of Social Pairs. Saturday saw a humid afternoon with a light E cooling breeze. 32 players enjoyed 1 game of Mixed Social Triples and three, first round matches of the Club Four’s Championship.

Wednesday 24th January the refurbished green was rolling at a slow pace.

Rink 8 held the first game of Triples. This was a hard fought game with Greg Morphett, Bert Watson and Graham Mills playing wonderful bowls to come home the winners at 19 shots to 15.

Rink 9 In the other game of triples, Les Stuart, Pat Leach and Harry Pearce had to fight hard to just hold onto the lead from a fast finishing opposition by 19 to 18 shots

Rink 10 In the first game of Pairs, Tommy Smith and Roy Cartledge were in the zone and trounced the opposition by 25 shots to 9.

Rink 11 The opposition found it tough to pick the feel of the green and were demolished by Alan Furniss and Trevor Wright by 20 to 8 shots.

Rink 12 Saw an excellent game of bowls Michael Hill and John Edwards played brilliantly to win by 17 shots to 10.

Rink 13 In a closer game, Gary Way and Alessandro Lattanzio played superb bowls in their elegant win by 20 to 15 shots.

Rink 14 The last game of the day was a beauty, Rob Ray and Dooley Gould played magnificent bowls in overcoming their opponents by 20 shots to 10.

Draw Results: 1st Prize Rink 8 Greg Morphett, Bert Watson and Graham Mills. 2nd Prize Rink 11 Alan Furniss and Trevor Wright. 3rd Prize Rink 10 Tommy Smith and Roy Cartledge. 1st Spin Rink 13 Gary Way and Alessandro Lattanzio Not Won. 2nd Spin Rink 14 Rob Ray and Dooley Gould Not Won. Players Draw: Bert Watson.

Saturday 27th January was a muggy afternoon, although the cooling Easterly breeze allowed us to complete all matches. The Green was rolling at a medium pace.

Rink 8 held the Mixed Social Triples game with Julie Buchanan, Alan Morrissey and Ray Solway starting well then loosing concentration till they finished with six shots on the last end to win the game by 19 shots to 17.

Rink 9 This held the first of our Club Four’s Championship matches. In a very tight scoring match, as only 27 shots were scored in 21 ends, Les Stuart, Ian Abberley, Graham Mills and John Black triumphed over David Solomon, Tommy Smith, Alan Furniss and Eddy Lee by 15 to 12 shots.

Rink 11 The match of the week was the second Club Four’s match. Gary Trautsch, Neil Miller, Alan Rose and John Edwards jumped away to a great start with a fantastic 3 and then a 1 shot end on the first two ends. Gary Way, John Newbold, Peter Smith and Alessandro Lattanzio hit back with a fantastic three of their own, to be behind by 6 shots to 9 on the 8th end. This gave them the confidence to slowly, one shot at a time, take the lead for the first time on the 14th end at 12 shots to 10. Not to be outdone. Gary, Neil, Alan and John bowled a superb set of ends to lead by 18 shots to 12 on the 19th end. Gary, John, Peter and Alessandro dug deeply and found the previous form to take the next 2 ends and be only 3 shots behind, starting the 21st end. Could they find another fantastic three to draw the match or a 4 to win? NO, a 2 by them was not enough to steal the match from the winners, Gary Trautsch, Neil Miller, Alan Rose and John Edwards by 18 shots to 17. That was a great Championship match by both teams. Thanks mates.

Rink 13 In the last championship match for the day, Steve Hollington (subbing for Rob Ray), Paul Takac, Tim McCormack and Dave Milne played outstanding bowls to defeat Michael Hill, Peter Shield, Dan Salway and Harry Pearce by 33 to 10 shots.

Draw Results: 1st Prize Rink 9 Les Stuart, Ian Abberley, Graham Mills and John Black. 2nd Prize Rink 11 Gary Trautsch, Neil Miller, Alan Rose and John Edwards. 3rd Prize Rink 8 Julie Buchanan, Alan Morrissey and Ray Solway. Players Draw: Peter Smith.

What’s On: Wednesday 31 January Nominated Pairs will be played. Payment by 12.30pm. Saturday 3rd February 2nd Round Club 4’s with Pennant shirt required and Mixed Social Bowls payment by 12.30pm.

Culburra Women

Although last week saw some cooler days with light drizzle, that didn’t dampen the Major Singles quarter final and semi-finals games.

All four games in the quarter final were well played with the following coming out the winners - Gail Scott over Sandra Annetts, Kim Rudd over Nancye Carre, Eileen Hunter over Lorraine Epple, and Helen Neilsen over Marilyn O’Day.

Our Social ladies also braved the conditions, with Trish Tom and Jean Eagleton having a win over Anne Dwyer and Ruth Joannou, and Narrelle Wetsteyn, Joy Hanneman and Anne McCauley having a win over Maree Guilfoyle, Ruby Salmon and Judy Watson.

Light rain fell for most of the semi-final games, making conditions tricky for all players.  Well done to Helen Neilsen over Kim Rudd, and Gail Scott over Eileen Hunter. We look forward to the final this week and wish both Helen and Gail good luck.

Social winners last Thursday were Trish Tom (swinger), Diane Dawes, Ruby Salmon and Elaine Turner over Trish Tom (swinger), Marea Challender, Thelma Cooley and Lorraine Epple.

Callala

Tuesday January 23, the ladies only managed to play 8 ends before rain forced them to abandon the game.  Better luck next week for the first round of the Minor Singles.

The men’s social bowlers Port Seekers, welcomed 23 players from Warilla Sporties social bowlers on Sunday, January 28, to contest the “Piston Broke Trophy”.  In very hot conditions, two games of fours and five games of triples were played.  Callala defeated Warilla 125 – 80, winning five rinks to two.  Warilla handed over the trophy to Callala for the next three months.  The first round of the Major Singles is set down to start next Saturday.

Berry Men

Members and visitors are reminded that the new telephone number on which to make bookings is 0475 768 249 and that Wednesday social bowls during February will be played at 4.00 pm with bookings in by 3.00 pm.

Berry thank Culburra Club for partaking in a trial Pennant match on Saturday 27th and for fitting in with the change of time to start play. In Grade 2 only three sides played with victory to Berry and in the Grade 6 the four rinks were equally divided between the two clubs.

Social play on Wednesday 24th experienced very humid conditions. Pairs matches of note included Phil Chittick and Mark Power taking a one bowl victory over Geoff Lidbetter and Terry Hayes after being tied at end 20.Bob Dunn and David Lambert after a scoring spree mid game went on to take their match from Russell Tulloch and Peter Webb. The triples match of the day saw Arch Mackinnon, Tom Froggatt and Barry Dunn jump to an eight shot lead at end three and this was the margin that they ended up beating Peter Haddon . Lindsay McNamara and David Armstrong by. 

Culburra Men

Social Bowls – Friday 26th January 2018    

 Brendan Hughes & Gary Melleuish  31 def 10 Brett Gilligan & Lawrie McLean (1st prize lucky rink draw), Max Ford & Laurie Turner 30 def 16 Max Tout & Trevor McGuire  (2nd prize lucky rink draw), Danny Nash, Maree Chandler & John Dallas 23 def 16 Kevin Dickens, Diane Dawes & Ann McCauley, Alan Liebert & Col Hancock 21 def 16 Grahame Faull & Lenny Thomas, Ron Shoveller & Mark Englert 25 def 4 Neil Watson & Peter Childs

 Turner family 4 Seasons Challenge, Summer series sponsored by Culburra Beach Motel. Round 2 January results:

Helen & Rick Neilsen 20 def 15 Jeff Brown & Geoff Steinhour

Trevor McGuire & John Slingsby 22 def 9 Ann McCauley & Nancy Carre

Carol  & Geoff Blackshaw 20 def 12 Peter Dwyer & Brendan Hughes

Steve Munch & Peter Johnson 34 def 9 Barry & Lorraine Epple

Lenny Thomas & Brett Gilligan 20 def 14 Arthur Eagleton & Dennis Foster

Richard Grayson & Jim Hibbert 26 def 10 Narelle Wetsteyn & Eileen Hunter

Grahme Faull & Gary Melleuish 23  def 10  Luke Griggs & Ryan Charlmers .

Saturday 27^th Pennant trial vs Berry: We sent 7 teams to Berry bowling club for the morning trial games  with mixed results on the day . Peter Johnson skipped his team to our best win on the day by a 20 point margin . A few teams struggled with new combinations but with a month to go to the new season we can all work together and put some strong sides together in our 3 grades .

Nowra Darts

The Nowra District Darts Association would like to thank all thirty eight players who came along to play in the Association Pairs championship which was held at the Bomaderry R.S.L. last Thursday night. Unfortunately B grade was lacking in players due to some players playing up in A Grade and some not coming along to play at all, which endangers the B Grade nominated Championships very existence, so please come along and play. 

Association Pairs winners for 2018 are A Grade men Phil Reeves and Peter Wood, A Grade ladies Gloria Liddicoat and Kay Dowell.

B Grade men are Rex O'Brien and Denis Boon and B Grade ladies Kristel Kenny and Lynda Economos. Runners up in A Grade men were Matt Craig and Danny Watson and A Grade ladies were Sue Kenny and Leanne Blair. B Grade men were Craig Dumbrell and Gary French and ladies were Jo Wood, Marie Perrin and Jodie Armstrong. Defeated semi finalists were Brad Moulds, Barry Jouannet, Tom Donno, Vic Leng, Georgie Hansen and Karey deBakker.

Our First League competition kicks off on Thursday night so please captains inform your players which venue you are playing from. If you don't already have a draw sheet off your captain they  will be handed out at the game.

Shoalhaven Darts

Our Shoalhaven Pairs Winners have been decided with 33 dart players turning out to contest the title. Grade winners were Dave Hogan and Jo McDowell. Dave also got a pegout of 113. The Runners up were Bim Stewart and Phil Reeves.

B Grade winners were Gary French and Trevor Hay and the runners up were Marie Perrin and Nick Economos.

The 2018 competition starts next week, good luck to all teams. I owe an apology to Peter Wood, he is our secretary and I missed him in the write up last week for the committee.

Good luck and good darting.