Sixteen pairs began play on Saturday 10 September in the Men’s Balloted 2 x 4 x 2 Pairs Championship – the first championship event of the summer season. With the cotula green still too soft for play the Women’s event would follow on Sunday. By the end of a beautifully sunny, mild spring day seven pairs had collected the two …
Opening Day 2016-17
It was a cool wintry kind of day for the summer opening on Saturday 3 September. Forty plus hardy bowlers arrived at the club clad in summer whites to launch the new season. After a welcome by President Trevor and the presentation of two winter championship trophies it was out to the Dales carpet green to set the wheels in …
Entering Events Online Explained
As all of you are probably already aware we have the facility to enter our club events online. Even bowlers from other clubs can also enter our galas and tournaments online. Obviously first you need to register with the website which I’ve made as simple as I can. If you are a club member and once you fill out a form, …
Balloted events now coded
As balloted events are different, ie you only add your name not your team, I’ve had to write more code to allow us to enter these events online. The online registering for all types of events are now completed. The advantages of online registering for events is that you don’t need to be at the club to know who is actually in …
Close Fought Mixed Fours Championship
The Levin Bowling club has the biggest playing programme and so some of our club championships have to be played in Winter and during the week. Such was the Mixed Fours, the first Club Championship for this coming season was played on the 19th and 20th August. 60 members contested this event on Saturday to try and qualify for the one life …
Men’s Pennants Selections
The Men’s Pennants team has been selected for the first round on the 20th September. Congratulations on those selected to represent this great club of ours. Good luck, play well and represent your club well.
Adams win’s Waikanae Winter Cup second time in a row
John Adams’s fours team from Levin Bowling Club wins the Waikanae Winter Cup two day competition for the second time in a row. The same team as last year went through qualifying and post section to make the final without a loss. The field had teams from Taranki, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Wairarapa and Wellington. Adams’s team consisting of Martin Howse, Stacey Thomas, Paul Gardner …
Cobb & Co. Invitation Classic Triples Report
With very cold and wet conditions prevailing on Saturday the fourth Cobb & Co Invitation Classic Triples scheduled starting time was put back an hour and the three section games were reduced to two sets of five ends each. This enabled the first post section game to go ahead as the fourth game of the day playing two sets of …
Reply to Guy Diston
My reply to a congrats message from Guy Diston our Centre’s Chairman on our facebook page. Levin Bowls facebook page Thanks Guy. Our focus is still our website www.levin.bowls.org.nz where all our championships, galas and tournaments can now be entered online. My reasoning for this is to try and cut down the work load on administration aspects of the club, especially match …
Huge numbers at rollup’s continues.
I was confused when I went to the club’s roll up yesterday, thinking maybe there must be a club championship happening as their was a huge crowd of members.