Club members will be saddened to learn of the death of Frank Rodgers on 24 January. Frank joined our club when he came from Christchurch a few years ago. Never in good health Frank always hoped to be able to come back to bowls and remained a keen supporter of the club and a regular at Friday night meals.
Bowls Coaching and Training – Kerry Geertson
DEFINITION OF COACHING Athletes (bowlers) will achieve their goals and outcomes through their physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual capabilities. The role of the coach is to plan and conduct training sessions to enable the athletes to make the most of all of their talents. The primary purpose is to help the athletes to improve their level of performance. Outcomes achieved …
Bill Gibbons & Carrell Knight Trophies
This event was reintroduced for the current season (and hopefully, for the future) and is for men and women who have been playing bowls for ten years or less. Over the weekend of 9th and 10th January, two Levin ladies teams played at Levin Womens for the Carrell Knight Trophy and three Levin mens teams played at Central Levin for the …
Mixed Singles Qualifying Cancelled
Because the day for section play was rained off, we will be playing a one life system (knock out) for play on Sunday commencing 9am. We will be using the first round of games from the existing draw as the first round of the one life system. Jim Bagnall
Rob and Kerry win in the Wairarapa
Today in Masterton Levin’s Rob Cotter and Kerry Geertson won the Wairarapa open pairs title. In the semi-final and final they beat well-performed pairs skipped by leading Wairarapa players Warren Fisher and Ian Monaghan. Congratulations. Well done Rob and Kerry
Brian Cooper proves he’s human
Today Brian Cooper proved he is human. It’s been many seasons since he has played a wrong bios and so he had to ring the club house bell and pay the 50 cent fine. Our wrong bios money goes to St John’s.
Pat is N Z Champion again
Recently Pat Wikstrom with his wife Jan as director took part in the blind bowls nationals in Paeroa. The great news is that Pat again won the B 4 singles title, and, this year he went one step further with his partner Don Clark from Hastings in winning the B 3 – 4 Mixed Pairs. Jan directed play in both …
Men’s Super Sevens trip at last hurdle
Going into the final round today we were one win behind Central but also behind on differential. However they had a bye which meant if we won all three games today and they lost one we were the champions. Central lost both their games so in the end we only needed one win and a draw from our three games. …
Heretaunga Visitors Keep The Trophy
The biennial visit of the Heretaunga Bowling Club from Hastings took place on Thursday 26 and Friday 27 November. On the Thursday afternoon the 16 Heretaunga players joined 40 plus Levin members for a mixed progressive triples roll up followed by socialising and an evening meal at the Cobb & Co. The serious stuff took place on the Friday morning …
Neville Winiata passes away
Yesterday our Life Member Neville Winiata passed away after a long period of ill health. Neville was our club President in 1988 and 1989 and was a long time member of the Executive and served as our Greens Superintendent for a number of years. Details of Neville’s funeral have not yet been announced. Ken Hayward