The draws are available on the Internet for the Centre Pairs to be played this weekend. We have three women pairs  who will be playing at the Paraparaumu Club:  Dianne Short and Hazel Rose, Alice Spicer and Liz Galloway, Margaret MacKay and Joan Hayward Six men pairs will also be playing down south, two teams at Waikanae Beach: Paul Gardner …

The Club’s Junior Women Pairs Final was played this afternoon, certainly in weather more suited to their games than it was on Saturday. A Round Robin System was used and the final was reached and played between Ginny Williams and Diana McGill(s) and Ralda Adams and Glenda Rowsell(s). To add to your confusion, the photos show the leads and skips …

Today Lodzia, Dawn, Zalda and Bill Clelland joined me to play in the Horowhenua 5’s. We were drawn to play the Shannon players and our first games got started at 1.00pm. Lodzia was our Singles player and did well on Rink 1 which she told us played well. Ralda was my lead, Bill, then Dawn followed on. We found the …

Three bowls each for the players in today’s gala on the cotula green. All rinks were used and the green was running very well. There were no restrictions on team compositions, male, female or mixed, and it was an enjoyable day for all. Four games of 12 ends were played and all teams met the challenge of the game … …

The Men’s Centre Singles got started at two clubs in Levin over the weekend, two greens at Central and our cotula green being used. It was good seeing seven of our players taking part and by the end of Saturday, four had qualified. The draw was then made for Sunday’s play to get started on Central’s Green 2. Neville Turnbull, …

A great day of bowls at the club today saw the men and women’s post-section Pairs play through to find the winners. The 9.00 o’clock start saw Christine Gardner play Audrey Sciascia and Bronwyn McMahon , the latter team winning 17-13. The semifinal saw Alice Spicer and her partner Liz Galloway have a good win agains Dianne Short, 27-7 and …

Certainly Saturday proved to be a day full of challenges on the greens. This year’s Championship Pairs got started at 9.00am, the ladies playing on the cotula green and the men on the Dales surface. It was very clear that there were some tough games ahead but also with the added challenge of a very strong wind. The ladies were …

No doubt the weather will improve for this summer bowling season but it certainly is taking its time to arrive. Nearly a full green today and we got started at 9.30 to play the four games, each of 10 ends. There must have been some discussion by the match committee members as after lunch, the rules were changed so that …

A 10.00am start for the fifteen pairs teams got the day’s play started on the Dales Green. Earlier there had been a couple of short but heavy showers but that didn’t prevent us getting the days’s play started. What did let us know about was that we would have to contend with was the very strong gusting westerly wind. We …

The Bowen 2x4x2 Pairs was played this afternoon, a monthly event held throughout the summer season at our bowling club. Players came along, (some not sure that we would end up playing because of the poor weather) and onto the green went twelve teams to take action. It certainly was cool,: a strong gusty wind blowing off and on, but …