Friday Gala was sponsored by Mitchpine, an annual event to celebrate St Patrick. Once this was a time when many members dressed in some form of costume to celebrate the occasion but not many now; a green shirt seems adequate. A pity also that the gala is not now supported by teams from other clubs for one reason or another …

The women’s Champion of Champions games were played yesterday at the Waitarere Beach Club and our player was Diana McGill. After a bye in the first round and Diana then won her game against the Kapiti player by 11 points. Her  following game which was against the Paraparaumu player, gave her another win by a similar margin. So now it …

Men and women Singles Champions from clubs throughout the Centre played today to find who would become this seasons Champion of Champions, a challenge for all bowlers. At Waitarere Beach Liz, our Women’s champion, played against the Otaki player who won the game 21-13. A pity I couldn’t see the game, Liz, but am sure you  did your best. Not …

Yesterday saw the end of this year’s Business House Bowls. When I arrived at the usual time, you could see so many of those who had played this year were already gathered, chatting away or testing themselves on the green, indications of how they looked forward to these evenings. Last week saw the close of the competitions and instead, the …

Twelve Men’s and twelve Women Pairs were playing today at the Paraparaumu Beach Club with the aim of winning the Champion of Champion Pairs. Our Women’s team, Margaret MacKay and Christine Ryan, as sometimes happens, travelled from Levin to face anther local team, the pair from Central Levin. This game resulted in our women missing out, the score at 16-25.. …

For one reason or another I wasn’t playing at another club today, something that is usually on my calendar.  Instead, I went down to my club to take part in the roll-up but there were only enough players to have two games of triples. We got drawn into four teams and went off to the green to then decide which rink …

Two days have been played in this season’s Triples, Saturday to find the qualifiers and today for post-section play to find the winner. There was quite a change for our players this year with play being two bowls each as done in the Centre event but only 16 ends per game were played,whereas the Centre use 18. It will be …

One day to go to find the Centre’s winner of this seasons Men’s Singles. It all started on Saturday with 5+1 Club members playing at either Paraparaumu Beach or Raumati South Club.  (6 members from our club, 1 of whom is also a full member at Central – the latter which he is representing in this competition.) After the first …

Today our two men’s Pennants teams went off to Waikanae Beach Bowling Club to play two games (morning and afternoon) and as it happened, these were against their two teams. We had a strong morning game was against their B team while on the rink next to us, our B Team took a number of ends before getting into gear …

Played over the weekend at many clubs throughout the Centre were lots of activities for Men and Women teams Interclub was the challenge over the two weekend days and fine weather certainly seemed to help many of the players. Results can be seen on our Website and they show how our teams performed. Can be seen in  Interclub and Team …