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The finals of the Triples were played out during the day, with games full of interest as expected, . In the morning, Christine Gardner’s team needed a win against Ann Malone so that they could qualify for post section but Ann’s team proved to be too strong, winning the game 20-8. At the same time, Jack Willis’s team which had already …

An uneven number of men’s teams entered for the competition meant that there had to be a bye so the final opportunity for Shoota Ballinger to qualify for post section play will have to be played tomorrow morning. Already qualified are teams skipped by Jack Willis, Jim Bentley and Fred Adams and the draw will not be made until after …

She let the bowl go and once on its way, Margaret could see that it was not on the line she meant. “Sorry,” she called to her Pesto People team mates. But as you can see, Margaret was a quick learner. On the next end, her bowl was close enough to win the end for her team. Some big wins …

Gathered at the club around 5.00pm today were the winners from the Grants Whiskey Corner to Corner weekly competition and tonight, from that group, a winner to go to the area competition would be found. As it turned out, only 10 of the 12 winners were available. In the first round, each of the 10 participants played two bowls and the …

Leave it to the Skip. He’ll fix it. How often do we hear that, and today two skips had to do just that. I was watching one of our Levin teams playing their first game in the KCBC Men’s Fours, played at Central Levin.. Jim Bentley’s team was playing a very strong team from Paraparaumu, skipped by Jim Martin. Playing …

The Men’s Triples Gala had been cancelled because of insufficient entries, but the weather would have had caused it to be cancelled as well. By 1.00pm, the sun was shining and we were able to have a roll-up on Green 1; water was still lying on the cotula and didn’t finally disappear until around 3.00pm. We were not only blessed …

(A report from Margaret Griffin, Match Committee Convenor) Fourteen teams played in humid and sometimes damp conditions. Having a delayed start of 1 hr, play was cut down to 3 games of 8 ends. Teams came from Bulls, Foxton Beach, Central Levin, Levin and 2 ladies (1 from Shannon and 1 from Levin Women’s played with one of our club …

Our two women’s Teams played their two games at our club against Kapiti. Their A team had a good win (19-6 ) and then a draw while their B team had two losses. We await the placing now and I will post them on the website when they come to hand. Our two men’s teams played at Kapiti against Waikanae …

Last Saturday, our men’s team which had qualified fourth, played in the final of this season’s Interclub. I was not able to be there so my thanks go again to Ken Hayward, our men’s selector and member of our interclub team, for doing a report on the days play for us. “Our men’s Super 7s team headed off to Paraparaumu …

It was down to differential to decided last night’s Business House 3rd place after four teams had ended up with 22 points. A gray sky for most of the evening and the rain finally arriving near the end didn’t stop the competition. Recorder, David Lowndes, had his work cut out to sort out the placings. Results:: 1st – Ah Dunno …