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The Champion of Champions Triples were played today and will continue tomorrow at the Raumati South green. The cotula green ran well and the weather was great for bowls. In brief:- Our women’s team, Margaret MacKay (s), Ann Malone and Alice Spicer, had a close game against the Otaki Railway team. The final end (16th) saw the scores level but …

Not very many at the club today, it being Easter Saturday. I think three Mixed Pairs were playing at Central in a two day gala, but some of us at least turned up this afternoon for a roll-up. We didn’t use Rink 4 because some Plugs had been inserted at one end and to give them a good chance to grow, …

Great to see all the teams in action today, finishing this year’s summer gala season. Very pleasing also to see visiting teams joining in, making for some very competitive games. So many to thank for their work throughout the season; those responsible for producing for us a great green to play on and to those who ensure that it has …

Our women travelled to Waikanae to play Central Levin. At the time of writing, I’ve no idea where any of the teams were positioned in the competition but I did hear about one of our teams day. Their morning game was not good, the team not playing up to their usual standard but the afternoon game saw a good improvement. …

Day two for the Mixed Singles started with a match between Ra Walker and Ken Hayward. The scorecard showed that it was a very tight game. It reached 20 all and then a 2 on the next end saw Ra the winner. Dave now had to play against his wife and this ended with Ra in front 21-14. The other semi-final …

Late Summer weather was evident for the start of the Mixed Singles Championship played today on Green 2. Round 1 got underway with the following games played: Shoota won his game against Ra Walker, 23-18.    Joe Wnek went down to Alice Spicer 12-21, Ken Hayward won his game against Lodzia Wnek 21-3, Neville Turnbull went down to Murray Griffin …

It was Mixed Pairs post-section games played today at the club and after the first round was completed, Fred and Coral had won their game against Jack Willis and Hildi Ewart, Susan Boxall and Ian Wenham won against Margaret MacKay and Rob Cotter and Dave and Ra Walker won against Shoota and Ann Malone. The next round saw Dave Scrivener …

Fourteen teams started out today in their quest to win this years Mixed Open Pairs. Play commenced at 9.00am and continued throughout the day with the last games finishing around 5.00pm. Twenty-one ends had to be played to find the winner of a game and for those who ended up having to play the third game, it felt for most, …

It took a long time to complete the Men’s Junior Pairs today. The first game started this morning and a close match it turned out to be. The two teams involved were Bill Cleland (s) and Vern Murphy playing against Murray Griffin (s) and Ian Up, and the target for one of these teams was to win two games. Game …

With a bit of luck, the weather might just turn out to be OK tomorrow for the North v’s South tournament to be played at Kapiti Bowling Club commencing at 10.00am Congratulations to the following club players who have been selected to be part of the North (winning!!) team. Have a great day. Margaret Griffin, Lodzia Wnek, Margaret Lowndes, May Kaukau Neville Turnbull, Barry …