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Zone side for Seniors Shield named
Tony Tinworth, Monday, 8 March 2010The Combined Sydney Zones Seniors Shield competition has become an established event each year for our senior players. The competition is between sides of 4 teams from each of the 5 metropolitan Zones - 9,10,11,12 & 13- who play each Thursday in a round robin, obviously with one bye each round.
The first round will be played on Thursday 29th April ( our match at St Ives BC) and the competition runs through until 1st July.
The selectors have named our side for the competition this year as follows:
P Carroll (Harbord), D Shearer (Harbord), A Taylor (Nth Sydney) & B Linton (Belrose)
B Stelling (Dee Why), P Mitchell (Belrose), R Hurst (Harbord) & J Boreham (Dee Why)
A Dessaix (Harbord), J Henderson (Harbord), P Ward (Asquith) & W Webb (Asquith)
G Lewis (Manly), B Williamson (Harbord), G Hamilton (Turramurra) & P Westcott (Belrose)
The draw, and the results will be, on the website.
Last year the shield was won by Zone 12 with 6 wins. Zone 9 came in second with 4 wins. Hopefully we can do better this year.
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Taylor Bowls Super Challenge launched
Tony Tinworth, Friday, 5 March 2010It's great to see some innovation in competitions being conducted by clubs within our Zone.
Lindfield Club are organising their 'Powerbowls Pairs' - see story on the website- for individual entries and now North Sydney and Belrose are hosting the 'Taylor Bowls NSW Super Challenge' for clubs. This event is now in it's second year and this year there are 8 clubs competing - 5 from Zone 9 and 3 from outside the Zone. Each club enters 12 players who will play 1 singles match, 2 Pairs, 1 Triples and 1 Fours match in round robin format in sections of 4 sides at 2 venues. The venues and the clubs competing at each are:
At Belrose Asquith At North Sydney North Sydney
Belrose Bondi
Dee Why Double Bay
Harbord Northmead
Play is at night, under lights on Wednesdays 17th, 24th & 31st March with the finals on 7th April at Belrose.
Members of clubs participating are being encouraged to roll up and support their team but members of all clubs will be made welcome and should see some great games.
Phil Westcott (North Sydney) is the organiser and will answer any questions about the competition. He can be contacted on 0416 127677 or at pmwestcott@optusnet.com.au. He will update us on results so you can follow the competition via the website.
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Lindfield Club introduces Powerbowls to Sydney
Tony Tinworth, Tuesday, 2 March 2010Lindfield Bowling Club has shown it's enterprise by introducing 'Powerbowls' to Sydney, and possibly to Australia.
Viewers of English Premier League bowls on Foxtel will be familiar with the Powerbowl concept, introduced to provide some new excitement to the game.
The first carnival will be their 'Powerbowls Pairs' to be held on Monday 26th April. Event organiser Phillip Joel explains the format as a 3 bowl pairs event, with 5 games of 2 sets, each of 5 ends - ie 50 ends in all and based on points for each set won. The unique feature is that during each set, each skip may nominate their use of the 'Powerbowl' and if that team wins that end it doubles their score on that end. The 4 teams with the highest score will play off in a semi-final and final for prizemoney of $1,450.
Sounds a great innovation! Entry forms can be downloaded from the website - see under 'club carnivals & special events' but be quick - entries limited to 42 teams.
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West Pymble players return
Tony Tinworth, Tuesday, 2 March 2010West Pymble's fortunes for the coming Pennant season are looking a great deal brighter with the return of some of their former bowlers, and some new recruits who will join their Grade 4 side. Those returning are former men's bowls club President Tony Wise (ex Belrose) and his good friend Graham McMaster (Neutral Bay) and they will be joined by Jim Rawlings (Pennant Hills), Abe Triesman (Lindfield) and Les Cavandar (Belrose). Together they will provide considerable support to club stalwart Ray Pymble and others.
Club President Ian Trantor said that his players who would have been playing 4's saw it as being good for their club.
Does anybody have sympathy for the other sides in their Section?? They include Gordon who were promoted, having won the Grade 5 flag last year. Should make for an interesting season.
Seems that there are an extraordinarily large number of transfers this year, the above being just a few.
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Belrose team wins Reserve Fours Competition
Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 27 February 2010
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Winners - Reserve Fours
L-R Harvey Bowen, Mike Hickey, Bill Glen & Graham Stewart |
Runners-up
L-R Peter Larcombe, John Swann, David Magnusson & Brian Levy |
Belrose's team of Harvey Bowen, Mike Hickey, Graham Stewart and Bill Glen today won the Zone Reserve Fours title by defeating Gordon's John Swann, David Magnusson, Brian Levy and Peter Larcombe 20 shots to 14. The Belrose team lead all the way but Gordon managed to get within 1 shot of equalling the score on the 17th end, only to drop a 4 on the next end from which they never recovered. Still a very good result from a team, 3 members of which played Grade 7 Pennants last year!
Earlier in the day, Gordon defeated Warringah's Michael Gale, John de Greenlaw, A Clark & Matt Blackburn in a 'cliff hanger', a one shot win with the last bowl of the match and for which the umpire was called. In the other semi-final, Bill Glen's team had a comfortable 31-13 win over clubmates C Coggan, G Bee, M Potter and C Williams. For Gordon, their semi-final match was a case of deja vu because it was the Warringah side that they defeated with the last bowl in the Grade 5 Pennant finals last year.
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Asquith team wins State Fours
Tony Tinworth, Saturday, 27 February 2010
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Winners - State Fours
L-R Shaun Thompson, George Appleby, Lee Trethowan & Steve Vanderveer |
Runners up
L-R Steve Clark, Crawford Linton, Phil Westcott & Mike Smith |
The Asquith team of Lee Trethowan, George Appleby, Steve Vanderveer (Subbing for John Campton) & Shaun Thompson today won the State Fours Championship, defeating Belrose's Mike Smith, Phil Westcott, Crawford Linton and Steve Clark by 4 shots, 24 to 20 in an extremely good match.
The Asquith side got off to a bad start being down 8 nil after 3 ends and they trailed Belrose until the 11 end when they won 6 ends in a row. They took the lead and the game turned around in the 14th end when they won a 5 which they followed up with a 3 on the next end when skip Shaun Thompson nearly cleared the rink with a magnificent drive. Asquith went into the 20th end with a comfortable margin of 8 shots, only to lose a 3 and a 1 to win by 4 shots.
Earlier in the day, Bill Webb's Asquith side went down to Belrose 23-14 and Dee Why was defeated by the eventual winners 19-16
click photos to enlarge
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quietly confident? |
can the skip draw it? |
Phil Westcott in action |
Steve Vanderveer on the mat |
Crawford Linton |
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Rookies Competition - entries now open
Tony Tinworth, Friday, 26 February 2010The RNSWBA has released details of the 2010 Rookies Competition together with the entry form which can be downloaded from the website - see under 'forms'.
Unfortunately, the 'Royal' has not agreed to admit women into this years competition despite requests to do so from our, and other Zones as part of the supposed review process they were intending to conduct. Maybe next year!
Entries close on 1st July 2010 and eligibility to enter the competition is open to male bowlers who were first affiliated after 1st April 2008.
Play up to Zone winner stage in both the Singles and Pairs competition will be conducted by the Zone - sectional play in the Singles on the weekend of 7th & 8th August and the Pairs on 21st & 22nd August. The State play-offs are scheduled for 2nd & 3rd October.
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Final series for Grade 1 Pennants
Tony Tinworth, Monday, 15 February 2010It has been decided to hold a series of finals to determine the winner of this years grade 1 Pennant flag. The finals will comprise 2 matches - the second and third placegetters in the round robin will play off im a semi-final and the winner will play the side that finishes top of the round robin table for the flag.
This decision was made at a meeting of all 6 clubs with sides in the Grade 1 competition held on Saturday last. The Match Committee had earlier decided to leave a decision as to whether there should be a final to those clubs involved. The argument in support of a final was principally that to not have one deprived the competition of the excitement of a final of this, our top grade.
The semi-final will be played at a neutral venue on Saturday 29th May and the final on Saturday 5th June along with the finals of the other Grades.
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Pennant draw now on the website
Tony Tinworth, Thursday, 11 February 2010The draw for the 2010 Pennant Competition is now on the website.
The first round will be played on Saturday, 13th March.
To access this click the 'pennant' box on the 'home' page
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Change of dates for Junior Championships
Tony Tinworth, Thursday, 11 February 2010The Juniors Committee has amended the dates for this year's Junior Championships.
These will now be played as follows:
Fours - 11th April at Belrose
Pairs - 18th April at Harbord
Singles - 2nd May at Asquith
Would all clubs with Juniors please encourage them to enter. Contact Ron Piper on 9451 9295
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New coaching courses announced
Tony Tinworth, Wednesday, 13 January 2010Len Hyde, Chairman of the Zone Coaching Committee has announced new coaching courses for 2010.
See all the coaching news from the 'coaches' link from the home page, or by clicking here.
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2010 Calendar - summary form
Tony Tinworth, Friday, 18 September 20092010 CALENDAR
For detailed calendar click here. To access later months, select month and click 'filter'
Zone Championships
Fours 6/7 February Finals 13 February
Pairs 19/20 June Finals 26/27 June
Singles 3/4 July Finals 10/11 July
Triples 14/15 August Finals 21/22 August
Champion of Champions – Singles 28/29 August Finals 25 September
Pairs 18/19 September Finals 25 September
Mixed Pairs 17 October – 14 November
Zone Competitions
Pennants All Grades 13 March – 22 May Zone Finals 5/6 June State finals 31 Jul/2 Aug
Mid-week Triples 7 July – 18 August Post sectional 1- 22 September
Metrop. Interzone Seniors 29 April – 2 July
Rookie Singles 7/8 August
Pairs 21/22 August
State play-offs 2/3 October
Juniors Competitions
Fours 11 April
Pairs 18 April
Singles 16 May
Interzone Competitions
Allan Buckley Shield – Vs Zone 10 14 February Venue Zone 9
Zone 9 vs Zone 11 2 May Venue Zone 9
Zone 9 Seniors vs Zone 15 Seniors 19 May Venue Zone 15
Zones 2,4,9 & 16 24/25 July Venue Nelson Bay
Zone 9 vs Zone 12 8 August Date TBC Venue Zone 12
Zone 9 vs Zone 10 C Grade sides 21 November Venue Zone 9
State Events
Senior Interzone Sides Championships 20/22 July Venue Wagga
State Junior Championships 12-17 July Venue Warilla
State President's Singles & Pairs Finals 2-5 September Venue Avoca Beach
Alphapharm Senior Singles & Pairs Finals 14-17 September Venue Maitland City
2009 Premier League commences 3 September Finals 3-5 December
Interzone Sides Championships 10-12 September Venue Zone 16
NSW State Championships 23 -30 October Venue Soldiers Point
Champion of Champions – singles & pairs 16-19 November Venue The Greens, The Entrance
Entry closing dates
Fours 5 January
Pairs
Singles 1 June
Mid Week Triples 8 June
Triples 13 July
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