Check out the latest bowls results and news from on the greens of clubs right around the Bundaberg Region.
Across the Waves Bowls
Wednesday 10th January – Winners – R.Davey & Romeo, Runners-Up – F.Zanda & L.Bertolla, Sportsmen – S.Squires & J.Jones
Saturday 11th January – Winners – A.Holt & B.Peardon, Sportsmen – T.Brigden & V.Mallett
Competition: Nominations for the 2024 Ladies Championship Fours are still open, closing on 26th January. Sheets are out for the 2024 Men's Championship competitions.
Coming Events:
Thursday 1 February – $800 Money Day. Phone Brian on 0435 559 249 by Tuesday 30 January to get your triples team in.
Friday 2 February – Ladies Club Friendship Day. Bring a bowling friend. Everyone welcome, both men and women. Play starts at 1 pm.
Friday 9 February – $400 Money Day. Phone Lyn on 0402 302 091 by Wednesday 7 February to get your triples team in.
Bargara Bowls
Monday 8 January – Turkey Pairs – Winners Both B. Munis & D. Handley; runners up B. Heness & T. Fauser; 2nd runners up D. Ivins & T. Merritt. Winners 1st Game P. Andrew & K. Gallagher; runners up H. Johns & S. Burnell-Jones. Winners 2nd Game L. Beale & K. Mayes; runners up K. Davern & K. Mason. Lucky Losers M. Smith & N. Cullen; J. Grills & D. Hart.
Tuesday 9 January – Ladies Social Bowls – Winners H. Stewart, W. Fitzgerald & P. Andrew; runners up G. Harrison, T. Morrison, A. Salmon & F. Lean; Sportsman’s L. Taylor, D. Nicholas, M. Smith & S. Burgess.
Wednesday 10 January – Open Pairs – Winners J. & B. Dunn; P. Press & B. McDermott; K. Gallagher & S. Burnell-Jones; C. Bridges & P. Sexton. Sportsman’s F. Lean & K. Freeman; D. & M. Richardson; R. McNeilly & V. Sauer; J. Andrew & W. Baxter.
Thursday 11 January – Men’s Pairs/Triples – Winners P. Elliott, R. Heness & T. Carroll; J. Russell & K. Mayes; J. Allder , A. Poke & D. Raggart; T. O’Hagan, K. Bartholomew & M. Troughton. Sportman’s J. Watson & B. McCarthy; L. McCarthy, F. Brotherton & G. Dunn; A. Johnson, J. Barnes & J. Andrew; G. McCormick, K. Hiley & D. Fielding.
Competition: Men’s “A” Singles – Round 2. T. Chapman d T. Fauser; N. Cullen d R. Pershouse; G. Gallagher d W. Barnett; K. Bayntun d J. Fehlberg; T. Townsend d J. Russell; R. Alder d A. Grills; S. Burnell-Jones d W. Horn; D. Mullens d C. Watt; W. Baxter d A. Johnson; M. Richardson d C. Gallagher; M.Winter d K. Mayes; B. McCarthy d M. Attwood; B. Burgess d J. Chisholm; C. Fehlberg d B. McDermott; S. Davies d D. McDonald; G. Cahill d B. Kenny. Mixed Fours Round 1. J. Russell, B. Watt, C. Watt & D. Handley d C. Rixon, L. Beale, P. Kajewski & M. Tonkin. J. Nowell, S. Burgess, K. Mayes & W. Barnett d C. Sherwin, J. Hayden, G. Hutchinson (sub), & D. Hayden. Round2. – B. Gill, M. Smith, S. Nicol, & N. Cullen d P. Andrew, H. Stewart, J. Andrew & W. Baxter.
Coming Events:
Monday Turkey Pairs – Open (Ladies, Men or Mixed). Two games of 11 ends. 1 pm Start.
Tuesday – Ladies Friendship Day 12 pm for a 12.30 pm Start.
Wednesday – Bargara v Past Presidents 5pm Start.
Thursday – Men’s Pairs/Triples 1 pm Start.
Saturday – Men’s “A” Singles Round 3. Open Social Bowls Men’s, Ladies or Mixed 1pm Start.
Sunday – C’ship Mixed Fours Round 2. Super Sunday Triples – 3 Games of 7 ends, Players change position after each set.
Burnett Bowls Men
Tuesday 9 January: Winners: Geoff Ferguson, Bud Farlow Runners Up: Warren Downey, Arthur Wood Sportsman: Greg Cole, Alan Newman
Wednesday 10 January: Scroungers: No results.
Thursday 11 January: Social Thursday – No results.
Thursday 11 January: Night bowls: Winners: Tommy and Hayden. Pick the Joker Jackpot was not won and will now be $129+ next week.
Friday 12 January: Winners: Sharon Sheppeard, Otto Korner Sportsman: Paul Welsh, Kevin Bartholomew. The Friday Jackpot was not won and will now be $60 next week.
Saturday 13 January: Winners: Warren Downey, Arthur Wood, Graham McKenna Sportsman: Gary Manser, Dick Shield, Peter Bull, Greg Jackson.
Competition:
Results – Championship Fours: Geoff Ferguson, Malcolm Juilerat, Russell Spencer, Kyle Franks def Gary Manser, Dick Shield, Peter Bull, Greg Jackson 27-15, Dave Rye, Cameron Walker, Christian McLellan, Mark Mizzi def Gino Mizzi, Jamieson Morgan, Des Kemp, Darryl Austin 20-19, Chilli Pete, Alan Neilsen, Ross Hussey, Bud Farlow def Josh Gott, Wayne Watson, Graham McLennan, Dave Carson 22-19.
Nominations are now open for the following events – Championship Singles, Championship Pairs, B Grade – Singles, Pairs, Triples & Fours, as well as the A&B Pairs. Nominations will close on Saturday the 20th of January. Please organize your teams and nominate on the sheets on the Club noticeboard.
Wide Bay Bowls Classic: Burnett is now playing in Division 1 and a new draw will be placed on the Club Noticeboard shortly. Division 1 consists of 2x Men’s Fours, 2x Men’s Pairs, 1x Ladies Fours, 1x Ladies Pairs and 1x Mixed Fours, therefore we require 14 Men and 8 Ladies each week. Please place your name on the list at the Club if you are interested in playing. The Club selectors (Men and Ladies) will meet on the 20 January to select the teams for round 1. Round 1 is to be played on Saturday 3 February.
Social Bowls Events: Visitors are most welcome on all playing days. Entry sheets are at the club or phone the Club on 41514217 during opening hours. If you cannot get through to the club number regarding bowls, then phone 0405373754.
Tuesday 16 January: Open Pairs – Men’s, Ladies, Mixed. Names in by 12 pm, green fees paid by 12.45 pm for a 1 pm start.
Wednesday 17 January: ‘Scroungers’ Singles – this is a fun game of Singles similar to consistency singles where points are allocated to the 4 closest bowls to the jack. Games are played over 12 ends with no driving allowed. Names in by 6.15 pm with games starting at 6.30 pm. Green fees are $10 with 50 percent of the green fees being returned as prize money. All ability levels are welcome so come along for a fun night out.
Thursday 18 January: ‘Social Thursday’ Open Pairs (Men’s, Ladies, Mixed). Names in by 2.15 pm as games will commence at 2.30 pm. Play till 4.30 pm with 2 random lucky draws as prizes.
Thursday 18 January: Night Bowls – bowls start at 6.30 pm, names in by 6 pm. Bowl under lights and enjoy a fun filled night with a chance at the ‘Pick the Joker’ Jackpot which will be $119+ this week. Visitors and those that want to try bowls for the first time will be made to feel very welcome.
Friday 19 January: Open Pairs – Men’s, Ladies, Mixed. Names in by 12 pm, green fees paid by 12.45 pm for a 1 pm start. The Friday Jackpot is currently $60.
Saturday 20 January: Semi Finals of the Championship Fours (Play, sub or forfeit) Social Bowls – Open Pairs (Men’s, Ladies, Mixed) Names in by 12 pm, green fees paid by 12.45 pm for a 1 pm start.
State Junior Championships: The Bowls Queensland State Junior Championships concluded on Friday 12 January. A Big thank you to all Burnett members that assisted/volunteered during the Championships and to those members that marked during the singles competition, your time and effort was greatly appreciated. With the event being livestreamed it certainly helped to promote Burnett Bowls Club.
Congratulations to the following Burnett Juniors for their achievements during the Championships – Zedd Peters for winning a Bronze medal in the u/18 Boys Singles, Jamieson Morgan for winning a Silver medal in the u/15 Boys Singles and Chaz Doherty for winning the Gold medal in the u/12 Singles. Marley Peters won Gold in the u/15 pairs playing with Cooper Sutton from Pialba. A great effort by all!
Also, congratulations to Phoebie Russell for being selected in the u/18 Queensland Girls squad. Well done, Phoebie!
Coming Events:
Saturday 20 January: Semi-Finals of the Championship Fours (Play, sub or forfeit).
Tuesday 23 January: $300 Open Triples – Men’s, Ladies, Mixed. Names in by 12 pm, green fees paid by 12.45 pm for a 1 pm start.
Friday 26 January: Australia Day – Club Closed.
Saturday 3 February: Round 1 of the WBBC. Teams will be selected on the 20 January. Keep an eye on the Club Noticeboard.
Club News:
Club opening hours are – Monday (Club closed), Tuesday 10 am – 5.30 pm, Wednesday 11 am – 9 pm, Thursday 2 pm – 9 pm, Friday 10 am – 9 pm, Saturday 10 am – 9 pm (10 pm for Functions) Sunday Bowls Days 9 am – 2 pm.
The Goose Club raffle will be drawn on Friday night at 7 pm – Tickets are $1 each and can be purchased during the week from the Bar staff or on Friday night. There are 15 great prizes to be won – you need to be in it to win it! Proceeds from the raffle help to support your Club.
The Member’s Draw was not won last week and will now be $670 on Friday night, so come along, have a meal and a few drinks with the chance to win some great cash and prizes.
There will be live entertainment on Friday night the 19 January performed by ‘The Other Bloke’. Members, Guests, and Visitors are always welcome.
Woodgate Bowls
Tuesday 9 January – Ladies Day: Three games of paddle pop draw triples on today and good fun was had by all! Some of us played more successfully than others but no matter what the score we all enjoyed an afternoon out on the green!
Only one draw for the Winning Ring:
Rink 10: Donna Smith, Suzanne Weir, Meredith Taylor
We also welcomes a visitor from Maroochydore, Rose Rixon who has had an interesting bowls career and showed those of us who played against her, how the game should be played!
Visitors are always welcome and Rose we enjoyed playing with you and your company, come back again!
Wednesday 10 January – Mens Day: Always good to see our men enjoying a day out on the green. Lots of friendly rivalry with a bit of banter thrown in for good measure!
Winning Rink draw: Rink 13: Werner Hass, Greg Madsen, Rowdy Taylor
Runners Up: Rink 14: Graham Ashcroft, Rob Anderson, Robbie Byrnes
Encouragement: Rink 11: Bill Hooke, Christo, Col Ensbey
Thursday 11 January – Oyster and Fee’s day: Always a lovely friendly day to play bowls, a good time was had by all!
Winning Rink draw: Rink 11: Michelle Wood, Lorelle Mattson, Ian Goodhew
Runners Up: Rink 12: Pairs game. Fiona Dowling, Rowdy Taylor
Saturday 13 January: Huge day out on our greens today, the Mens fours competition is in full swing with three games played today. We also had the first game in the Ladies fours as well as a couple of rinks of social bowlers.
Ladies Fours: Team Meredith had a win over Team Donna:
Team Meredith: Rhonda Byrnes, Cheryl Goodhew, Gail Lenz, Meredith Taylor
Team Donna: Lesley Christensen, Jane Herd-Evans, Fiona Dowling, Donna Smith
Team Byrnes had a win over Team Winzar, a hard fought game with the difference of one point in the score, 15/14.
Team Byrnes: Ian Goodhew, Lyall Brettell, Rowdy Taylor, Robbie Byrnes, Team Winzar, Alan Johnston, John Robinson, Graham Summers, Bob Winzar
Team Cornish had a win over Team Royan:
Team Cornish: Phil Nelson, George Weir, Maurie Strano, Brian Cornish
Team Royan: Robbie Royan, Bill Hooke, Keith Sleep, Mark Royan
Team Nuttall had a win over Team West:
Team Nuttall: Trevor Christensen, Dean Kulbars, Greg Madsen, Gordon Nuttall
Team West: Rob Jones, Rob Anderson, Col Ensby, Rob West
Team Nuttall also took out the winning rink draw, the jackpot didn’t go off so is still up for grabs next week!
Sunday 14 January: Today we had a semi Final in the mens B grade triples from the 2023 competition held over from last year, as well a social triples games.
Mens Semt Final, honestly this game was worthy of being a final!
Team Willoughby had a very hard fought win over Team Rogerson, the winning margin being one point!
Team Rogerson got off to a very slow start not putting any score on the card until end 5 while team Willoughby forged ahead!
The score sat at 7-1, however team Rogerson then found their feet taking a 3, a 4 and a 5 in quick succession!
However they then got stuck again for 3 ends until end 13 with a 1 the score sat at 14/13 to team Rogerson.
Team Willoughby then showed what they were made of and fought back with a 1 and a 4 to take the score on end 17 to a one point lead.
From then on it was tooth and nail stuff, 18 all on end 18, a 2 on end 19 (20/18) was the last points on the card for team Rogerson.
Team Willoughby took a 2 in end 20 to make the score 20/20, end 21 was declared a dead end when the kitty was hit out of bounds by Paul Rogerson so another end had to be played.
Needless to say the tension was on high level for both the players and the spectators who all had their opinions on how the end should be played!
An amazing bowl by newcomer Dean Clarke for team Willoughby right on the kitty put the pressure on the opposition.
Another new bowler, Alan Johnston put two beautiful bowls close but not close enough to take out Deans bowl!
A one to team Willoughby gave them the match, what a game, as I said worthy of a final!
Team Willoughby: Dean Clarke, Dennis Smith, Garry Willoughby
Team Rogerson: Alan Johnston, Wayne Stanley, Paul Rogerson
Winning Rink Draw: Rink 12: Lesley Christensen, Robyn Bishop, Rob Hannah
Runners Up: Rink 11: Daphnia Brettell, Gordon Nuttall
Encouragement: Rink 15: Jane Herd-Evans, Jacquie Rogerson, Gloria Newby
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