NOOSA HEADS
BOTH Noosa Heads ladies’ sides entered in the Super Challenge series have won their way through to the finals.
We have players in both sections 5 and 8, with successes in the play-offs at Pacific Paradise and Solander Lakes on Saturday, earning appearances at the Tweed Heads finals series next weekend. We say congratulations to our talented bowlers – and good luck at The Tweed.
The final of the club ladies pairs championship was played last week with a convincing win recorded by Cath Haddock and Sophie Gale over opponents Jenny Bowie and Sharyn Briggs.
The draw for the men’s pairs will be made this week.
Tuesday men’s pairs last week was won by Ralphe Rickman and Rudy Boyer. Bob King and David Deane had the next highest margin.
Cath Haddock and Valerie Bush were Wednesday winners with Et Kellett and Wendy Jarrett taking second prize. Scoring in Friday’s open jackpot pairs were Ian Sanday and Mal Lloyd, making a welcome return. David Deane and Ron Wallish topped the first-round losers section.
Saturday pairs winners were Ralphe Rickman and Keith Musgrave. The triples went to Roy Cornish, Eileen McDonald and David Nimmo.
A group of “golden oldies” were invited to afternoon tea at the club last Friday. These ex-members had a great time reminiscing and checking out a bundle of memorabilia that has been collected to mark the forthcoming closure of the club. Among the group were former chairpersons Bert Wansley and Lynn Collins, several ex-presidents and board members, and some champion bowlers – and people.
– The Chalker
Pomona
WEDNESDAY – and on such a very hot day – we were very thankful for our retractable shade cover with our ladies section having hosted a trophy day. A big thank you to the eight division clubs that attended, making a total of 48 players on the green. Winners of the day were the visitors from QRI Gympie J. McAuliffe, L. Greig, C. Greig and skip Rose Davies. Runners-up were the Pomona team of Jan Mallett, Ruth Kelliher, Jocelyn Rabjohns and skip Nancy Homer. Welcome home Ruth and glad to have you back on the green.
Friday twilight bowls had a good number of eager players and some very close games were played with the final winners being Ruth Kelliher and Rick Goulding with runners-up David Hands and Daryl Millar. The progressive jackpot was won by Sheena Millar and visitor Jeff White so the Millars had plenty to celebrate. Saturday morning, the last of the second round A Championships were played with Lorry Axiak defeating Charlie Dewhirst.
Saturday afternoon the semi-finals were played with an on-fire Bill Alford defeating Mel Hobbins by a very conclusive margin. The game between Lorry Axiak and Keith Muir was very closely contended with Lorry leading in the first half. However, Keith (tenacious as an old Mallee bull) lifted his game and on end 22 they were even at 21-all. Lorry was determined not to lose and won the next two ends, winning by five points.
The final between Bill Alford and Lorry Axiak will be played on Saturday 28 March, from 1pm.
– Kitty and Jack
Cooroy
COOROY Community Bowls Club held its annual meeting on Saturday with a new committee appointed.
Games continue as usual with some new ideas for the winter months.
Tuesday jackpot pairs winners were Roy Wall and Col Nalder with +7. Lester Krosch and Glen Jones were runners-up.
The business bowls winners for round five were Belvedere’s who had a very close win (+1) over Getting Plastered, as well as Ball Breakers, Pages, Mutineers, Treble Clefs, Bonnells, Odd Balls and Jacobson’s.
New team INCAS were narrowly beaten by Royal Flush on Thursday night in the High Rollers challenge. The other close game was between High Rollers (who had two subs) and Galahs. Other winners were JeLS, Tag Team, Eumundi Boys, 101’s and Bush Rangers. Honey Pots had their first loss since they commenced playing.
The ladies had a substantial loss to equal third place teams from Nambour Heights in the Hinterland Challenge. The final round is this Saturday against leaders, Mapleton.
– Julie Ainscough
Tewantin Noosa
OUR Silver ladies did us proud by making the Super Challenge play-offs.
Ladies championship pairs final: Winners were Nat McAully and Pam Styles over Kerry Wilson and Jennie Smith.
Sunday AM pairs, Wanga’s day: Winners were Greg Stewart and Adrian Whitton (+29). Runners-up were Tony Howard and Bob Mulvogue (+28). Third were Greg Maher and Bob Schofield (+27).
Tuesday ladies nominated two-bowl triples: Winners were Mary Forbes, Marlene Trembath and Sue Mould. Runners-up were Gloria Nunn, Val Bush and Val Reinicke.
Wednesday men’s pairs: Winners were Terry Nash and Steve Chandler. Runners-up were Trevor Crosby and Greg Halloway.
Thursday night’s twilight (6-9) open pairs: Winners were Kerry Wilson and Robyn McAnelly. Runners-up were Kath and Bryan Simmons.
Friendly Friday open triples: Winners were Alan Newman, John Oppy and Ray Sengstock. Runners-up were Gary Bond and Kath and Bryan Simmons. Jackpot was not won and carries over.
Super Challenge: This week our men’s Silver won against Moorooka 3/2 and although they performed well overall they unfortunately missed out on the play-off.
Our ladies won on both rinks, playing at a standard worthy of the finals – and qualifying for the play-offs against Kawana – but went down fighting, with Kawana winning the triples and fours, and falling short by 12 shots aggregate. Encouragingly, the fours were 19-all on the 20th end, but went down two shots on the last end.
– Green Master
