by Jim Bond
Wild Horse 99.7FM
February 8, 2014
My Saturday morning broadcast on Wild Horse FM 99.7’s Sportstime went out at its usual time this week, but my column is a little bit late due to technical gremlins. My apologies to all our regular readers.
Anyway, we have plenty of bowls news for you today.
Let’s kick off with what the Burnett District Ladies have been doing.
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The Burnett District Ladies held a very successful day at Binjour Bowls Club last Saturday. 16 mixed teams played in windy conditions, and most clubs in the district were represented.
This was the first time that a day such as this was run by the District Ladies.
Its purpose was to raise some money to help fund the Annual District Sides trip, which is being held at Gold Coast this year.
- Winners were the Gayndah team of Amy Bellert (skip), Warwick Bellert, T Colvin and Brodie Kirk. They received gift vouchers donated by Mitre10 Gayndah.
- Runners up were the Murgon team of Carol Watters (skip), Maureen Janke, Lyn Mundy and Carol Hatchman. Their trophies were donated by Burnett District Ladies
- Third place went to the Binjour team of Pat Darlington (skip), Steve Meyer, Maureen Guyatt and Doug Darlington. Their trophies were donated by Lyn Woodall Monto
- And the Sportmans Award went to the Binjour team of Lyn Krause (skip), Jack Krause, Snow Taylor and Gayle Evans. Their trophies were donated by Mundubbera Pharmacy.
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Woodford’s Seafood Day is probably one of the most popular tournaments on the calendar for this part of South East Queensland, and it was a very successful day financially and socially.
It was played on Thursday over two rounds of 13 ends, with 6 points for a win and 2 points for an end.
Overall winners were Peter Hughes’ team from Glass House. They bolted in with 45 points. Runners up were the Bigwood team from Bribie, who scored 44 points.
Round winners were interesting too.
Bob Graham’s team from Woodford won the second round with 22 points on a count-back from the highly fancied Yarraman team skipped by Merv Fitch.
Merv’s team included their President Brian Dugdell, their B Grade champion Horst Meyer and Leo Robinson.
A win over Merv Fitch is always something to skite about!
Round one went to the Past President’s team skipped by Henry Sanderson – they scored 26 points.
There wasn’t much left for the seagulls after the day finished.
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The club’s popular Men’s Fours Carnival was a big weekend – so big that the book has been full since November.
Teams came from Cunnamulla, Coffs Harbour, Maryborough, Hervey Bay, Taroom, Kilcoy, Miriamvale, Kingaroy, Sunshine Coast and, of course, many local teams.
$3600 in prize money was on offer, and a Calcutta ran at 9:00am this morning
In the first game of 2014 championship pairs played last weekend, Steve Meredith and Alan Cooper played Alex Colvin and Rick Bellert. This was a close match until the 21st end when Cooper killed the end with a drive to win the game 19 – 14.
And in Social Bowls last Sunday, 20 players took to the green to contest two games of Triples and two of Pairs.
- Tyson Myers, Gary Darlington and Bob Ford 28 defeated Rhett Bellert, Merv Thomson and Brian Prygoda 21
- Graham Trott, Alex Colvin and Rob Slack 20 defeated Tom Colvin, Rick Bellert and Steve Myers 19
In the Pairs games:
- Barry Keune and Ken Ashton 24 def Tony Russell and Alan Cooper 16
- Taleah Putney and Brenden Harris 17 drew with Colleen Ford and Kevin Putney 17.
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One we missed out on last week was selected triples on Thursday, January 30.
Conditions of play were the lowest winning margin.
- Winners: Lyle Dascombe, Darcy Munro and Kev Raffin 22 def Ron Pinn, Glad Slatter and Bob Robinson 21
- Runners-up: David Woods, Ross Olsson and Alan Irwin 21 def Dave Clinker, Merv Wolski and Ray MacLaren 18
Last Saturday, Kingaroy played the first round of the Madcap Medley Series for 2014
Conditions of play were 1 point per game won (team names only given):
- Golden Oldies – 4 pts
- Pinnup – 2 pts
- Ali Barber – 4 pts
- Semi Young – 0 pts
- Flintstones – 6 pts
- Whatever – 2 pts
- Who Carrying Who – 4 pts
- Swamp Critters – 2 pts
- Bedazzled – 2 pts
- The Vets – 4 pts
And in social play on Sunday:
- Fred Keding, Val Jeppesen and Beryl Woods 19 def Dave Woods, Maree Millard and Kev Raffin 16
- Robbie Johnson, Glad Slatter and Alan Irwin 32 def Brigitte Kung, B Bougoure and Greig Schultz 24
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Thursday night bowls are proving very popular, and last week there were a couple of very close games:
- Merv Fitch, Todd Currell and Kerry Walsh drew with George Wolski, Robyn Diercke and David Douglass 15 all
- Brian Dugdell and Arthur Smith def Neil Johnston, Eunice Smith and Kenny Walsh 19-11
And in the Sunday social, Kerry Knowles, Kay Dugdell and Sandra Currell def Leo Robinson, Di Currell and Todd Currell 24-19
On Wednesday, the men played social while the ladies held their AGM:
- Brian Dugdell and Kev Profke def John Moore and Leo Robinson 25-16
- Neil Currell and Ron Lucas def Nev Lawrence and John Beattie 13-10
The ladies joined them for social play:
- Doreen Fitch, Alison Anderson and Sandra Currell def Daphne Stewart, Jenny Moore and Yvonne Schultz 9-5
- Di Currell and Kay Dugdell def Robyn Diercke and Eunice Smith 13-10
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At the Yarraman Ladies Club AGM, Helene Johnson was elected President
Others on her committee include Senior Vice President Kay Dugdell; Junior Vice President Alison Anderson; Secretary Helen Russ; Treasurer Margaret Willoughby; Games Director Di Currell; Assistant Games Director Ivy Wrembreck; Selectors Rita Young, Robin Diercke and Kay Dugdell. Providores: Glenda Wolski and Margaret Willoughby; Patroness Gloria Anderson.
What a great crew! Expect big things from them in 2014.
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In Scroungers on Friday last week, Ben Pratap scored 50 and Henry Bleisner was close behind him on 48
And in Tuesday’s Mens Social – with 2 for end 3 for win:
- Lew Saunders and Glen Yeates – 38
- Henry Bleisner and Allan Carr – 34
- Trevor George and Ed Haycock – 31
- Bob Hall and Jim Fowler – 31
- Keith Carroll and Ben Pratap – 29
- Bob Hammond and Athol Jensen – 21
- Joe Aglizzio and Nev Lawrence – 18
- John McConnell and Brian Havell – 14
On Wednesday, in the Ladies Social:
- Jan McLennan, Doris Drew and Sue Tucker 26 def Muriel Benfield, Di McNeilage and Heather Carr 8
- Margaret Bradford and Evelyn Jensen 24 def Heather Marshall and June McKee 15
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There’s always something social going on at Esk, and last Sunday they all went to Crow’s Nest.
The names of all players went in to the hat and teams were drawn at random.
Result? “It was amazing how close the scores were at the end” one onlooker said. A very good friendship and networking exercise.
The club also held Pub Day on Tuesday and, as always, there were a lot of visitors.
- First round winners: Don Schimke’s team from Laidley.
- Second round winners: Bill Percy’s team from Gatton
- Overall winners: Don Currie’s team from North Ipswich
- Runners-Up: Ted Jenkin’s team from Esk.
The first round of the 2014 round robin will be played at the Durack-Inala club tomorrow week.
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- Today – The regular rotational triples challenge (Nanango versus Yarraman) is on in Nanango, 1:00pm start
- Tomorrow in Yarraman – Sunday Bowls, a club select with a 12:30pm start plus Ladies bowls in Yarraman 9:00am and Nanango 9:30am
- Thursday night – bowls at both Yarraman and Nanango
- Friday: Scroungers at Nanango with a 3:00pm start
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I’m always happy to include local bowls reports in my regular Sportstime broadcast on Wild Horse FM 99.7 every Saturday morning at 8:00am, and also here in my weekly column on southburnett.com.au which appears at 8:05am every Saturday.
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