An 18 hole Stableford event was held on Sunday with the winner being Ross Smith with 44 points from Mick Horan with 41 points and Rod Luyt and Billy Warren both with 35 points.

Nearest the pins went to Mick Smith (2), Ross Smith and Mick Horan.

The much contested Bunny Award went to Mark Francis, lucky card draw to Mick Smith, raffle winner Ross Smith from Phil Smith, Lenny Archer and Dave Hansen.

Next week is our monthly award day, event being stroke and putts and return to Services Club for lunch and presentations.

Also good luck to our lady golfers contesting in the Parkes Golf Club Championships.

Parkes Junior Rugby League

Round 14 against Canowindra

Under 10s: The Derrick Hoe Excavation PMJRL Under 10s played a spirited Canowindra outfit on Saturday, with the weather less than favourable. Parkes won the toss and decided to let Canowindra kick off. The forwards through Joe Monk and Josh Bowd flexed a bit of muscle to put Parkes on the front foot. Canowindra didn’t shy away from the battle, though. Toby Cox and Oliver Thomas consistently moved up in defence all game. When Parkes had the ball the boys looked the goods, running good angles to penetrate the defence and completing great offloads when they had the opportunities. Sam Duffy on the flank and Marley Moran in the centres confused Canowindra's defence whenever they ran the ball. Marley copped a vicious head high but to his credit got back up and ran straight back into them again.

Jack Milne took notice of how Canowindra's speedster was scoring all his tries and gave it back to them. Jack blitzed them and scored two great tries. Zac Payseno also scored a great individual try. He scooted from dummy half and through three defenders to slam the ball over the line. 

Final Score Parkes 30 Canowindra 18. Tries to Jack Milne (2), Josh Bowd, Oliver Thomas, Zac Payseno. Conversions to Marley Moran, Bob McKewen, Toby Cox, Aiden Byrnes and Jack Milne.

Under 12s: K and H Earthmoving under 12s ran onto the field on Saturday with snow in the wind. Under the freezing conditions, the boys were keen to get moving. Bayden Moran opened the scoreboard with a quick try. The conversion was unsuccessful. After a few fumbled balls the boys settled to display teamwork with solid runs by Zac Slavin and Dustin James. After a kick on the fifth tackle gave Canowindra possession, Parkes were determined to keep them down their end with strong tackles from Bayden Moran, Toby Miller and Jye Facchi. A penalty gave Canowindra six again so defence continued with Malakai Folau, Jai Thompson and Wilson Duffy. A kick caught by Toby Miller, followed by a run along the sidelines had parents holding their breath. Toby finally scored in the corner, conversion by Bayden Moran was successful. Kade Lydford continued to shine as fullback consistently retrieving the ball. Jay Arrow was next to score and successfully convert his own try. A lost Canowindra ball saw Jye Facchi set up the next try making good ground with Toby Miller scoring. Jye was then successful in converting.  Parkes had a solid lead 22 – 0 at half-time.

The second half saw a stronger Canowindra defence take the field. Teamwork saw Toby Miller  score his third try.  The conversion was unsuccessful. Our skinny players Kade Crisp and Brodie Clarke put themselves on the line to stop Canowindra. Mac Rauchle  and Jackson Parke-Lee had some solid runs with Dustin James and Mason Leedham bulldozered their way through the defence with a kick and chase was placed on the ground by Wilson Duffy to score. The final score saw Parkes win 30 – 0. 

Under 14s: Parkes Sportspower under 14s took the field against Canowindra. Canowindra kicked off finding touch, giving them the scrum feed and possession. Defence had to be solid so as not to allow them to make ground which was successful as Bailey Bowd, Cody Crisp and Nic Facchi continued to stop Canowindra. Parkes gained possession in their half. Dodo Sodrodo was through to score with a successful conversion by Nic Facchi. Kick off saw a Parkes error as it found touch again giving Canowindra possession. Parkes gained possession with solid runs from our forwards Finnley Neilsen and Eden Lydford. Brendan Trim took the ball over the line to score, conversion from Nic Facchi was successful. Col Rauchle retrieved the kick and suffered a head high tackle for his efforts. This gave Parkes six again and the opportunity for Cody Crisp to score with another successful conversion from Nic Facchi.

A Parkes error meant defence had to switch on to ensure Canowindra didn’t score. Kane Slavin, Benny Herring, Ben Cooper and Zac Davies worked hard to keep Canowindra from gaining ground. Canowindra kick was picked up by Dodo with good ball passing to Josh Tanswell who scored, conversion was unsuccessful. A tricky play from the 14s saw Benny Herring go one way with the defence following opening a gap for Marty Hennock to score the other way. Conversion by Nic Facchi was successful giving Parkes a 34 nil lead at half-time. 

Parkes continued to lose possession from the kick off with ball handling errors resulting in defence working hard. Zayne Eshman intercepted a Canowindra ball to give Parkes the ball. Matt Dillon was able to continue the set and put the ball down, conversion was unsuccessful. Parkes lost possession again from the kick off and had to apply pressure to Canowindra eventually forcing and error and Josh Tanswell taking possession for Parkes.

Solid runs from Michael Riley, Finnley Neilsen and Brendan Trim helped put Eden Lydford in position to force himself over the line and score. Next opportunity saw Zayne Eshman take the ball across the line to score. The final opportunity for Parkes saw Nic Fachhi score and Finnley Neilsen convert. Parkes had won 56 – 0.

Under 16s: The under 16s, sponsored by Brian Collins Smash Repairs, travelled away this week to play Canowindra. Captain, Ben Davis led the boys’ out onto the field to begin the game. Benjamin Glasheen kicked off and it was a deep kick that ended up with Canowindra being tackled in-goal, on the first tackle. This forced a drop-out kick by Canowindra and Parkes had their first possession of the game. Parkes made a break and got close to the line but a forward pass was called. After a Parkes scrum feed the ball got to Ben Davis who charged over for the first points of the game. The 4-0 lead was increased when Ben Davis scored his second try and Cooper Neilsen converted for 10-0. The Parkes forwards were making ground during the game with strong runs from Rhys Ward, Will Moore, Riley Ross, Jonah Ruzgas and Escher Luck. Lachie Davis and Michael Murphy made some quick ground and a pass got to Ben Davis who went over for his third try. Cooper converted for 16-0.

A storming run from Rhys Ward minutes later resulted in him going over for a try. Cooper converted for 22-0. Canowindra got the ball near their line and looked like going in for a try only to kick a field goal. Just on half time, Ben Davis received the ball from a Canowindra goal line drop-out and went over for his fourth try. The half time score was in favour of Parkes 26-1.

In the second half, the Parkes boys were passing the footy around nicely and a ball made it out to Jackson Goonery who off loaded to Ryan Hennock who went over for a try near the corner post. Parkes led 30-1. Escher Luck added four more when he got over the line to take the score to 44-1. A break and a strong run by Benjamin Glasheen saw him open up some gaps and then unselfishly pass the ball to Riley Ross who went in for a try. Michael Murphy converted Riley’s try and Parkes had a 50-1 win at full-time. 

Elimination Finals Saturday: Derrick Hoe Excavation Under 10s play Cabonne, K and H Earthmoving Under 12s play Cabonne.

Qualifying finals on Sunday: Parkes Sportspower Under 14s play Forbes, Brian Collins Smash Reapirs Under 16s play Red Bend.

Parkes Squash

Just a reminder that there will be NO A GRADE squash this week due to the Parkes Show half day holiday. B Grade will remain unchanged on Monday night.

A Grade: Hornery’s 27 defeated King’s 13, Westcott’s 27 defeated Williams’ 13, Wyatt’s 23 defeated Kross’ 17, B. Nightigale’s 27 defeated K. Nightingale’s 13. 

Jeff Westcott and Luke Williams played a tough five setter, with only 2 points separating them in the end - 62-60. Jeff took the first game after a short call went his way, 15-14. Luke flew through the second to level the game score winning 15-5. Jeff hit back in the third to edge in front again, winning 15-10. Luke held on in the fourth to force the decider with a strong 15-12 win. Jeff was able to get the lead and stay in front in the fifth to close out the match 15-6.

Maggie Thompson has been subbing in this comp and this week faced an in form Nicole Tolhurst. Nicole took and early 2-0 lead, winning 15-11, 15-13. Maggie than hit back to take the next two games and force a deciding fifth set 15-9, 15-13. Maggie was strong in the fifth to close out the match 15-7.

A good match between Steve Blackstock and Toby Tanks. Toby took the first game by one point, 15-14. The second game also went Toby’s way, 15-13. Steve came back in the third and quickly won that game 15-3. The fourth was another close battle, with Steve able to edge Toby out this time, 15-13. With games at 2-2 heading into the fifth decider, Steve got in front early and stayed there to win 15-10.

B Grade: Whelan’s 21 defeated Bell’s 19, Hogan’s 21 defeated Trott’s 19, Hannelly’s 20 draw Pope’s 20, VanDerStok’s 21 defeated Nash’s 19.

Liam Pope had his work cut out for him when Nathan Stubna subbed up from line two to verse him on the Captain’s line. Nathan has gone through undefeated this comp, and looks to step up a line next comp. Nathan started well taking the first game 15-9. Liam pushed hard all the way in the second with scores locked at 14-14. A long call advantaged Nathan to give him a 2-0 lead, winning 17-16. Liam regathered and took the third 15-9. Another tight one in the fourth again saw scores locked up at 14-14. This time Liam took control to win 17-14. Liam powered through the fifth to close out the match 15-4.

Jeff McClurg and Jade Walker had a close match last week, with Jade pushing Jeff all the way to four sets. Jeff looked strong taking a 2-0 lead winning reasonable comfortably, 15-10, 15-6. Jade hit back in the third to take the game 15-10. Jeff held on in a close fourth set to get the win 15-12.

Two of our junior players had one of the nights best matches. James Ellery looked in control when he took the first game 15-7 over Ned Hunter. The second was a much closer, with scores tied at 14-14, with Ned taking the win 17-14 to level the games at 1-1. Ned edged in front in the third and maintained his advantage to take the game 15-11. James hit back in the fourth to again level the game scores, winning 15-11. The decider was point for point with some long rallies pushing both players, but James got the eventual win, 15-13 to close the match.