This also was a good round for us as we won all three grades again. Firstly the No. 5s played Canowindra and came away with a good win nine points to one. Lee Hetherington, Shane Sharman, Doug Miller and Geoff Leonard  had a narrow loss 20 to 23, Luke Ramsay, Peter Creith, Rod Ramsay, and Peter Job had a good win 30 to 22 and  Steve Frame,  Ray Griffith, Clive Stibbard and George Greenhalgh had a huge win 34 to ten to make it two rinks to one with a winning score on the master board of 84 to 55 to give them a nine points to one victory overall.

The No. 6s travelled to Condobolin and came up with a three rink win. The team of Tony Peisley, Marty Fitzpatrick, Tony Latter and Alan Cameron  had a good win 25 to 15, John Corcoran, Mike Valentine, Steve Nicholson and Steve Torrens also had a good win 24 to 17 and Mick Furney, Marcus Strudwick, Graham Cole and Matty McGrath had a close win 24 to 20 giving them three rinks to 0 and an overall winning score on the master board of 73 to 52 and 10 points to 0.

The No. 7s played Condobolin at home and also had a good win.  Bernie Coleman, Mike Phillips, Col Hornery and Paul Cross had a good win 22 to 16, Kevin Wales, Terry Hetherington, Guy Bennett and Alan Affleck also had a good win 30 to 20 and Ben McNaughton, Terry Clothier,  Ian Simpson and Gary Phillips had another good win 22 to 14. 

This gave us three rink wins and a win on the master board of 74 to 50 and an overall win 10 points to 0. Great start with all grades still unbeaten after three rounds.

This week No. 5s play Caragabal at Caragabal bowling Club. Check with manager for travel arrangements.

The 6s Play Manildra at Manildra (Bus leaves the club at 10.45am)

The 7s Play Town Club at Parkes  Railway Bowling Club

Teams for this week are

5s: Geoff Leonard,Doug Miller, Shane Sharman and Lee Hetherington. Clive Stibbard, Neil Stronach, Peter Job, and Luke Ramsay. George Greenhalgh, Steve Frame , Ray Griffith and Brett Frame.

6s: Alan Cameron, Tony Latter, Marty Fitzpatrick, and Tony Peisly. Nathan Wills, Steve Nicholson, Mike Valentine and John Corcoran. Graham Cole, Graham Thomson, Marcus Strudwick and Brian Hampton.  

7s: Paul Cross, Gary Phillips, Col Hornery, Bernie Coleman. David Law, Alan Afleck,Terry Hetherington and Kevin Wales. Brad Blanchard, Ian Simpson, Terry Clothier and Ben McNaughton.

Two Major singles matches were played, Neil Stronach played George Greenhalgh and this was a close game for some time but Neil got to 30 and George won about five ends in a row before Neil picked up the winning shot. 

The next game was Peter Creith taking on the Giant killer Alan Cameron. Peter got away to a good start and was never headed going on for a good win.

Congratulations to both players on winning through to the Quarter finals.

The only game left in the Singles to play to get through to the quarters is Steve Frame versus Luke Ramsay. This game has to be played.

Wednesday Bowls , names in by 1pm for a 1.30pm start. Thursday night 5.30pm for a 6pm start and Saturday 5.30pm for a 6pm start.

A couple of games of Championships Pairs and Singles still to be played to bring the tournament into line . Please play these games.

Don't forget Friday night for good entertainment, Raffles and dining at Vinces' Restaurant.

There were no bowls played this week due to rain. Next week the First Round of the Club Championship Pairs will be played with the draw as follows:

Nominations for CWD Pairs close April 7.

CWD Singles will be played at our Club April 3-5.

To play social bowls ring Table Selectors Rosemary Mitchell and Gwenda Carty between 8.30am and 9am.

Visitors and new bowlers always welcome. Social Roster Wendy Hendry.

The Parkes Services Social Golfers did Battle for the Reg Davison Trophy on Sunday with a Raffle supplied by Greg Phillips.

Brian Hogan. best mate of the Trophy donor Reg came under close scrutiny of Captain Chop with his 41Points.

No mercy as Brian plays off a Handicap of seven less than last week.

Runner up: Ron Murray with 39 Points with Phil Smith a battling third on 36 Points.

Nearest the Pins for the Ladies saw Chris Stait win the fourth and Lyn Davison taking out the 11th with no result still on first.

Nearest the Pin for the Men saw Reg Davison victorious on the fourth with Paul Murray taking out the 11th.

First Hole still too hard with a Jackpot next week of five Golf Balls.

Lucky Card Draw: Richard Wells.

Bunny Award: Barry Whittaker.

Raffle Winner: Brian Hogan.

Runner up: Paul Murray and Brian Hogan (AGAIN).

Next Event: Stroke Monthly Award, Putting Comp and Trip Away. Ian Phipps to supply the Raffle. Great game of Footy this week.

Go the Dragon’s.

Last weekend saw 13 shooters attend the Deep Lead Shooting Complex  and shoot at ordinary targets at both 25 and 50m for a max of 500 points.

Again there was a sneaky wind blowing from the east over the stop butt resulting in many low shots at the 50m range.

Target Rifles

Field Rifles

Our next shoot is at 10am Sunday 26.3.17 and our last shoot for the reporting period which ends on the last day of this month.

Miss out and pay the consequences.

There will be a working bee out at the range on Saturday 25.3.17 from 9am if you can give a few hours please come along to the pistol club.

Round 7 Results

Round 7 Ladder

Top 10 player ladder after Round 7

Round 8 Draw

Parkes Bridge Club held our annual Agnes Hewett Memorial Trophy day on Sunday, March 19. Sixteen teams competed and the winners were a composite team from Dubbo/Wellington as were the runners up.

Forbes won the restricted division whilst the best local team award went to Ingrid Stephenson, Keith Fiedler, Greig Ball and Gary Somers who were only one point ahead of Isabel Orange, Bev Laing, Gai Baker and Anne Berkeley. 

The day was a great success with much praise from our visitors for the wonderful catering.

Also at the event we celebrated the birthdays of our two 92 year olds - Val Worthington and Isabel Orange - whose minds are still as sharp as when they first started playing bridge many years ago.

Results from last Thursday's seven table Mitchell game were :- North south winners Greig Ball and Louise Payne 61.9, Gai Baker and Fay Davis 51.8, Joan Reilly and Val Worthington50.6. 

For east west Keith Fiedler and Ingrid Stephenson topped on 61 per cent. Second were Fay Shaw and Jan Freeman 58.3 followed by Wendy Andrews and Peter Dearden 54.5.

Winners on Monday, March 20 March were Bev Laing and Beryl Twardy 62.5 who defeated Beth Thomas and Suzie McNamara 59.7 and Gai and Tim Baker 55.6.

Tuesday, March 21 winners were Jan Latter and Jenny Freeman 57.7 just ahead of Audrey Somers and Marlene Freeman 57.3. Joan Reilly and Val Worthington were third with 56.7.