Under 17s: Parkes Reds 4/117 (Nick Mackenzie 32n.o, James Mackenzie 14n.o, Cody Hall 1/7, Nathan Hessel 1/8, best fielders  – Lachlan Buesnell and harry Dawson) defeated Parkes Whites 8/108 (Nathan Pye 26n.o, Jared Carty 22n.o, Hudson Hawke 3/12, Nick Mackenzie 2/8, best fielders – Corey Thompson and Mitch Wright). Frank Spice 6/110 (Brodie Gavin-Rossiter 44, Bryce Gavin-Rossiter 10, Luke McDean 1/5, Cameron McMillan 1/1) defeated Gunns Mensland 10/106 (Corey McDean 44n.o, Samuel Nixon 11, Bill Ryan 11, Bryce Gavin-Rossiter 3/11, Toby Hurford 2/12). Parkes Blues and the newly formed Forbes Adept Plumbing have been awarded a bye due to the very late nomination of new team in the U/17’s competition.

Under 14s: Dunns 5/90 (Zayne Ehsman 14n.o, Ryan Dunn 14 retired, Hunter Hawke 1/6, Calvin Matthews 1/7, best fielders – Lachlan Swindle and Michael Reilly) defeated Hawkes 8/58 (Harry Bayliss 24, Hunter Hawke 11n.o, Wilson Duffy 3/0, F. Ross 2/8, best fielders – Ben Cooper and Ryan Dunn). Mathesons 6/85 (Stuart Gordon 11, Lachklan Farmer 11, B. Mathews 1/3, Clinton Hooper 1/4, best fielders – Talis Hurford and Hugh Squire) defeated Forbes AWB 7/72 (Angus Turner 15, Issac Sly 9, Oscar Ryan 2/1, Darcy Leadbitter 1/2, best fielders – Bill Phillips and Brodie Nicholls).

Under 12s: Parkes Blues 71 (Jayden Pope 9, Richard Gaut 8, Edward Mayo 1/4) defeated Bernardis IGA 58 (Henry Hodges 9, Joe Morrison 4, Samuel Drew 1/4, Nathan McCreadie 0/3, best fielder – Richard Gaut). Parkes Reds 3/89 (Harry Jones 16n.o, Ryan DUnford 13, Jack Skinner ½, Darcy Dawson 1/8, best fielders – Darcy Dawson and Toby Collins) defeated Parkes Whites 9/71 (Darcy Dawson 10n.o, Jack Skinner 7n.o, Ryan Dunford 3/5, Harry Jones 2/4, best fielders – Caleb Crisp and Harley Logan). Forbes Livestock 136 (Amy Maslin 16, Harry Rodgers 13, Riley Goodsell 2/8, Bradman Hardy 1/5, best fielders – Harry Whitty and Toby Jarick) defeated Auswest 80 (Joe Ellison 15, Riley Goodsell 13, Jake Smith 2/2, Cambell Ryan 1/4, best fielders – Jasper Mackey and Joe Pereira).

Under 10s: Parkes Reds 139 (Aiden Rayner 12, Darcy Summerhayes 12, Henry Rice 11Thomas Ball 2/7, Christian Drew 1/9Riley Duncan 1/10, best fielder – Thomas Simpson) defeated Parkes Whites 118 (Bailey Price 13, Thomas Simpson 7, Darcy Summerhayes 2/14, Liam Baker 2/15, Sam Rayner 1/8, best fielder – Darcy Summerhayes). Forbes Phoenix 125 (Justin Kruger 14, Oliver Walker 13, Matthew Higgins 11, Clayton Wing Yip 2/4, Sampson Duffy 2/9, Olivia McMaugh 1/6, Nicholas McMaugh 1/7, Frasier Beaton 1/8, best fielder – Olivia McMaugh) defeated Parkes Blues 123 (Sampson Duffy 17, Danilo Bottaro-Porter 13, Nicholas McMaugh 10, Matt Higgins 3/6, Oliver Mayo 2/4, Samuel Motley 2/8, Justin Krueger 1/1, best fielder – Matthew Higgins).

No results for the game between Hazell and Field and Sportspower. Point score after games played October 15. 3 points = win, 2 points = tie/draw/washout, 1 point = loss, 0 points = forfeit/bye.

Draw October 22. Saturday all games at 8.45am, players there by 8.30 am.

NOTE: All players from under 17s Whites, Hawkes, under 12s Reds, under 12s Blues and under 10s Blues need to meet their Coach/Managers at the Church Street bus stop at 8am on Saturday to arrange transport to/from matches to be played in Forbes. If any player is unable to play let your coach know ASAP so they can organise possible replacements.

Newly Registered Player’s: New players have been allocated to the following teams, Dylan Duffy to Parkes u17 Reds. Carleton Magill to Parkes u17 Blues. Andrew Finn to Parkes u17 Whites. Frankland Ross to Parkes u14 Dunns. Daniel Hando to Parkes u12 Whites. Riley Duncan to Parkes u10 Whites.Frasier Beaton to Parkes u10 Blues.

Reminder to players who have not paid their registration fees for 2016/17. Association Secretary Greg Morrissey will be at Woodward Oval from 8.10am to 8.25am this Saturday to accept payment. 

Representative Cricket: Round one of the Lachlan Cricket Council inter-town junior competition for 2016/17 is set for Sunday, October 23. Parkes to play Condobolin in under 12s at Spicer Oval. Unfortunately Condobolin could not field a team in the under 14 competition. The Parkes under 12 team will be decided after a final trial this Friday. All team members are to report to team Coach Shane Jones at Spicer Oval by 9am on Sunday morning.  The game against Condobolin is a 32 over a side game. Players need to bring drinks and lunch.

Last Thursday we played a seven table Mitchell movement. The north south winners were Audrey and Gary Somers with a good score of 61.9 per cent. Second were Greig Ball and Keith Fiedler 60.1 followed by Fay Davis and Jeanette Jackson 50.9 and close behind were Jan Freeman and Fay Shaw 50 per cent.

On the east west side it was a battle between the Quin brothers with John and his partner Margaret Hawken topping with 57.4 and Peter and Louise Payne following with 55.1.  Third on the day were Bev Laing and Isabel Orange 53 and Dawn Phipps and Vicki Burke 51.5.  It's the best roll up we've had for some time.

Instead of playing on Monday night and Tuesday afternoon we had special lessons from one of the best in Australia.  Joan Butts, from New Farm in Brisbane, is the Australian Bridge Federation's National Teaching Coordinator.  In this role, she trains teachers all over Australia.  She has played the game since she was 25 and has represented Australia in world championships.

Her passion is bridge education. She has taught thousands to play at the bridge club she has owned for 25 years.  We had three sessions of tutoring on three different aspects of learning to play well whether as the declarer or the defenders of each hand. The sessions were well attended by our Parkes players as well as folk from Condobolin and Forbes.  It was a great learning experience for most of us. Our special thanks must go to Ingrid Stephenson who managed to get Joan to come to Parkes and who organised the venues and the meals.