Major Singles

On Sunday, May 19 Brett "Baldy" Frame and Rob Irving fought out the Final of the Major Singles Championship. Rob started well and won the first two ends to lead 3-0 and continued to match Brett, shot for shot.

After thirteen ends the scores were level 12 all and Rob won the next four ends to lead 19-12 before Brett found form (after some encouragement from his wife Cherie - in the form of a large beer).

On the next two ends Brett scored seven shots to tie the scores again and eventually ran out the winner 31-24 after 28 ends. Congratulations to both Rob and Brett for putting on a show worthy of any final and in particular Brett Frame, the Club Major Singles Champion for 2019.

Major Pairs

On Saturday, May 18 the team of Paul and Mike Went came up against Brett "Baldy' Frame and Guy Ellery in the second Semi-Final of the Major Pairs Championship.

Paul and Mike had the better of the early ends but by the fifteenth end Brett and Guy had taken the lead for the first time in the match, 19-18.

The next five ends were all won by a single shot and with one end to play the scores were level 21 all.

During a tense final end both teams looked like winning when they held shot but eventually Paul and Mike claimed victory 22-21.

Congratulations to both teams, it was a great match , and in particular Paul and Mike Went who will meet Tom Casey and Martin Tighe in the Final.

Zone Championships

We have three teams through to the next round of the various sections of the Zone Championships to be played next weekend in Dubbo.

In the Open Fours Championship Semi- Finals, our club will be represented by Garry Carberry, Paul Went, Michael Went and Tom Casey.

Our team in the Semi-Finals of the Seniors Fours Championship is Mark Dwyer, Col Hayward, John Davies and Graham Barby.

In the Final of the Seniors Triples Championship we will be represented by Col Hayward, John Davies and Graham Barby.

Sorry about the mistakes last week but hopefully I have the correct information this week.

Best of luck to all the players involved - here's hoping for three great results.

Social Bowls

Thursday, May 16

A bit of warmer weather saw twenty-two players turn up, including Jan and David McGinley, visiting from Leeman in Western Australia (a small fishing village about 250Kms. North of Perth - population about 450 - minus two at the moment).

Results were as follows:

In the Triples match Wally Grant, Bob Freeman and Mal Porter were too strong for Col Woods, George Bradley and Gordon Dickson

Saturday May 18

It was good to welcome back our visitors from WA who joined eighteen of our members to play five games of Pairs.

In a close game Dave Johnson and Lorraine Baker started well against Rob Irving and Maureen Baille and after 15 ends had a lead of 19-11.

On the next end Rob and Maureen scored seven shots and won three of the last five ends to run out winners 24-21.

John Dunn and John Watson were too good for Steve Turner and George Bradley 24-17 thanks to a "man of the match" performance from John Watson.

The Lucky Rink Jackpot was won by lucky rink 13 and Lorraine Baker brought up the magic no. seven to win the $160 jackpot.

The jackpot will be up for grabs again next week but you will have to bring up the lucky seven from numbers. 1 - 25.

Badge Draw

The badge draw was not won last week and will be worth $1700 this week. As usual, it will be drawn on Friday night sometime after 8.00 when the raffle is finished.

The Rookie

The past fortnight has been a busy time for Bowlers right throughout the Zone 4 Bowling Association, with fours and triples championships for the majority of playing personnel and the State Senior Sides Championships for our selected squad:

Our Zone 4 Senior Representative Side recently competed in the State Championships and whilst Not

Progressing past the sectional play of this event were very competitive, just missing that Quarter-

Final Spot by a couple of Shots: Honourable mention to Alan Messiter, Phil Gray, Bob Hamilton; Robert French who were undefeated over the two days, and to the 2019 Rookies Mark Dwyer, Bernie Diduszko; John Adams good effort.

Last weekend we Completed Play in the Triples Championships, which will now see all Section winners in both the fours and triples advance to the Finals series at West Dubbo over the weekend of May 25-26.

The FOURS will be played on Saturday, whilst the section winners of the triples will line up on Sunday. Due to recent changes by the Bowls NSW Match committee these events now have Senior Divisions for Players over 60 years of Age and also the Presidents Division for Players who are Graded 5 or below.

So instead of just one open fours and triples championships we will have three Zone Champions in each event, all of whom will advance to the state finals at Ettalong later in the Year

Forty-two brave veteran golfers took on the Grenfell Country Club Golf course last Thursday in the Lachlan Valley 18 Holes Competition.

With slopes down the centre and either creeks to the left of you or rocks to the right of you, this very interesting course won the day, as no one came in under par.

The outright winner was Barry Green (Grenfell) on a count-back from Ian Phipps (Parkes), both on par, 36 points in A grade. Tony Glasson outpointed Tom Delmenico in B grade, 33 points to 31.

Nearest the pin winners were John Pearce on the ninth and Ian Phipps on the eighteenth. The Coles/Miller points went to the local team, Grenfell, with 104 points, followed by Parkes on 100, and West Wyalong and Forbes tied on 98.

We all then enjoyed the hospitality of the good ladies from the bar and kitchen. We come back to Parkes this Thursday. All Parkes veteran are notified that our AGM will place following the game at Parkes on June 6.

Mcl

Last weeks results

Pluggas defeated Budgies 5-2 with players player going to Gary Barber for Pluggas and Chloe Barnier for Budgies. High scores were Darrell Bailey 2x 140, 121, 6x 100. Michael Dunn 110. Gary Barber 100. Tony Gilliver 112. Jake Tonkin 2x 100.

Strikers defeated Twist Tops 4-3 with players player going to Teona Wakefield for Strikers and Bob Green for Twist Tops. High scores were Joe Van Opynen 140, 123, 121. Teona Wakefield 126. Kathy Madden 121. Top Flights defeated The Wolves 7-0 by forfeit.

This Wednesdays draw

A-Grade

B-Grade

Leah Roberts

Round 10

Thank you to all teams who have been completing their set up and pack up duties as rostered, it is a huge help to our organisers each week.

Parkes Netball association is joining the state-wide Shoosh for Kids campaign. Let's show respect to kids and officials by keeping our comments positive - remember, sport should be fun! #shooshforkids

Week nine results

Mixed:

Ladies:

Tuesday, May 21 Round 10 Draw

Set Up: Drama Llamas

Mixed:

Ladies:

Lisa Nutley

High profile Scone trainer Brett Cavanough and English jockey Billy Cray were on track to repeat their four win haul at the 2018 meeting when they won the opening three races at Brewarrina on Saturday.

Last year they won the first three races with Another Plan, Pompous and Wild Grace and then the Cup with Still Undaunted however Still Undaunted failed to run a place in the Cup on Saturday after earlier wins by Crystal Queen ( $4.40 ),Sunday Patrol ( $2 favourite ) and Galina ( $2 favourite ).

Winner of the 2019 Brewarrina Cup ( 1200 metres ) was Gadfly trained at Condobolin by Mark Ward for a group of owners mainly from Condobolin and Trundle.

A last start winner at Noorama in outback Queensland, Gadfly ( $3 ) was given a nice run behind the leaders at Brewarrina by Michael Heagney and won by almost a length from Rogue Runner ( Grace Willoughby, $2.50 ) and More Than Art ( Chelsea Ings, $7 ) with the $1.80 favourite Still Undaunted finishing a long way back at the tail of the field.

Now the winner of 13 races, the nine year old gelding Rusty Motorbike trained at Nyngan by Rodney Robb for his wife Wendy Robb was ridden by apprentice Grace Willoughby to a strong win in the 1600 metres Benchmark 45 Handicap.

Parked behind the leading pack, Rusty Motorbike ( $2 favourite ) finished best to beat Mt Malu ( Jodi Worley,$2.20 ) and. Tonna Power ( Rhonda Mangan, $8 ).

Following consecutive second placings at Goondiwindi, Lightning Ridge and Binnaway the Leon Cross, Warialda trained Beau Dancer ( Jodi Worley, $3 fav.) had a good run before beating Coasting ( Billy Cray, $3.20 ) and Jack Junior ( Tiffany Jeffries, $4 ) in the 1200 metres Benchmark 45 Handicap.

Dubbo to race on Monday, May 27, Bathurst on Thursday May 29 and Gilgandra, Saturday June 1.

Colin Hodges