Southern Indoor Bowls

Pine Bush have started the season off in hot form by winning the Easter Pairs tournament. Congratulations to Sam and Robin taking home the Mark Keen Memorial pairs trophy

WELCOME TO 2024 hope you all enjoyed the off season cause it seemed to fly by very quickly and first game of Southern Bowls is this Wednesday 3rd April 7.30 pm. Quarry Hills are on duty. All entries to Neville please asap

CONGRATULATIONS Jean

A question for all clubs please.

Who held the interclub trophy at the end of last year 2022?

It was not written in the book and needs to be engraved.

Thanks

REMINDER 7pm start tonight 23rd August. As it is our Prize Giving please make sure all trophies are returned and it is also BYO drinks.

Congratulations to the following players selected for Southland to play against Otago on Sat 26 August

Dale Thompson
Bruce Lamb
Clark McLeod
Neville Buckingham
Lindsay Maxwell

Reserve - Peter O'Brien

Closing pairs

With bowls coming to an end it was great having a team from Eastern and Taupo join us last night.
Congratulations to

1st - Robin & Jackie Porter (all the way from Taupo)
2nd - Dale Thompson & Vaughan Stronach

CONGRATULATIONS to the following who are now qualified as a bowls measurer

Sam Smith
Riley Cook
Dale Thompson
Peter O'Brien

Neville won. Unfortunately Peter killed the 11th end and called it the game. Congratulations Neville Buckingham winner of Southern Singles

Neville up 12 to 8 after 10 ends

Neville up 10 to 4 after 6

Neville is leading atm 7 to 4 after 4 ends

Peter beat Bruce 13 to 6
Neville beat Murray 15 to 11
Final underway now

Current score on singles
Neville up 12 to 3 against Murray
Peter up 8 to 3 against Bruce

Southern Singles had a great turn out with 12 players. Well done to the 5 who qualified and now the semi finals are underway and Neville Buckingham is playing Murray Pickett and Bruce Lamb is playing Peter O'Brien

REMINDER SOUTHERN SINGLES is on Sunday 6th August at 1pm. Please get your entries to Neville asap

FORTROSE tournament held on 26th July had the following results

1st - Barry Keen & Maree Fraser Keen
2nd - Gaye & Bruce Lamb
3rd - Simon Fahey & Lachie Morton

Bowls has been cancelled for tonight 2nd August due to lack of numbers

CONGRATULATIONS to Pine Bush winning club of the year and Quarry Hills was a close second. Good luck heading to Invercargill to play

Congratulations to Bruce Lamb selected to play for Southland on 5th August

CLUB OF THE YEAR on Wednesday 19th July will start at 7.30pm. Please note change of time

SOUTHERN VS EASTERN

With both teams on 9 wins and 2 draws Southern won on points. CONGRATULATIONS to all players

SOUTHERN TRIPLES

5 teams entered and with only 2 qualifying it was a straight final.
CONGRATULATIONS to Niagara players Vaughan Stronach, Steve Hill and Val Whyte winning a tight game against Neville & Kerry Buckingham and Peter O'Brien

On 5th July we had both Novice Singles and Open Triples competition run at same time

NOVICE SINGLES

Was great to have 5 entries for this competition and a huge Congratulations to the following

1st - Riley Cook
2nd - Barry Keen
3rd - Daniel Pickett

OPEN TRIPLES

1st - Seaward Downs
2nd - Quarry Hills
3rd - Niagara

Congratulations to the following selected to play Eastern on Wednesday 12th July 7.30pm at Gore RSA

Leigh Smith
Sam Smith
Barry Keen
Steve Hill

Bruce Lamb
Rodney Buckingham
Kerry Buckingham
Murray Pickett

Ross Morton
Lindsay Maxwell
Bev Mason
Pam Durry

Clark McLeod
Dianne McFaul
Val Whyte
Riley Cook

Reserves
Neville Buckingham
Maree Fraser Keen
Simon Fahey
Daniel Pickett
Robin Braithwaite

MANAGER Neville Buckingham

REMINDER Bowls tonight 5th July starts at 7pm

On 28th June we had random drawn pairs. Congratulations to the following placegetters

1st - Ross Morton & Pam Durry
2nd - Lindsay Maxwell & Riley Cook
3rd - Jean Hoddinott & Barry Keen

QUARRY HILLS had their tournament on Wednesday and congratulations to the following

1st - Neville & Kerry Buckingham
2nd - Bruce Lamb & Rodney Buckingham
3rd - Ross Morton & Lindsay Maxwell

Oteramika had their tournament today. Was a great day and enjoyed by everyone.

Well done to the Southern Team last night taking the win over Western 7 games to 3. A great result