Results - 10 Mar 09

65 & Over Singles
The final was played on Monday between Elaine and Bob N. It was a very closely contested game with a final score of 21-20 well done to Bob. A great game by both of you.

Champion of Champion Singles
A big congratulations to both Terry and Feona for winning the Senior Champion of Champion Singles. And a special extra congrats to Terry for gaining his fifth Manawatu Title! Both Harold and Sue W made it through to the Semi finals.

Hospice 2009
The day started off with a champaine breakfast and only got better as the day progressed. The little bit of rain didn't dampen spirts and the wind didn't blow away any of the good cheer.
1st Noel, Nita, Noeleen & Lyndsay
2nd Carol, Anne, Lois Tyler & David Cross
3rd Mike Cavanah, Trever Kale, Tina Vartha & Tony M'osaea

Day 2 Carpet Court 2x4x2
Everyone turned up agian for the second day. There were a couple of teams with subsitutes so it was nice to see some new faces. The next round is on Sun 29 March.
Section winners from this week; Bob & Murray, Alan & Viv, John P & Peter D, Max & Joy, Kay & martin, Colin & Carol. Well done to everyone.

Notices - 3 Mar 09

Hospice
A reminder that our yearly hospice tournament and fundraiser is to be held this coming Saturday. More team entries could still be accepted – please sign in your team if you haven’t already done so. We would appreciate any donations of groceries and canned goods for the raffles. Other donated items for the raffles or auction will also be very much appreciated. Your help will ensure that this very worthwhile cause can again benefit from the generosity of Northern members. Please leave donated items and goods at the club or contact Laurie Izod.

Mates in Bowls
We were hoping to run the Mates in Bowls programme towards the end of this season but time has caught up with us so it has been decided to kick off the next season with a six week programme beginning on the first Monday of November and going through to Mon December 7. MIB is a programme designed for non bowlers who enter teams of three and play in an organised tournament over the six evenings.
A lot of the advertising and pre planning is completed with the assistance of Bowls New Zealand. As a club we are committed to providing personnel to help on these evenings with such things as coaching and assisting the non bowlers, setting up the greens, mats, boards etc, running the barbecue and helping in the bar. We will be asking for your help at the beginning of next season.
A presentation by Dennis Toon from Bowls New Zealand is to be held at our club on Thursday March 12 at 5.30pm. This will explain the way in which MIB is organised, and how our club can ensure that it is run successfully. We would like as many of you as possible to attend, as the future of bowls will lie with the new people that we can encourage into the game. See you there

InterClub and Intercentre
Congratulations to all Northern members who represented us at the Zone finals at Gisborne this past weekend. Three of the four Interclub teams ( Womens 1st division and Men and Women’s second Division) were successful in winning their zone final and go forward to the NZ finals which are to be held at Northern and Palmerston North beginning on April 2.
The Manawatu Open Men and Women’s Intercenter teams and the Mens Development team were also successful and will go on to the NZ finals which begin on April 4 also here in Palmerston North.

Remember – Hospice is Northern’s premier fundraising event and we hope to have the same support and success that we have enjoyed in the past. See you there

Doug

Results - 3 Mar 09

CT Singles - Zone Playoffs
Well done to Feona for winning the CT Zone playoffs in Gisborne today. She will now be off to Rotorua to play in the CT finals later on in the season. Well done Feona

Results - 28 Feb 09

Interclub - Zone Playoffs
All four teams travelled up to Gisborne on Friday and settled into the motels ready for action on Saturday. With very heavy rain forcast all day Saturday everyone packed their wet weather gear. It rained off and on most of the day but the heavier rain didn't arrive till later in the afternoon.
Division 1 Women won - After only winning 1 game in the first round the girls played hard to get the win.
Division 1 Men 3rd - Only one win in the first round it was going to be hard to pull back. There were a couple of very tight games which could have gone either way but it just wasn't their day.
Division 2 Women won - Going into the last round the team had to win both games and pick up some extra points to pull ahead of the other team. The pairs picked up a good win and increased the differential then the fours team won well and added and extra 9. In the end they won with +6 diff over Te Karaka.
Division 2 Men won - The men were convincing winners and did it in style, not needing to play the last round in the rain.
well done to all the teams, 3 out of 4 teams through to the final is pretty good.
Three teams will now go on to the National Interclub finals which will be played here in Palmerston North Thurs 2 & Friday 3 April.