Inter-zone Seniors Championship next week

The Inter-zone Senior Sides Championship will be held next week - earlier than usual this year - at Rydalmere Central & Northmead Bowling Clubs with 3 teams of Fours representing the Zone. They are drawn to play Zones 1,5 & 11 in the sectional rounds.

Selected to represent the Zone are:
Vinco Beram (North Sydney) Graham Tetstall, David Shearer (both Harbord) & Crawford Linton (Belrose)
Brian Stelling (Dee Why), Joe Saragozza (Belrose), John Boreham (Dee Why) & Tony Taylor (Harbord)
Rod Silber (Lindfield), Peter Ward ( Asquith), Max Gray & Rocky Davis ( both Belrose)

Reserves are Phil Carroll (Harbord), Fred Alexander (Lindfield) & Bill Webb (Asquith)

All the best, gents.

Umpires recognised for long service.

Bowls NSW has recently recognised the long service by 8 Zone 9 umpires by presenting each of them with a Certificate of Service.

Those recognised were: Lawrie O'Donnell   - Balgowlah      45 years
                                       Lindsay Pullan       - West Pymble  40 years
                                       Arthur Rayner        - Asquith            39 years
                                       John Dansie          - Warringah        38 years
                                       Bob Tattersall        - Newport           32 years
                                       Malcolm Munday   - Seaforth           31 years
                                       Jim Bloomfield       - Chatswood       27 years
                                       Frank Curtin          - Gordon             25 years

Congratulations to all these fine gentlemen! 

The umpires committee would like to hear from any other umpires who have more than 25 years accreditation

Inter-zone Challenge Shield selections

The 2012 Inter-zone Challenge Shield played between Zones 2,4.9 &16 will be played this year at Figtree Bowling Club (Zone 16) on the weekend of 7th & 8th July.

Our Zone currently holds the Shield, having won it (for the first time!) last year when it was played at Asquith. Can we win iy again?

The selectors have named the 18 man squad - 4 teams of 4 plus 2 reserves - to represent the Zone. They are:

Belrose: Matt Blackburn, John Campton, Steve Clark, Brad Franklin, Michael Harvey, Crawford Linton, Steve Rawlings, Mike cSmith, Cy Threfall & Nathan Wise
Dee Why:  Brad Langelaar
Harbord: Mark Alexander
Mona Vale: Adam Glew, Rod Hummelstad
North Manly: Paul Leckey
North Sydney: Brendan Brown, Jamen Lewis Kenta Treacher.

Pennant finals - draw announced

The Match Committee has announced the draw for the Pennant post Sectional matches. This is as follows:

Saturday 26th May   AM      Grade 4      Seaforth vs Harbord
                                             Grade 6     Mosman vs Avalon
                                                               Turramurra vs Mona Vale
                                             Grade 7      Gordon vs Turramurra
                                                                Seaforth vs Warrawee

Saturday 26th May   PM       Grade 1       North Sydney (1) vs Mona Vale
                                              Grade 2      Belrose vs Harbord
                                              Grade 3      Avalon vs Mosman
                                              Grade 5      Newport vs Warringah

Sunday 27th May     AM        Grade 1      Belrose vs winner elimination final
                                              Grade 4      Harbord vs Gordon
                                              Grade 6      Mosman vs Mona Vale
                                                                 Turramurra vs Avalon
                                               Grade 7      Gordon vs Warrawee
                                                                  Seaforth vs Turramurra

Sunday 27th May    PM          Grade 4      Seaforth vs Gordon
                                               Grade 6      Mosman vs Turramurra
                                                                  Mona Vale vs Avalon
                                               Grade 7      Gordon vs Seaforth
                                                                  Warrawee vs Turramurra
                                             

Pennants - final results

Results of today's final round in the 2012 Pennant competition are now on the website.

As well as a number of the usual one-sided games, there were a number of very close results.

Provisional Section winners are:   Grade 1                       Belrose
                                                       Grade 2, Section 1     Belrose
                                                                      Section 2      Harbord
                                                       Grade 3, Section 1      Avalon
                                                                      Section 2      Mosman
                                                       Grade 4, Section 1      Seaforth
                                                                      Section 2      Harbord
                                                                      Section 3      Gordon
                                                       Grade 5  Section 1      Newport
                                                                      Section 2      Warringah
                                                       Grade 6, Section 1      Mosman
                                                                      Section 2      Turramurra
                                                                      Section 3      Mona Vale
                                                                      Section 4      Avalon
                                                        Grade 7, Section 1     Gordon
                                                                       Section 2     Seaforth
                                                                       Section 3     Warrawee
                                                                       Section 4     Turramurra

These results are subject to confirmation by the Match Committee

Congratulations to all Section winners, in particular those Clubs with two wins.

Post sectional round robin matches will be played at Pittwater Memorial on Saturday & Sunday 26th & 27th May. The draw will be made soon. As noted last week, in Grade 1 there will be a semi-final between North Sydney (1) and Mona Vale and the winner will play Belrose for the Pennant.

Zone 10 wins Seniors Metropolitan Shield

Zone 10 has been declared the winner of the Combined Sydney Zones  Seniors Shield by the organising committee without replaying the 2 rained out rounds because they were in an unbeatable position as things stand.

The next challenge for our seniors will be the Seniors Interzone Sides Championships which will be played this year at Rydalmere Central on 22nd to 24th May. This is earlier than previous years. Those selected to play are still to be announced.

Pairs Championships - entries now open

Entries are now open for the State, Senior & President's Pairs Championships and entry forms can be downloaded from the website.

Entries close on 12th June and sectional play will be held on the weekend of 14th & 15th July.

Big defeat by Zone 11

Our side playing the annual match against Zone 11 (Eastern & western suburbs) suffered a big defeat at their hands today with both our 'A' & 'B' sides going down - 72 to 99 and 71 to 80 respectively. It was our turn to host the match and it was held at Harbord.

This was a disappointment was we have got the better of Zone 11 for the past two years. But you can't win them all!

Those representing the Zone today were:

"A" side
Adam Glew (Mona Vale), Michael Harvey, Brad Franklin & Nathan Wise (all Belrose)
Matt Blackburn (Belrose), Brendan Brown (North Sydney) &  Tim Whalan (North Sydney)
Paul Leckey (North Manly), Kenta Treacher, Jamen Lewis (both North Sydney) & Steve Rawlings (Belrose)
Brad Langelaar (Dee Why), Steve Clark (Belrose), Rod Hummelstad (Mona Vale) & John Campton (Belrose)

"B" side
Geoff Shaw (Harbord), Stuart McLeod (Mona Vale), Tony McArthur (Asquith) & John Venteman (Belrose)
A Moody, Lachlan Sturrock (both Belrose), Zac Abro & Mark Alexander (both Harbord)
Quentin Murray (Mona Vale), Steve Smith (Harbord), Peter Lynn (Belrose) & Dallas Taylor (Mona Vale)
Mark Conroy (Asquith), Brad Richards (Nth. Sydney), Mark Delia (Nth. Manly) & Tom Nathan (Nth. Sydney)

Additional Grade for Mid-week Triples

The Mid-week Triples competition starts on the 4th July and entries close on 5th June. Entry forms can be downloaded from the website - see under 'forms'

This year there will be an additional 'D' Grade and both Grades 'A' & 'B' will play 2 bowls x 31 ends with Grades 'C' & 'D' playing the traditional 3 bowls x 21 ends.

Revised Conditions of Play for this years competition can also be found on the website. These indicate eligibility to play in each of the Grades. This is not an Association event.