Lawn Bowls

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Draws have been published for the Vospers Women’s Interclub and Metcalfe Real Estate South Taranaki Centre Fours.

This season we have had a good number of entries for the Centre Fours requiring the use of greens at Tower, Hawera Park and Manaia. Finals will be held at Hawera Park. We are still looking for one last team to fill a vacancy to make it 40 teams. Contact the Centre Office if interested. Thanks to Scott Roberts and Metcalfe Real Estate for sponsoring the tournament.

The Vospers Women’s Interclub has 6 teams in Division 1 at West End and 10 teams in Division 2 at Stratford-Avon. There has been a slight change to the dates published in the handbook, so please note, that play starts Sunday 30th October, then Saturday 5th November and Saturday 12th November. Thanks to Mike Aro and the team at Vospers for their continued support of Bowls Taranaki.

Any female players that want to make themselves available for playing in the Senior Reps for Taranaki, should (if they have not already) let the Centre Selector, Don Christensen or John Sexton know.

Dates for Vospers Women’s Division 1 Interclub.

Saturday 5th November
Day 1, 3 Rounds: at West End

Saturday 12^th November
Day 2 at West End.

Click here for Rink Allocations
Click here for Draw

Dates for Vospers Women’s Interclub Division 2
Saturday 5^th November
Day 1, 3 Rounds: at Stratford-Avon.

Saturday 12^th November
Day 2 at Stratford-Avon

Division 2 – Black
Women’s Interclub Chart click here
Women’s Interclub Draw click here

Division 2 – Amber
Women’s Interclub Chart click here
Women’s Interclub Draw click here

Draw for Metcalfe Real Estate Centre Fours

Click here for Full Draw and Results

Section 1 – Manaia
1 Paritutu Dean Elgar
2 Hawera Park Luca Dobson
3 West End W Wipatene
4 Inglewood David Stachurski
5 Manaia Ross Clark
6 Hawera Park Gordon Lawson
7 Tower Max Sawyer
8 Paritutu Hamish Kape
9 Tower Grant Anderson
10 Vogeltown Kevan Sellers
11 Stratford Avon Brian Pearce
12 Manaia Willie Fleming

Section 2 – Tower
1 Tower Scott Roberts
2 Hawera Park Arnold Lloyd
3 Oakura Pat Walkin
4 Inglewood Graham Reive
5 Hawera Park Brian Eccleshall
6 Pihama Terry Mullin
7 Tower Keith Ranford
8 Stratford Avon Dennis McEwen
9 West End Craig De Faria
10 Inglewood Gerry O’Sullivan
11 Paritutu Allan Batley
12 West End Garry Murfitt
13 Okato Bruce Peacock
14 Fitzroy Colin Christie

Section 3 – Hawera Park
1 Paritutu Brendon Walton
2 Hawera Park Colin Young
3 Inglewood Paul Howell
4 Fitzroy Ron Gadsby
5 New Plymouth Kelly Hill
6 Tower Paul Werder
7 Stratford Avon Paul Digby
8 Hawera Park Kearin Pollard
9 Paritutu Darren Goodin
10 Tower Ian Busby
11 West End Grant Hassall
12 Opunake Paddy Deegan
13 West End John Garrud
14 Hawera Park Frank Pollock

Good luck to all those involved.

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Encouraging start of Season for Taranaki Bowls:

It’s been a good start to the season for many clubs around the province. Bowls is back and clubs have opened up and welcomed their members in with friendly opening day tournaments and have a ‘go’ days. There are encouraging signs from clubs in terms of membership. Vogeltown have 8 new members on the back of their opening day, while Lepperton have a number of new members. Some clubs are still waiting on opening their greens, and fair enough too, it’s been pretty wet this week, and it’s predicted to be a long, sunny, dry summer. We look forward to seeing our new bowlers around the greens.

We have 5 new Major Tournament sponsors for the upcoming season. Welcome on board to Metcalfe Real Estate South Taranaki, Summerset Pohutukawa, MiLife New Plymouth, Darth Funeral Services Stratford, and Suunto Sports Watches. We look forward to working with you throughout the season.

Our Open Fours Tournaments are once again proving very popular, and it looks like it will be a bumper number of teams with over 100 entries from around the country received so far, and we are only a handful of weeks into the season. Among the teams entered are 8 teams returning from Australia. We look forward to hosting them, and showing them the hospitality that Taranaki is well known for. Many teams have asked for accommodation, and there is a shortage of accommodation in New Plymouth, so please, if you or anyone you know is willing to let out their home, please be in touch with the Centre Office.

Planning is well under way for the Representative Teams. Allan Batley and Don Christensen have been appointed as Selectors and we wish them well alongside their management team. The Under 8’s Trial will be held at Stratford-Avon soon, with more information below and the first Rep. fixture is in November against Whanganui. We thank Kiwi Gaming Foundation for their support.

Taranaki Coaches are putting on a session of coaching for all bowlers at Vogeltown Bowling Club on Monday 26^th September. All welcome to attend. Session stars at 1pm.

In youth bowls news, schools and secondary school kids are being encouraged to participate in programmes for schoolkids around Taranaki. In Term 4, there will be after school bowls and in Term 1 2023, a have a ‘go’ day is being organised with the help of Sport Taranaki and TSSSA. More details to follow. For those kids who want to take it the next level, there is potential for them to represent Taranaki against Whanganui in a proposed Under 18 match. More details to come.

Under 8s Rep Trial

The following players have been asked to attend a trial for Under 8s at Stratford-Avon.

Venue: Stratford-Avon Bowling Club
Date: Sunday 9^th October
Time: 9.00am – 12.00pm  (some players will be asked to continue play after lunch from 12.30pm – 2.30pm)
Dress: Club Colours please.
Lunch: Available to purchase from club.
Contact: If unavailable for the Men’s please contact Allan Batley (027 372 2715) or John Garrud (027 751 3427)
If unavailable for the Women’s please contact Don Christensen (021 127 6163) or John Sexton  (027 338 6280)

Men: Bruce Colgan (W/E) Iain Parker (S/Avon) Kevin Archer (Pari) Jimmy Haupapa (Wai) Kurt Smith (Oakura) Hohepa Murray (Vol) Daryl McKenzie(Op) J Peters(M) Evan Jones (Fitz) Doug Clarke (M) Len Spick (Ing) Fred Quilter(Lep) Cory Brooks (W/E) Luca Dobson (H/P) Jimmy Quay (Ok) Mike Baldwin (Pari) Levi Davis (Op) Grant Crawshaw (T) J Peters (W/E) Michael Mathews (NP) Steve Sabine (ING) Steve Temperton (W/E) Simon Rowe (Fitz) Terry Hancock (W/E) Rob Clark (M) Peter Vink (PARI) Peter Van Dyke (Ing) Graham Kelly (S/Avon) Nigel Berry (H/P) Brian Pearce (S/A) Neil Watson (Pari) Lindsay Franklin (S/A)

Women: Paritutu;  B Atkinson; T Atkinson-Watt; S Baldwin; A Crehan; S Feek; J Gledhill.
Tower;  A Rowlands;
Waitara;  K Gower; N Jane; M Malcolm; G Wolfe.
New Plymouth;  H Chitty; L Agnew.
Opunake;  R Davey; E Campbell-Ward; J Hemahema; K Wallace; A Woods; D Chapman; S Oliver.
Manaia;    D Scown; S Clark; J Fox; I Taunt.
Lepperton;  T Quilter; D Heaven.
Fitzroy;     J Crawford; L File; L Te Awa.
Stratford-Avon;  J Ravji; S Taylor; K Bond.
Inglewood;  S Davis; J Forbes; G Burrows.
West End;  M Lister.
Okato;  A Niwa; L Kape; A Quay; A Megaw.

Please Note: This does not mean you have been selected or not selected for this seasons Junior Rep squad. Junior players are encouraged to enter Open Centre Events, Junior Interclub, Hugh Moss and Junior Bowls3five. Good performances throughout the season will be noticed by the selectors. Some players were unavailable or are already known to the selectors. Good luck to those attending.

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The Bowls Taranaki Coaches Association is putting on a session this Monday! They are inviting players to an afternoon coaching clinic to be held at Vogeltown Bowling Club. The session will be focused on game play, reading of the head and the laws of the game. Player’s questions, technical assistance and video analysis will be available. Don’t forget Monday is a public holiday, so come on down and enjoy the greens at Vogeltown.

Date: Monday 26th September, 2023 (public holiday) from 1:00pm until 4:30pm approximately

Venue: Vogeltown Bowling Club

Cost of $5 per player.

Bowls Taranaki are pleased to announce the Selectors for the Revital Fertilisers Men’s and Women’s Representative Teams in 2022-23.

For the Men, Allan Batley has been appointed and for the Women, Don Christensen has been appointed. Marty Jordan will assist with the management of the Men’s Team, while John Sexton will be involved with the Women’s Team. We wish the appointee’s all the best for the upcoming season.

Bowls Taranaki have a busy schedule of Representative Tournaments for the year, kicking off with our annual fixture against Whanganui. Following that is the Octagonal Tournament in February featuring Wellington, Wairarapa, Kapiti, Hawkes Bay, Manawatu, Gisborne-East Coast, Whanganui and Taranaki. This tournament will be hosted in New Plymouth, so we can all come and show our support for the team!

At the same time our talented junior bowlers, will be featuring against their rivals in the Hexagonal Tournament, usually held in Whanganui, it will be hosted this year by Bowls Kapiti. With many talented junior bowlers, we have high hopes they can return as winners!

This all leads towards the National Intercentre in March 2023. To be held in Christchurch, it is expected our team’s will continue their good results and progress from the last few years and represent Taranaki with pride. With many promising players in the Women’s and Men’s teams and many seasoned ‘pros’ it promises to be an exciting year ahead.

Press Release – Bowls Taranaki.

Paritutu bowler Aidan Zittersteijn is all set for his second Commonwealth Games – with a lifetime highlight already locked in for this year’s event.

Zittersteijn has been announced as joint flag bearer for the Cook Islands at the Games that commence in Birmingham this Thursday. Nooroa Mataio, who is part of the women’s bowls side, has also be named.

“It is going to be an overwhelming opportunity for me,” Zittersteijn said. “It really is an honour to be doing it.”

Zittersteijn said the opening ceremony on Thursday evening (UK time) would be an unforgettable experience. “It is a source of pride and huge motivation. I’m going to take in every moment.”

It will be Zittersteijn’s second Games, having secured a bronze medal in the men’s pairs in 2018 on the Gold Coast. That was an historic moment for the small nation with it being its first and only Games medal.

Birmingham presents a different set of challenges, not least the greens which will be lucky to get to 12s at Royal Leamington Spa. But the New Plymouth-based Zittersteijn said after more than a week of practicing at Frampton on Severn, he was “now getting the hang of it”.

Zittersteijn’s team mate from the Gold Coast, Taiki Paniani, won’t feature this time.

Instead, Zittersteijn will play in the middle of the triples which starts Friday evening (UK time). The Cooks have drawn Australia, Jersey and Niue in its pool and require a top-two finish to make the quarterfinals.

Zittersteijn will then play No 3 in the fours, where the Cooks opponents in section play include England, India and Fiji.

Zittersteijn has headed to the Games on the back of a strong local season, which included winning two Taranaki titles and more recent PBA successes on the carpet at Paritutu.

However, they were not enough for him to take out the title of Taranaki men’s player of the year. That honour instead went to Zittersteijn’s skip, Hamish Kape, who headed off Darren Goodin for the title, after both players claimed three titles. The women’s honour went to Susan Cottam.

Meanwhile, Paritutu were named as club the year and its secretary, Sandra Zittersteijn – Aidan’s mother – was administrator of the year.

Other award winners were Nathan Goodin (youth player), Lloma Hibell (umpire) and Steve Sabine and Graham Reive (greenkeepers).

The Annual General Meeting for Bowls Taranaki was held recently in Stratford. A new president was voted in with Grant Hassall taking over the role, vice president this term will be Eric Foreman. Returning board members are Robert Wolfe, Kevin Gray and Chris Commane with Val McEldowney and David Brunton joining the team. The board would like to wish everyone good luck for the upcoming season.

Bowls Taranaki is looking to appoint an Executive Officer. As outlined in the attached position description, the role has many parts and is fundamental to the success of bowls in Taranaki. Expressions of interest are now being sought for the position, and shall be sent to:

Executive Officer position, Bowls Taranaki, PO Box 4024, New Plymouth 4340 or emailed to taranakibowls@xtra.co.nz

If further information is required please email taranakibowls@xtra.co.nz or telephone 06-757-8000.

The closing date for Expressions of interest is June 27, 2022.

Executive Officer position description

Hamish Kape and Susan Cottam have been named as Taranaki’s best bowlers for the recently completed season.

Kape, a dual member or Paritutu and Okato, and Cottam, of West End, have been respectively named as the best men’s and women’s players.

Kape, who skipped the pairs in the Revital Fertilisers Taranaki representative intercentre side, topped off his glorious season with the men’s award. He started the season with two centre titles to his credit and ended it with five titles and a gold star. Kape skipped the winning side in the centre fours in November and then was part of the winning open triples team in March. His third title of the season came when he skipped his side to victory in the champion-of-champions triples in April. In addition, Kape was also runner-up in the open singles and champion-of-champions pairs.

Cottam, who played No 2 in the women’s intercentre four, also claimed her gold star on champion-of-champions finals day when she won the senior singles. Just prior to Christmas Cottam won the Open pairs for a third time.

Paritutu is the club of the year. It has excelled in the past 12 months connecting with its wider community, especially with an enhanced winter programme and three charity events. In addition, the club has maintained its high standard of greens, hospitality and successes, with numerous titles won over the past season, including both the men’s and women’s division one interclub crowns.

Lloma Hibell (Paritutu) is the umpire of the year in recognition of her dedication and service as a committee member, temporary secretary, divisional organiser and very respected umpire and member.  Lloma started playing bowls at the Smart Road Bowling Club in the 1991-92 season where she served as President for 5 years. She had been disadvantaged at a tournament because she did not know the “Laws of the Sport of Bowls” well enough and so decided to train as an umpire to help her own games and Club. She qualified as an umpire 23 April 2002, before progressing to become a Level 2 umpire and has officiated at a considerable number of centre events during the past season.

The inseparable Inglewood duo of Graham Reive and Steve Sabine are the greenkeepers of the year. Over the past two years they have, using expert assistance, transformed the Inglewood green on a virtual voluntary basis, into the superb playing service it is today. Both men, who work as an absolute partnership, have been both model students and workers in restoring the green.

Sandra Zittersteijn (Paritutu) is the administrator of the year. Zittersteijn was instrumental in both the rise of the indoor complex and the charity events held at Paritutu. The indoor complex was completed 25 years ago and for the first time since then it has someone able and willing to give it what it needs – energy, innovation, connections and desire.

Nathan Goodin (19) is the youth player of the year. Nathan is a member of the Paritutu, Okato and Rahotu clubs. During the season he gained two “pips” towards his gold star as a member of the winning centre fours and champion-of-champions fours sides. In addition, he also won the junior Bowls3five title and the Hugh Moss junior pairs. Nathan has a good future in front of him in bowls.

2022 award winners

2022 Men’s player of the year

2022 Women’s player of the year