Lawn Bowls

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Seventeen sides today successfully secured the necessary two wins from three matches to qualify in the South Taranaki Club-sponsored men’s centre fours.

The draw for post section play in the South Taranaki Club-sponsored men’s centre fours at Tower on 31/10/21:

Round 1 (9am start): John Garrud (West End) v Grant Hassall (West End).

Round 2 (report 11.15am): Mark Dudley (Hawera Park) v winner Garrud/Hassall, Paddy Deegan (Opunake) v John Sextus (Stratford-Avon).

Round 2 (all 9am start): Mark Anderson (Tower) v Gerry O’Sullivan (Inglewood), Darren Goodin (Paritutu) v Kevan Sellers (Vogeltown), Luca Dobson (Hawera Park) v Craig De Faria (West End), Bruce Phillips (Tower) v Hamish Kape (Paritutu), Bruce Mummery (Paritutu) v Kevin Hills (Tower), Bruce Peacock (Okato) v Russell Hardy (Tower).

To keep up to date with this event and all other Taranaki events, click on: Taranaki Events results for 2021-22

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The draws for Vospers women’s interclub and the South Taranaki Club men’s centre fours have been posted.

Women’s division one: Vospers women’s division one draw

Players in the women’s division one are asked to note:

1. The Board resolved at its meeting on Tuesday that for the women’s division one event only (not the men who are still required to have eight per side), that because there is a bye, the bye club is required to provide four markers for that round. These need not be players in the team.
2. Both of the greens used in the women’s division one are requested to be set out for seven rinks only (rink eight is not necessary). Rink 7 on green 1, and rink 1 on green 2, will both be available to the bye team for utilisation.

Women’s division two: Vospers women’s division two draw

Men’s centre fours: South Taranaki Club men’s centre fours draw

Results will be posted under the respective Mens and Womens tabs as they become available. All the events commence on October 30 and are scheduled to conclude on November 6.

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Bowls Taranaki sadly advises that Peter Scott passed away on October 12. Peter had a long and successful career in bowls, both on and off the green, in his 40-plus years in the sport. He played in Taranaki, Wanganui, Wellington and Manawatu as a tough, tenacious competitor. He won centre titles in both Taranaki and Wanganui as well as featuring in the closing rounds of the Dominion on a number of occasions. He was a driving force behind Police bowls in NZ and served on both the Taranaki and Wanganui Executives. When he returned to his home province of Taranaki in mid-2019, he became Executive Officer for Bowls Taranaki, a role he regretfully was forced to retire from in mid-2020 with ill health. At the same time he was breathing new life into the Waimea club, which was a further illustration of Peter’s ability to branch together the traditions of the game, which he cared so deeply for, with an eye for innovation and the future. Thank you, Peter, and God speed to you Big Bird.

An exciting fresh initiative for the new bowls season has seen 36 players picked for a Taranaki eight-years-and-under selection event.

The competition, with 18 men and 18 women, will take place at the Stratford-Avon club on October 10, commencing at 9.30am.

Bowls Taranaki identified that while there has been an increase in junior (five years and under) competitions, there was currently nothing on the centre programme for those with eight years or fewer experience in the game.

That is despite the Revital Fertilisers Taranaki representative team involving two fixtures for those from the eight-years-and-under group.

Expressions of interest from clubs saw over 80 players put their hand up for the new event.

“Given that this is the first year of the competition we have limited it to 36. But we very much have an eye for the future and will be gathering feedback from the event,” Bowls Taranaki chairman Grant Hassall said.

The selected players are:

Men: Bruce Lilley (West End), Bruce Colgan (West End), Steve Temperton (West End), Evan Jones (Fitzroy), Simon Rowe (Fitzroy), Paddy Deegan (Opunake), Levi Davis (Opunake), Steve Sabine (Inglewood), Kerry Mullan (Tower), Mark Hawken (Tower), Doug Clark (Manaia), Robert Clark (Manaia), Sean Prinsloo (Hawera Park), Nigel Berry (Hawera Park), Luca Dobson (Hawera Park), Hohepa Murray (Vogeltown), Kurt Smith (Oakura), Mike Baldwin (Lepperton). If unavailable, contact Garry Murfitt on 022-598-1097.

Women: Judy Fox (Manaia), Denielle Scown (Manaia), Shelley Clark (Manaia), Rita Davey (Opunake), Julie Hemahema (Opunake), Angela Debique (Opunake), Karen Wallace (Opunake), Geneva Barnard (Tower), Gail Burrows (Inglewood), Gloria Wolfe (Waitara), Norma Jane (Waitara), Cheryll Sharrock (Paritutu), Shelley Baldwin (Lepperton), Tina Quilter (Lepperton), Anne Potaka (Lepperton), Judy Crawford (Fitzroy), Margaret Lister (West End), Debra Kalin (West End). If unavailable, contact Janice Ropitini on 027-449-0734.

All bowlers who belong to more than one club are asked to take note of the following rule involving the champion-of-champions. This was passed at the Bowls Taranaki Board meeting on 8 September and takes immediate effect:

“A player is permitted to enter a specific club championship (which leads onto a Taranaki champion-of-champions event) in only one club in any given season. For the avoidance of doubt, a player is permitted to play different disciplines in different clubs but once they commence a particular discipline in one club, they are not able to compete in that same discipline in any other club.

Example: Player X plays the fours in club A only. Player X cannot play the fours in any other club. However, they can play the other disciplines in any other club.”

It was agreed that this rule would prohibit players having two bites of the cherry. In no way does this prohibit players belonging to more than one club.

Sadly, the rise in Covid-19 alert levels has delayed the arrival of our handbooks. We expect these to be here in the near future, though, with production expected to be completed under level three.

In the meantime, you can start planning for the new season by checking out the centre programme and the directory of club tournaments under the Programme page, or by clicking below:

Programme 2021-22

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The Taranaki trio of Dean Elgar, Aidan Zittersteijn and Bruce Hall have won the second New Zealand qualifying series for the new, innovative concept called Ultimate Bowls. The trio won the preliminary, from a field of 30 top teams at New Lynn on August 1. They have qualified for the finals, which will be held in Melbourne in mid-December.

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Taranaki were emphatic victors of the Central Regional Quadrangular Secondary Schools competition. Taranaki finished with 110 match points, ahead of Hawke’s Bay (83.5), Waikato (47.5) and Wellington (32). The event was a great success and the players and centres look forward to 2022.

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The Taranaki Secondary Schools bowls team, sponsored by Harcourts Team Green, the Flamingo Motel, TCM and SIS, will be involved in a quadrangular representative fixture this Thursday and Friday (July 22-23).

The nine-strong squad, which has been consistently training over the winter months, will be taking on the best secondary school bowlers from Waikato, Hawke’s Bay and Wellington at the TSB indoor complex at Paritutu.

Games will commence at 9am on Thursday and continue throughout the day. Play will conclude at lunchtime on Friday.

Each of the centres will be split into three teams of three. Those individual teams will play the other provinces in the Bowls3five format in triples, pairs and singles. The Taranaki singles players are Camron Horo (Opunake), Briar Atkinson (SHGC) and Luka Dobson (FDMC). The pairs combinations are Briar Dravitzki (SHGC) and Zoe Paynter (SHGC), Claudia Chan (SHGC) and Zach Bernardo (FDMC), and Daniel Whitaker (FDMC) and Clarence Chan (FDMC).

Bowls Taranaki Executive Officer, Tina Atkinson-Watt, said the support from a number of people and organisations had made this first quadrangular series an exciting prospect.

“We are most thankful for the support that we have received from Harcourts Team Green, the Flamingo Motel, TCM and SIS,” Atkinson-Watt said. “The players are chomping at the bit to get into it, as are the Paritutu hosts.”

– Ian Andrews

2021 award winners

Congratulations to all of the above award winners.