This weekend saw the completion of the Bowls Taranaki Champion of Champion’s and Hugh Moss events. In good spirits and chilly conditions we saw a number of clubs from around Taranaki represented. Congratulations to the following winners:
Winner: Junior Women’s Singles – Amanda Crehan, (Paritutu) Winner: Junior Men’s Singles – Fred Quilter, (Lepperton) Winner’s Men’s Pairs – Camron Horo, Joel Chard, (Rahotu) Winner’s Women’s Pairs – Kristin Stampa, Ella Smailes (Hawera Park) Winner’s Men’s Fours – Scott Roberts, Grant Anderson, Mark Anderson, Brendan Anderson, (Tower) Winner’s Women’s Fours – Briar Atkinson, Tina Atkinson-Watt, Alesha Quay, Jackie Moeahu, (Paritutu) Winner Men’s Singles – Maurice Symes (Fitzroy) Winner Women’s Singles – Briar Atkinson (Paritutu) Winner Women’s Triples – Briar Atkinson, Tina Atkinson-Watt, Jackie Moeahu (Paritutu) Winner Men’s Triples – Kaylin Huwyler, Phil Huwyler, Kevan Sellers (Paritutu) Hugh Moss (Junior Pairs) – Gavin Benton, Simon Rowe (Fitzroy)
Junior men’s singles final: Fred Quilter (Lepperton) Vs. Shae Fleming (Rahotu).
Men’s pairs final: Gerry O’Sullivan and Steve Sabine (Inglewood) Vs. Camron Horo and Joel Chard (Rahotu).
Women’s fours final: Briar Atkinson, Tina Atkinson-Watt, Alesha Quay and Jackie Moeahu (Paritutu) Vs. Marlene Malcolm, Ada Senior, Anne Hinton and Jenny Newton (Waitara).
Men’s fours final: Bill Johnston, Peter Vink, Ian Dawson and Andrew Gadsby (Fitzroy) Vs. Scott Roberts, Grant Anderson, Mark Anderson and Brendan Anderson (Tower).
Saturday, April 27, commencing at 11.15am (approximately):
Senior men’s singles final: Gerry O’Sullivan (Inglewood) Vs. Maurice Symes (Fitzroy).
Women’s pairs final: Theresa Needham and Sheryle Taylor (Stratford-Avon) Vs. Kristin Stampa and Ella Smailes (Hawera Park).
Women’s triples final: Val McEldowney, Anne Brophy and Anne Duggan (New Plymouth) Vs. Briar Atkinson, Tina Atkinson-Watt and Jackie Moeahu (Paritutu).
Men’s triples final: Kaylin Huwyler, Piripi Huwyler and Kevan Sellers (Paritutu) Vs. Brendan Anderson, Mark Anderson and Grant Anderson (Tower).
Dean File-sponsored Hugh Moss junior pairs semifinal 1: Alesha Quay and Jimmy Quay (Paritutu) Vs. Gavin Benton and Simon Rowe (Fitzroy).
Dean File-sponsored Hugh Moss junior pairs semifinal 2: Terry Fieldes and Kevin McCutchan (Urenui) Vs. Shae Fleming and Joel Chard (Rahotu).
Saturday, April 27, commencing at 2pm (approximately):
Senior women’s singles final: Briar Atkinson (Paritutu) Vs. Ella Smailes (Hawera Park).
Dean File-sponsored Hugh Moss junior pairs final: teams to be determined.
This is notice that Bowls Taranaki will be having their AGM at Stratford-Avon Bowling Club on Saturday the 29th of June 2024 at 9.30am.
Also notice that Bowls New Zealand are hosting a meeting at Stratford-Avon to discuss the changes to the Incorporated Societies Act. All Clubs and interested parties are invited to attend. Meeting to be held Tuesday 21st May at 6pm at Stratford.
Update at 6.40am: Both Opunake (for the women) and Okato (for the men) are clear of water at this stage. All players are requested, therefore, to report as scheduled for play at those venues this morning.
Awakino held their last day of bowls for the season over this weekend and with members playing in various tournaments around the country some of us took the opportunity to travel north for play.
An enjoyable trip up today to Awakino Bowling Club and a few members from Waitara ventured up to play in their final gala tournament of the season. Very enjoyable occassion with only a minimal hold up as we negotiated the road works on Mount Messenger. 1st place with 3 wins was a local Awakino team skipped by Crystal with John Ape-Esera (skip) Wolfey & Annie ( 2 wins & big differential) taking 2nd prize & Nigel winning 1 of the MONSTER MEAT PACK raffles courtesy Kiwi Butcher. Great day out on the green topped off with a wonderful afternoon tea.
Despite some overnight rain, the greens at Paritutu are all clear for today’s champion-of-champions fours. Players are asked to report for the 8.30am start time. Games are 15 ends.
There is a meeting arranged with Bowls New Zealand to discuss the updates to the Incorporated Societies Act and what clubs are required to do. All Clubs and interested people are invited to attend.
The meeting will be held at Stratford-Avon on Tuesday 21st May at 6pm.
Two bold efforts netted two bronze medals for Paritutu in the New Zealand interclub bowls finals in Auckland on Sunday.
Both the men’s and women’s sides had enjoyed successful competitions on Friday and Saturday, securing positions in the semifinals on Sunday morning.
But that was where it ended, with the men falling 2-1 to Gore and the women losing 3-0 to Invercargill.
The two Southland clubs were in turn beaten by Auckland, in the men’s final, and Carlton Cornwall, in the women’s decider.
Singles player Dean Elgar went through with five-straight wins in section play, before dropping his two post section games, the semifinal 21-13 to Sheldon Bagrie-Howley. Adam Collins and Darren Goodin won three in section play and the quarterfinal, but fell 18-15 to Craig Tinker and Craig Merrilees in the last four.
The Paritutu four of John Zittersteijn, Kurt Smith, Camron Horo and Aidan Zittersteijn, after four victories in section play, won both knockout games to complete an excellent tournament.
In the women’s, Paritutu won two of its four head-to-head matches in qualifying, advancing to the knockout stage after winning six of the 12 individual games. Briar Atkinson took three wins from four in the singles, Amanda Crehan and Bridget Fletcher won twice in the pairs and the four of Alesha Quay, Tina Atkinson-Watt, Barbara Harvey and Gale Fache had one win.
Atkinson led the charge in a 2-1 quarterfinal win over Stoke, winning the singles 21-12. After the pairs had been trounced 25-4, the Paritutu four secured the tie with a 14-10 victory. Paritutu had a sniff in all three games in the semis but lost the lot.
Meanwhile, there was a terrific result in the Bowls3five regional playoff at Hawera Park on Sunday for the New Plymouth trio of Sharleen Healey, Michael Healey and Laurence Hori.
The team met Aramoho’s Reen Belliss, Keith Slight and Peter Belliss, the Whanganui winners. New Plymouth took the first set 5-4 and Aramoho the second 3-2, meaning it all came down to a one-end tiebreaker. New Plymouth took two shots on the deciding end to secure its position in the New Zealand finals which will be held in Wellington on May 3-5.
On the local scene, both the Fitzroy/Stratford-Avon under-10s 2-4-2 pairs and the Okato men’s fours attracted maximum fields of 32 sides each for the two-day tournaments.
Overall honours in the under-10s event went to Fitzroy’s Ian Dawson and Evan Jones while the popular winners of the Okato event were Emmett Fleming, Jonty Linn, Steve Walker and Jordan Linn (West End).
Good luck to our team representing Taranaki who play off against Whanganui to see who will represent us at the National Bowls3five finals. The final will be played at Hawera Park on Sunday 7th April, 10am Start.
