TURA BEACH MENS BOWLS REPORT No 368

State Bowls

Congratulations to our Ladies on their magnificent performances in winning both grade 3

and 4 flags in the State Pennant playoffs at Coffs Harbour last week. This was a truly outstanding achievement for a club of our size that has bowling clubs across the state questioning “where the heck is Tura Beach”. 

District Bowls.

Les Firth and Russell Cook are the 2009 District Pairs Champion of Champions defeating Tathra’s Steve Hunt and Gerry Lay 23/21 on Saturday, August 1 in a remarkable finish at Tura Beach.

Les and Russell started slowly while the Tathra team, playing great bowls ran to a10/1 lead.

Each time Les and Russell closed the gap Tathra would kick away again to a 10 shot lead. However, despite trailing by big margins through most of the match Les and Russell hung on closing the gap to 4 shots with two ends to play.

Three shots on end 20 had them trailing by 1 shot with 1 end to play. Great lead bowls by Les set up the head that he and Russell built on, leaving the Tathra team little opportunity to hold on to their lead. When Gerry’s last bowl, a weighted shot whistled through the head without making contact Tura were holding 4 shots and the match without Russell last bowl.

Club Bowls

The first round of the Club Triples was set down for Monday, August 3 with round 2 to be played on Monday, August 10. The draw for the Handicap Singles has been made and is on the board together with the entry sheet for the Major Minor Pairs, closing Friday, August 21.

Nominations for places on the Management and Match Committees will close on Friday, August 7. The forms, requiring a nominator and a seconder and also the acceptance signed by the nominee are on the board. The election of officers will take place at the AGM on Sunday, August 30.

Social Bowls

Wednesday July 29

Kevin Cox, Alan Cockroft, David Lewis and David Blake won the day with 22 points from Marty Orsborn, Rod Fry and Campbell Connal with 22 points.

Friday, July31

The Nominated Pairs went to Di and Ken Doherty on 2+8. Sue and Don Pope were runners up with 2+7 and the single game winners were June and John Jesina.

TJ