END-LESS ACHIEVEMENTS AND MILESTONES
■ LYNSEY Clarke wooed selectors to be recalled to the Australian team to play the Asia Pacific Games in June after being overlooked from the mainstream national team ever since the birth of her daughter Kenzie back in 2015.
She won gold in the pairs with Kelsey Cottrell and has maintained selection including next February’s trans-Tasman. She also won the Australian Open fours with Cottrell.
■ JOHN Bain represented Australia in the over-60s trans-Tasman series, with
Jayden Christie in the development team.
■ RYAN Bester won Multi Nations men’s pairs for Canada, Chris Le Lievre won men’s triples on debut for NZ.
■ KATELYN Inch won Asia
Pacific Games fours with NZ. Inch and Julie Keegan won the women’s state pairs and then the Australian title.
■ KELVIN Kerkow was inducted into the Queensland Sport Hall of Fame.
■ JAKE Fehlberg from Burleigh and Coolangatta’s Peter Uther won two golds in the National Blind Bowlers Championships. Fehlberg also won the Australian Open Vision impaired singles and pairs.
■ Scott DeJongh won the Australian Open fours with Kurt Brown, as well as state triples and fours.
■ Nathan Rice won the $100,000 Everest of Bowls Singles in WA and Bester won the $64,000 Blue Opal singles at Broadbeach.
■ The Queensland men’s and women’s representative teams both claimed silver in the Australian Sides Championships while the Queensland over-60s and under-18 teams were the best overall state in their nationals.
■ Tweed Heads broke a 17year drought by winning the state Division 1 men’s pennant, they were BPL10 champions and made history by becoming the first club to win both the men’s and women’s Queensland Champion of Club Champion fours titles in the same year.
■ Broadbeach won the women’s state pennant.
■ Club Helensvale won their ninth Premier League title back-to-back.
■ Gold Coast Tweed men’s and women’s district teams claimed back-to-back State District Sides Championship trophies.
■ Rice and Karen Murphy announced their retirement from international bowls.