INDOOR BOWLS
GOLF
Stratford: Ladies, on Tuesday September 20 2016 the Ladies played LGU and Putting. Best score was Flo Coburn with 69 Nett. Pauline Downs and Debbie Volzke had 73 Nett. Best Putts was Debbie with 31. Bobbie Oliver had a Two. Next week Tuesday October 4 2016 is Championships Rd2. Starters Miro Elliot and Maria Weydon. On Saturday September 24 the Ladies played Pembroke Trophy. Best score was Debbie with 70 Nett and Ann Braithwaite had 73. Next week 1 October 2016 is LGU, Putting and Pembroke Trophy.
Men, Saturday 24 was quarter-final day in the intermediate, junior and senior club champs. Results of the intermediate division; S. Ngatai beat M. Walsh, N. Bertie beat M. Cook, B. Gibbons beat L. Eagar and W. Dymond beat J. Erwood. Junior results; C. Merson beat P. Shearer, B. Daysh beat T. Cooksley, G. Kelly beat B. Swindlehurst and K. Johns beat B. Knowles. Senior results; S. Campbell beat D. Shearman. Players not involved in the match play played a bogey comp with G. Bishop scoring an impressive +7 to be the run away winner followed by B. Gibson on +2. The top club team of P. Downs, C. Downs D. Banham and G. Kite played in the Taranaki final at Manaia on Sunday finishing a commendable forth. Draw for the champs semi finals on October 1; Seniors; 11.00 G. Kite vs B. Gibson, T. Cawley vs S. Campbell. Juniors; 11.30 C. Merson vs B. Daysh, G. Kelly vs K. Johns. Intermediates; 11.45 S. Nagatai vs N. Bertie, B. Gibbons vs W. Dymond. Hawera: Saturdays nett plus putts competition was won by lot by Don Cameron 69/31/100, from Neil Yeoman 67/33/100, Darryn Sunnex 69/32/101, Duckie Ropiha 74/28/102, Arnold Lloyd 73/31/104. Twos were scored by A. Lloyd, D. Cameron, A. Ropiha & N.Yeoman. Championship matches played at the weekend resulted in wins for Tim White 4/3 over Karl Stratton and Darryn Sunnex 2/1 over Jarrod Graham. The remaining championship semi-final to be played this weekend is Mark Ropiha vs Daniel Quintus. Stableford for all other players.
Manaia: On Saturday Taranaki Golf held it’s Top Club Tournament at Manaia. The rain stayed away all day and the players were able to enjoy a great days golf on a course which was in beautiful condition. Eleven Clubs were represented on the day. Winners of the individual sections were: Seniors Greg Elliott Manaia 40pts, Intermediates Andrew Castles Inglewood 41pts, Juniors John Oliver Manaia 42pts and in the ladies Pauline Downs from Stratford was first with 38pts. The Top Club team winner for 2016 was Manukorihi on 146pts who pipped Manaia who were the defending champs by 1 point on 145. They were followed by Inglewood who had 144pts. So next year Manukorihi will host the tournament. Saturday Men: Nett Round. Trevor Larsen 1st on count back with a nett 66 from Alan
McKay 2nd also on nett 66 and Gary Dowdle 3rd nett 67. Championship matches played on Saturday Greg Elliott beat Marcus Miritana, Ashton Sharp beat Jordan LeFleming and Jade Symes beat Alan McKay. Please keep your matches going we need to have them played by our all finals day which is on Saturday November 5.
Te Ngutu: Thursday 59ers. Another good field of over 30 again this week played the second round in the Wills Trophy. S Robinson 43, R Edgcombe 43, R Park 39, K Fare 39, D Bunker
38, A Kemp 37, J Langridge 36, D Beaven 36, A Lander 36, A Abbott 35, N Pearson 35. Twos M Sharp, K Fare. Closest the pins, 2nd R Hall, 4th S Robinson, 11th A Abbott. Wooden Spoon J Meyer ( Welcome back
John ). Saturdays Pro Haggle. Nett. Pop Luke 60, D Bunker 63, Pa Luke 66, M West 67, A Abbott, C Porter & J Lovell 68. Twos J Hughes, K Ropiha, P Verry, J Pettett x2. Final round of the strokeplay champs: Results were. Seniors Jarron Pittams 310, Sam Houghton 318, Paul Bishop & Nathan Ropiha both on 333, Colin Hughes 347, Kuka Ropiha 351. Intermediate, Murray West 324, Clive Porter, John Lovell & Gareth Savage all on 336, Trevor Jones 338, Alan Kemp 339, Jason Horgan 340, George Stannard 349, Anthony Gray 350, Scott Gyde 354, Brian Walsh 356,Blake Symes 365. Juniors Paddy Luke 357, Brian Luff 363, James Hughes & Robin Bloor 364, Gregory Parker 365, Lennie Symes 372, Moi Gray 376. Limits Neale Pearson 368, Ron Edgcombe 380, Clem Fowler & W Coxhead 382, Jason Kerr 384, John Willis 400. Congratulations to all Four winners. I will be in contact with the winners of the Seniors, Intermediate & Juniors about playing in this years Champions of Champions.
Also played was the last round of the Edgecombe Tray. Four round Nett total. Winner was Alan Kemp 272. Congrats Alan. N Pearson 275, M West 276, P Luke 280, C Porter & G Stannard 284, J Lovell & T Jones 285, J Kerr & P Edgcombe 287 rounded out the Top Ten. Remember all that this Saturday we are having the Captains VS Presidents. All Welcome. Sunday saw the Top Club Final played at Manaia. Thank you to Colin Hughes, Dave Bunker, Ross Cleaver and Jan Canty for playing there way into Sixth Place in this Annual event, Great Effort by the Four of you. Tyla Winter had 78 to lead the Senior Strokeplay after two rounds. In the Intermediates Trudie Smith had 94 and Bronwen Eccleshall 101. Helen Kelly had the best round in the Juniors 109 and Marie Bunker had 110. Marie won the accuracy. The best round in the 9 Hole Strokeplay was Manu Knapp 54 with June O’Neill and Louise Abbott 58. Adrienne Cudby won the putting round with 16 putts on countback from Manu.
CYCLING
Hawera Road Cycling Club: The lastest round of the Hawera Road Cycling Club’s was held in Normanby on Saturday November 24. With 5 laps of the Katene Road block for a total of 40km the pace was hot from the start with C grade dominating the first 4 laps. With 1 km to go B grade joined in for the finish line assault but James Murphy held them out for 1st place with Peter Schrafft 2nd and a fine ride from Kevin lock for 3rd. Fastest time went to Peter Schrafft in 1.04.33 with Seth Coleman 2nd in 1.04.41, John Larkin kept up his early season form for 3rd in 1.04.42. The Otakeho Indoor Bowing Club held their annual dinner at Shads Restaurant, president Don Semple congratulated championship winners and presented the trophies, and remarked on a very successful year for the club. Fours: Paul Midgley, Jenny Hamley, Ronnie Young, Lesley Landers. Triples:
Jenny Hamley, Willie Fleming, Lucy Midgley. Pairs: Paul & Lucy Midgley. Senior Singles: Paul Midgley. Junior Singles: Sam Landers. All of these winners went on to take out the Champion of Champion events at Waimate Plains Association and the Fours, Pairs and Singles won Champion of Champion events at Taranaki Centre level.
Winners of the Taranaki Open Centre Events were also from Otakeho Club, Fours: Don Semple, Gordon & Jenny Hamley & Jane Augustine. Triples: Gordon & Jenny Hamley & Jane Augustine. Pairs: Don Semple & Jenny Hamley. Singles: Don Semple who also won the Henselite Singles. The following players gain bars to their gold stars Paul Midgley his 4th Bar for 25 Centre Titles, and Jenny Hamley & Don Semple their third bar for 20 centre titles.