Northern bowlers at NZ Interclub Finals

NZ Interclub Finals are to be played this week in Christchurch.

Good luck to Kensington (men) and Hikurangi (women) who are representing Northland. Play started yesterday with the finals due to be played at noon on Sunday.

Keep in touch with the play on the Bowls NZ website, the semifinals and finals will be shown live.

A Bowls3Five event was held against Far North representative, Opononi.

This event was won by Hikurangi representing Northland. They will now play against Takapuna Club from North Harbour in the area final next Wednesday, April 21.

This will be played at Orewa Bowling Club under lights from 6.30pm.

Good luck to the team representing Hikurangi, Steve Mitchell, Peter Mitchell and Manu Timoti.

The next event for the Centre is the 1-5 Regional final of the Interclub Sixes.

This will be played at Hikurangi. Counties, Auckland, North Harbour and Far North centres will take part. Play starts at 9am.

Champion of Champion events have been allocated to:

May 9 — Pairs at Hikurangi;

May 23 — Fours at Kamo;

May 24 — Triples at Kensington. Men & Women at same venues.

Expressions of interest have been called by the Centre for positions on the Board, Events Manager, and Operations Committee. These close at the end of the month.

If you are interested in any of these positions, please contact your club who have the nomination forms.

Bowls New Zealand has now issued their competition dates for the 2021-22 season.

The operations committee will now hold a meeting and put together a Centre programme for next season to be presented to the Board and to clubs in due course.

The Northland Coaching Association hold their Bonus AC Fours Tournament at Kensington Club on Tuesday 20 April. Entries to Sue Wightman, please.

The entry form is in the back of the Centre handbook (page 97).

Club events next week

Sunday, April 18 — Dargaville AC Triples;

Tuesday, April 20 — Coaching Association Bonus Fours; Wednesday, April 21 — Maungaturoto AC Triples & Ngunguru AC Triples;

Saturday and Sunday, April 24-25 — Kensington Men’s Triples.