BOWLSBANTER
year-to-date standing with a lead of four points. A meeting between the selectors and members of the management committee was held to address the standard of our competitive bowling in the club. Various initiatives were discussed and tabled at the management committee meeting on April 9 for approval.
A formal communication will be distributed soon to explain some of the exciting developments.
We mourn the sad loss of our friend and long-serving member of our club, Peter Mcphee. Although Peter and Mireille resigned recently to move to Port Alfred, they are still deep in our hearts and minds. Our condolences go out to Mireille and family. There will be a memorial service at the Kenton Methodist Church, followed by refreshments at the Kenton Bowling Club on April 28 at 11am. Duty Roster for the week April 24-30: Tabs – Stompie Bellingan, Bar – Stompie Bellingan and Ken Nixon. Upcoming attractions (April 20-30): April 21 – Personal Trust Trips and Steak Braai; April 23 to April 30 – Ladies’ All Cape. Birthdays (April 24-30): April 25 – Corrine Brown, Friday April 28 – Anne Allan.
Kowie Bowling Club
Last Tuesday we played our monthly sponsored Spar competition with five rinks and John Hubbard and his team of fours, Dot Rohrs, Rob Walker and Rob Turner were in fine form to defeat Pieter Stegmann’s team by 9 points and 14 shot profit.
The runner-up position was shared by Jackie Kriel’s team and Lee Botma’s team who won the respective games eight points and four shot profit.
In the Spar competition there are only vouchers for the winning team.
Last Thursday six teams arrived at our club for the bi-monthly Kenton vs Kowie (men) and the Bess Tweedie (ladies) competition. This was the one of the closest competition days that we have had with the ladies each winning one game and Kenton ladies having a positive two shot difference.
In the men’s competition each club won two games with Kenton having the positive shot difference of one.
The overall position after two rounds of the comp is Kenton men 10 points and positive shot profit of 20 with Kowie on six points, and in the Bess Tweedie competition both clubs on four points and the Kenton ladies with a positive shot profit of six. There was also an overflow of two rinks of tabs bowlers where in a pairs game Dave Tyrrell and Roger Purdon peeled their game on 21 each and in a fours game Bob Ford defeated Jackie Kriel.
On Saturday in suspect weather, we had a small turnout with just three rinks playing our Snowball competition, where the result do not count for the winner.
The ends were drawn and the score of three was drawn. Lee Botma’s pairs game was the only team to have a score of three so he and Roger Purdon shared the kitty. Well done guys, easy money.
On Easter Monday we had a fun day where we played a 100 competition and we had a loverly turnout considering the overnight weather. We had a turnout of 31 bowlers which included some first timers. Teams were selected and headed out to play 10 ends with bowl 1 scoring four points, bowl 2-3 points, bowl 3-2 points and bowls 41 point with a total of 10 points per end. The first game played, the winners moved up one rink and played against the losers for another 10 end game.
Bowls was the biggest winner of the day with only one team winning both their games and that was Lee Botma’s fours team of Don Munro, Basil Clarke and Margie Thomas.
The weather had turned fine and everyone enjoyed their time on the green then we got to the serious part of the day lighting the fire and some extras arrived to keep the fire burning where we partook of a few beverages as we burned a small amount of meat. I love public holidays. Duties for the week April 24-30: Greens – (Roll) Tony Brown, (Mark) Andy Stuart and Dave Thomas, Tabs – (Cash) Lynn Kolesky, Bar – Sally Wormald and Rob Walker.