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KENTON BOWLING CLUB
This week we hosted the final round of the Doris Ford and Les Clarke competitions between Port Alfred and Kenton Bowling clubs. If has been a close fought tussle all year but in the end it was Kenton who managed to retain the trophies. Congratulations to the Kenton bowlers who competed in these matches and thanks to our friends at Port Alfred club who make these encounters something we always look forward to.
We also welcomed Allan Marais, a new member, to the club this week and he was presented with his bowls cloth at tabs in on Wednesday.
The monthly PT Trips competition took place on Friday and was won by the team of Ivan Pachonick, Peter Levey and Bert Evans. The winners of the various ends all had smiles on their faces as they counted their winnings until the finemaster came around wanting his slice of their pie.
The whisky draw was won by Dave Wallace and Kevin Sharp won the PT Meat Draw. The big news of the evening though was that the Joker Draw was won by Ferdi Bergh. Congratulations to all the winners of the day.
We closed off with a lovely bring and braai in the Burnt End. Thanks go to Neville Emslie for providing the lovely potato dish that we enjoyed with our meat.
This coming Saturday is time for our GBS Trips competition. The format has changed and we* ask that our club members please join in as there will be lots of prizes at stake.
KOWIE BOWLING CLUB
This week’s bowling activities began on Tuesday afternoon with a tabs in competition, sponsored by “Time 4 Biltong”. Much to the delight of the team that selected the tabs teams, most of the games were closely contested with the small shot differences ultimately deciding who was going to be nibbling on biltong for the week.
The winning (snacking) team was led by Lester Scriven and his team of Gary Everton, Peter Ford and Gerald Mills.
Wednesday morning saw our greens being flooded by a bunch of enthusiastic animal lovers, playing in the annual Kowie Club SPCA fun day competetion, where 20 teams competed for some well sponsored prizes. Each team played three games of 15 ends, with a total of 8 points available for each game. Two games were played in the morning session and the final game was played after the lunch break.
After 45 ends, the points were tallied, and light snacks were served to all the participants where the winners were announced.
In fourth place was Ruth Low and her team from Kenton. In third spot was Dave West’s side, also from Kenton. The second spot was clinched by Brian McLean’s team from Port Alfred. The winners of the day was Rodney Gradwell and his team of Justin Louw and Ronel Hough, all from Kowie.
A huge hamper of yummy stuff was raffled, and was won by Margaret Stegmann. All the proceeds from the raffle were donated to the SPCA, as was the proceeds made from the “Spider” competition which was held just after the lunch break.
To generate further funds, there were a number of items auctioned off by our bowls auctioneer, Rodney Austin from Kenton.
At the end of the day a lot of fun was had by all and a huge amount of money was raised for a worthy cause. A note worth
mentioning was that every team that entered, went home with some sort of a prize.
After prizegiving, there were a lot of thank you’s to be done, so Dave Thomas did the necessary. The following people were thanked:
Forbes Coutts from the SPCA for organising all the prizes. Chris Avis from Kowie Toyota for being the main sponsor for the day. The tournament directors, Judy and Jonty Alexander, together with Margie Thomas, who got the whole competition to “work”. All the ladies that worked tirelessly in the kitchen the whole day for all the tea/coffee/lunch/snacks etc. Denny Richardson, the assistant greenkeeper and his team for preparing the greens for the day. Andrew Meyer and his crew for keeping everyone hydrated before, during, and ESPECIALLY after the competition. Lastly, Dave thanked everyone for participanting and supporting such a worthy cause.
As usual, Thursday was tabs in, and the winning team of the day was Jack Wiid, and his team of Peter Ford, Rob Turner and Peter Smith.
At Saturday afternoon’s tabs in competetion, we welcomed two well known characters, Quentin Hogge from King William’s Town B.C. and Ted Keenan, the Daily Dispatch journalist from Nahoon B.C. Interestingly enough, both visitors felt quite at home on the heavy greens after the rain on Friday night as these were a norm at their respective clubs back home. Needless to say, both of them had a good day at the office.
The winners of Saturday's tabs in competition was our newly selected Eastern Province representative, Jackie Kriel, and her team of Bugs Wilmot and Ted Keenan from Nahoon.
PORT ALFRED BOWLING CLUB
Hein Strombeck, Gavin Dixon, Stuart McDougall and Brian McLean set off this last Friday to play in King Bowling Club Classic. Brian is a former member of the club.
The foursome were sponsored for their stay in a guest house a hop, jump and a skip away from the bowling club. At the end of day one, the team lay fourth in the log after winning both their games.
Sunday saw them lose their first game to a strong Comrades BC side skipped by Johnny Grant which also included Vernon Boucher. In their final game on Sunday they came up against the same side from the Queenstown BC who they had thrashed on Saturday and Queenstown were clearly looking for revenge.
In a tight game, the Port Alfred team were lying sixth, only for their skip to draw a magnificent shot to win the end. There was no stopping Queenstown from there on. Otherwise it was en enjoyable classic.
Last week the final round of the Doris Ford (women) and Les Clarke competition against Kenton in Kenton was played with Kenton walking away’with the honours. The only men s sides to win were skipped by Hein and Grumpy Enslin while both the ladies’ teams went down. Well done to Kenton.
The final of the mixed drawn fours was played last week between Jenny Frost (skip), Peter Wansell, Julie Sluziuk and Ilse Strombeck against Ron Orford, Noelene Kirsten, Christo Hatrtingh and Anna Strombeck with Jenny and her players crowned the champs. Well done all.
Coming up this Saturday is the Kenton GBS- sponsored mixed trips with former Port Alfred president Trevor Frost pleading for support from club members.
Well done to all the players from Eastern Areas who are to represent Eastern Province.