Bowls Update #25-02

Welcome to our second bowls update for 2025. To keep you well informed of what’s happening in the world of bowls at Windang, we’ll have regular updates including our monthly News Letter, available on our Bowls Website.

PENNANTS

The draws are now out for the 2024-2025 Pennant Season. When available, the official draws and results will be found on Bowlslink . There’s a copy of the draws on our website under the Pennants menu.
The Pennant Page has had a recent update. Links will be updated when they become available. Our selectors held a meeting to discuss selections for this season. The teams for round 1 are below and can also be found on our website under the Pennants menu.

Update 1 – 15/1/25

The Pennant teams for Round 1 have been reviewed. Thank you to our members who updated their unavailability status, and also to our members who met with us today and provided us with feedback concerning their position, and in some cases the positions of players within their teams. After due consideration, both Kevin and myself have agreed to several changes. Most changes were due to player unavailability in Round 1 and subsequent rounds.

Update 2 – 18/1/25

The leads in G3T3 and G4T3 were swapped around upon request from both players.

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CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Men’s Pairs were finalised last week, and congratulations to our finalists, Rob Jordan and Gregg Stevens against Paul Cable and Rick Malley. Paul and Rick getting the better of Rob and Gregg 21-13. Congratulations to our 2024-2025 Men’s Pairs Champions Paul Cable & Rick Malley. A great effort by Paul and Rick as they also took out the Senior Pairs Championship.

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Our Men’s and Women’s Fours commenced this week, already off to a shaky start with all round 1 games suspended with about 5 ends to go due to the rain.

Play continued the following day with the next round played shortly after. Into one half of the Women’s Fours Final are Adele Morell, Ann Murray, Margaret Irvine and Kerrie Taylor, after a close match against Carol Swan, Dee Gracie, Helen Miller and Nada Jones. Team Taylor just getting over the line 23-20. With a player involved in the State Squad Training Camp, Junior South Pacific, Women’s Australian Indoor Singles Qualifying, and two women involved in the Women’s Regional Selection Trial over the next few days, the games in the top half of the draw will be delayed and completed when all players are available.

The Men’s Fours remains on schedule and is down to the business end with Rhyley Ellem, Glenn Taylor, Daniel Ellem & Jordan Taylor up against Blake Perry, Rob Jordan, Nick Goodger & Gregg Stevens in SF1.
SF 2 sees Dave Tyrrell, Chris Bradley, Geoff Walker & Daniel Doyle against Doug Allen, Phil Lake, Jim Sellars & Ed Aschenwald. Those games are scheduled for Saturday 18th January with the final on Sunday 19th January.

All draws and results can be found on our bowls website on the link below
2024-2025 Club Championships

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SHELLHARBOUR COMMUNITY & AUSTRALIA DAY AWARDS

Our Junior Bowler Zoe Davies attends the Shellharbour Community & Australia Day Awards this week.
The annual awards recognise those who make a positive difference in the community and aims to acknowledge individuals, groups or local businesses who make valuable contributions through volunteering, acts of compassion, generosity or bravery. Zoe was nominated for Young Athlete of the Year. This award acknowledges a young athlete (under 25) who has shown remarkable promise and commitment in their sporting pursuits.

Zoe with her NSW Squad Team Mates during the recent Training Camp at Warilla.

All the best Zoe!

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SOCIAL BOWLS

Our first Nominated Pairs commences tomorrow at 9:30am with cash prizes awarded for the highest winning margins.

Nominations are open for our Australia Day Rotating Triples. The sheet is located in the TAB area at the club. Entry is also available online.

A group of bowlers from Castle Hill will be visiting Windang on Thursday 13th February, so keep an eye out for the nomination sheet.

A reminder to all bowling members and visitors that our green fees are now $10 to play per player per game. Our normal social bowls events are Wednesday Triples, Thursday Social Bowls, Friday Pairs and Saturday Triples.

Details of all events can be found on our bowls website under the social bowls menu.

The first game on green 2 after renovation!