Croquet
Narooma Croquet
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The golf croquet competition last Monday was highlighted by the participation of Marion van Zanen, a visiting player from Jamberoo. Seven players competed in four matches of golf croquet and one match of ricochet croquet. In ricochet croquet two extra shots are earned after a roquet shot on another ball. Honours for the morning's play were fairly even with the winning margins being only one or two points. Fay O'Connor and Marion van Zanen were judged as the most consistent. Detailed scores were:
Golf Croquet
Game 1 - Deborah McKellar and Marion van Zanen 7 def Lesley Miles and Pearl Hanson 5. Game 2 - Marion van Zanen and Dianne Sims 7 def Deb McKellar and Lesley Miles 5. Game 3 - Fay O'Connor 7 def Christine Stent and Pearl Hanson 6. Game 4 - Fay O'Connor and Pearl Hanson 7 def Lesley Miles and Deb McKellar 5.
Ricochet Croquet
Christine Stent 10, Dianne Sims 7, Fay O'Connor 6.
Golf croquet competition on Thursday and Association croquet regular competition on Saturday were cancelled due to wet conditions of the greens after overnight and morning rain.
Players on a bye were Sally McGourty (Probus Club duties), Louise Starkie (holidaying), Pauline Wilcock (holidaying), Heather McGourty (work commitments), Helen Stannard (medical), Jean Phillips (injury), Mary Ryan (resting), Paul Chenoveth and Cathy Sforcina (rehabilitation).
Association Croquet Singles Championship
Games 9 and 10 of the association croquet singles championship have been postponed for one week.
Narooma Croquet Schedule
Note that, for a trial period, association croquet matches, as well as the Saturday morning schedule, will also be scheduled on Mondays and Thursdays at 12 noon. Croquet players are to please advise Christine Stent (4476 3506) of their interest in playing association croquet at this new timeslot.
Thus for the week beginning on Monday, June 21 the program of croquet on the courts at Club Dalmeny will be as follows: Regular round of golf croquet competition on Monday 9.30am and Thursday starting 9am.
Association Croquet Singles Championship (round robin format event) The penultimate and final matches of the championship to decide the runner-up place will be held as follows: Match 9 - Pauline Wilcock vs Len Favier - Saturday at 9am, and Match 10 - Pauline Wilcock vs Christine Stent on Monday at 12 noon. Association Croquet regular competition on Thursday at 12noon.
Golf
Narooma ladies golf
Only one game this week on Wednesday when the women played a stableford match with 33 ladies. The weather was great and a few ladies had great scores.
Division 1, 0-29 Jenny Walker had a great score of 40 off handicap of 26. Closely followed by Jenny Wuttke-Hayes who is continuing with her great form with a score of 38 off handicap of 12.
Division 2, 30-45 Winner was Maureen Casswell with 36 points off handicap of 33. Runner up was Karen Parkes with 34 points off handicap of 39.
NTP's: Hole 3, Vicky Connaughton. Hole 9, Jenny Wuttke-Hayes. Hole 14, Jenny Walker. Balls to 30 C/B.
Narooma Golf Club
The threat of unpleasant weather on Thursday reduced the field to 120 players who found scoring somewhat difficult. In A Grade Hal Fraser prevailed on countback over Paul Lefel after scoring 37 points off his handicap of 12, while Scott Harris went round in one under the card with 36 points to edge out Mark Elmasri, Mark Anderson and Graeme Sawyer on countback to take third place. In B Grade Michael Pollock was favoured by the countback when registering 37 points off his handicap of 15 ahead of Tony Cobcroft with Bill Anderson in third position on 36 points. C Grade was taken out by Graeme Donohoe with 37 points off his handicap of 22 on countback from Gary Schmidt with Ed Haysom in third place on 36 points on countback from Jim Doel. The NTP winners were Don Waterfield on 3, Allan Maddison on9, Mark Elmasri on 14 and Gary Schmidt on 17, while the ball competition went down as far as Jock Munro on 33 points on a countback.
There were four eagles on the 8th off the forward tees with the nest being shared between Bill Anderson, Robert Coulson, Bruce Day and Phil Haynes. It was overall a day of unusual coincidences: the three grades were won with 37 points on a countback with the third place on 36 points; the two father-son groups in the field were tied, Bill and Mark Anderson in positions 11 and 12 on 36 points and Laurie and Colin Holmes in positions 21 and 22 on 34 points and in each case the father headed the son on countback.
The field was even further reduced to 104 players on Saturday because of the weather and scoring was even more difficult with the strong winds and damp fairways with only two players beating their handicap and two equalling it. In A Grade Bill Hannam was at last favoured by a countback to win with 35 points off his handicap of 8 ahead of Bill Swan with Callum Annand in third place on 33 points. In B Grade Grahame Cooke continued his recent good form in posting 38 points off his handicap of 20 to win by two points from Colin Pratt while Ben Smith took third position with 34 points on countback from Matthew Klose and Peter Elliott. In C Grade Tim Short posted the best score of the day with 39 points off his handicap of 21, followed by Kevin Evans from Ryde-Parramatta and Lyle Healey on 36 and 35 points respectively. The NTP winners were Mick Miller from Royal Canberra on 3,Tony Cobcroft on 9, Neil Towers on 14 and Chris Ritchie on 17, while the ball competition went down as far as Josh Rainsford from Queanbeyan on 31 points on countback. RGI
Bowls
Social Bowls
On Wednesday we had 34 bowlers making up five rinks of triples and a rink of pairs. Winners were decided by Highest Winning Margin and this week the winners were Mick Cavic, Peter Hawker and Mitch Mitchell (skip) who had a six end, power bowls, streak to lead 17 to nine after 10 ends before they matched ends in the second half to take their match 26 to 14 against Jeff McCusker, Rod Holman and Peter Jones (skip).
Second place went to Tony Fryer, John Voytas and Peter McKay (skip) who led 16 to six after 11 ends and repelled a strong comeback from Don Caldwell, Andrew Thompson and Greg Riley (skip) for a 26 to 19 win. Thank you to Rapley's Quality Meat, Narooma Plaza, for their continued support.
We had a good number of bowlers turned up for the afternoon's pairs and triples on Saturday. Winners were decided by Lucky Rinks and this week the winners were Peter Dillon and Greg Ryan (skip) who had a great tussle, early on, to lead 15 to 14 after 19 ends before they got their mojo working to take their match 29 to 17 against John Spees and Peter Murton (skip).
Second place went to Finn Hansen and Tony Palmer (skip) who were down nine to 12 after 14 ends before they picked up several good ends for a 24 to 15 win against Jim Baker and Graham Cummins (skip).
On Sunday we had 24 bowlers turn out with winners decided by Lowest Winning Margin and first place went to Kathy South, Enid Brooker and Darrell Goodridge (skip) who had a great game with the final score being 18 all, nine ends all but a heads toss won the game against Rob McIntyre, Cindy Newell and Ken Burrows (skip).
Second place went to Graeme Howdon, Mick Cavic and Bruce Rapkins (skip) who were down seven to 11 after 11 ends before they warmed to the task to take their game 19 to 14 against Kaye Whiffen, Sue Wales and John/Merrie Downie (skip).
To ponder
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Club Dalmeny
Mr T rightly carted the 32 bowlers together on a fine Queen's birthday holiday Monday with the points system coming out to decide the winners on 20 in Cobber Dudley, Tom's son Ken and John Blue-boy from the runners-up on 19 after countback in Tony Ring-a-Gan, Pommie Pete and Off-White Ham or Brett. The Pom scored the first resting toucher while the $192 jackpot didn't go off. The wrong bias sinners included Snoopy, Cobber Pete and Tom's son Ken and the lucky losers on rink 8 were Big John Oarley, Browny and Par Budin. Browny sold the winning raffle tickets to Dig Sims, G-Harry Lavis and John Blueboy.
Thursday gave us a fine sunny afternoon for a change which saw 26 bowlers flight planned by Snoopy for once again the points system to decide the winners on 191/2 in Nek-back Bennie, Cobber Peter and Punter Alan from the runners up on 19 in Ken Rabbits, Dig Sims and Brett Off-white Ham again. The first resting toucher was again scored by VP Pete but the $147 jackpot didn't go off. Wrong bias sinners included Val D-eat, Bennie and Cobber Pete had two while the raffle run by Chris went off Hansenly with the winners being Yours Truly, the Punter and Lyn Rum-back 100.
The first round of the minor pairs championship was played in overcast brisk weather with drizzly rain to finish on the one game played that saw Cowboy Roy's boy Mike and Browny lead from the second end all the way against T Draywrong and the Macedonian Illya until the last regulation end when still ahead by two shots on the card and the end with one bowl to play which just happened to push the jack away to score two and even the game. From the sideline reports Mr T played two of his best bowls all day which saw a St. George style come from behind win for himself and skip, Browny, 20/18 at the 22nd end.