18th Annual Bowls Fun Day Thursday 28 December Mangawhai Bowling Club, Molesworth Drive Registration from 10.15 am until 30 am. Bowling will start when there are 16 teams ready to play. Three games of 6 ends with breaks between. Light lunches available. Teams of Four – no more than one bowler per team. Entry fee is $40 per team. Prizes …
Best Sevens Result
Mangawhai 3 – won their section and played in the final to come Runner Up of the Second Division. An excellent attempt in this popular division. Neville Franks – Singles Bruno Barnetta & Dundee Henwood – Pairs Graham Brocklesby, Ross Riley, Ken McLeod & Jim Colvine – Fours
Invitation Fours Winners
“Mangawhai Drawn Team wins” Colin Wintle (s), Tony Cornish, Harry Foote & Keith (KIWI) Stewart (Players were drawn in their respective positions) What a great win for Mangawhai in our prestige Invitation Fours. John Dunn & team from Onerahi were Runner up.
Four Bowl Pairs 2 November
Results from the Tournament were: A Green B Green 1st Francois Loubser/Bill Le Quesne Stuart Charity/Ross Riley 2nd Neville Franks/Keith Blincoe Graeme Brockelsby/Jim Colvine 3rd Allan Stebben/Colin Pierce …
Clubs Amalgamation
Mangawhai Bowls Inc. members attended an SGM (Special General Meeting) on Monday 6th of February to decide whether to amalgamate the Womens club into their own. Constitutional changes apart, this decision was agreed to have one Club. Mangawhai Womens Bowls will meet to acknowledge this decision prior to a possible completion at the next AGM.
Heatley won by local team
P. Wightman, S. Wightman, B. Barnetta & L. Lawrence won the Maungaturoto Heatley Memorial Fours This is a prestige tournament where the winning team over two Greens get their names on the Maungaturoto Club Notice Board Well done to our winning team
TWO DAY MEN’S FOURS
22 Teams contested this tournament, with visiting Players from 11 different Clubs. It was played in great spirit with overall winner being a composite team from Hikurangi and Whangarei. Congratulations to Kevin Sidwell, Kelvin Bint, Robin Sowerby and Larry Vallance.
Winter Bowls
. Up and running — Sunday & Monday Rollups, plus organised tournament on Thursday. Great winter season, look forward to similar following next year. “Thanks to all those who helped organise play.”
Mangawhai Focus – Article on our new green
Our local paper the ‘Mangawhai Focus’ evidently has a current article (with photo) relating to the opening of our new All Weather Green. Click here to read the article.
New Website
Our new website is underway. We’re investing in a wordpress plugin developed by Shoota Ballinger (member of Levin Bowling Club) that will allow us to add Club Championship (events, draws and results) plus a lot more information to our new website. The intention is to have the site ready for next seasons club championships.