Victoria enters indoor bowls teams in the Hutt Valley interclub and Wellington Catholic interparish. There are also many Catholic and Centre events through the Greater Wellington area and national events throughout the winter. For example if you are planning to be in the following areas over these dates, and we get you affiliated then you … Indoor bowls season upon us…
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Round 10 of the Grant’s Whiskey Corner 2 Corner competition will be played this Friday night at 5.45pm followed by the Club final. So everyone is still a chance! The winner of the final will represent Victoria at the Regional final at the Wilton club on Saturday at 4.30pm.
Please go to the Bowls NZ home page at http://www.bowlsnz.co.nz/ and click on the blue square on the right to participate in a National Champs survey. How did you think the last one went? Should Bowls NZ abandon the nationals? Do you care?…
Good luck to Mike Cartwright, Naki Nehemia and Nairn MacGibbon who will be carrying the Victoria flag in the semifinals of the Wellington Open Triples at 9am on Monday morning. They play Upper Hutt’s Steve Leitch on their home track but have already overcome an Upper Hutt team in the quarterfinals.
29 year old Lisa White has been included in the Junior Development Trans-Tasman New Zealand Team to take on Australia at the Waihopai club in Invercargill on March 7th-9th. A mutual agreement between Bowls NZ and Bowls Australia will see the Junior Trans-Tasman squad extended this year to include older bowlers in what was the … Congratulations double international Lisa!
Best of luck to Lisa White as part of the first Black Jacks trip to the Northern Hemisphere in preparation for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. A squad of 14 are currently in Wales for a test series between New Zealand, Australia and Wales, and will then attend an 8-Nations event in Scotland. This trip will … Good luck Lisa!
Well done to Laurie Guy and Barry O’Brien playing with skip Jamie Hill for reaching the Quarterfinals of the New Zealand Open Triples at the Henderson greens on Tuesday. They knocked over last year’s champions Steve Beel (Bay of Plenty) 17-4 and will take on Stuart Settle (Waikato) at 10.30am Wednesday. Kirsten Griffin skipping a … Good luck Laurie, Bazza, Kirsten & Leigh
Visit the new Development Classic Fours page under Competitions for information and the draw for the inaugural Victoria event this weekend.
The Green allocations page under Competitions for tournaments allocated to Victoria by Bowls Wellington, and the Committee page have been updated for the 2011-12 season.
Many upsets highlighted the first day’s play in the Speight’s Victoria Invitation 2-4-2 Mens Pairs 0n Saturday including defending champions Ray Boffa and Rob Ashton going down twice to join other stars like Justin Goodwin and Ken Walker in the Shootout on Green 2 for Sunday. The Main Event will still feature some big names with … Day 1 Results are up on the 2-4-2 Invitation Pairs page