Last Tuesday and Wednesday Forbes was host to the Region 12 play-offs with pennant teams two, three and four from Dubbo, Orange, Gulgong, Parkes, and Forbes competing to play in the State Championships in August at Nowra. As Forbes were the number two pennant team to win at district level we played Dubbo City and although we had a slow start our Forbes team kept on winning each end until we passed their score to win by three shots, 31-28. What an effort and we were rewarded with a gold medal by our District President Annette Tisdell and now are off to play in the State Championships on August 15- 17. All districts in New South Wales will be competing and several of our players were lucky to be playing in this event in 2006 and are excited to represent our small club once again.

Our Four’s Pennants teams had a win by ten points against Parkes Town last Sunday. The games were played at Forbes and the home advantage paid off. Team 1 Viv Russell, Brian Asimus, Dale Barker and Graham Rutherford had a 29:9 win over Mudie, Ryan, Henry and Hornery of Parkes. Team 2 Robert Bayley, Glen Kearney, Russell Dietrich and Bruce Williams had a 23:16 win from Hodge, Wright, Searl and O’Malley of Parkes. Team 3 Scott Andrews,
Greg Gunn, Don Drabsch and Jarrod Andrews won by 29:14 from Valentine,
Carr, Ward and Corcoran of Parkes. Well done fours.

Our Sixes also played last Sunday at Narromine. They won one match and lost two. Team 1 Scott McKellar, Ron Thurlow, John Kennedy and Al Phillips went down 11:34 against Daley, McNair, Carnevale and Daley of Narromine. Team 2 Ray Montgomery, Clive Herbert, John Stringer and Brian Tisdell went down by 9:26 against Clark, Maher, Buttsworth and Sillivan of Narromine. Team 3 had a win, they were John Williams, Russell Hodge, Graham West and Lyall Strudwick who won by 21:12 against Price, Harding, Gillespie and Payne of Narromine.

Join us on ANZAC Day, Monday 25th April at 1pm, for a triples competition. Nominate yourself with the club staff or committee and you will be placed in a team. There will be plenty of good meat trays to be won.

The Forbes Sport & Recreation Club hosted the Annual Easter Lawn Bowls Carnival over the weekend with thirty-four teams from all over NSW competing in the Pairs and Fours competitions. A large majority of the teams hailed from the Sydney Metropolitan area and were impressed with the excellent facilities the Forbes club had to offer. The competition is for all male teams and Forbes was well represented in all divisions.

The Andrews family featured strongly in the pairs and the fours with Jarrod
Andrews & Grandfather Don Drabsch making it to the Semi-finals of the pairs along with Mitchell Andrews who teamed up with Bruce Williams, also making it to the Semifinals. Jarrod and Mitchell then competed in the Fours with their father Scott and Grandfather, Don Drabsch and made their way to the final on Sunday evening. Spectators were kept entertained with some very strong bowls but a very strong and slick Belrose Team edged out the locals to win.

The Minor pairs between Ray “Monty” Montgomery & Johnny Kennedy verses Peter Corliss & Viv Russell was played last Saturday. What a torrid battle it was. Monty and John ended up with a 25:19 win. MIXED

PAIRS AND TRIPLES: notes by Leisa Burton.
We had one game of mixed Pairs on Saturday, Anne Walker and Don Craft played Lindy Cannon and Jarrod Andrews. Lindy and Jarrod had a comfortable 22-8 win. On Sunday Leisa Burton, Wayne Burton and Anne Walker played Graham Rutherford, Ric Stewart and Alison Cutcliffe. Reggie’s team won by two shots 20-18 in a close fought game. Although they led all the way, the spectators were on the edge of their seats during the game. Thank you
to those who watched and showed fantastic interest in the mixed games.

Last Wednesday was another interesting day on the green. Gunna Williams and Johnny Gorton were a couple of points ahead all the way, ending up with a 14:9 win from Scott McKellar and Barry Wright. In the other game Dale Barker led for Alf Davies with Rob Priest as skip. Dale and Alf were on fire to take a 20:9 win from Peter Greenhalgh,
Ray Dunstan and Peter Mackay.

Rooster played his first game of singles on Thursday and at one stage was leading Scott McKellar 14:5. Scott ended up winning the match by 22:17. On Sunday morning the competition continued in ideal conditions. Results for the
morning saw Don Hodson defeat Brian Joliffe. The marker was Ray Drabsch. John Kennedy defeated Rodney Howarth their marker was John Stringer. Cliff Nelson defeated Debbie Brown and their marker was John Bentick.

There were three games of triples. Pat Hodson, John Baass and Alan Phillips defeated John Dietrich, Tony Bratton and Les Cannon. Next door was John Lasker, Kevin Hodge and Mitch Hodge who defeated Warren Hodge, Glenn Ruge and Barry Anderson. Finally John Williams, Grant Lambert and Russell Hodge defeated Scott McKellar, Kerry Smith and Alan Smith. It was good competition as there were five players with resting touchers. They were Warrick Neville, Don Hodson, John Lasker, John Baass and Kerry Smith.

The winners for the day were Don Hodson and Ray Drabsch. The runners up were Warrick Neville, Glen Ruge and Barry Anderson. As this Sunday is President’s Day it would help if your Buck Bentick matches could be played during the week.