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Women’s Pennants Team In State Play-Offs

October 21, 2022 by Lea Orr

The Spring Fling Mufti Day was a hive of activity on Tuesday at the Parkes Bowling Club.

A new queen bee Minor Club Singles Champion has been crowned. Lorraine Baker is no longer the bridesmaid after defeating Heather Harvey in a tough match in gusty conditions. Congrats Lorraine, and well done to Heather!

In more great news, our Grade 3 Pennants team has returned victorious from the regional play-offs in Mudgee. The girls played their wings off and will now buzz off to State play-offs next month in Bomaderry.

Good luck to Liz, Cherie, Jan and Brenda as you represent Parkes in the regional play-offs of pairs and triples in Forbes over the coming days.

In social bowls, number 2 hive entertained four ladies in a game of scroungers. Helen

Heraghty, emerging from an enforced bowls break, flew away with the spoils to win, leaving Kate Keogh a close runner-up and Di Howell and Merilyn Rodgers taking a wrong turn!

Lynn Ryan/Chris Cox/Rose Mitchell sprang into action in hive 3, amassing the most pollen, leaving little for Flo Riseborough/Valmai Westcott/Jan McPhee.

Birthday girl Flo certainly hasn’t lost her touch with the black bowls! In fact, the old black bowls were tracking Jack everywhere –like ants round the cake at a picnic! Valmai, Flo, Chris, Frances – you just keeprolling them down so well!

In the cabbage patch, number 5, Elaine Miller/Frances Charlton/Brenda Davies took the biggest bite of the offerings, leaving just the stems for Kay Craft/Chris Curteis/Maureen Baillie.

As play wound up, it was time to swarm inside to the picnic rug for delish pizzas.

Happy October birthdays to Flo, Rhona, Betsy, Chris and Brenda!

The Minor Pairs nominations are open for one more week.

Melbourne Cup Spring Carnival is on 1st November! Mufti, mixed triples, names drawn from a hat. Put your names down by Tuesday the 25th. Just $20 for bowls, lunch and bubbles.

To play social bowls call the club 6862 1446 between 9 – 9:30am on Tuesday. Play begins at 10am. Social Roster: Elaine M

By Lea Orr

2022 Forbes Challenge Cup

October 21, 2022 by Maggi Barnard

If you are an ardent women’s soccer supporter, you have to be in Forbes on Saturday, 29th October to see Western Sydney Wanderers FC Women play Canberra United FC at the Botanical Gardens at 5:30pm.

There will also be a Development Session and Meet the Players with International Coach Tom Sermanni and the teams from 10:30-11.30am.

Other games will be starting at 12:15pm with U/10 Girls Forbes/Lachlan v Griffith DFA, followed by U/12 Girls Southern Tablelands v Griffith DFA; U/14 Girls Lachlan Utd v Griffith DFA; U/18 Girls NSW Country v Canberra Utd.

Two Bowlers In Zone Finals

October 21, 2022 by Marty Tighe

Colin Hayward played social bowls last Thursday.

ZONE SENIOR PAIRS

Darryl McKellar and Gary McPhee have won their way through to the Zone Senior Pairs finals after winning both of their matches on the weekend, defeating the highly fancied Orange City team on Sunday. Tony Riordan and Mal Porter had a draw and a win on Saturday to play in the sectional play-offs on Sunday, however despite playing well, they were just beaten. Congratulations to all four bowlers on a great weekend of playing high quality bowls.

SOCIAL BOWLS

Last Thursday, 20 bowlers took advantage of the rare non-rain day to play two games of social triples and two pairs games.

The in-form Rob Irving and Brett Frame played Ray Jones and Warwick Parker in a tight game of pairs, which eventually saw the ‘Organiser’ and the Greenkeeper prevail, winning 19 shots to 17.

The new life member, John Carr, led brilliantly for the latest member and skip, Chris Harrison surging to a lead of 21 shots to 12 after 17 ends, and won 22 shots to 20.

The first of the triples games resulted in a win by 27 shots to 17 for Mike Valentine, Alan Affleck and Gary McPhee over Ron Hornery, John Niddrie and John Wright.

Graham Barby was back on the bowling rink, leading for Bob Freeman and John Ward against Tony Riordan, Jim Blake and Colin Hayward. Team ‘Bomber’ Ward led by 19 shots to 4. A pep talk from skip Hayward had the desired result as Col fired up Tony and big Jim, winning the remaining 7 ends, picking up 12 shots, to just lose by 2 shots.

The two bowling greens were full on Saturday as 16 social bowlers played on the top rink.

By Marty Tighe

Parkes East Hockey Team Brings Home Silver

October 21, 2022 by Maggi Barnard

The Parkes East Primary School hockey team played in the state finals of the PSSA knockout in Newcastle on Tuesday. The team won the semi-final against Robertson Public School 1 – 0 to play Tamworth Public School in the finals. They ended second in the state with the final score 1 – 3 earning them a silver medal for the team members.

Parkes Swimmer Competes For Australia

October 21, 2022 by Maggi Barnard

Year 9 Parkes student Blake Price will be swimming for Australia at an international event in Brisbane next month.

A Year 9 Parkes High School student will be swimming for Australia at an international event in Brisbane next month.

Blake Price will be competing at the Virtus Oceania Asia Games from 5th to 11th November in what he hopes is only the first of many opportunities to represent Australia.

Blake’s parents, Sharon and Chris Scott will be attending the games and supporting him at the huge event with about 1,000 athletes and officials from Asia, the Pacific and New Zealand.

Participants will be competing in athletics, badminton, basketball, cycling, judo, rowing, sailing, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis and triathlon.

The swimming has a jam-packed schedule of events with competition sanctioned by World Para Swimming for freestyle, breaststroke, butterfly and backstroke and medleys.

Blake has been selected as an II3/S19 swimmer due to his diagnosis of Autism. This is the first time that S19 swimmers have been given the opportunity to be included as a full member of the Australian team and this event is the highest level of swimming that a S19 swimmer can presently achieve.

Blake has qualified to swim in eight individual events and team relay events. He had to achieve qualifying times for his events to be selected for the team.

Blake has put in many hours to prepare for the event. He has been training with Jason Montgomery of Parkes Athletic with up to eight sessions per week, and he travelled to Orange on weekends for swim training during the Winter season.

With the Parkes Pool opening last week, Blake is grateful to resume training with the Parkes Sharks Swimming club under the guidance of Coach Barbara Weaver.

Blake will join the Australian team in Brisbane on the 5th of November which is the day of the opening ceremony. Swimming events will be held from 7th to 9th November and the closing ceremony will be on 11th November. For the duration of the event Blake stays with the Australian team at their hotel.

The Virtus Oceania Asia Games 2022 is an international multi-sport competition in the Oceania Asia region for elite athletes with an intellectual impairment.

This will be the first time a Virtus Regional Games will be held for the Oceania Asia region, with hundreds of athletes and officials from Asia, the Pacific and New Zealand coming to Australia.

Golfers Splash Around

October 14, 2022 by Short Putt

Barry Parker managed to enjoy his golf in the rain last Saturday.

The Forbes golfers once again donned their wet weather gear in order to battle the course and somehow produce a good score.

Saturday was changed to a Stableford Medley due to a very wet course. Thirty golfers were keen to post a score, although nine players did not finish.

It was still very competitive with a count back required for the winner and runner-up. Neil McMillan was the first in with 38 points, having set the pace on the back-9 with 22 points. A little later James Earl (Shortland Waters) carded 38 points but his back-9 was less fruitful, handing the winner prize to Neil.

The NTP’s went to: 9th – Bede Tooth; 18th – Nil. The 3rd Hole Super Pin went to Jacob Bernardi who was ‘eagle-eyed’ and put his ball to 1.34metres, the best shot for a few weeks.

The Ball Sweep went to 32 points, with a big gap between the prize winners and the remainder of the field. The lucky ones were: P Cowhan, R Webb, J Coulthurst, K Herbert, B Tooth, J Bernardi, B Parker and A Alley. The lone, but successful, visitor was James Earl who wandered around in shorts and rain jacket.

There was no Stableford Medley on Sunday due to very wet conditions.

Players please note that with more inclement weather forecast and expected overland water flow a decision on the golf for this weekend to be made and players notified. The club championships will be postponed until early December. Please keep in touch with the Pro Shop.

By Short Putt

Wilbur And Baldy Play At State Level

October 14, 2022 by Maggi Barnard

Ron Hornery and Mal Porter in action at the Parkes Bowling & Sports Club.

Wilbur Harris and Baldy Frame proudly represented themselves and the Parkes Bowling & Sports Club participating at state level in the over 40s pairs State Championships under cover on artificial greens at Raymond Terrace last Saturday.

The popular pair played terrific bowls to easily win their first match. Unfortunately, they were beaten in the next two matches. All bowlers in Parkes warmly congratulate them on this achievement.

Women’s Bowls

October 14, 2022 by Lea Orr

A quiet day of social bowls on Tuesday, as the cream of the crop, our Grade 3 District Pennants winners motored across to Mudgee for the Regional Playoffs.

On Rink 4, a game of triples saw Kay Craft/Lynn Ryan/Maureen Baillie survive a united attack by Frances Charlton/Elaine Miller/Rosemary Mitchell, winning by 3 points.

Valmai Westcott/Gwenda Carty won their game of pairs by just one point on the final end against Julie Green/Lea Orr.

Our Melbourne Cup Spring Carnival is on 1st November!

By Lea Orr

Weather Favours Tuesday’s Croquet

October 14, 2022 by Pegging Out

Saturday washed out, but Tuesday was sunny and we had a big turn up of 39, including two new payers Richard and Ann Parker, and a visitor Wayne Smith.

There were four players who managed three games: Robin Pols, Carolyn Neilsen, John Cole and Neville Spry.

BIG WINNERS

10 – 3 Carolyn Neilsen and Robin Pols, Neville Spry and Bill Scott, Bob Murray and John Cole; 9 – 4 Geoff Coles and John Job,

Kevin Rubie and Rex Toole (twice), John Farah, Neville Spry and Lorraine Todd, Geoff Coles and John Farah.

SOME CLOSE GAMES

Allan Jones and Alex Todd 7 Elvy Quirk and John Job 6; Jeff Liebich and Sally Perry 7 Noel Jolliffe and Ann Parker 6; Robin Pols and Joan Littlejohn 7 Fay Picker and Allan Jones 6; Bill Scott 7 Rex Toole 6; Alex Todd and Jenny Job 7 Ray Martin and Ann Parker 6; Carolyn Neilsen and Allan Jones 7 Geoff Coles and Marie Spry 6; Iren Ford and Colleen Liebich 7 Bill Scott and John Farah 6; Ray Burridge and Wayne Smith 7 John Browne and Ray Martin 6; May Jones and Jill Rubie 8 Noel Jolliffe and Ann Parker 5.

By Pegging Out

Social Bowls

October 14, 2022 by Marty Tighe

The rains stayed away long enough to allow 14 social bowlers to enjoy two games of pairs and a triples game last Thursday.

On paper, the triples gun combination of Eddie McPhee, John Niddrie and Geoff Freeman were unbackable favourites over John Carr, Bob Freeman and Rob Irving. However, the under-dogs proved that the odds, and age are irrelevant and after 21 ends, team Irving won 23 shots to 21.

Ray Jones and President Col Miller started slowly against Mike Valentine and Chris Harrison, to trail by 6 shots after 4 ends.

Scoring a 5 and three 4s opened up the game for Jones and Miller and they didn’t back off winning by a big margin.

The combination of Mal Porter and John Ward proved too consistent against Ron Hornery and Marty Tighe in a tight game winning 24 shots to 19.

Saturday Bowls were washed out.

By Marty Tighe

ZONE SENIOR PAIRS

SOCIAL BOWLS

BIG WINNERS

SOME CLOSE GAMES

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