Flint Tropics Team To Beat Heading Into Finals

Flint Tropics will take an imposing undefeated record into the business end of the Forbes Basketball Association competition. Tropics, who stand well clear of defending champions Misfits by some four games, have been on fire and it will take a monumental effort to stop them.

Misfits meanwhile have been staggering to the line and only recently beat an under-whelming KMS 33-31 despite the latter being out of play-off contention. If Misfits are to win it will surely rank among their best ever feats of which there are many. To do so they will need to refind their mojo and shut down the mercurial Justin Hoy of Flint Tropics.

While their form and personnel changes have been disruptive, Misfits still sit second and loom as the biggest danger to Tropics. They will need a big lift from their second unit if they are to do what no other team has done to Flint Tropics this season.

Netball Autumn Night Comp Finals To Begin

The Forbes Netball Autumn night competitions for both mixed and ladies teams will play finals on June 9 between the two top teams on the point score ladder in each division and competition.

Teams are asked to please check at the office this week to see if your team has made the finals. The presentations for the competitions will be held immediately after each final game is played.

The night competitions will have a break over the colder winter months and return for the Spring nights. Thank you also to the umpires who have done more than their team allocations, or have no teams in this competition, but volunteered to help with umpiring.

We only had 22 players for a very chilly start on Saturday 29th to end up a very pleasant morning.
I think for the first time we had no players win three games as competition gets more competitive.

The big winners were:
• 14-9 Elvy Quirk, Colleen Liebich, Lorraine Todd and Merv Langfield
• 14-10 John Browne, Neville Spry, Doreen Rogers , Barry White, Kevin Rubie and John MacCullagh.

Close games were:
• Lyn Simmonds and John Allegri 14 Barry White and Tony Thomson 12
• Merv Langfield and John Job 14 Kevin Rubie and John MacCullagh 12
• John Farah and Bob Murray 14 Ray Burridge 12
• Ray Burridge and Geoff Coles 14 Lyn Simmonds and Harley Stewart 12
• Lorraine Todd and John MacCullagh 14 Barry White and Ray Burridge 12
• Ann Stewart and Tony Thomson 14 John Farsh and Jeff Liebich 11
• Elvy Quirk and Bob Murry 14 John Allegri and John Browne 11
• John Farah 14 Ann Stewart 11
• Colleen Liebich and Neville Spry 14 Elvy Quirk and John Allegri 11
• John Browne and Tony Thomson 14 Bob Murry and Harley Stewart 11

By Pegging Out

A very successful meeting was held at the club after play and was largely attended. Of late we have our shade area almost complete, our small storage shed also in the making and all financed by our very own club.

Results: Aussie Croquet Saturday, 22 May
There were 25 players including visitors from Melbourne namely Karen and Bob Bradley. Close games recorded on the day were: Barry White and John Cole 14 def Doreen Rogers and Cheryl Toohey 13; Jill Rubie and Lorraine Todd 14 def Bob Murray and Jeff Liebich 12; Harley Stewart def Karen Bradley 12; Anne Stewart and Karen Bradley 14 def Merv Langfield and Doreen Rogers 12:

Winners of all three games were John Browne, Harley Stewart and Barry White. Congratulations to all three players.

Our neighbour town of Parkes is in the throes of starting a Croquet club and two ladies from Parkes recently visited us to play and get an idea of the game. In doing so our Forbes Club was able to generously give them twelve of our old unused hoops to get the club off the ground. Wishing them the best of luck in their new venture.

By Hammer Shot

The Parkes and Forbes Dragon Boat Clubs combined for the first time for the Nowra Waterdragons Fire Recovery Regatta last weekend, and came home with a very good result against seasoned competition.

The Shoalhaven weather made it a memorable and challenging event, but the Endeavour and Lachlan Dragons proved to be a force to be reckoned with finishing sixth out of a total of 21 teams that included some of the top teams from around NSW.

The Nowra Waterdragons’ two-day flagstaff event included a 9km paddle around Pig Island, but the event was called off half-way through when the weather deteriorated creating dangerous conditions. Parkes/Forbes took part in the 2km replacement event early on Sunday morning.

The team also competed in the 200m races and moved up the ranks in the three heats with a third, second and first place in the last one in a very competitive time of 48.77 giving them a spot in the major final with the other top seven teams on the day.

After a wobbly start in the final, the team recovered to finish sixth overall. “The team of Forbes and Parkes paddlers combined well to form a very competitive outfit who went onto perform extremely well in the challenging conditions on the Shoalhaven River,” said coach of the Lachlan Dragons Chris Favell.

“It was an excellent effort by the team to make the major final in such a competitive event against a range of very strong clubs from across the south coast, Canberra and Sydney regions of NSW.”

Endeavour Dragons coach Deb Abela said she was very proud to see both teams combine so easily both on and off the water. “We compared well to the other clubs and achieved some of our best times ever.”

Congratulations Elly Ireland

Congratulations to Elly Ireland who gained her Bronze umpiring certificate last week.
Elly joined the Umpire Development program earlier in the competition and has been coached to improve her umpiring skills.
Elly umpires every week, and the players she umpires have benefited from her improved level of umpiring. Well done Elly.

Shooting This Sunday May 30

The next Sunday shoot will be on May 30 at 10am. This will be the first round for the Shield shoot for Rimfire and Centrefire. The next Wednesday shoot will be on June 2 at 2pm. The Centre-fire rifle shoots start at 2pm after the Rim-fire shoots on Sunda
For information on .22 calibre rimfire shooting contact Wayne Facey on 0414 524 059, Norm Brook on 0458 664 541 or Ben Smith on 0427 524 151.

Shield competition shoot dates are on the notice board in the Rim-fire shed. For information on clay target shooting contact Norm Brook or Ben Smith. Anyone wishing to obtain a long arm firearm licence can contact Wayne Facey or Norm Brook.

Lawnmower Races June 13 Add To A Great Long Weekend

On Sunday, June 13 the Forbes Auto Sports Club will be hosting lawnmower racing at Daroobalgie. The races will cap off a tremendous weekend of Aussie fun and larrikinism that includes Australia’s Biggest Bogan Festival at Bedgerabong Race-course from June 11-13.

Tickets for each event are separate purchases and separate events and can be obtained via their Facebook pages Forbes Auto Sports Club and Australia’s Biggest Bogan Festival or via Eventbrite – www.eventbrite.com.au/e/australias-biggest-bogan-festival-tickets