<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' version='2.0'><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:33:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><title>Bowls News</title><description>The 2008 Bowls program at the Port City Bowling Club in Port Macquarie, NSW includes the Aevum Women's Fours Carnival in May and the Wizard Prestige Men's Pairs in June.Late in August the Aevum $20,000 Open Singles will be held followed by the exciting annual Junior test with the NSW Juniors Vs. the CHS side in September.</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/bowlsnews.html</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (HonSec)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>134</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-2913370744604685685</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T17:33:55.100+11:00</atom:updated><title>NSW Police Bowls honours</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2217-787558.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="A most deserving Life Member" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2217-787548.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Cranna&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3252-787618.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Terry steering a bowls into the head!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3252-787607.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terry Hodge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;You may have noticed a write-up in the November / December edition of Bowls NSW regarding the NSW Police Bowling Club (NSWPBC) and mention of two of our prominent and popular Port City bowlers Jim Cranna and Terry Hodge.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;To quote the article by Steve Martin (Page 39).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;"&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jim Cranna now Life Member:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The NSWPBC has announced that one of its most popular members, Jim Cranna, was honoured with life membership at this year's AGM.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim has represented the club on numerous occasions, served on the committee for many years and continues to contribute as a selector.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In accepting the honour, Jim acknowledged and thanked the many others whose efforts had assisted him and made the involvement in the NSWPBC enjoyable."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Selection for 2009 Australian Carnival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The article also noted that both Jim Cranna and Terry Hodge had been selected to represent the NSW squad in the Australian Police Bowling Club carnival to be held in Sorrento, WA in 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well done to both Jim &amp;amp; Terry - we look forward to hearing of your activities, and bowling achievements, at next year's carnival!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;a target="ext" href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/nsw-police-bowls-honours.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-5221462918459173263</guid><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 03:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-16T15:20:56.124+11:00</atom:updated><title>Minor Singles Champion of Club Champions</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3386-738397.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Some great draw bowls Matt" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3386-738381.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Matt Tobin, Lake Cathie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Well played Ray!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3395-738444.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Ray Houghton, Wauchope&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 300px; CURSOR: hand" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3398-772486.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bill Bellenger - marker&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3384-738625.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Nice soft job Brendon!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3384-738610.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Brendon Brims - umpire&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Westport hosted their annual competition for the LNC District Minor Singles Champion of Club Champions this weekend with the final played this morning between Matt Tobin (Lake Cathie) and Ray Houghton (Wauchope). In a tight, well played game, Matt took out the title 31 - 23 with a decisive 4 on the final end.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Earlier rounds played Saturday saw the following results:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Round 1:&lt;/strong&gt; W. Cocksedge (Smithtown) def. Paul Brady (Port City) 31 - 18; Ray Houghton - bye; L. Allport (North Haven) def. M. Woods (Kempsey RSL) 31 - 18; Matt Tobin def. John Hallsworth (Westport) 31 - 22&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Semi Finals:&lt;/strong&gt; Ray Houghton def W. Cocksedge 31 - 15 and Matt Tobin def L. Allport 31 - 21. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;a target="ext" href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/minor-singles-champion-of-club.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6245607311318604593</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2008 08:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-15T19:30:28.889+11:00</atom:updated><title>Hastings Mid Week Challenge - Round 2</title><description>&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/bowls-image-714483.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 172px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/bowls-image-714480.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The following are the results after round 2 of the challenge. Scores are shown as points for round 2 / progressive points.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Blue Teams:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;North Haven A: 2 / 6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;North Haven B: 6 / 8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Port City: 3 / 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kew: 0 / 3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wauchope: 3 / 6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Westport: 4 / 10&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;Red Teams:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;North Haven: 3 / 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lake Cathie: 2 / 8&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Kew: 3 / 6&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wauchope: 0 / 3&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;Port City: 4 / 4&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Westport: 6 / 12&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff0000;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/hastings-mid-week-challenge-round-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6044444308456892535</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-13T09:22:53.697+11:00</atom:updated><title>Monthly Newsletter, WBC - Oct / Nov 2008</title><description>&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Port Macquarie City Women's Bowling Club - Newsletter Oct. / Nov. 2008&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many thanks to Anne Connell, Publicity, for providing this newsletter for posting to the Bowls News website.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Club Championship Program:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Major / Minor Pairs - in progress&lt;br /&gt;Encouragement Day: Close 11/11/08 Play 25/11/08&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;October was a very active month. The &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Minor Singles&lt;/span&gt; were played and resulted in a win for Rebekah Ramsay, runner-up Judy Scholz. Congratulations Rebekah, what a wonderful achievement for a 14 year old. Rebekah has been chosen to play in the Chairman's team in the Presidents V Chairman's on the 22nd and 23rd November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;minor pairs&lt;/span&gt; were played and the final was between the teams of Kerry Bolsover/ Pat Morrison and Adriana Cutler/Brenda Burge. It resulted in a win for Kerry &amp;amp; Pat, congratulations, and well done to Adriana and Brenda in reaching the final.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Gala Day&lt;/span&gt; was held on the 7th October and was a great success, with a cheque being presented to District President Pamela Ditchfield for the amount of $1500. Well done to all of you who helped in making this a success.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Friendship Day&lt;/span&gt; was held on the 21st October and we were very lucky with the weather. It was lovely to see old friends playing together, and new friendships being made. We raised $600 for the Leukaemia Foundation, thank you everyone.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Hastings v Macleay&lt;/span&gt; was held at North Haven on the 30-31 October and the team of Ingrid Code, Frances Green, Julie McKay and Hannah Clohesy competed. They did very well and won 2 out of the 3 games played.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Congratulations to Carol White who went to Oak Flats to play in the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Champion of Champions.&lt;/span&gt; The opposition was tough, and unfortunately Carol didn’t come home with any trophies, but she came 8th in the state.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The girls who went to Sydney - Faye Schollum, Lois Bishell, Barbara Barrett, Beth Schubert, Carol Bowman, Lynne Thompson, were not successful but what a wonderful achievement in reaching the &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;State Play-offs.&lt;/span&gt; We all think you did great. Lynne won her first game, but was very unlucky in missing out on a win in her second game 31-30, you can’t get much closer than that, well done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Melbourne Cup Day&lt;/span&gt; was a great success, champagne on the greens to start with – not many wrong biases. Then after a lovely chicken/ham lunch and more bubbly, we were entertained to a hula hook competition which was won by Carol Banks. How did you keep going for so long – we all want to know?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The hat competition was well participated and Chairman Bob had great difficulty in picking a winner. Our Fay Martin was in the 4 way tie, they all received a bottle of bubbly. I’m sure there would be a lot of aching bones after the twisting on the dance floor. Fashion models, Robyn Biddle, Phyl Warnes, Ann Kirk, Shirley Chapman and Denise Franklin showed us some lovely outfits from Wombat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the lighter side:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;MARRIAGE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting married is very much like going to a restaurant with friends. You order what you want, then when you see what the other person has, you wish you had ordered that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, “Aren’t you wearing your wedding ring on the wrong finger?’&lt;br /&gt;The other woman replied, “Yes I am, I married the wrong man.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A lady inserted an ‘ad’ in the classifieds: “Husband wanted”. Next day she received a hundred letters. They all said the same thing: “You can have mine.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When a woman steals your husband, there is no better revenge than to let her keep him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;MALE OR FEMALE&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You might not know this, but a lot of non-living objects are actually either male or female. Here are some examples.&lt;br /&gt;FREEZER BAGS; They are male because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.&lt;br /&gt;SPONGES; These are female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.&lt;br /&gt;TYRES; Tyres are male, because they go bald easily and are often over-inflated.&lt;br /&gt;EGG TIMERS; Egg timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the&lt;br /&gt;bottom.</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/monthly-newsletter-wbc-oct-nov-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-7225973629869920675</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 22:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-06T09:14:20.290+11:00</atom:updated><title>State C of C Champions - Men's Prs.</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Kent-Price-&amp;amp;-Dallas-Cole-782678.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Kent-Price-&amp;amp;-Dallas-Cole-782659.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Dallas Cole &amp;amp; Kent Price - Coffs Ex-Services&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first 2 rounds of the RNSWBA Champion of Club Champions, Men's Pairs was played yesterday at the Raymond Terrace BC. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Zone 14 reps. Dallas Cole &amp;amp; Kent Price, Coffs Ex-Services, were defeated in the first round by Ken Lester &amp;amp; Ben Lee, Maclean (Zone 1) with the scoreline 19 - 11&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Play continues today (Thurs) with the semi finals and finals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Progressive results are posted on the Club's website - &lt;a href="http://www.rtbc.com.au/Bowls_NSW_Pairs.htm"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;a target="ext" href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/state-c-of-c-champions-mens-prs.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6764703038429198978</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-04T15:52:15.374+11:00</atom:updated><title>State Men's Final - C of C Champions</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_1921.JPGrev1-797696.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_1921.JPGrev1-797692.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Steve Glasson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0551-797745.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0551-797735.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Peter Taylor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The final of the Men's Singles Champion of Club Champions was played today and it was fantastic to see Peter Taylor, Kempsey Heights, reach the final. He went down to highly ranked Steve Glasson, St Johns Park, 31 - 15 after getting away to slow start. The following is a release from the RNSWBA covering the finals.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;"Steve Glasson (St Johns Park) has won his second NSW Champion of Club Champions Singles titles in three years after defeating Peter Taylor (Kempsey Heights) in the final at Raymond Terrace today (4 November). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glasson dominated the opening stages of the final, racing to a 14-0 lead before Taylor fought back to 17-10. Big time player Glasson refused to let Taylor back into the final, marching to a 31-15 victory. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glasson continues to underline his standing as possibly the best bowler in Australia, certainly one of the greats of the game, and is one of the most popular players. Such is Glasson’s charm that, contrary to the Australian way of barracking for the underdog, he remains a favourite of the crowd and is always a popular winner. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Taylor, a former NSW Under 18 Representative, won plenty of admirers with his powerful drive and deft draw game, and with the result begins to realise some of the promise he showed as one of the State’s most promising Junior Bowlers. He dominated his semi final against Mudgee Soldiers Doug Kenny, running away with a 31-9 scoreline. Taylor had a tougher battle against Engadine’s David Ferguson in the Quarter Final, emerging with a 31-29 win after a battle royale. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Glasson opened his tournament with a 31-22 win over Joshua Andriske (Dubbo Railway), before overcoming Ray Pearse (Alexandria Erskineville) 31-22 in a match that thrilled the spectators. Nathan Dawson (Kurri Kurri) claimed the early lead in the Semi Final before Glasson stormed home 31-27 to reach the final. "&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks to the RNSWBA and the Raymond Terrace BC for their excellent coverage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Play continues tomorrow with the pairs competition and will see Kent Price &amp;amp; Dallas Cole, Coffs Ex-Services, in action representing Zone 14.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Full details and scoring is available from the Raymond Terrace BC web site - &lt;a href="http://www.rtbc.com.au/Bowls_NSW_Pairs.htm"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/state-mens-final-c-of-c-champions.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-4633241891946546378</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:19:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-03T17:16:57.235+11:00</atom:updated><title>Men's C of C Champions - State Finals</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0629-786571.jpg"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Keep up the great bowling Peter!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0629-786563.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Peter Taylor, Kempsey Heights&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The State finals of the Champion of Club Champions, Singles, commenced today at the Raymond Terrace Bowling Club.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Zone 14 representative, Peter Taylor from Kempsey Heights, has continued in the fine form he had shown in the District and Zone playoffs. Peter has progressed to the semi finals with wins in the first and quarter final rounds.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In round 1 Peter defeated Gordon Cox, Pennant Hills, (Zone 10) with a 31 - 17 scoreline.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the quarter finals Peter met David Ferguson, Engadine, (Zone 13) and was trailing late in the game but came home with a 31 - 29 win to progress to the semi finals tomorrow (Tues 4th Nov.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well known Steve Glasson, St Johns Park, (Zone 12) also progressed to the semi finals and will meet Nathan Dawson, Kurri Kurri, (Zone 6) in the semi finals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Taylor comes up against Doug Kenny, Mudgee Soldiers, (Zone 5) tomorrow morning.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a great result if Peter can play against Steve Glasson in the final!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Raymond Terrace has been doing an excellent job of reporting on the games with progressive as well as final scores posted on their web site - &lt;a href="http://www.rtbc.com.au/Bowls_NSW_Singles.htm"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;a target="ext" href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/11/mens-c-of-c-champions-state-finals.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-7404754337358654629</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 06:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-01T17:46:22.655+11:00</atom:updated><title>Bowls &amp; Equipment For Sale - 1st Nov. '08</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/aus-bowler-756476.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; DISPLAY: block; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/aus-bowler-756469.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Bowls Equipment for Sale 1st Nov., 2008&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Leather belts&lt;/span&gt;,&lt;/strong&gt; White $15/each, Ed Dasczyk 6584 5317&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bowls Trolleys&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt; for bags, v.g. Cond. $10/15 each, Rex Hawkins 6583 9606&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Henselite 4's (older style)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; suit beginner,v.g.c. Bag, G. Roberts $80 6584 6921&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Taylor Pinacle,4H&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, vgc, Turquoise, $350, no offers, Ray Flockton&lt;br /&gt;6584 0683&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Drakes International 4H,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; plus bag, $140, Bowls Office&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Redline S15,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Turquoise, matched set $500, also &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Vector Black (tight)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;$350, A. L. White 6583 5060&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Almark Edge&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, Light green, size 4, plain, v.g.c. Price $450 ono. Peter / Barbara Gunn 6582 0965&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;"New"Drakes Pride, 4H,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Black deluxe, "New" bag &amp;amp; trolley, $400, 6584 6605&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Drakes Pride 4H, Excel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, v.g.c. $150, R. Bryce 65833772&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Bowls Blazer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, as new $25. Contact George Moss - tel: 6583 9495&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This "for sale" listing is primarily for Port City Bowling members but anyone can list an item that they either have for sale or want to buy. Please leave details at the Port City bowls office, attention Keith Scotney, Secretary, or leave your details using the "comments" tab below.</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/09/bowls-equipment-for-sale-3rd-sept-08.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-1527606172723448742</guid><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:09:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-02T20:54:17.957+11:00</atom:updated><title>State Championships - Women's &amp; Men's Finals</title><description>&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Women's State Championships:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final of the singles was played at St Johns Park BC with Gloria Clifton (Nowra) def. Louise Witton (Neutral Bay) 31 - 26 to take out the title.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Men's Champion of Club Champions - State finals:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Play will commence on Monday 3rd November at Raymond Terrace BC with the singles on Monday &amp;amp; Tuesday and the pairs on Wednesday &amp;amp; Thursday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Zone representative in the singles is Peter Taylor (Kempsey Heights) and he comes up against Gordon Cox (Pennant Hills) in the first knock out round on Monday. All the best Peter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our Zone is represented in the pairs by Dallas Cole &amp;amp; Kent Price (Coffs Ex-Services) who will meet Ken Lester &amp;amp; Ben Lee (Maclean) on Wednesday - keep up the good form guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Details will be posted on the RNSWBA web site - &lt;a href="http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/jsp/c_eventsItem.jsp?elementID=178"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/state-championships-update-womens-mens.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-426249836555236488</guid><pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 06:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-28T17:33:25.592+11:00</atom:updated><title>Women's State Finals - Singles update</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3120-703276.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 267px; CURSOR: hand" border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3120-703262.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Lynne Thompson in action at Port City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The first round and quarter finals of the State Singles championships were played today at St Johns Park BC.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Port City's Lynne Thompson defeated Judith Cooke, Goulburn Railway, in the first round 31 - 27.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the quarter finals Lynne was up against Corinne Crouche, Merrylands. The game, judging by the score, must have been a real thriller with Corinne taking it out 31 - 30 to progress to the semi finals. I hope husband Ron survived the game in "reasonable" shape!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The semi finals, to be played tomorrow (Wednesday) will see:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Corinne Crouche (Merrylands) vs. Gloria Clifton (Nowra)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Louise Witton (Neutral Bay) vs. Deby Brien (St Marys RSL)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For up to date results during the day &lt;a href="http://sjpbowling.com.au/index.php?page=tournaments"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for the St Johns Park BC site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well done Lynne - we are all proud of you at Port City!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/womens-state-finals-singles-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-2213790371102171232</guid><pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-02T17:48:21.788+11:00</atom:updated><title>Women's State Finals - update</title><description>&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3100-758943.JPG"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3100-758872.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Lynne Thompson - Port City&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The women's state finals are continuing at St. John's Park with the finals of the Pairs now completed and the singles starting tomorrow (Tuesday 28th Oct.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the pairs the North Haven team of Joyce Mitchell &amp;amp; Joyce Marandaz went down in a close game 20 - 21 to the pairs from Valentine. Valentine progressed to the finals but were defeated by the highly ranked team of Jessica Watkins &amp;amp; Karen Murphy from Cabramatta with the scoreline 27 - 20.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The singles starts tomorrow (Tuesday 28th October) and we wish all the best to our Port City representative Lynne Thompson in the first round. We know that husband Ron will be hiding somewhere in the background cheering Lynne on to do her best!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Results are available on the St. John's Park BC web site - &lt;a href="http://sjpbowling.com.au/index.php?page=tournaments"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;a target="ext" href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; BORDER-TOP: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" border="0" alt="Posted by Picasa" align="middle" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/womens-state-finals-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-8378640522587971839</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 07:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-25T19:52:51.981+11:00</atom:updated><title>Women's State Championships - 2008</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3133-707935.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3133-707926.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lynne Thompson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_09111rev-707984.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_09111rev-707977.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Beth Schubert&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Women's State Championship finals are being played at St. John's Park Bowling Club and Port City is very proud to have teams in the final 16 in the singles, triples &amp;amp; fours. Results to date are as follows:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;State 4's:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Port City of Fay &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;Schollum&lt;/span&gt;, Lois &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Bishell&lt;/span&gt;, Barbara Barrett &amp;amp; Lynne Thompson won their first round defeating &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Warners&lt;/span&gt; Bay 20 - 12. Progressing to the quarter finals they were defeated by Wollongong &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;RSL&lt;/span&gt; 19 - 15. St. John's Park took out the final in the fours 21 - 9 against &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Riverstone&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;State Triples:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Port City team of Carol Bowman, Lois &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Bishell&lt;/span&gt; &amp;amp; Beth Schubert went down in the first round 22 - 15 against &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Tura&lt;/span&gt; Beach. &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;Tura&lt;/span&gt; Beach progressed to final but were defeated by &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Cabramatta&lt;/span&gt; 28 - 9.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;Stated Pairs:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The local team from North Haven, Joyce Mitchell &amp;amp; Joyce &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;Marandaz&lt;/span&gt;, will be competing in the initial round tomorrow on Sunday 26&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; Oct.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc0000;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;State Singles:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;Port City's Lynne Thompson will be playing Judith Cook, &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Goulburn&lt;/span&gt; Railway, in the first round on Tuesday 28&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;th&lt;/span&gt; Oct. All the best Lynne and we're sure that husband Ron will be in the background cheering you on!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What a great  effort for the Port City teams and North Haven to reach the state finals!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Results are published on the St. John's Park web site - &lt;a href="http://sjpbowling.com.au/index.php?page=tournaments"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/womens-state-championships-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-1563590923313155510</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-25T17:44:06.842+11:00</atom:updated><title>Champion of Club Champions - State Finals</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2325-748141.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2325-748130.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Peter Taylor - Kempsey Heights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Kent-Price-&amp;amp;-Dallas-Cole-748205.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Kent-Price-&amp;amp;-Dallas-Cole-748186.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Kent Price (left) &amp;amp; Dallas Cole - Coffs Ex-Services &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The RNSWBA has announced the draw for the 2008 Champion of Club Champions Singles and Pairs to be held at the Raymond Terrace BC from Monday 3rd November until Thursday 6th November.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The round of 16 (State Zone Champions) will contest the State Title with a knockout draw.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Zone 14 Singles representative is Peter Taylor, Kempsey Heights, who is having a great year with a win in the State Fours a couple of weeks ago. Peter comes up against Gordon Cox from Pennant Hills (Zone 10) in the first round on Monday 3rd Nov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pairs representatives from Zone 14 are Dallas Cole &amp;amp; Kent Price, Coffs Ex-Services, who meet Ken Lester &amp;amp; Ben Lee from Mclean (Zone 1) in the first round on Wednesday 5th Nov.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All the best to our Zone 14 representatives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Details of the complete draw and results are available on the RNSWA web site - &lt;a href="http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/jsp/c_eventsItem.jsp?elementID=178"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for details.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/champion-of-club-champions-state-finals.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6912439733791642628</guid><pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 05:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-23T17:05:55.241+11:00</atom:updated><title>Australian Open - Qualification now in NSW</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Aust.-Open-2008-781193.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 178px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/Aust.-Open-2008-781184.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Bowls Australian has made a major improvement in the format for the Australian Open to be held on the 15th - 21st February 2009.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Local players now have the opportunity to qualify at a venue in our Zone rather than spending the time and money to travel to Victoria for the qualification rounds.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bowlsaustralia.com.au/index.php?id=60"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; for details of the NSW venues including West Coffs in Zone 14. Proposed dates for Coffs Harbour are the 20 - 28th November 2008.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With the quality of players from Zone 14 that we have seen in the 2008 State Championships as well as previous year's winners I would hope that some of our local players, both men &amp;amp; ladies, take this opportunity to compete in the rounds at Coffs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Full details including an entry form are available on the Bowls Australia web site. Please have a look at the general article with links on their site if you have interest -&lt;a href="http://www.bowlsaustralia.com.au/index.php?id=30&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[tt_news]=500&amp;amp;tx_ttnews[backPid]=13&amp;amp;cHash=1025bd5603"&gt; click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/australian-open-qualification-now-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-922149646096337724</guid><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 23:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-22T10:46:41.513+11:00</atom:updated><title>WBC - Minor Pairs Final</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/WBC-minor-pairs-final-777470.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Well done to the two neighbours!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/WBC-minor-pairs-final-777468.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kerry Bolsover &amp;amp; Pat Morrison&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;The final of the Women's Minor Pairs was played yesterday with Kerry Bolsover &amp;amp; Pat Morrison taking out the title 23 -12 against Adriana Cutler &amp;amp; Brenda Burge. The scoreline was not indicative of the high standard of bowls played by both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Kerry &amp;amp; Pat live next door to each other - they’ll be able to share the trophy over the fence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Congratulations to both teams for reaching the finals.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;Many thanks to Anne Connell, publicity, for the photo and details.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/wbc-minor-pairs-final.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-2748132087132482755</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 01:16:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-21T19:56:48.813+11:00</atom:updated><title>Cory Daley - State Singles Champion</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/2008_State_Singles_Winner_aRU-796066.JPG"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/2008_State_Singles_Winner_aRU-796051.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Cory Daley (left) &amp;amp; Runner Up Aron Sherriff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The following is a release from the RNSWBA regarding the great win by Cory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"29 year old Cory Daley from Park Beach BC stunned the NSW Bowls world with a 31-30 win over Aron Sherriff in the 2008 Cabramatta NSW State Singles final.&lt;br /&gt;Little known outside the Coffs Harbour area before the win Daley has now announced that he is a bowler to be reckoned with, by grabbing the State’s most coveted championship.&lt;br /&gt;Daley started his campaign with a 31-17 win over Ryde X Phoenix bowler Matt Dedini, and then fought back from an early deficit to beat 1998 Runner Up Stephen Ashdown (Harbord). Daley then overcame Adam Lee (Nyngan) 31-25 in the semi final.&lt;br /&gt;Sherriff began slowly in his first match before storming home to beat Sean Sommerville (Penrith) 31-19 before accounting for Mark Menzies (Armidale City) 31-20 in the quarter final.&lt;br /&gt;Sherriff then accounted for Brody Pitham (East Cessnock), who had taken beaten Sherriff in the Pairs just two days before, Sherriff taking the singles honours 31-22"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to the "Royal" for the photo and write-up.&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/corey-daley-state-singles-champion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6556959322530665854</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-19T17:09:02.827+11:00</atom:updated><title>Port City Handicap Triples</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3284-797782.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Nice hat!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3284-797772.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;John carefully lining up his shot&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3251-797836.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Neville &amp;amp; Ray keeping a close watch on the head" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3251-797825.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Height, or lack of it, isn't everything in bowls.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3267-797887.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Don't burn the sausages guys!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3267-797878.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Our BBQ specialists, Reg &amp;amp; Bob&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3286-797927.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Young gun Jai showing how it is done" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_3286-797920.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Jai keeping a careful eye on the action&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; div: "&gt;The members only Handicap Triples was held yesterday at Port City. Everyone was a winner with ideal weather conditions, free running greens &amp;amp; good friendly competition. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; div: "&gt;Additional photos from the day are available in the bowls photo albums - &lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/bowlsnews/HandicapTriples#"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to view. The "slideshow" option is suggested to view the album.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/port-city-handicap-triples.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-97321860152117063</guid><pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-21T19:57:46.006+11:00</atom:updated><title>State Championships - more good news in the singles</title><description>Our Zone 14 representative, Cory Daley from Park Beach has taken out the State Championship Singles crown.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cory won the semi final yesterday 31 - 25 against Adam Lee (Zone 4) then went on to win the final against a highly favoured Aron Sherriff, Zone 15 (Halekulani) 31 - 30. Judging by the score it must have been a close match.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Further details and a write up will no doubt be available from the RNSWBA on Monday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well done Cory!</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/state-championships-more-good-news-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-6873623852991623053</guid><pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 06:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-21T19:58:47.893+11:00</atom:updated><title>State Championships - Good News in Singles</title><description>Our Zone 14 representative Cory Daley, from Park Beach, has won his first 2 rounds today at Cabramatta to progress to the semi finals tomorrow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In a close match in the 1/4 finals Cory defeated Stephen Ashdown, Zone 9 (Harbord) 31 - 30.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In tomorrows semi finals he is drawn to play Adam Lee, Zone 4 (Nyngan) and hopefully will progress to the finals on Saturday afternoon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For details &lt;a href="http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/jsp/c_press-release-item.jsp?elementID=310"&gt;click here &lt;/a&gt;for the RNSWBA site.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to the RNSWBA and Cabramatta for the reporting on this event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If anyone has a photo of Cory please email me on &lt;a href="mailto:bmsmith26@gmail.com"&gt;bmsmith26@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt; so I can include it on the next posting.</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/state-championships-good-news-in.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-8991532943619081542</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 06:55:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-21T19:59:58.565+11:00</atom:updated><title>NSW State Championships - update</title><description>Play in the State Championships Pairs today saw Colin Baldwin &amp;amp; Mark Prior, Westport (Zone 14) go down to Terry Bryans &amp;amp; Ron Pearman, Nowra (Zone 7) 21 - 13.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On Friday the 17 the singles start with Cory Daley, Park Beach (Zone 14) playing Matt Dedini, Ryde X Phoenix (Zone 10) in the first round. All the best Corey from all your friends in Zone 14!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Full results are available from the RNSWBA web site - &lt;a href="http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/jsp/c_press-release-item.jsp?elementID=310"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to the "Royal" for their reporting on these events.</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/nsw-state-championships-update.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-8043649700907492923</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 08:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-15T17:55:11.979+11:00</atom:updated><title>State Championships - 2008</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/2008_State_Fours_Winners-715432.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/2008_State_Fours_Winners-715424.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt; Terry Burley, Roger Gill, Craig Howard &amp;amp; Joel Bourke&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2422-726669.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_2422-726660.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Joel Bourke - Kempsey Heights&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="left"&gt;The Kempsey Heights team of Terry Burley, Roger Gill, Craig Howard &amp;amp; Joel Bourke (skip) has stormed home to &lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;take out the State Fours title 17 -16 against a highly ranked team from Maitland City with Clayton Parker, Sam Twing, Shannon Michael &amp;amp; Nathan Michael (skip).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well done guys from Kempsey Heights and Zone 14. For additional details &lt;a href="http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/jsp/c_press-release-item.jsp?elementID=311"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for the RNSWBA posting&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both" align="left"&gt;In other games the Zone 14 winners from Park Beach went down in the triples in the quarter finals to Zone 8 from Young 31 - 20&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the State Pairs we have Col Baldwin &amp;amp; Mark Prior from Westport playing tomorrow the 15th Oct. followed by Corey Daley, Park Beach in the singles on the 17th &amp;amp; 18th Oct.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/state-championships-2008.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-7542313775332178378</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 05:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-09T19:28:52.281+11:00</atom:updated><title>2008 Senior State Test - final day</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/NSW%20Winners-744695.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1112-744727.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Well played John!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1112-744723.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Steve Srhoy (WA) &amp;amp; John O'Neill (NSW)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1129-744788.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bryce - a man of few words!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1129-744784.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Bryce Stewart, right, accepting trophy for NSW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NSW wins the 2008 Senior State Sides Round Robin by a 1/2 rink win over WA. The "Blues" needed a win today against WA and 2 rink wins to take out the test played at Tweed Head Bowling Club.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;John O'Neill (Port City) led the NSW side to victory with an impressive 23 - 10 while Brian Harriott had the other rink win for NSW 26 - 14.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;The final ladder shows:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NSW: 6 match pts., 8 rink wins, margin +69 shots.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;WA: 6 match pts., 7 1/2 rink wins, margin +69 shots&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;VIC: 4 match pts., 9 rink wins, margin +73 shots&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;QLD: 4 match pts., 5 rink wins, margin -33 shots&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;TAS: 0 match pts., 0 rink wins, margin -178 shots&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;John O'Neill did well in the tally for the skips and was 4th with 3 wins and a margin of +29 shots over the test. Well done John!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Full details are available on the THBC web site - &lt;a href="http://www.thbc.com.au/seniorstatesides.htm"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt;. Many thanks to the Tweed Heads BC  for their excellent reporting including progressive scores and the photos.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/2008-senior-state-test-final-day.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-3938774834775070415</guid><pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:54:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-08T19:38:20.698+11:00</atom:updated><title>2008 Senior Test - day 2</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1088-768753.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1088-768749.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1086-768779.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1086-768776.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1095-768807.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1095-768803.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The second day of the interstate senior test at the Tweed Heads Bowling Club has seen NSW lose their lead on the ladder and the competition has tightened up with results as follows:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Play this morning saw Vic. defeat NSW 83 - 38 with 3 rink wins and WA defeat Qld. 68 58 with 2 rink wins and a tie.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Afternoon play saw Qld. defeat Vic. 58 - 48 with 2 rink winn and WA defeat Tas. 101 -25 with 3 rink wins&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The ladder now shows WA in the lead with 6 match points., VIC second with 4 and NSW with 4, Qld. have 2 and Tas. 0&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The final round tomorrow will see Tas. up against Qld. and WA playing NSW. Vic have a bye.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Play tomorrow will decide the winner of the test and in may go down to rink wins and margin.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For full details check out the Tweed Heads BC site - &lt;a href="http://www.thbc.com.au/seniorstatesides.htm"&gt;click here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks again to the Tweed Heads BC for their excellent reporting and photos.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasa.google.com/blogger/" target="ext"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; BORDER-TOP: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; BACKGROUND: 0% 50%; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-TOP: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM: 0px; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial" alt="Posted by Picasa" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif" align="middle" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/2008-senior-test-day-2.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-5364043772879618298</guid><pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-07T19:13:19.332+11:00</atom:updated><title>2008 Senior Test - day 1</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1028-710073.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1028-710045.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;Bryce Stewart &amp;amp; John Archer - NSW&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1039-710150.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1039-710115.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1060-710189.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/pic_1060-710185.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: left"&gt;The first day of the test has seen NSW take out two decisive match wins together with 6 rink wins to take the lead over VIC &amp;amp; WA into tomorrows play. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"&gt;Full details are available on the Tweed Heads Bowling Club's web set - &lt;a href="http://www.thbc.com.au/seniorstatesides.htm"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; for the test results and many more photos.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: left" align="left"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Tweed Heads BC for their excellent reporting and the photos.&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/2008-senior-test-day-1.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink='false'>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8682603475445595167.post-4060843346490935985</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-06T19:05:30.270+11:00</atom:updated><title>2008 Senior State Sides Round Robin</title><description>&lt;div style="MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; TEXT-ALIGN: center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0235-706237.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="We know you will be giving it your best in this event!" src="http://www.portcity.com.au/uploaded_images/100_0235-706232.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;John O'Neill - Port City&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both; TEXT-ALIGN: center" align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;The 2008 Senior State Sides Round Robin championships will be held at the Tweed Heads Bowling Club from Tuesday 7th - Thursday 9th Oct.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;color:#000000;"&gt;John O'Neill, one of the top players from Port City, has been selected to skip one of the teams in the NSW side. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="CLEAR: both"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000000;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Check out the Tweed Heads BC posting for this event for full details and results - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.thbc.com.au/seniorstatesides.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt; for the Club's usual top job on their web site.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://www.portcity.com.au/2008/10/2008-senior-state-sides-round-robin.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (smitty)</author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>2</thr:total></item></channel></rss>