Parkes Bowling and Sports Club
By Col Miller
Over the weekend our club hosted Sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Mid-West Bowls Men’s State Singles for 2024-2025.
This is a knockout competition, and we started with 38 bowlers who came from the Parkes Railway, Manildra, Orange ExServices, West Dubbo, Molong, Condobolin, Grenfell and our club.
By Sunday morning from 38 bowlers, we had 12 left standing and after the first game we had the final 6 players left to battle it out to see who goes on to the next round.
In Section 4 Cooper Fliedner, Manildra played Daniel Stanley, West Dubbo with Cooper coming out on top 25 to 16.
The second game Section 5 our bowler David Reilly took on Adam Campbell, Manildra, Dave played some good bowls to win 25 to 17.
Section 6 Andrew Daley, Parkes Railway played Iain Campbell, Manildra in a close game, Andrew managed a win 25 to 20.
If you noticed Manildra had a player in each of the final 3 games, great effort by their club.
The three winners Cooper Fliedner, David Reilly and Andrew Daley now go on to the next round with venue and date to be advised.
A big thank you to all the markers, volunteers and greenkeepers and ladies making the salad rolls who kept the show running over the weekend.
Local bowls, we had one round of the Major Singles with Mick Went taking on Phil Moran.
Both players started of cautiously and by the 4th end the score was Mick 4, Phil 3 but from then on Mick put the foot down and held the game in his hand winning 25 to 13.
Social bowls on Thursday we had 22 bowlers take to the green in the warm humid conditions.
Rink 15 Ron Hornery, Al Affleck and Brian Townsend had a solid win over John Carr, Bob Freeman and Mark Glasheen 24 to 6.
Rink 16 Jim Blake and John Wright came out on top over Graham Davis and Gary McPhee 18 to 10.
Rink 17 Bernie Mitchell and Tony Riordan snatched a victory over Geoff Smith and Martin Tighe 21 to 18.
Rink 18 Ray Jones and Col Mudie had a win over Mike Valentine and John Corcoran 25 to 18.
Rink 19 Graham Dixon and Warren Bevan took the win over Col Hayward and Rob Tinker 21 to 15.
The badge draw was won last week by David Willcockson and starts at $900 this week.
The lucky rink starts at $200 and don’t forget to get tickets in our Christmas raffle.
See you at the Bowlie.