Events

EVENTS

Pairs Champs 2024

The Pairs champs were played over the weekend of the 27/28th January.

The ladies pairs final had Keryl Blackburn & Jan MacGowan playing against juniors Jocelyn Salanap & Jo Staines. It was a brilliant final to watch (and we had a record crowd to see it). Keryl and Jan were the eventual winners!

The Men's final was contested by Geoff Thomas & Keith Rolton vs brand new juniors Greg & Tim Staines. Once again it was an extremely close game but ultimately the best bowls were played by the Staines brothers who took the treasured title in their first year!

It's wonderful to see so many juniors doing so well at our club, gives us a lot of hope for the future of bowls at Sunnybrae.

Ham Tournament 2023

First year bowlers, Tim, Jo and Liam Staines take top honours (and a whole lot of hog) in a well deserved victory! Simply marvelous guys!

Thank you Graye Allnutt, Leighton Duley and support team for an exceptionally well run tournament - lovely to see both greens full to capacity.

Thank you archibal&shorter for being such wonderful sponsors of our club and this tournament.

Season 23-24 Opening Day (16th September 2023)

2023 Closing Day & Prize Giving

We had our annual closing day on Saturday the 27th May. Lovely to see our Patron, Wyn Hoadley again and thank you Wyn for supporting our club since 1986 - Wow!!!

Thank you to all who helped with the trophies, catering, setting up and cleaning up, your hard work is very much appreciated.

Below are a few images taken on the day (if you have more please send them through and I'll add them in).

Ladies Junior Singles 2023

On Saturday the 18th March we had Barbara Lobel and Jocelyn Salanap playing in the Junior singles.
Barbara won the first game with an incredibly close 21 - 19 score. Jocelyn went on to win the next 2 games, taking the well deserved title.

All in they played 51 ends on the day, brilliant effort ladies!

Men's Junior Pairs 2023

The men's Junior pairs was a very closely fought round-robin championship, with just a 6 point differential between the first 3 teams.

Leighton Duley & Mike Lobel were the winners, with Steve Carmichael & Todd Mowat coming 2nd.

Please see some player and spectator photos from this weekends event.

P.s. Gary French, it was good to see you down at the club again!

Mixed Pairs Champs 26th February 23

The Mixed-Pairs qualifying event was held on the 25th February. The top 4 finishes who went through to the semis were:

1st Geoff Thomas & Jan MacGowan
2nd Jocelyn Salanap & Bryan Lockyer
3rd Lindsay Somerville & Vickey O'Connor
4th Steve & Vi Carmichael

Defending champs Geoff & Jan made it through to the finals against Lindsay and Vickey and ultimately won, taking their second consecutive title.

Please see some photos from this weekends event (big thanks to Bryan and Steve for taking them).

Fours Champs 11th February 23

The day kicked off with a superb champagne breakfast. Huge thanks to all those who contributed and took part, if you weren't there you missed a real treat - but please remember to join in next time we do this, as always, all members are welcome!

Congratulations to our Men's and Ladies Fours champs for 2023:

Ladies champ 4's are: Jocelyn Salanap, Kay Logan, Barbara Lobel & Rosie Allnutt (3 juniors!)
Men's champs 4's are: Steve Carmichael, Leon Tasker, Graye Allnutt & Todd Mowat (all 4 are Juniors!)

Junior Men's Singles Champs 4th/5th February 23

The Men's Junior Champs were played over two days, with Graye Allnutt, Paddy Benstead, Steve Carmichael and Bryan Lockyer making it through to Sunday's semis.

Bryan beat Graye in a very closely contested semi final match to end up playing Paddy, who was firing on all cylinders against Steve in their semis.

Paddy again brought his A-Game into the final and managed to win 21 - 9.

Congratulations Paddy on a well deserved Championship Title.

Thanks to all our markers (Jan, Kay, Keith, Barbara Morgan, Sharon, Arthur, John Squire and Todd) who helped this weekend, we could not have held the event without your help and thanks to those of you who came down and supported them this weekend and joined in the celebrations afterwards!

Singles Champs 14/15 January 23

We had some wonderful bowls this weekend at our Singles Champs.

Steve Carmichael and Paddy Benstead, both Junior bowlers, made it through to the finals on Sunday and what a game that was. Steve eventually bringing home the big bowls to take the win 21 - 13.

Vickey O'Connor and Kay Logan played a wonderful championship decider game, Vicky eventually winning 21 -14.

Take a look at some of the photos below!

Pennants October 22

October

Triples Champs 2022

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August

Murder at the Races!

On Saturday the 27th August we had our first ever Murder Mystery evening. What a wonderful fun event with everyone getting into character and having a blast! Yasmin's investigative skills shone as she figured out that Joe was the villainous murderer and walked away with the $75 top prize!

September