Sale Bowls Club

Open day yesterday for the Sale Bowls club. Threatening skies made for a very cool day. The first jack was rolled down by 96 year of Jock, who did a magnificent roll, no arm either!!
Then the first bowl of the season was put down by 91? year old Pat, who also did a magnificent bowl. We are lucky to have these gentlemen to be still able to do this for us.
What a good history!
They were very pleased and honoured to do this
for us to start the season off!
Plenty of afternoon tea was available, again which everyone enjoyed! It might only happen the one time!!

Well today’s bowls proved quite challenging with the wind! Very gusty at the start of the afternoon, then eased off a little for the rest of the day.

We had a good turn up at our Working bee this morning. Many hands make light work!

What a cracker of a day we had today! Fabulous weather! 34 players were up for the games with triples & pairs playing.

Yet another lovely day for bowls today! We have been so lucky. Today we had 42 players for our Saturday social comp. We played 3 bowls triples, which is a nice change from 242. Thanks Pam for the banana cake- delicious!the bowls photo stream is beginning on the TVs in our Mavis room! It’s a good start to getting some memorabilia into Mavis’s room for us bowlers!
Pennant starts on 6th & 10th of Oct, so that will come up quickly.

What an absolutely perfect day for our very competitive Thursday pairs!! Players have missed out, as we fill up so quickly in this popular social comp!
22 teams enjoyed playing. Don’t for get out opening day on Saturday 5th September starting at 1 pm. If you could whip up a ginger fluff or slice for afternoon tea, it would be worth coming even if it’s only for the goodies!
Also we have a working bee on Wednesday 2nd to spruce the place up a bit! 9am start, bring your own tools!
We welcomed Mat Higgins who is the coach of the State Para teams. He has also played at state level! A very accomplished bowler for one so young.
The Keurnigs from Traralgon played, Sandy from Stratford, and another new member to Sale, Stephen from Neerim Sth.

Today, after all the rain overnight, turned into quite a nice mild afternoon. 28 keen bowlers played for the win! We welcome new bowlers, Lindy & Peter Grant, who enjoyed their first social bowls games. Our senior bowlers! sorry our experienced bowlers all helped them !! I’m sure everyone had some hints to give them!Happy Birthdays to Emu & Ray. Welcome back Ray & Pam from sunny Qld. There were 3 two game winners, on a countback!!

What stayers we have! 20 bowlers braved the cooler weather & a little wind to battle against each other for the win!

Our popular Thursday bowls pairs comp. We had 40 players front up to play to win. There were a few players not playing, but all came to watch and comment on those playing! Lots of players are coming back from their trips up north.

Again we had 40 Bowlers!! Playing in our Thursday pairs today! It is very popular, we had visitors from Stratford, west Sale, Maffra and as far as Essendon! Welcome to all!