Burnside Lawn Bowling Club

It was the start of plinth replacement today at Burnside. A learning experience and a lot of hard work by some of our members. This side will be finished before the season starts. The other sides will be done at the end of the season.
Thanks to the many helping.

SMUS teachers came out Friday for a bowls session. Everyone had a good time.

Our final club tournament (Quaddie) was held today. 6 teams of 4 played a combination of 2 pairs games, a singles game and triples game and the final game being a fours game.

In third place with 3 wins and a margin of +1 were:
Kelly, Pam, Phung and Brian W.
In second place with 3 wins and a margin of +22 were:
Dan B, Dean, Bob and Debra
In first place with 4 wins were:
Gordie, Ed, Kristie and Dave.

Thanks to everyone who came out today play and help.

Photos of the prize winning teams, group photo and from the morning game.

Congratulations to Dave Emerson of the Burnside Lawn Bowling Club on being the BSI (Bowls South Island) novice male champion.
In each section of 5 players there were 3 players with 3 wins and 1 loss in their round robin. Dave had the highest ratio points for/against of all 10 bowlers due to his 3 wins 15-4, 15-3, 15-4 and his one loss was 12-15.
The final game was a 15-4 score. Awesome Bowling Dave!

Thank you to the 14 men who came out today for the Burnside Men's singles championship.
Thank you also to all the markers who came to help, and Nancy for handling the kitchen and snacks.

In 4th place - Ed
In 3rd place - John
In 2nd place - Dan
And Congratulations to Aaron for taking 1st place and trophy rights.

We just held the 42nd annual Andy Stewart tournament. Over the past 3 days, 30 teams came out for either the Afternoon draw or the Evening draw. Each draw has it's own sets of winners, and the team with the overall high score gets their names engraved on the trophy.
Results from the afternoon draw:
Highest 3 game winner: Al and Barry
Next highest 3 game winner: Michael and Mitch
Highest 2 game winner: Sheila and Harry
Next highest 2 game winner: Cherylynn and Rob
Highest 1 game winner: Ed and Phung
Random draw winner: Mary and Jerome

Results from the evening draw:
Highest 3 game winner: Allan and Bobbi-Jean
Next highest 3 game winner: Peter and Jay
Highest 2 game winner: Aaron and Don
Next highest 2 game winner: Don and Keith
Highest 1 game winner: Trevor and Susan
Random draw winner: Kim and Dave

The overall winner of this tournament were Al Thomson and Barry Mah Ming

After a couple of postponements, we finished our Women's Novice playoff tonight and congratulations go to Karissa to take it 2 games to 1.
There were 3 really good games between Karissa and Rhonda.
Thanks to Dan, Keith and Pei Mei for acting as coaches and everyone who came out over the 3 nights to cheers our ladies on.

Photos from the Mix and Mingle 2025 event.

Another successful Mix and Mingle Women's event for Novice to 3rd year bowlers was held today at our club. Despite everyone waking up to pouring rain, it did stop and all 26 women, representing 8 of our 11 clubs in the Bowls South Island District, had a wonderful time. This year we had 3 triples games and 2 pairs games going on for 3 rounds. As much as I could possibly do, everyone played every position.. Skip/Vice/Lead and teams changed each round. There were a couple of ladies who ended up skipping or leading twice, but with 26, needs must, right?

Sorting out the women into 3 close to equal groups, the top 3 placements from each group are awarded prize $ and this is probably the only tournament that awards last place with prize $. We also award some random prizes as well.

In first place and they will get their names on the trophy are Jean, Susan B and Cathy.
In second place are Carrie, Arlene and Suzanne
In 3rd place are Susan S, Cindy and Angela
Our Thanks for coming group are Bev, Mary and Donna.
Our random draw winners are Carole, Barbara and Dana

Congratulations to Clint and Kristie for becoming this year's competitive pairs champs beating Team Aloha (Robert and Dan) by 1 point.
They are just in their third year of bowling. I foresee great things ahead for them.