Mt Victoria Bowls

Women's Club Pairs final has commenced. Our new young member from Hawkes Bay (fourth year bowler?), Adia Crawford is leading against first year player Heather Johnson. A lot more experience at skip with Nina playing with Adia, and Yvonne with Heather.

Nina and Adia are already on good form today after comfortably beating Helen and Jo to reach the final.

Progress report from the start of Club Championship Mixed Pairs

Start of club mixed pairs – Victoria Bowling Club The club mixed pairs started today and with most of two rounds completed, all 6 teams are still alive Results here: Competitions The big upset of the day happened in the first round when defending champions Ben & Helen King lost to Nina De Munnik and Cuzzie who is playing great bowls. Both of those....

We're thrilled to have 32 sets of these new VBC coloured Taylor GTR Bowls for social use.

NZCT granted us $14k, with the $6K remainder paid between Gary Ruane of Metroclad, Gary Lawson of Natural Living Homes, and Nilesh Patel from Taylor Bowls NZ.

Well done to Paritutu for a classy performance convincingly beating us in the National Interclub quarter finals.

Into the quarter finals of the National Interclub!! That's on this afternoon at 3.30pm vs Paritutu at Naenae.

They got through in a nailbiter against Havelock North. Ray won well in his singles, but the pairs lost. Fours came down to even on the last end, with Havelock putting in a backjamner, but Tim was able to move, and James drew the game winner.

At the National Interclub finals, Victoria (men) won today vs Gore. A win in every discipline.

Need to win vs Havelock North tomorrow morning at Johnsonville to make the quarter finals, which are scheduled at Johnsonville in the afternoon.

Open Day at Victoria Bowls Club tomorrow from 12pm - 3pm. All welcome!

Victoria Men's Interclub team win the Wellington Interclub!!

Ray won all three games in the singles including crucial bonus points win vs Blake in last round. Fours (Ian, Tim, James, Ben) won two matches, and the pairs (Chance, Laurie) won the clinching match last round to bring the victory home.

That's their third victory in four years!!

Men's club championship wins today in the fours for Colvin, Robert, Lou, and Ray. In the pairs for Laurie and Frazer who picks up a very rare club title in his first year of bowls. Congrats!

It was wins for all four interclub teams in the opening round of interclub yesterday.

Winning starts in Round One of Interclub – Victoria Bowling Club All interclub sides got off to a winning start to the interclub season! Women's Division 1 With some women unavailable for Round 1, and the injured Yvonne playing with a 'bowls arm', it was a great result for the women to win two games in Round 1 vs Upper Hutt. Superstar women's player Helen got…

1pm this Sunday we are open for the Bowls Wellington "Ready to Roll" day, which is for people wanting to try lawn bowls. Anyone who has played before is welcome to come up for a game too :)

It's only two weeks till we have our first "Ready to Roll" event and the buzz in our community is starting to get louder! Make sure you let Family and friends know about this awesome day at clubs throughout Wellington. Lets fill our clubs with new people wanting to try our sport and show them a good time. For more information hit the link below or send Blake and the team message.

https://www.bowlswellington.com/ready-to-roll

The Victoria Invitation Pairs is on this weekend with, as usual, the strongest field of any Wellington bowls tournament. This year, two world bowls champions from the South Island, Gary Lawson and Shannon McIlroy are teamed up together.

At least one Victoria player has been in the winning pair for each of the last four years. Can it be extended to 5 in a row?