Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club

Our club had three members play in the US Open held at the Sun City and Sun City West bowls clubs, put on by Bowls USA.

Congratulations Barry Pickup, Chris Trenschel, and Becky Rinaldi for participating in the pairs and singles tournaments. We were following your progress from here in Santa Barbara. 😊

Thank you for representing SBLBC on the national stage! 🙌🏽🎉🇺🇸

It was a small but mighty field of competitors at our Club Pairs Championships the other weekend! 12 dedicated bowlers came out last Saturday to try for the title. Our tournaments director Marlyn put on another fantastic competition and everyone had a great time.

Because no team won all three of their games, it all came down to plus points, and even that was close! With only one or two plus points separating first, second and third, it was a real nail biter to see who would come out on top.

Congratulations to the top three finishers and everyone else that came out to play! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

🏆2024 Pairs Club Champions: Tamara Murray & Dina Medina
2nd: Tara Smith & Kat Dowling
3rd: Eric Meyer & Jeff Speer

🏆 Fall League Champions! 🏆 The last league season of 2024 has come to a close. Here are your champs!! 👏

Grass Flight: The Bowled & The Beautiful
Mitch Cornell, Cindy Cook, Steve Graham

Turf Flight: Long Line of Bowlers
Brett Castonguay, Sarah Cohn, Mikel Doyle

We’re taking a break for the winter, but absence makes the heart grow fonder, no? If you can’t get enough, mark your calendar Dec. 4 at 5:30pm where we’ll reunite with our annual ugly sweater bowling night, complete with a blind draw game and empanadas!

Interested in joining the next league? Visit santabarbaralbc.org/league to sign up for the interest list and find out when sign ups open. Can’t wait to see everyone early next year. 🎉

Oct 30th, the last game of our Fall League season. Between costumes, tacos, and game 5 of the world series, we actually got some lawn bowling done. 🤪

Loved seeing all the creativity on the green! 🎃

Bowltoberfest is in 2 weeks and we can't wait to see everyone Oct 5th! 🍻

It's beer tasting, lawn bowling and a fun afternoon w/ friends, what's not to love?

What's Bowltoberfest?
👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ Teams of four playing a modified version of lawn bowls easy for even beginners to pick up
🍻 A flight of local beers
🏆 Prizes for the winning team and the winner of the spider roll (we'll teach you when you're here)
😇 A fundraiser for a local nonprofit, the Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club!

Don't have a team? Email us and we'll put you on one! 😊

Learn more at SantaBarbaralbc.org/bowltoberfest

Today’s Spencer Adams Triples competitors 💪

Spencer Adams Triples champs! 🏆 This tournament is made of up blind draw teams, meaning folks have to turn up the teamwork and quick. This year’s champs:

1st 🥇 Cindy Cook, Ellie Jones & Jaden Lewis
Tied for 2nd 🥈 Ron Irwin & Marlyn Nicolas, and Becky Rinaldi, Marcy Liukart & Rob Evans

Congrats and thanks for the good times on the green 😎

Wednesday, 9.18.24

Week 2 of our Fall League saw amazing cloud formations that evolved into a beautiful sunset 😍 grateful to be able to enjoy an entire season of this as our lawn bowls backdrop.

Here's to six more weeks of beautiful Santa Barbara fall evenings!

Bowltoberfest is back! 🍻

Santa Barbara's premier lawn bowling and beer tasting event is back this October 5th! Already know how to lawn bowl? Amazing! 👏🏽 Totally new but down to learn? We got you! 🙌🏽

What's Bowltoberfest?
👯‍♀️👯‍♂️ Teams of four playing a modified version of lawn bowls easy for even beginners to pick up
🍻 A flight of local beers
🏆 Prizes for the winning team and the winner of the spider roll (we'll teach you when you're here)
😇 A fundraiser for a local nonprofit, the Santa Barbara lawn bowls Club!

Don't have a team? Email us and we'll put you on one! 😊

Learn more at SantaBarbaralbc.org/bowltoberfest

Come and check out the Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club during our open house this Sunday from 12-3pm! 👀

We'll have:
✅ Free lessons
✅ Answers for all possible questions you might have about membership and the club in general
✅ Fun giveaways you're sure to love ❤️
✅ Pizza to feed your tummy while lawn bowls feed your soul

Show up anytime between 12:00 and 3:00 p.m. wearing flat soled shoes and we'll take care of everything! Tell your friends and learn more about your new favorite sport together! 👯‍♀️

Was the anticipation getting to you?? The eagerly awaited results from the summer league A flight are in, and it’s official: A Bowl Called Quest has reached dynasty status. In a very tight game against the fierce Bowling Stones, the game was tied going into the 9th end. But A Bowl Called Quest prevailed for their fourth season in a row. Both teams bowled expertly and it was a great matchup!

Congrats to Joel Evans, April Salas-Evans & Bryce Kunzel! And well-played to Angie Irwin, Antoinette Crawford & Andy Carnaghe for their stellar season.

Fall league — the last of 2024 — starts tomorrow. See you on the green!!

And that’s a wrap! 🎬 The 2024 Eileen Morton Invitational featured 14 triples teams with representation from Beverly Hills LBC, Long Beach LBC, Santa Monica LBC, MacKenzie Park LBC, Friendly Valley LBC, Laguna Beach LBC, Newport Harbor LBC, and our home teams, of course.

The game was two-bowl triples, with a power play each team could use to double their score on one end per game… so long as they declared it before the jack was set!

All three winning teams were undefeated, with one plus point separating the 1st place team. 😮 The other two were tied for 2nd, so there was a roll-off tiebreaker between the skips. This is the first year that a Santa Barbara LBC team has taken first place!

🥇 1st Place: Chris Trenschel, Tamara Murray, Susan Trenschel
🥈 2nd Place: Terry Mar, Angel Lopez, Ariyah Cohen
🥉 3rd Place: David Sheehan, Linda Love, Jane Giffin

There are too many people to thank for making this tournament possible, so we’ll just say that it was a true team effort. Thanks to all of our club members who made it a welcoming and special day filled with fun-yet-fierce competition in memory of our dear friend Eileen Morton.

Hope to see everyone next year! 😀

Mark it in your trapper keeper: lawn bowling league starts Wednesday September 11th!

8 weeks of Wednesday twilight bowling from September 11th - October 30th, and registration for the public is now open!

Grab some friends and register your team at https://www.santabarbaralbc.org/league, spaces fill up quick so don’t wait. We’ll provide the equipment, lessons before league starts, snacks during games, seasonal swag and end of season tacos.

Visit the link in bio for more details, we can’t wait to see you on the green!

Twilight League — Santa Barbara Lawn Bowls Club Twilight Bowling League Our eight-week Twilight Bowling League is the perfect opportunity for casual bowlers to compete in games and meet fun people. The bonus: being outdoors during the evenings. (That’s why it’s a Twilight Bowling League… not to be confused with the vampire books!) Registrat...

While wrapping up another successful season is reward enough for many of our league bowlers, we can't deny that the tradition of end of season taco night is something we all look forward to! 🌮

Thank you for showing up every season for the last couple of years! The food is 🔥 and the staff that shows up every time couldn't be nicer.

It's a great way to sit down and get to know other league bowlers. And a big thank you to all our league members for continuing to show up and share your love of the game! We wouldn't be able to do this without you and can't wait to see you back on the green for Fall Season 2024! 🎉👏🏽🏆

Finally, a special shout out to SBLBC members Becky Ronaldi, Leo Bechstein, Scott C***s Tara Smith & her husband Guy for the fresh new look of our lanai! They sanded, repainted the entire lanai an updated our string lights so we can enjoy more nights like this in the future. It truly takes a village! ❤️

Spotted at the club today: Scott “Slam-bango” C***s generously giving his time to repainting the lanai! 👏👏👏 With a fresh coat, this covered picnic area is more welcoming and bright for all to enjoy. A big thanks to Becky Rinaldi and Leo Bechstein for their work on this project as well, and all the volunteers who pitch in with projects big and small. SBLBC is an all-volunteer-run club and we are so grateful for everyone who makes it the special place it is 🌺

Thanks to Cambria Lawn Bowls for hosting so many Santa Barbarians this weekend 🙏 Congrats to all the winners!

Road trip! 🛣️ Ten Santa Barbarians competed in this weekend’s rinks tournament at Cambria Lawn Bowls 😎 Rinks calls for teams of four and each person only gets two bowls. It’s a really fun format because each position is crucial and you can’t waste any shots! Competing this weekend was:

- Joel Evans, Jim Cook, Cindy Cook, and April Salas-Evans
- Mark Hreha, Becky Rinaldi, Dina Medina, and Vern Rodriguez, and
- Chris Trenschel and Tamara Murray, who teamed up with Rachel Marcuson and Jesse May from Santa Cruz Lawn Bowls Club — and won 3rd place! 🥉

Congrats to the winners and a big thanks to the members at Cambria for hosting. It’s a lot of work planning these big tournaments and making them fun and memorable for all 👏👏👏 (I mean, bowling, BBQ *and* Costco sheet cake? *chef’s kiss*)

Battle of the Sexes! On Saturday, the men and women took to the green. According to Tournament Director Marlyn Nicolas: “The women won two out of three! There were three men triples bowling against three women pairs. We all had a good time, especially the women 😉” 💪