Sixteen teams came out to play at the Lucie and Ed Triples Tournament held in Courtenay on  May  16th and 17th, with the home town team taking home top honours.  It was a winner play winner format and one flight.  The team of Vern Greenhill, Leone King and Joe Randazzo came in at 4-0 and took home top prize.  Four other  teams came in all tied for second place with 3-1 scores.  In order, they were the team of Bob Allaby, Sandi Mitchell and Merry Danarti of Parksville, then Kate Wilson,  Bill Burgess and Gary Carson, also of Parksville.  Linda Meers, Michael Lynch and Beth Perrier of Courtenay also tied for second as did the Nanaimo team of Bruce McNiven, Terry Cowie and Glenda Chalmers.   Great sportsmanship, tasty  food and good playing conditions made for a really fun event.  Thanks to all who made this event so successful

Carol Bucyk

We finished off the short mat season with a two day competition followed by a pizza supper. Thanks to all those who helped organize the event, provide great snacks, assist in the kitchen and help with the cleanup. A special thanks to Sandi Mitchell for her umpiring assistance during the event and to Mick Banks who provided a number of templates to assist in selecting the teams and assigning rinks.

The results are:

1st: Norman Norman, Barry Conn, Sharyn O’Reilly

2nd: Clare Atchison, Mavis Gooding, Linda Watson

3rd: Dianne Proctor, Luise Norman, Vivien Weston

4th: Clive Arthorne, Marg Wood, Alan Watson

Check out the photos here Short Mat Triples Tournament

It was another busy lawn bowling weekend, this time in Port Alberni.  June 28th and 29th saw the men and women playing in some very warm temperatures, and the bowling was pretty hot, too.

In first place for the women, it was our club’s Merry Danarti and Sandi Mitchell  earning the honours and repeating from last year.  Second place went to Nanaimo’s Frances Tester and Kathleen Hewitt.

On the men’s side, Vern Greenhill and Dean Penny took home first place, while our own Bob Allaby and Bob Merrell (The Bobs), earned second place.

A very big thank you goes out to everyone from the Port Alberni Lawn Bowling Club who made this  such a fun and successful event.

The Quality Foods Open Men’s and Women’s Triples was full of exciting finishes this past weekend.  A slight mix-up in the finishes prevented me from getting information accurately, but today, we have the final results (with proper names and spellings).

First place went to the Nanaimo team of Kathleen Sherry, Lezlie Howe and Karen Hungar.  Second was earned by our own Roberta Stets, Jeanette Ferguson and Janet Harding.  Courtenay’s team of Shelly McCallum,  Beth Perrier and Leone King earned third place, while the host club team of Helen Roberts, Denis Hooper and Nancy Blue took fourth.

Carol Bucyk

Wow!   It was quite  a weekend for lawn bowling in Nanaimo.   Teams from the zone competed in the very popular Imagine Cruises Gold Bowl  which had a very generous prize pool of over $2700.00 and paid to the 8th place finish.  Best of all, our own Parksville team consisting of Chris and Martin Fereday and Peter Scott took home top prize money and will have their names engraved on the trophy for this year.  Results are as follows:

First:  Martin and Chris Fereday, Peter Scott – Parksville.  Second was the Erik, Suzanne and Luci Ewen family of Qualicum Beach.  Vern Greenhill, Henri Saucier and Sandy Tonnellier came third.  Kathleen Sherry, Karen Hungar and Donn Sherry of Nanaimo took fourth.  Mick Banks, Aase McMullin of Parksville and Charles McIntyre of QB earned fifth spot.  Ian Yewer, Fred Hulke and Ann Yewer of Nanaimo placed sixth.  Mike Ward, Helen Roberts and John Eyre of the Qualicum club took seventh, and rounding out the top eight was the Nanaimo team of Vern Hagstrom, Lynn Chwartacki and David Ruckman.   Thanks  to all of the participants and congratulations to all of the winners.  Next up, is the Mixed Triples Tournament in Port Alberni.  See you there!

From left to right, our champs Peter Scott (lead) Martin Fereday (skip) and Chris Fereday (third).  Well done, team!