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The views in this News Letter are those of the author, Mark Waters and not necessarily those of the Zone10 Management or Committee

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Welcome to Issue 9 of “In The Zone” –

This edition contains – Grand Final results of Mid Week 5 A Side News from RNSWBA Annual General Meeting Zone 10 Club News Champions League Grand Final Australian Premier League announced by Bowls Australia Measurers Course – Rydalmere Central

Bowls Australia has launched a new competition, promoted as "a revolutionary new fast-paced, dynamic format of competition, which is set to catapult the sport into the 21st century". The new action-packed format incorporates the best traditional elements of the sport and mixes them into an adrenaline-fuelled, action-packed format of the game in a national city versus city competition, known as the Australian Premier League (APL). The nation’s newest competition, launched today at the nation’s oldest bowling club, Melbourne Bowling Club in Windsor, featured tournament ambassador Mick Molloy, returning to the home of Crackerjack, along with APL players from each of the six inaugural teams. The APL competition, which aims to emulate the success of cricket’s T20 Big Bash League by modernising the game to broaden its appeal, is set to be staged from November 19 to 22, under lights at Brisbane’s premier bowls facility, Club Pine Rivers. It will be a thrilling start to the league, with the four-day tournament promising rivalry and competitiveness, as teams from five states across Australia, and New Zealand, battle it out for a six-figure total prize purse of $100,000, second only to the sport’s $130,000 Australian Open. The six inaugural teams include Messenger Press Adelaide Endurance (license holder: Bowls SA), XXXX Brisbane Gold (Club Pine Rivers), Blundstone Melbourne Roys (Fitzroy Victoria Bowls and Sports Club), Solargain Perth Suns (Bowls WA), BCiB Sydney Lions (Club Mount Lewis) and the Tower New Zealand Blackjacks (Bowls NZ). Bowls Australia Chief Executive Officer Neil Dalrymple said he was confident the APL would become the world’s most popular format of the game. “The APL will transform the way lawn bowls is played, viewed and perceived,” Mr Dalrymple said. “The format has been developed to attract new participants to the sport, provide current fans with an innovative version of competition, and leverage the sport’s exposure with a live television product.” APL ambassador Mick Molloy said it was great to be returning to the home of Crackerjack to launch this exciting new league. “Bowls is no longer seen as a sport for the oldies and this league will continue to grow interest in the sport for the younger generation, who want a fast and action packed version of the game. This is a very exciting development and it might just inspire me to make a sequel - Crackerjack 2: Fast and Furious,” Molloy said. Molloy will also lend his support to the Fox Sports coverage in commentary of the APL in November, providing his own spin on the game’s newest format.

The evolution of the game aims to broaden the appeal of the sport by developing commercial opportunities through television broadcast and providing an alternative format of bowls, to drive an increase in participation at clubs. In a first for the sport nationally, the competition will also be broadcast live on Fox Sports and SKY NZ from 5pm-9.30pm during the four days of competition, providing unprecedented exposure.

Legends Kelvin Kerkow, Mick Molloy & Steve Glasson discuss “tactics” at the launch of the Australian

Premier League in Melbourne

APL KEY FACTS: - Six teams, 18 players, from five major capital cities and New Zealand

- Messenger Press Adelaide Endurance, XXXX Brisbane Gold, Blundstone Melbourne Roys, Tower New Zealand Black Jacks, Solargain Perth Suns, BCiB Sydney Lions

- Each team will include three players, with two players from each team nominated to compete in each game as the lead and skip

- The third player will be the ‘super sub’ for that team and may be called upon at any time - Each game is played over 2 sets, with 5 ends per set, and a one end tie-break if required, for a one

hour match duration - The APL will be played as a sectional based competition in the preliminary rounds and convert to a

‘knock out’ format for all finals play. - Top four teams make it through to a knock-out style finals round

- APL is owned and administered by Bowls Australia

Mark Haines Kelvin Kurkow Dylan FisherScott Thulborn Robert Wild Matthew Flapper

Wayne Ruediger Mark Casey Graeme Archer

Jo Edwards Clive Adams Steve GlassonAli Forsyth Brett Wilkie Karen Murphy

Tony Grantham Jeremy Henry Aron Sherriff

2014 Australian Open

NSW Qualifying

NSW Qualifying for the 2014 Australian Open will be played at Milton Ulladulla BC, Taree Leagues BC

and The Hills District BC

Men's Singles - Wednesday 20 November Men's Pairs - Thursday 21 November Men's Fours - Friday 22 November

Mixed Pairs - Saturday 23 November at Milton Ulladulla BC and Taree Leagues BC Mixed Pairs - Monday 25 November at The Hills District BC

Conditions of Play - As published by Bowls Australia

Jack re-spotted as per Law 15 Players do not need to be from the same club Singles - Four bowls per player - 21 shots up

Pairs - Three bowls per player - 15 ends Fours - Two bowls per player - 15 ends

Play will be a combination of sectional play and knockout, as required (dependent on number of entries)

Entries close – 24th October

CLICK HERE FOR ENTRY FORM

The Annual General Meeting of the Royal NSW Bowling Association was held Thursday 19th September and the following Directors were declared elected unopposed –

Bob Moran ( Warrawee) Jay Porter (Dubbo Railway) Vince Beard (The Rules Club, Wagga) Lyle Keats (Taren Point) Ron King (Pennant Hills) Ian McKnight(Cudgen Leagues) Peter Rake (Blakehurst Men’s)

At the Board of Director’s Meeting of the Royal SNSW Bowling Association the positions of President & Deputy President were elected by the Elected Directors. Vince Beard was elected President and Lyle Keats was elected Deputy President

East Maitland BC is hosting the 2013 NSW State Championships over the period 12th to 19th October. Zone 10 will be represented in the following events and the Schedule of Play over this period is as follows

Good Luck to all from Zone 10!!!!

Date Event Names12 & 13 Oct State Fours Peter Williams, Paul Webb, Zeljko Trbara & Tom Ellem (Merrylands)12 & 13 Oct Reserve Pairs Jeff Gallagher & Pirini Tai (Rosehill)

14 & 15 Oct State Triples John Hennessy, James Clifton & Steve McGuiness (Merrylands)14 & 15 Oct Reserve Singles Jeff Gallagher (Rosehill)

16 & 17 Oct State Pairs Craig Maythers & Mick Harry (Wenty Leagues)16 & 17 Oct Senior Pairs Grahame Willis & Tony Bromley (Brush Park)

18 & 19 Oct State Singles Paul Webb (Merrylands)18 & 19 Oct Senior Singles Trevor Imer (The Hills)

Saturday 5th October saw the 2nd Annual George “Buddy” Brennan Tournament contested in perfect spring weather conditions with 20 very competitive teams in the draw from all over Sydney. Skip of the winning team was a very pleased and proud Ross Brennan, son of “Buddy”, who collected the $1600.00 1st prize. A very unlucky 2nd (according to Mick Kelly!) was Northmead with $800.00. 3rd was Gladesville with $600.00 & 4th was Composite (Waverley/Gladesville/Bondi) $400.00

(Jim Hiotellis CEO) Ross Brennan, George “Buddy” Brennan, Cameron Ross, Craig Bass, Tony Hyem President

(missing Wayne Farthing) Gladesville team

2nd - Mick Debono, John Farr, John Spurway & Mick Kelly

(Northmead)

3rd - Greg Merchant, Greg Hazell, Peter Coyle 4th - Tom Hawkins, Daren Robinson, Missing Ron Bainbridge (Gladesville) George Sotiriou & Russel Shellford (Waverley/Gladesville/Bondi)

A very pleased John Leonard receiving the Men’s Minor Singles trophy from Club

President, Warren Phillips with Ian Corke. John defeated Ian 31 to 20

The Umpires Committee will be conducting a course for measurers on 2 consecutive Saturdays, 2nd & 9th

November commencing a 9.00am until 12.00pm at Rydalmere Central BC. With the course being at no

cost and only taking a couple of hours for the 2 Saturdays, it is hoped that their will be a number of

registrations. For those wishing to participate in the course, please contact Les Watkins on 0412 999 180

or [email protected]

Please note that there will not be any further accreditation/re-accreditation courses available until 2015.

The Mixed Pennants season commenced Saturday 28th September and after the 1st round, the leader board is as follows -

Scores can be found at http://zone10.org.au/mixpennant/2013/MASTERSCORE.pdf

The Grand Finals of the 5 A Side competition were played last Wednesday 2nd October at Rosehill BC. The competition was fierce and all the matches were played in great spirit and under wonderful blue skies

with the results as follows -

Merrylands defeated Gladesville 51 – 38

A GRADE A GRADE

SECTION 1 RND PTS SHOTS SECTION 2 RND PTS SHOTS

CARLINFORD 1 3 9 THE HILLS 2 1 3 16

PENNANT HILLS 1 1 3 3 NTH EPPING 1 3 8

PENNANT HILLS 2 1 1 -3 GLADESVILLE 1 1 -8

THE HILLS 1 1 1 -9 PENNANT HILLS (3) 1 1 -16

B GRADE B GRADE

SECTION 1 RND PTS SHOTS SECTION 2 RND PTS SHOTS

CARLINGFORD 1 4 5 THE HILLS (2) 1 4 24

DUNDAS SPORTS 1 3 5 DUNDAS SPORTS 1 3 8

CASTLE HILL 1 1 -5 PARRAMATTA 1 3 1

THE HILLS 1 1 0 0 PENNANT HILLS 1 1 1

BEECROFT 1 0 -5 CASTLE HILL 1 1 8

ROSEHILL 1 0 24

L-R: Ray Gillard, Julio Posadas, John Hennessy, Steve McGuiness, Gary Reynolds, H. Dennis Harmer

Putney Tennyson defeated North Epping 59 – 35

L- R: Les Crow, Peter Joint, Brian Prentice, John Stanton, Lawrie Ager

Merrylands defeated Castle Hill 57 - 37

L – R: Peter Toffolon, E. Manny Galea, E. Manny Attard, Steve Reynolds, Les Jenkins

Taren Point have virtually wrapped up the title of 'club of the year', after capturing the Henselite Champions League NSW title Sunday 29th September played at Belrose BC in perfect spring conditions and with a who’s who of Lawn Bowls. Some of the 120 players involved were Kelvin Kerkow, Steve Glasson, Rex Johnson, Crawford Linton, Cameron Curtis, Carl Healey, Tom Ellem, Neil Burkett, Ray Pearse, Chico Trbara, David Holt, Ben Twist, Mat Pietersen, Aron Sherriff, Mark Berghofer, John Green, Ali Forsyth, Wayne Turley, Jason Stokes, Leif Selby, Jeremy Henry, Mick Harry and a host of Zone 10 reps from Merrylands, Wenty Leagues and The Hills. Round 9 on Saturday morning saw all 10 teams fighting for a last round victory, Merrylands faced the home team Belrose, with a spot in the Final 4 up for grabs. Whilst “MAGIC” jumped out the boxes to win the 1st Set of 9 ends 37 shots to 17, it was a different story in the 2nd Set with the “BULLS” fighting back to win 42 to 15, which forced a Tie Break of 3 ends on each rink. The Tie Break is won by the Tean scoring the most shots after 9 ends on the Masterboard, with Rex Johnson narrowly missing to convert with his last bowl “MAGIC” scraped home 9-8 and into the Semi Finals. With this and other matches completed in the final round, the Minor Premiership was taken out by Mt Lewis. The other top 4 teams were Taren Point, Merrylands & Warilla.

In the Elimination Final, Merrylands defeated Warilla comfortably in 2 sets, with David Holt’s rink proving to be very strong with impressive wins in both sets. In The Qualifying Final, Taren Point jumped out of the blocks early against Mt Lewis and scored a crushing 1st set win before consolidating their spot in the Grand Final, winning both sets as well.

MERRYLANDS V WARILLA MT LEWIS V TAREN POINT

SET SKIP SCORE SKIP SCORE SET SKIP SCORE SKIP SCORE

1 T ELLEM 9 L SELBY 7 1 R CHESHER 6 J GREEN 11

1 Z TRBARA 6 J HENRY 7 1 S GLASSON 2 A FORSYTH 19

1 D HOLT 18 A TEYS 9 1 M PIETERSEN 2 W TURLEY 8

33 23 10 38

SET SKIP SCORE SKIP SCORE SET SKIP SCORE SKIP SCORE

2 T ELLEM 8 L SELBY 8 2 R CHESHER 8 J GREEN 11

2 Z TRBARA 10 J HENRY 7 2 S GLASSON 10 A FORSYTH 3

2 D HOLT 12 A TEYS 4 2 M PIETERSEN 5 W TURLEY 11

30 19 23 25

In the Final played Sunday morning, it was Mt Lewis up against Merrylands. In what was expected to be a close match, Merrylands won convincingly both sets, 28-14 & 34-20 to set up an epic Grand Final match against the “Power” from Taren Point. In a truly remarkable match, every bit worthy of a major final, the two juggernaut clubs of our sport Taren Point Power & Merrylands Magic were like two prize fighters slugging it out, standing toe-to-toe, neither giving an inch. Neither club could be separated in the first set with Merrylands almost clinching it, but in the end having to settle for a 21 all draw.

The second set was basically a replay of the first, although Taren Point did open up mini breaks at 9-4 and then again at 17-12 before Merrylands launched yet another comeback. In the end though, a few 'bombs' from the Taren Point skippers, Wayne Turley, Ali Forsyth and John Green was the difference over the last few ends to stave off a determined 'Magic'. So it was the mighty 'Point' though that prevailed in the Grand Final and in doing so kept an incredible record intact for Zone 13 'Sydney South', who has duly won just about every major trophy in NSW over the last two years. Taren Point 'Power', who also recently won the Bowls NSW blue-ribbon title, the 'No 1 State Pennant', proved to all before them, that they are the premier club in the state at present, by dethroning the mighty Merrylands 'Magic' who have held the Champions League title for the last couple of years.

Taren Point lead, big Steve Garry (Teach) was named best on ground in the final and a special mention also goes to John Green's second, Ricky Malin. Normally a division two bowler at the Point, Ricky received the big call up to the weekends action after some notable omissions and unavailable players were ruled out. Ricky received devastating news only 30 minutes before the Grand Final started that his father had just passed away. Whilst Ricky had the option of pulling out, he had been waiting in the 'wings' too long for his opportunity to show what he can do at the highest level - and perform he did. He was able to put in a fantastic performance and only narrowly missed out on the man of the match. It was a case of “so close” for Merrylands Magic, who had won the title in the inaugural year 2012 & also in the final year of the Premier League in 2011 and was shooting for 3 titles in a row. Although it was not to be, congratulations to them for a very consistent and impressive Championship. The other Zone 10 clubs that featured in the Champions League were Wenty Leagues and The Hills. Both clubs found the competition very tough and although finishing in the bottom half of the table, will benefit greatly from the experience and will come out stronger in next year’s competition.

Taren Point Power – Champions 2013

PLEASE CONTACT THE CLUBS DIRECTLY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR LOG ONTO BOWLS NSW WEBSITE – ALL TOURNAMENTS & ENTRY FORMS ARE AVAILBLE THERE

http://www.rnswba.org.au/events

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CONTACT – BOB RICHARDSON 0411 360 142 [email protected]

http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/events/events/brush-park-bowling-club-two-bowl-triples

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CONTACT – ANDREW WOODS 0407 456 456 http://www.rnswba.org.au/RNSWBA/events/events/thrifty-link-graded-5-a-side

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CONTACT – LAWRIE AGER 0408 435 001 or BRIAN PRENTICE 0434 105 945

Attention all Bowls Coordinators and Secretaries – Please forward me details of your next tournament and the details will be shown here and sent out to every Club on our data base!!!!! Please include your phone and email contacts and a flyer/entry

form

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Wednesday 16th October – Zone Management Meeting Saturday 12th to Saturday 19th October – State Championship Finals (State/Senior/Reserve)

Sunday 10th November – Zone 10 v Zone 2 Juniors Saturday 16th November – Mixed Pennants Finals

Sunday 17th November – Zone 10 Development Match Saturday 23rd November – Mixed Pennants Finals

Wednesday 11th December – Zone Management Meeting Wednesday 25th December – Christmas Day

Friday 24th January – State/Zone Triples Close

Friday 7th February – Pennants Entries Close Friday 7th February – State/Seniors/Presidents Singles Close

Saturday 22nd February – State/Zone Triples Commence

Saturday 8th March – State/Seniors/Presidents Singles Commence Saturday 22nd March – 2014 Zone 10 Pennants Season Commence

IMPORTANT

Please note that this Calendar is a Draft and dates are subject to confirmation by the Zone 10 Committee. Please check on www.zone10.org.au for updates

www.zone10.org.au

The Zone 10 website is a wealth of information of event programme, draws, results, club events, By-laws, Regulations and Conditions of Play, Club information and Entry Forms. I encourage all members of Zone 10 to “hit’ the website at least once a week as a further way of keeping informed on the happenings within

Zone 10. You can also view the edition of “In The Zone” on this website. It is hoped that you let all your bowling friends and family know about this link so that they too can keep up to date with the happenings

in and involving Zone 10 and they too can be “In The Zone”

Also information from Zone 10 as well as all other Zones can be found on the Royal NSW Bowls Association website

www.rnswba.org.au/news/around-the-zones

The next edition of “In The Zone” will be distributed Wednesday 23rd October Deadline for information – Tuesday 22nd October