National 2-4-2 Pairs – outstanding performances
Irene Donaldson and Matt Berry were the best performed of the many combinations with ties to North Harbour who competed at the national 2-4-2 mixed pairs championship in the Bay of Plenty. Donaldson, now with Manly and with three Harbour titles to her name, and Berry, last season’s national singles champion and now with […]
1 -5 Year Octagonal – Bay of Plenty – 14 – 15 March 2026
Bowls North Harbour congratulates those selected for the 1-5 Year OCTAGONAL and wish all safe travels and good bowls. Do Bowls North Harbour proud!!
2026 Nationals – Top Showing by Bowls North Harbour
After what had been a tournament of mainly qualified achievement, from a North Harbour viewpoint, the national fours championships in Mt Maunganui were suddenly galvanised on Sunday’s final day when two teams with strong Harbour connections excelled. Lisa Dickson’s Takapuna line-up of three Lauren Mills, two Hannah Dawson and lead Anne Dorreen brilliantly won the […]
Report – OCTAGONAL 14 & 15 February 2026
In what was a tumultuous final day full of drama and twists and turns, North Harbour’s two premier representative teams came agonisingly close to winning the Octagonal inter-centre titles at Howick at the weekend. The men’s team reached the seventh and last round with a narrow lead. But on a day, when because of the […]
Centre Fours – Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February 2026
Takapuna achieved the rare, and possibly unprecedented, feat in the centre’s championship fours at the weekend, that being a second double of title successes on the one day. In Sunday’s finals at Birkenhead Chris Taylor, Chris Charles, Murray Mathieson and Norm Scott-Morrison won the men’s event, beating Birkenhead’s Jerry Belcher, Steve Hoeft, Nick Thompson and […]
Report – $6,000 Birkenhead Carpet Mill Men’s Pairs – 31 Jan & 1 Feb 2026
Mount Albert’s Zoran Bartulovich and Neven Grgicevich emerged from a highly competitive field to win the $6,000 Carpet Mill Birkenhead Men’s Pairs at the weekend. After two days of quality bowls they won the final against another excellent combination, Northland father-and-son, Daniel and David Hood. For their win Bartulovich and Grgicevich, the latter the talented […]