869 Results for author: Garth Partridge
Birkenhead came close to clinching the Bowls North Harbour Centre's division 1 Pennants title at the weekend, even though two rounds remain in the competition.
However, Birkenhead has the bye in the last round, so it is mathematically possible for second placed Takapuna to overhaul it when the competition ends at Manly ...
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Birkenhead and Takapuna’s Forsyth Barr team made the strongest starts in Division 1 when the Bowls North Harbour Centre's Pennants competitions began despite Saturday’s poor weather.
Play in all competitions was restricted to just two rounds and in some instances in the second round only the minimum 10 ends could be ...
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Riverhead’s Steve Cox, Grant Goodwin, Duane McDonald and Lindsay Gilmore, North Harbour’s men’s representatives at the weekend’s national champion of champions fours in Auckland, produced a superb effort, only to be beaten in the semi-finals. They were the top qualifiers with four wins and continued their fine ...
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If only indirectly Brendon Kelly gave North Harbour some interest in the national champion of champion triples events which were decided in Auckland on the weekend.
With Mairangi Bay not competing in the women’s championship because two of its winning centre triple were overseas, North Harbour had only minimal involve...
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While North Harbour’s representatives at the national champion of champion pairs play-offs in Dunedin at the weekend missed out on top honours there was some major success for the centre in far-away Singapore.
Former BNH chairperson, Robyne Walker, playing with national singles champion Leeanne Poulson, from Countri...
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Madeleine Holland, who died on Tuesday in her early 80s, was one of North Harbour’s top women’s bowlers, winning 12 centre titles between 1992 and 2011.
Madeleine started bowls with the Browns Bay women’s club, where one of here first mentors was a later North Harbour life member Margaret Duke, then with the ...
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Lisa Dickson put in a gallant effort but it wasn’t quite enough to bring another New Zealand title for the Takapuna club or the North Harbour centre when the national champion of champion singles titles were decided in Dunedin at the weekend.
Playing in the southern city’s indoor centre, Lisa made Sunday’s ...
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Warkworth’s men’s team of Mike Burke, Stewart Macdonald, Guy Robson and Ross Ruddell spoiled, if only to a small extent, the party for the Mairangi Bay club when the Winter Cup competitions were concluded at Browns Bay on Friday.
Warkworth foiled what would have been a Mairangi Bay double, following the outstand...
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Two of Bowls North Harbour’s most consistent players over many season, John Walker and Elaine McClintock, and Mairangi Bay’s Ian Coombe topped the many worthy winners at the Centre's annual awards ceremony held on Sunday 23 June 2024 at the Hobsonville club.
John, the namesake of one of New Zealand’s most famous ...
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John Walker enhanced an already phenomenal record in North Harbour bowls by winning in dramatic fashion the Centre's mixed Champ of Champ 2-4-2 pairs competition at the Sunnybrae Bowling Club at the weekend.
In Sunday’s final, after an absorbing match in which there was some quality bowls from all four players, ...
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