Results – The Grove Orewa, BNH 1-5 Any Combination Pairs – 13 & 14 April 2024

Birkenhead’s Willie Tonga and Takapuna's Aaron White, a composite team entry, recovered from a bad opening qualifying round  to score a thrilling win in the Grove Orewa, BNH 1-5 any combination pairs tournament at the weekend.  In Sunday’s final at the Milford club they beat Hobsonville’s David Den Hertog and ... More

Report – The Grove Orewa BNH 1-5 Singles 6 & 7 April 2024

Hobsonville’s spectacular rise as a major force in North Harbour bowls, especially at junior levels, was taken a stage further in the centre’s one-to-five singles championships at the weekend.   In Sunday’s finals at Takapuna they secured a double in both men’s and women’s events, repeating what the club had ... More

National Interclub 7’s Report

The margin in top class bowls between victory and disappointment can be an extremely fine one, as the two North Harbour representatives in the national inter-club sevens play-off found at the weekend.  In the men’s championship Takapuna just missed qualifying for post-section and while the Mairangi Bay ladies achieved ... More

Report – BNH Bowls3Five Weekend – 23 & 24 March 2024

Birkenhead, thanks to a brilliant bowl in the tie-break extra end from Chad Nathan, scored an exciting win in Sunday’s final of the centre’s three-five tournament over a competitive and courageous Mairangi Bay Dolphins line-up of Leon Wech, Hanaan Shahwan and Glenda Rountree.  Just when it seemed Mairangi Bay would ... More

BNH Cadness Cup – Results Report

  Mairangi Bay added to an already vintage season by winning both the men’s and women’s Cadness Cup competitions on Friday.   At Manly Mairangi Bay won the women’s title by finishing unbeaten in the four-team round-robin from the second placed Manly Marvels.  The winning team was Sheryl Wellington, Elaine ... More

National Intercentre Championships & Representative Octagonal Report

  A brave effort by the BNH Centre’s women’s representatives wasn’t quite enough to bring them the national inter-centre title when the national championships were decided in Wellington at the weekend.  After charging into the play-offs by winning all five qualifying games and then achieving another clean-sweep in ... More

Sunday 10 March – 1-5 Year Quadrangular

North Harbour’s one-to-five year representatives tried hard but were always battling when the final quadrangular inter-centre tournament was held at Auckland’s Carlton-Cornwall club at the weekend. On greens much faster than what most of the players were used to both men’s and women’s teams found their Auckland ... More

BNH Interclub 7’s Competition Results

Mairangi Bay and Takapuna will represent North Harbour at next month’s national sevens inter-club playoffs, to be played in the Auckland region, though for the latter it will be a little different from what has been the regular practice in recent seasons. For rather than its highly successful women’s players, ... More

Cadness Cup – 22 March Draw

Congratulations to the 8 teams that made it through to the finals of the Men's Cadness Cup to be played at Milford Bowling Club on 22nd March 2024, (play starting at 9:30 am), being:  The results will be updated on BowlsHub  More

Nationals Fours & Mixed Pairs Report

 Black Jack Selina Goddard did the North Harbour centre proud by winning the national mixed pairs title in Taranaki this week to add to her now formidable record in recent national championships.   Selina, already a national gold star holder while still in her 20s, has now a complete set of titles, the mixed pairs to go ... More