Results 1-5 Year Interclub – April 2024

  Yet again Helensville has boxed above its weight to land another Bowls North Harbour championship title, winning the 1-5 Year Interclub competition, to repeat last season’s success.  In Sunday’s final at Hobsonville Helensville beat Birkenhead 2-1, its winning team being Geert Donkers (singles), Jeni Hart and ... More

Results – BNH Champion of Champion Singles

  Takapuna’s Brent Malcolm and Lisa Dickson achieved a rare double for their club with respective wins in the centre’s champion of champion singles event decided at the Hobsonville club at the weekend.  Malcolm won the men’s final beating Birkenhead’s specialist draw bowler Mark Rumble 21-15 while Dickson ... More

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