1 – 5 Year OCTAGONAL 14 & 15 March 2026 at Tauranga
North Harbour’s one-to-five women’s representatives provided the centre with some joy at the weekend, with a commendable effort at the junior octagonal at Tauranga. They finished runners-up to Auckland, overcoming a poor start when in the first round they lost 3-0 to Thames Valley and were held to a draw in the second round by […]
Bowls North Harbour Men’s Division 1 Interclub 7’s
Even the most gifted thriller writer could not have scripted any better the spine-tingling climax to the North Harbour open men’s sevens championship when it concluded at Browns Bay at the weekend. In a truly sensational final, when the result was in doubt until the last bowl of the contest, Mairangi Bay upset Birkenhead […]
BNH Interclub Women’s Division 1 and the Division 2 Report
For the third consecutive year Mairangi Bay will represent North Harbour when the national women’s inter-club sevens are decided in Wellington next month, after a post-section day of high drama and fluctuating fortunes. In Sunday’s final Mairangi Bay beat the host club two matches to one, but only after the Wendy Jensen-skipped four of three […]
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 […]
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 […]
Milford 5000 – Sat 24 & Sun 25 January 2026
Manly’s Shaun Goldsbury, Skye Renes and Andy Dorrance were a decisive winning team at the weekend of another highly successful and competitive Harcourts Cooper Milford 5000. The Goldsbury-skipped trio was the only combination which finished Sunday’s 16-team championship with four wins to finish as an outright winner. Manly finished the final round with a 12-6 […]
National Pairs and Singles – it’s a wrap!!
In what generally was a quiet tournament for bowlers from the northern part of the country, Leeane Poulson and Tony Grantham injected some North Harbour interest into the final day of the 2025-26 national singles and championships in Christchurch. Leeane, who joined the Takapuna club from Counties this season and who won the Bowls North […]