Report – BNH Champ of Champ Fours – 25th & 26th May 2024

Riverhead’s golden run in the Bowls North Harbour Centre’s champion of champion events continued at the weekend with success in the men’s fours to add to the pairs and triples wins earlier this month.  In Sunday’s final on Mairangi Bay’s carpet, Steve Cox, Grant Goodwin, Duane McDonald and Lindsay Gilmore made ... More

Results 18th & 19th May 2024

The Riverhead and Mairangi Bay clubs gave two of their members, Gordon Smith and Elaine McClintock a double cause for celebration when the centre’s champion of champion triples titles were decided at Manly at the weekend. Smith, who the previous weekend had won the champion of champion pairs title with Grant Goodwin, ... More

Results – CoC Events Played 11 & 12 May 2024

  Lisa Dickson achieved a notable milestone when the centre’s champion of champions pairs titles were decided at the weekend.  With her Takapuna partner Lauren Mills she won the women’s title to secure her 20th in the North Harbour centre, giving her a third bar to her gold star.  And in the men’s event the ... More

Weekend Results – 4 & 5 May 2024

  For North Harbour’s two representatives in major national and regional play-offs at the weekend it was a case of almost but not quite.  Both Helensville, at the Mercedes Cup one-to-five inter-club competition in Whangarei, and Birkenhead, at the national 3-5 championship in Wellington, performed with distinction but ... More

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