Category: Wellington Centre

Its a late gold rush for Victoria this season with Kirsten Griffin, Lisa White and Leigh Griffin picking up our second centre title in three weeks winning the Wellington Champ-of-champ Triples. The girls were in great form winning the semifinal 22-9 against Silverstream and the final 23-9 over Woburn to take the championship.

Well done Lou Newman and Roy Gibb for winning the Wellington 2-4-2 Easter Pairs! The big game in their path to the final was definitely the quarterfinal on home ground at Victoria in the fading light Sunday evening against Johnsonville’s Mark Noble and Rob Ashton. Having worked themselves to a position of three ahead going…

A belated congratulations and well done to Kay Carr who skipped the four for the Wellington City womens team in the recent Masters representative tournament in Masterton. Wellington won the six-team competition. Alf De Munnik and Peter Toomey were involved a week earlier in Wanganui in the Wellington City mens team who finished third on…

Congratulations to Jamie Coleman, Raymond Martin, Richard Corry and Rich’s uncle Phil Dickison on winning the Wilton Invitation Classic. The team won seven out of their eight matches to win the tournament by a point and earn a cool 1G each. Things were tense in the final game to secure the tournament win until they…

Wellington East Girls College have been coming to the Victoria club over recent Tuesday afternoons for coaching and an introduction to the game. Hayley May, with a few helpers, has been taking the girls through the basics of bowls to prepare them for battle in the Wellington College Sport bowls competitions held on Thursdays at…

Leigh and Kirsten Griffin went oh so close to retaining their Wellington Open Pairs title at the Wilton club going down 16-15 in a cliffhanger bowl-for-bowl repeat of last year’s final. The play was of a very high standard from all four players and a great lead-up for Kirsten for the Trans Tasman this coming…