Saturday 9th February was the day that the Chris Benton Memorial Trophy was held.  It was lovely to see Roz Benton and Kendall Benton present and presenting the prizes.  Thanks to a lot of hard work by Bowls Secretary Dan Ticehurst and the Men’s Club we managed to field ten teams of fours.  The bowls started with a “spider” which raised $125 for research into cancer.  Winner of the spider was Clive Neutze.  The competition consisted of two games of ten ends.  Rather surprisingly the winner was easy to declare as only one team won both games.  The winning team was Joel Hunt, Barry Werfel, Richard Denman and Carl Spilker.  Well done to those players and thanks for everyone who turned up.  Thanks to your participation $808.30 was raised for research into cancer.  Results are also posted below.

Sunday 10th February was the first round of the Club Championship Singles competition.  Four matches were scheduled for play.  Kevin Jones forfeited so Noel Fraser moved ahead.  Stephen Della defeated Nathan Boyers by 31-12.  I gather Stephen got away to a fast start and Nathan was unable to catch up.  Carl Spilker defeated Gordon Lewis by a similar score, 31-12.  Peter Watson was a little closer to Oscar Whelan but Oscar won 31-16.  Next Sunday  will see the round of sixteen played.  There are likely to be some very good matches played, well worth a visit to the Club to watch.