THE winners of the Gala Day Men’s 4s have been decided while two of the newer bowlers to TGCC Bowling Club are celebrating after entering the “Rookie Pairs” competition on 27 September.
Les Smith and Craig McDonald qualified to represent the club under cover at Raymond Terrace Bowling Club.
With pure determination, they took on East Maitland, tournament favourites, in their first round.
Their first victory was a close one, 9-7.
Their next game was a BYE, followed by Round 3 against Marks Point – a strong victory 13-4.
This took the determined pair to the semi-finals after lunch against Soldiers Point.
Another close win with Tea Gardens winning 10-8.
Les and Craig met the strong Belmont side in the final and with pure grit defeated Belmont 12-4 to make them the winners of their section in the Greater Newcastle Bowls and finalists in the State Rookies Pairs Tournament to be held again at Raymond Terrace Bowling Club on 20-23 November.
It goes without saying how proud the whole Tea Gardens Bowling community is of these lads.
In other bowls news:
TGCC Bowling Club would like to thank the Regional Australia Bank Community Partnership Award which resulted in the amount of $792.51 to our Bowling Club.
TGCC Bowling Club is also having a stall at the upcoming Riverfest on Saturday 4th October 10am – 2pm. We thank the volunteers so far who have kindly given their time to help raise the profile of our Club, but also help any potential recruits to the wonderful game of bowls.
MEN’S GALA DAY WEDNESDAY 24.09.25
Today we had 41 bowlers and both synthetic & grass greens were used.
Overall Winners with a total of 40 were Peter Gurney, Ron Green & Brian Newbery.
Morning Winners decided by the lowest winning margin of 2 and on a one end countback, the winners were Geoff Page, John Bates & Phil Thrift.
Afternoon Winners decided by the lowest winning score of 16 & after a three end countback, winners were Wayne Duggan, Graham Reynolds & Mark Nightingale
The Garden Eatery Voucher was one this week by Noel Jackson. We thank The Garden Eatery for their continuing support in donating these vouchers each week!
LADIES TUESDAY BOWLS 23.09.25
We saw 10 ladies today, who played one rink of 4 bowl pairs and another rink of 3 bowl triples. Winners today with lowest margin, Leona Clissold & Bette Saillard.
THURSDAY MIXED BOWLS 25.09.25
We had 14 bowlers today with one rink 2 bowl 4s & another rink 3 bowl triples, played on the synthetic. Winners today with the lowest score Sue Morris, Kevin Glover, Judy McGavock & Dale Winter
MEN’S 4’s CHAMPIONSHIP
This weekend saw a semi on Saturday & the Final on Sunday.
Saturday 27.09.25 saw Anthony Grant’s team including Rod Morrison, Chris Golledge & John Bates take on Bruce Murray’s team. Unfortunately Bruce was unavailable for this weekend & Dave Perry took over as Skip. Thank you to Jeff Baker for filling in as 3rd, with Dave Garcia 2nd & Rob Young as lead. The game commenced under beautiful sunlight with a slight breeze. The game started off close, however Dave Perry’s team proved too strong on the day & won with a solid 21-10 win. A big thank you to Col Amos who was their Umpire today.
Sunday 28.9.25 – Finals Day commenced at 1pm. Rick Islaub’s team with Greg Smith 3rd, Garry MacDonald 2nd & Ron Berczelly lead, started strongly & after 2 ends had a 5-0 lead.
However, we all know what can happen bowling, after 12 ends it was 11-11. Then Dave’s team took a 5 on one end & that was the turning point, which saw our Winners for 2025 Men’s 4s Champions: Dave Perry, Jeff Baker, Dave Garcia & Rob Young – Congratulations Gentlemen. A big thank you to Mark Hair for umpiring.
By Kay BERCZELLY
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