Sports round-up

Last Wednesday on a course which is looking better all the time, 26 members joined for a Single Stableford match. Top score for the day was by Merv McLean to win B Grade with 34 points. The runner-up was Greg Clarke with 32. A Grade's best was Roy Perry with 32 and the runner-up was Andy Aitken who survived a countback. Nearest the pin on the 5th was Shane Madden for A Grade and Brian Johnston in B Grade. Nearest the pin on the 8th in A Grade was Trevor Rose and Mike Carney did the job for B Grade. Best A Grade putting went to Shane Madden with 22 putts and Roland Grimmitt with 21 putts won the ball for B Grade.Next week's game will be the second round of the Foursomes Competition and the starters will be Peter Raschke and Ron Rolfe. Our next Monday raffle will be on the 7th of June. Sammy Snead reckoned "If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death!"

LUSC LADIES

SOCIAL BOWLS

We played triples bowls on 2 rinks last week in great weather.

Edie Peterson won the spider and Teresa Wise won the raffle. Well done both ladies. Watch this space next week as we are considering having a Mothers Day luncheon on 5th May. There will be more details next week.

Welcome back to Ann Butlin who is returning from her duties in Pennants etc.

16th May is the LUSC Gala day. $10 fee covers the games of versatility triples and luncheon etc. There is a sheet on board at the LUSC Club for names to be put down.

DHJ

L.U.S.C. LADIES

SOCIAL GOLF

On April 13 28 players enjoyed a Secret 5 Stableford competition.

Division 1 Winner: C. Green 15. Runner-up: Y.Burnett 12. 3rd: B.Northfield 11.

Division 2 Winner: S.Silber 16. Runner-up: I.Orr 13c/b 3rd: M.Barrie 13.

Lucky Draw: S.Houley. 8 Cardies were present.

Lake Cathie Darts Club

Social darts matches on 13th April, 2010 were keenly contested but at the end of the night the winning team was pretty convincing with pegs a speciality and limited opportunities for coaching rifts.

Winners were Tonie & Tony on 17 points followed by Malady & Lee on 15 points.

The Lake Cathie Butchery sponsored prizes for the mugs were won by Marg & Dennis.

HP winner was Tony on 88 but he almost had to sweat tears of blood to win this as Glenn peppered the numbers around it.

HS winner was on-a-roll-Glenn on 130.

Raffle results saw a big fat chook go to Janice and to Rick - both cardies - thanks for your support.

Activities continue every Tuesday with rego around 6.15 pm for a 6.30 pm dart off. Visitors are always welcome.

LUSC LAWN

BOWLING CLUB

Last Thursday afternoon 101 bowlers fronted up for a game at Lake Cathie, what a fantastic roll up. We had one visitor Malcolm Keys from Northmead. Our members unable to bowl due to ill health are Kevin Bogg, Ken McDonald, Bill Lovell, John Clark, Jack Clarke, Don Appleby, Col Huntley, Gary Hillman and Dave Wightman, get well soon fellows as we want to see you all back with us at bowls. The club voucher rink winners were Ken Kinman, the Fitter & Turner, Ron Morris, Rowdy Smith, Angry Jock McPherson, Mark Ryan, Charles Harbon, Pommie Bennett and Greg Darcy. The rink runner-up club voucher winners were John Compton (again), Ken Posker, The Camel Jockey, Ossie Garland, Glenn Ferris, John Haddrick, Sluggo Collins, Jan Blank and the Chickenman. The cash winners drawn from the weekly nomination list were John Read winning $20 with both Goodwin Milner and Barry Shorter winning $10 each. The lucky winners of the Colonial Bakery delicious Family Pie Vouchers were John Haddrick, Morten Mike Carney, John Brown and Joe Bishop. The three $25 men’s Xmas club raffle winners were (Not so) Wise George, Kevin Wayling and Fred Paine. There were also fifteen other lucky members who won a great $20.00 meat tray voucher from Wiggly Tails quality butchers. All Bowlers are reminded when bowls are cancelled due to inclement weather, any Championship matches nominated to play that week will automatically be played the following week, however, it will be the responsibility for those bowlers playing normal social bowls to ensure that they nominate on the list for the following week and by the way, please let Jerry know of any unavailable dates you may have in respect to Championship Matches. Our Annual Mixed Bowls Gala Fun Day will be held at the North Haven Bowling Club on Sunday 16th May, yes May, not June, as was mentioned in last weeks paper. Please be there at 9am for a 9.30am start, dress will be your LUSC club shirt or neat & tidy mufti. The cost will be only $10 p/h which includes your green fees, lunch and heaps of prizes and other good stuff. The Nomination list for the Gala Fun Day is now displayed on the LUSC Lawn Bowling Club Notice Board for our members who wish to attend for a great day of social mixed bowls. Our members are advised that your $5.00 Annual Membership Fee for the next financial year can also be paid on that day.

T.I.A.

C.H.D.D.A Winter Comp

Results for 12th April. 2010.

Red Devils 7 d Kendall Jokers 2. Twisted Sisters 8 d It’s All Good 1. Missing Links had the bye. High score to Anne Burton 133 &Carol Dyson 132.

High peg to Josie McDermid 99.

Men: Knights 7 d Far Kew 2, 2. Terminators 8 d Bandits 1. Koala’s 5 d Units 4. Panthers 5 d Far Kew 1, 4. The Magpies had the bye. A nice game of darts with a 25.69 average from Steve Burton. High scores to Dave Burnham 145, Barry B, Len D, Mick McShayne B, Peter C, & Steve B, all scoring 140. Not far behind, Lee & Mick Mc, with 133, our mate Glen H hit 124 twice. A 21.31 av. game and a giant 130 peg to Barry Bungard. Other pegs to Mick McNally 96 & Peter Cameron 69.

Birthdays this week, old Colonel Potter from M.A.S.H. turns 95, still going strong. David Cassidy of the Partridge Family would you believe it, he is 60.

North Haven Bowling Club Snooker Club.

Major winner this week is Neville Craft from runner-up Brian Lenard

Minors Winner was Colin Cooke over Dave Gittoes

Reminder: If you’re looking at joining a snooker club North Haven Bowling Club Snooker is offering 7 months free membership if you are a member of the bowling club.

Names in by 6.15 for 6,.30 p.m. start.

in off the red

CAMDEN HAVEN BRIDGE CLUB

Monday 12th April 2010

NS: 1 Colin Choat & Cameron Kirton. 2 Cheryl O”Dowd & Bill Stallebrass 3Margaret Dunlop & Elaine Lockwood . Draw:Carolyn Van Der Veen & Patti Smith

EW 1 Diane Henry & Kate Potts . 2 Phillipa Crowther & Murial Bishop 3 Rina Schaaf & Ron Fiore. Draw: Joan Holt & Pat Parsons

Thursday 15th April 2010. 1st Session of GDP

1 Colin Choat & David Jitts 2. Valda & John Toose 3 Stuart Baalman & Ron Fiore Draw Phillipa Crowther& Cameron Kirton.

Friday 15th April 2010.

NS. 1 Colin Choat & Jim Forbes 2 . 1 Terry & Noeline McKenna 3Joan Holt & Joan Gillett. Draw Norma Frank & Jan Kuras

EW: Florence Walker& Daphne Dickens 2 Pamela Bennett & Bet Matthews. 3 Joe Kolder & Mick Mills Draw Pam Perry & Nioni Cummins

CAMDEN HAVEN

NETBALL CLUB

Results: 17th April 2010

RIVERVIEW JNR - 10YRS: Bye

SISTA WISH CLOTHING - 12YRS: Won.

The wet & slippery courts had both teams playing very cautious netball. A good start to the season for Miranda, Chloe did a great job playing in both attacking and defensive positions. Tarmara never stopped running, Ellen had a few slips in the wet but stayed on her feet, Ashleigh wasn’t so lucky and hit the deck hard. Pheobi managed a few falcons; Eliza and Taylee both played good netball. Thank you to Sista Wish Clothing for the great hand bands, they looked fantastic. Thank you also to the spectators, it was nice to see and hear you supporting both Camden Haven Teams. Training is now on Thursday’s 4.30pm – 5.30pm.

HAVEN WATERS MOTEL & SUITES- 12YRS: Defeated, The team played a great game, and worked very well together. Fantastic work by Lily and Jess who have only played two games before and are improving a lot. The girls showed great teamwork when Jessy hurt her ankle and had to come off. Great game girls.

L.U.S.C JNR- 13YRS: 9 all draw. Our first game for the season and unfortunately we were one player short. Thank you to all players for putting in 100%. Happy birthday to Lacey.

L.U.S.C SNR - DIV 3: Defeated. All girls had a great game and had fun. A special thanks to Christy Mc Miles for playing for us.

NORTH EASTERN DOOR FRAMING - DIV 2: Defeated.

The Panthers came out fast in the first two quarters and unfortunately got a lead. In the third & fourth quarters our girls showed that they were just as competitive and were equally scored with Panthers. I was very proud to see how every player stepped up to play great netball. Thank you parents for your support and girls wait till we face our next game and show the teams what your can do. Please contact Ash for training details.

TRAVELWORLD LAURIETON - DIV 4: Won 28-27.

RIVERVIEW SNR – DIV 6 - Won on a Forfeit.

CH EAGLES

JUNIOR LEAGUE

Under 7's

A great start to the season this year from the Eagles 7's as we took on the Port Breakers. There was some tough defence and some really good tries scored by both teams. The Eagles managed to come away with the better scoring plays on the day.

This year we are playing a little short in numbers and we have had to find a couple of big 6's to make up our team and they are doing extremely well too. So a big thanks to Joshua Bradbury and Dane Chapman who play with us fulltime and without them we wouldn't be able to field a team. Also thanks to Rhys, Jacob and Thomas who have stepped up from the 6's and took on the challenge. These boys played two games on Saturday, I bet they were pretty tired. Special mentions go to Hayden Crossfield, James Coulter, Rhyan Hudson , Kye Gill and Kody Green wasn’t feeling too well at the start of the game, but he came good after the orange break and played hard. Well done boys.

Next week we play the Taree Panthers, see you at training Tuesday & Thursdays 4pm.

U/8’s

Saturday saw the under 8s travel to Forster. To say we were worried about the weather when we were leaving the beautiful Camden Haven was an understatement. However, the difference in weather in Forster couldn’t have been any more contrasted to that at home! Under a hot blue sky, the boys were excited that the football season had finally started again. We welcome some new faces to the team and on the day, it consisted of Dylan, Casey, Kade, Jack R, Jake, Mitch, Ned, our two Rileys, Damien, Dean, Jack T and Reece. Forster got off to a cracking start, scoring two quick converted trys. In the second third, our boys started to click into gear. Jack R, Jack T, Jake, Dean and Damien were busy as always in defence. Our new faces in the Rileys, Reece and Ned made some blockbusting runs up the middle. Mitch as always surprised us with his speed to burn in those little legs. Dylan, Casey and Kade as always were dynamic in both attack and defence with Kade saving certain trys and Dylan and Casey both scoring converted trys to even up the score line to result in a draw on the day. Some things to remember boys, don’t run too close to the sideline, you will be pushed out. Also, whilst backing up the person who has the ball, try not to get in the person’s way! A good comeback in the end. The boys and their parents were beyond excited to hear that they had been chosen to play at halftime in the City Country game next month in Port Macquarie. Well done and see you at training.

U/13’s

Well what a start to the season. We played Forster and we had our backs to the wall from the start. With a minimum 13 players, no reserves, we took to the field. Along came an Under 12's player Jai Hinder who said he would help out. We battled it out with the good Forster side and found ourselves behind with four minutes to go, 16 points to 14. But with a game breaking try to Sam Yates, we got the win. To Josh and James thanks for staying on when needed. Hold your heads up every one of you 13 who played on Saturday and our super sub. Backs to the wall stuff. Tries to Sam Yates, Harry Callinan, Lachie Hayman, Caleb Sanfead. Goals to Josh + Sam.

Eagles 20 Forster 16

Shane Kelly

North Haven Bowling Club Social Darts

April 14, 2010

1st Patti & Tony, 2nd Leanne & Patrick. LHS Patti 98, MHS Tony 133, LHP Kath 61, MHP Patrick 42. Raffle 1 Lee, 2 Josie. Mystery peg 13 not hit. Mugs Patricia & Doug.

Darts are played every Wednesday night, names in by 7.15pm for a 7.30 start.

LUSC Indoor

Sports Bowls

There were 3 three game winning teams this week. After the draw winning team was Chris Wagner & Carole Hyde, consolation winners were Thelma Ruhan & Erson Bennies, Marge Minshall & Margo Bennies, Margaret Caples & Mal Pye. Very good turn-up this week with two visitors Ergon & Margo. Pleasant night of bowls had by all. See you all next week for dinner.

LUSC Wednesday

Night Euchre

Winners Betty Toomey, Julie Farlow & Charlie Hall. There were no runners-up this week only winners, smallish crowd again, tail end of school holidays and grandkids still visiting. Lucky door prizes were won by Betty B, Joyce, Marie, Betty T & Joan. Pleasant evening had by all as usual, see you all next week.

Kendall Services & Citizens Social Darts

April 13, 2010

1st Pam & Col, 2nd CB & MBK. LHS Jean 168, MHS Tony 140, LHP CB 38, MHP Rambo 136. Mugs Carol & Darren.

Happy Birthday Geoff on the 9th. Congratulations to our latest senior citizen, happy 60th Rad. Social darts every Tuesday, names in by 7.15pm. All welcome.

Mid Week Ladies Tennis

April 22 - Kendall

Shoesmith v Betts; Watts v Yewdall; Shoesmith duty.

NB: Ladies please arrive at 9am for discussion re umpires.

Teams:

Kay Shoesmith, Lorrae Cummins, Betty Thomas.

Robyn Betts, Kaye Caddis, Betty Davies.

Ina Watts, Carol Drennan, Ros Sewell.

Cathy Yewdell, Sue Ditcham, Joan Evelyn.

North Haven

Indoor Bowls

This week we had 2x3 game winners Carole Hyde & Betty Bradley were the lucky ones with Bill Hyde & Kiera taking out second. Kiera was one of our visitors along with Egon & Margarite Bennies from Ulladulla. Bill Taylor & Joy Lees, Egon Dennis & Adolf Wagner, Mary Fisher & Ken Posker and Jim Cleary & Dot Johnson were all lucky scratchie winners. We all enjoyed our night and hope to see you next week.

LUSC Sunday Euchre Club

April 11, 2010

Winners Gary Hillman & Mick Driscoll, runners-up Ron Church & Bob Milner.

Lucky Door Phil Sadlier.

April 18, 2010

Winners Charlie Hall & Gary Hillman, runners-up John Walsh & George Barnes.

Lucky Door Charlie Hall.

North Haven Bowling Club Anglers

Our April comp was held at last weekend 17 & 18. A very good roll-up of our members and visitors attended the weigh-in where 19 anglers presented 19 species for 172 fish to weighmaster Geoff Boese & recorder Dick Spencer.

From outside there were 37 sand flathead, 25 bonito, 20 snapper, 13 each of morwong and dolphin fish, 15 rainbow wrasse, 7 teraglin, 5 reef perch, 4 Chinaman leather jackets, 2 goat fish and 1 each of Samson fish, Watsons leaping bonito and pearl perch.

From outside, Chris Keepers, 9 species for 22 fish incl, 5 each of s/flathead and bonito, 2 each of c/l/jackets, mowies to .755kg, snapper to 2kg, teraglin, r/wrasse, 1 each of Samson fish at 1.120kg, and reef perch. Dave Thorncraft with 8 for 26 fish incl, 5 each of sand flathead, snapper to 1.00kg, teraglin best of day to 1.220kg, bonito, 2 each of morwong best of day to 1.095kg, and c/l/jackets, 1 each of binto & r/perch total weight 16.06kg. Graham Knevett with 7 for 12 incl, 4 s/flathead, 2 each of snapper & bonito best of day to 2.805kg, 1 each of pearl perch, goat fish best at .440kg, dolphin fish, r/perch. Mr President, Ray Robinson with 6 for 11 incl, 5 bonito, 2 snapper, 1 each of mowie at .850kg, dolphin fish, r/wrasse & r/perch. “Sparkling” Des Sparkes with 7 for 17 incl, 5 each of sandies & r/wrasse, 4 mowies to 1.00kg, 3 snapper. Bill Burton with 4 for 8 incl, 4 sandies, 2 r/wrasse, 1 each of goat fish & snapper. Geoff Boese with 3 for 7 incl, 5 dolphin fish to 2.040kg, sandy best of day at 1.230kg (1.545kg) & a bonito. Michael Husar with 3 for 7 incl, 5 sandies, snapper & dolphin fish. Ken Pate with 5 sandies to 1.065kg & a red.

From the estuary, Ed Knevett with 5 whiting best to .400kg, 3 bream & a dusky flathead. Tony Morrissey (The big hessian bag is back) with 5 each of luderick to .515kg, & bream to .500kg. Pete Stace 1 bream best of day at .520kg. Emil Veld with a bream.

Off the beach, Dick Spencer with 5 chopper tailor to .750kg & 2 Jewfish to 2.500kg.

The ladies brigade from outside saw Liz Robinson (took the pill) with 5 bonito, 2 r/wrasse, 1 sandy. Nerida Burton with 2 each of sandies to .800kg, mowies to 1.080kg, r/wrasse & a red. Rhonda A Bishop first time ever outside, took 2 pills & used muscles she never knew existed and in with 2 snapper and 1 each of a mowie & r/perch - a big “Thankyou” to Graham Knevett. How is your tummy, arms and legs, Rhonda with the “Rock.”?

The Juniors, from outside, Troy Boese with 5 dolphin fish best of day at 2.430kg & 2 bonito. From rocks, Troy also had a Watsons leaping bonito - creating a new club record at .530kg. We have never had one recorded before. Des (DJ) Sparkes with a nice mowie at .855kg, from outside (1.080kg). Top job at the “barbie” Rhonda.

Welcome aboard new members, Charlie Catania, Cheryl & Emil Veld. $40 secret weight shared by Geoff Boese and Bill Burton. 2 x $20 lucky anglers won by Ed Knevett & Chris Keepers. $15 voucher won by Troy Boese from a junior attending.

Heartiest congratulations to all participants in this comp. Next committee meeting on Tuesday May 11, at 6pm and comp following weekend 15 & 16, weigh-in at 1.30pm.

In the meantime, “Fine Piscatorialing.”

Laurieton Hotel

Motel Fishing Club

A very sunny arvo greeted the forty-odd members (not all of them odd), after damp weekend.

Seventy two fish weighed in at 55 kilos, the biggest being a 7 kilo long tail tuna (Nathan).

Pearl perch, sand flathead, tuna, bream, snapper, John Dory, flounder were on the plate Sunday night.

Deep sea - Dennis Burns; Estuary - Yasmin Crane; Beach & Rock - Nathan Edwards; lucky prize - Kenny Stanton.

Due to ill health of the cook (Olive) and the apprentice (Al) Bob came out of retirement and hasn’t lost a thing!

Our thanks to Lauro Pub, Kumbak Bakery, T-Bones and North Haven Bait & Tackle for their continued support.

Ali.

C.H.Redbacks

Junior Soccer

10 Years CH Reds Auspin Lures v

Kempsey Kingfish

With new players taking to the field for the first time Jack was in goals with Harrison controlling the game from fullback. Good passing from everyone was great to see with a lot of strong defending needed against a confident Kempsey side. Lots of chasing and tackling saw the other team held at 5 goals by halftime. Maddie into goals second half pulled off some excellent saves while Jack opened our scoring with a goal. Mitchell and Jye had a good game with lots of defending and kicking. Everyone joined in and chased the ball which is good to see. Keep it up.

Practice, practice, practice and confidence will come. Player on the day goes to Mitchell Kirkwood for a fine first game. See everyone at training.

LUSC Under 15 Girls v Wauchope

Not the ideal start to a season however, there are great signs to improve, down 3-1 at half time we clawed our way back to 3-2 with a vast improvement on the first half however, a fantastic goal by Wauchope sealed our fate. Final score 4-2.

Heads up girls some fine performances across the entire team with no subs available on the night, we’ll get better. Have fun see you at training - next week away at Koala St.

LUSC Men’s

Social Golf

A bit quiet on the reports lately, no one else seems to know how to write. Rossy was disappointed because he and pup won the voucher and no one got to hear about it (at golf we’re all still hearing about it). The Eagles nest keeps going off, three weeks ago Pepe won 3 balls and a week later poor Robbo wins one, we must have made it too easy. This weeks game was a 2 man Ambrose and it was good to see Thomas and Trevor Boyle out for a hit. The course was a little damp but still in good nick. Balls were hard to come by, Pup and Nibbs monstered great drives to take home the long drives while Pepe took out the ladies hole and Trevor Saunders the second shot. The winners on the day were father and son Saunders finally getting the voucher after losing on a countback the week before. Bob and Ruddo handed in the pink shirts for Glen and Thomas to wear next time they play.

Laurieton Wednesday Night Tennis

Results: April 14, 2010

Royce, Ian, Karen def Garry, Rob, Julie 28/20.

Lyndon, Perc, Col, Ray def Les, Matt, Alex Marg 35/13.

Merv, Blake, Corey, Betty def Dennis, Owen, Pauline Lorrae 26/22.

Winners of this comp Lyndon, Perc, Col and Ray. Congratulations and well done to everyone.

LUSC Snooker

Tuesday April 13, 2010

It’s been a pretty good roll-up the last couple of weeks with 18-20 starters.

Major Final: Mal Pye beat Greg Boland. Congratulations Greg on your personal best break of 31.

Minor Match: Thea Wiegers defeated Greg Thompson.

Thursday April 15, 2010

The Major Final went to George Walker beating J Benson. The Minor game went to Gunther Otto defeating Michael Banicek. Last weekend Laurieton travelled North to Port Macquarie Panthers. Congratulations to Port’s well deserved win over Laurieton, they played extremely well. We’d like to thank them for their hospitality. We are looking forward to our next match with them at Laurieton later on in the year.

Other news: Taree/Wingham are expected to visit on May 2. It’ll be a 9.30am start.

The qualified nominated players’ names are displayed on the board.

Good potting -

Michael Banicek

Bonny Hills Beach Hotel Social Golf

Only seven loyal players turned up on Sunday for our first day of the club championship, a single stroke event. Three of our regulars Kate Molony, Marie Carroll and Jacko were out with injuries and the Middlebrook clan had a family occasion to attend.

Winner on the day was the ever consistent Jenny Jackson with a net 56 followed by Tom Scrine with a net 57 being runner-up. Tom solved his putting difficulties by chipping in for a par on the 5th. His putting difficulties returned with a vengence on the 14th hole where his playing partners patiently waited until he finally got the ball into the hole. John MacIntosh also had an interesting game hitting 4 consecutive shots into a tree and he wasn’t even using his “tree” wood. Men’s nearest the pin on 4th hole was Tony Carroll and Men’s second shot nearest the pin on 7th was again Tony. Ladies 2nd shot nearest the pin on the 7th hole was Jenny Jackson. Ladies longest drive on 13th hole was Jenny Jackson and Men’s longest drive on 13th hole was Tom Scrine. The Bradman’s Award went to Stan Neal. Despite their injuries our caterer Marie Carroll and cook Jack soldiered on with their duties feeding our elete group back at headquarters.

Next game is Sunday May 2, at Wauchope 8am for a Stableford multiplier. This will be followed by playing at Harrington on Sunday May 16, hitting off at 8.30am. Meet at Tavern at 7am to car pool for the trip which is $24 for golf and lunch.