Neil defeated Victor Bartley (Bourke) on Sunday morning and now advances to the NSW Championships later in the year.

This is a magnificent result for Neil and also the Narromine club. We wish Neil all the best at the State finals.

Our annual President’s day was contested on Sunday with a whopping field of 120 players in action. President Des handed out royal merit badges to Robert French and Ron Mann while district merit badges were given to John Edwards and Aaron Hutchison.

The winners on the day were Cliff Harris, Barry Riley, Aaron Hutchison and Matt McIntyre. Runner up went to Harry Gammon, Dave Finlayson, Russell Schroder and Robert French. Frenchy gets another special mention for his three consecutive wrongens (well done Pelican).

There were three B grade singles matches played last week, which saw Arnold Gillespie defeat Brian Coupe and Don Sullivan claimed victory against Kevin Short. Barry Riley advanced to the final four after defeating Cliff Bullock with a solid display.

Matches set down for this Saturday are: A Gillespie v P Randell and D Sullivan v B Bulley. The winner of these two games will play each other on Sunday morning, while the other Sunday match will see B riley take on A Sambrook. All matches are play or forfeit.

A grade triples nominations close this Sunday

Thursday social bowls saw 24 bowlers doing battle with M Hilder and B Livingston picking up the winner’s prize while T Webb and J Woods collected the runner up trophy.

Good luck to our three zone representatives this week, Arnold Gillespie, Don Sullivan and Des Lincoln, who will travel to Maitland where they will be playing the senior sides State Championships. All the best to the Narromine boys and the entire Zone 4 squad.

That’s it for this week, good bowling.