As expected, the 40th Annual Cowra Festival 4’s was highly successful again. After six gruelling rounds the undefeated winners were the team of Dick Jeffries, Josh Andriske, Al Andriske and Cooper McMullen from Dubbo, with the only other undefeated team of Richard Girvan, Leif Selby, Russ Nobes and Jake Graham from Nelson Bay relegated to second place.

Thanks again to all the bowlers that contested the event and many thanks to Mark and Tony for the fabulous greens, also the Club Management and staff for the drinks, meals and club presentation each day. Further thanks to the volunteers that undertook all the other activities around the club and greens each day, for the duration of the event, we couldn’t run the tournament without the volunteers.

We all look forward to next year’s 41st annual event.

The it was onto Saturdays 2nd round Men’s Club Singles matches with Shane Egan defeating John Bischof 25/12, Laurie Chew overcoming Shane Beasley 25/22, Ian (Wal) Walker beating Peter Browne 25/12, Paul Druery belatedly overcoming a determined Greg Nicholls 25/21, Braydon Chew battling against Bruce Thurtell and winning 25/21, Noel Hubber defeated Ray Harper 25/10, Bob Morgan managed to out run Kak Smith 25/15 and Ken Porter had a walkover.

Outstanding results in Sundays Pennant Matches all played at home. Grade 5 had an emphatic win over Canowindra 80/39, 10 points to 0, Grade 6 are in the Region play-offs after a great win over Caragabal 66/48, 10 points to 0 and Grade 7 had a very close win over Canowindra 68/59, 9 points to 1 and are still a good chance of making the play-offs.

Upcoming Matches and Events.

Saturday’s quarter finals matches of Men’s Open Singles will see Shane Egan v Laurie Chew, Marker John Bischof, Wal v Paul Druery, Marker Peter Browne, Ken Porter v Braydon Chew, Marker Bruce Thurtell and Noel Hubber v Bob Morgan, Marker Ray Harper. All matches should be good close matches.

On Sunday, our Grade 5 Pennant team will host Parkes B & S at home.

Sunday morning mixed social bowls will also be on, phone between 8.45am and 9.15am for 9.30am start.

Good bowling everyone until next week.