Sport news from around Nyngan

It showed too, with some of the shots we played.

The first game was between Marie and Dawn up against Shirley and Maureen.

Shirley and Maureen managed to keep their bowls on the mark, more than Marie and Dawn, winning 10 to four. 

The next game was Marie and Dawn again this time up against Dorothy and Jean who played very well to win over Marie and Dawn eight to two. 

The final was played over four ends Jackie and Shirley up against Jean and Dorothy there was four all so we had a play off with Dorothy and Jean coming up the winners by one. 

It was a great afternoon of fun and laughs, so if you could do with an afternoon of laughs, with a difference come along to the senior rooms behind the library on Thursday at 2pm. 

A cracking round by the "crack-n-plumbers" of 51 points was the stand out score of round 16 in the Twilight competition their team is Luke Smith, Jason Shone, Brad McDougall, and unpredictable Sav Whaley. 

With just three ropunds to go, it's very congested at the top, "Aussie Hotel " with 23 points, have a narrow lead over "Neill Earthmoving" and "Macquarie Electrics" both on 22 points then "Kev Martin Plumbing" with 20 points.

Anyone below the leaders would appear to have their work cut out to make up the leeway. 

The rain held off for most of hte players in Saturday's stableford, the exception was the last group who got a thorough drenching on the 18th. 

Janine Tulenew upstaged the boys with her excellent score of 42 points, the highlight was her four pointers on three occasions, Nate Matheson, Craig Ticehurst and Dave Buggy all managed 36 points for a ball each.

Golf went ahead on Sunday morning on a rain affected track, the miners' Mark Cashion and Grant Webster with 30.5 nett had a slight edge over Ron Finlay and Mick Gibson with 30.87 nett, they were a bit slow out of the boxes.

The Beetson boys, managed 31.37 nett, they also shared the nearest to the pins on Saturday. Rodney Herbert and Nate Matheson were Sunday's winners of the pins.

Next Saturday is a stroke event and the ususal AM game on Sunday.

Rex Vane putted for $488 last week and came up empty handed. 

Badge draw this Thursday night is $400.

Minor Premiers RSL failed to live up to expectations in one of the lowest scoring grand finals in recent history.

RSL won the toss and batted first and it didn’t start well with the back bone of the side Glen Berwick caught behind for a duck in the first over.

It all went downhill from there, both Lupton’s failed to trouble the scorers and all of a sudden it was 3/5.

For a brief moment Dalforno looked the goods, smashing D Woods to all parts of the ground but fell to chief destroyer Damo Smith who ended up with 4 wickets.

Young Tyler Martin batted well and hung around for a while as did stalwart Richard Hoare, but a total of 65 was not going to be enough to stop the Bowling Club Colts winning the Frank Smith Shield.

R Gudgeon also ended up with 4 wickets cleaning up the tail. The Colts lost Smith early with the total of 15 but J Jeffery and J Hedges worked the ball around nicely and reached the score with relative ease only losing 3 wickets.

Jackson Hedges top scored with 20.

The NDCA Bogan Brown Snakes will travel to Dubbo this Sunday to face the Minor Premiers in the Brewery Shield. A Bus will be going, all supporters welcome.

Season awards went to:

Most wickets – M Hanlon, T Ryan, T Martin 14; Bowling average – R Gudgeon – 9.8; Most runs – T Miles - 555; Batting Average – T Miles - 111; Fielding award – T Ryan; Best and Fairest - T Miles

It was great to see a good number of Splashers rocking up for their Sunday swim this morning after yesterday’s glorious rain.

With only three weeks until the pool closes for the winter, competition is getting fierce with some very fast times being swum resulting in times being broken.

Peter ‘Penguin’ Healey and Cathy ‘Kat’ Healey were the closest to their nominated time in the Brace Relay and Peter also bagged the chicken in the 100m for the second week in a row!

Results from Sunday 05/03/2017:

30 metre Final

1^st Lyn ‘Mouse’ Faukes, 2^nd Dick ‘Wireless’ Whiteford, 3^rd All broke

50 metre Final

1^st Wal Simpson, 2^nd Vicki Cluderay, 3^rd Nigel Tyack

100 metre

1st  Peter Healey, 2^nd Vicki Cluderay, 3^rd Cathy Healey

Brace Relay

1st  Cathy Healey and Peter Healey (1.84 out), 2^nd Wal Simpson and Brian Field (1.97 out), 3rd  Victoria Cleaver and Dick Whiteford (2.69 out).

New members over the age of 18 are always welcome – we meet at the pool at 8.40am on Sunday mornings followed by a delicious breakfast at the RSL Club afterwards, then chancing our luck in the meat & chicken draws.

A very busy weekend for all pennant players both men and women, so come along and see the teams battle it out.

Saturday 4^th - Nyngan Blue travelled to Coonamble to play pennant and sad to say lost both games.

Nyngan Red played Macquarie at home and most successful in winning both games by good margins giving them 5 points.

On Sunday Nyngan Blue and Red played each other in a very close game only to see the the Red team getting 4 points and Blue 1.

Next weekend Saturday and Sunday all games for the ladies will be in Nyngan.

On Saturday Blue play Dubbo City, Red play Dubbo Railway, and on Sunday Blue plays Macquarie and Red is up against Dubbo City.

Championship Singles 1st round Adam Jermyn defeated Ron Sullivan.

Golden oldies winners: Andrew Reynolds and Col Gillespie.

On Sunday no social bowls was played due to pennant games by women and men.

There is a nomination sheet on the board for twilight triples bowls on Friday night. Nominations will

close at the end of March so If you are interested get your name on the sheet.

Western has begun its 2017 under-18 Country Championship campaign, if coach Cameron Greenhalgh is being honest, a little better than expected.

The Rams suffered two disappointing trial losses, to Manly (20-8) and Parramatta (16-4), but put both results behind them with an emphatic 50-4 thumping of the Greater Southern Stingrays at Canberra’s Seiffert Oval on Sunday.

“They’ve set the standard now for the rest of the competition. That’s what I expect from them,” the Forbes-based mentor enthused.

“We’ve still got plenty of improvement in us, which is pleasing. It’s a building process but I’m really happy with the way we played on Sunday.”

Meanwhile, the Kurt Hancock-coached Rams under-16s dispatched round one rivals Greater Southern Stingrays 30-16, but it could have been much closer had they not held firm during the first half when the Stingrays enjoyed the run of play.