BOWLS
Congratulations Tim, Mick and Marion Walsh on winning The Queen's Birthday Triples at the weekend. A combination of mother, son and grandson with lots of talent and great players.
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The place getters were 2nd Mark Fitzalan, Wayne Arandale and Les Bexon, 3rd Steven Read, Andrew Reynolds and Craig Grimmond. Round winner Richard Riley team, Ian Davison team, Teressa Rose team, Adam Jermyn team, Barry Beetson team and Mick Parry team. A great weekend was had by all and thanks to all the visiting bowlers, Orange, Tottenham, Narromine and Sydney area.
Golden Oldies winners Mick Parry and Darrell Anderson.
Do not forget the Presidents' Open Day Triples on 24/06/24.
Congratulations to Nyngan ladies who were successful on winning Pennants at Mid West Region 12 and will now go to State for the play off in August 2017. Congratulations to Mick Walsh on winning Major Singles defeating Les Bexon and also congratulations to the Major Pairs winners Steven Read and Andrew Reynolds defeating Rodney Ryan and Kevin Reynolds.
Major Pairs rounds Teressa Rose and Lyn Hawley defeated Jenny Parry and Helen Beetson. Deb Vane and Liz Wynne defeated mother and daughter Tamika and Rose Ryan.
Golden Oldies winners Jenny Parry and Ron Sullivan. Sunday winners Alison Hampstead, Col Gillespie and Colin Williamson.
GOLF
There was some ripper scores in the Glen Neill sponsored ambrose on Sunday.
Dang Holmes and Brendan Burt finished even par with a mixture of birdies and bogies (four of each).
That gave them a 59 nett.
Chasing hard with 60 nett was Croc Read and the chef Scott Bartley. A great effort by them as Scott gets very few chances to play and they were a couple under for the day.
Also with the same score was Mick Beetson and Brent Harris they had six birdie putts on the front nine with a 50 per cent success rate, plenty of timber got in the way at the back nine.
Not far away with 61.75 nett for Anthony Ah-See and Les Dorrington.
The last of the prize winners were Dean Woods and Matt Sheather with 62 nett on countback.
The all important pin winners were Stanto, Croc, Dave Bartley and Brendan Smith.
Many thanks to our sponsors Neill Earthmoving for their generous prizes and continued support.
Saturday was the June medal round and Dorro just got there with 67 nett.
He was a mile in front then had a fade out on the back nine with 43.
Seven worse than he front nine.
Pat Walsh 68 nett and Tony Beetson 69 nett were next best.
Pins went to Dorro and Tex.
Ian Cleaver, our oldest playing member, has just turned 90.
Way back in 1935 Ian won the under 12 years foot race at the Empire Sports Carnival.
Another well known loyal Marj (Percival) Webster won heaps plus the skipping race for girls, happy birthday to both.
Badge draw is for $500.
Dave Buggy putted for $1050.
He gave it every chance keeping well away from the sucker side.
Rex, Deb, Sam Vane along with Kirby Edwards ruled the kitchen last week and produced a very fine menu and are cooking again this week with more fine food on the way.
RUGBY LEAGUE
Loxley relishing level of competitiveness in Group 11
The season is reaching its midway point and Group 11 director of operations Paul Loxley has been delighted by what he’s seen so far.
The competition made headlines all over in round one when CYMS brushed aside Westside in a 102-0 mauling and Loxley admitted at the time it wasn’t a good look for the game.
And while the Rabbitohs and also Narromine remains winless at at the foot of the ladder, Loxley said there has still been plenty of positives.
“I’m pleased with everything because even Narromine has won (in reserve grade) and even though they have been getting beat they keep turning up and they’ll keep improving,” he said.
“You’ve got to take your hats off to Westside and Narromine because they turn up each week and play the right way and they’ve been doing everything right.”
Dubbo CYMS is undefeated at the top of the ladder but the likes of Forbes and Nyngan have proved themselves as premiership contenders while Parkes and Macquarie continue to show glimspes of real class.
Loxley said he was particularly pleased for the Tigers and their passionate fanbase under new captain-coach and former Cronulla Shark Stewart Mills.
“I’m really pleased for Nyngan, at the start of the season you’d like to think every club had an opportunity to win the competition and I still feel that way,” he said.
“CYMS is still the dominant force but as last year showed, anything can happen. But at this stage they deserve their favouritism.”
RUGBY UNION
BOGAN BULLS
After six rounds of Western Plains Rugby, the Bogan Bulls are sitting third on the table.
Despite being in the winner’s circle there is a big difference between the Bulls on 16 and Walgett in top place (28 points) and Warren in second place (25 points).
The Bogan Bulls are at home this weekend playing Brewarrina at Larkin Oval.
They're asking everyone to get down to the oval and support the boys in navy.
RACING
HODGES RECEIVES OAM
From Bathurst to Broken Hill, Bedgerabong to Enngonia, Colin Hodges is the voice of racing for many of us. From TAB meetings in inland cities to remote picnics, gallops to yabby races, he’s been there. Hodges reckons he’s called 2500 race meetings over the past 47 years, more than 15,000 races – rattled off more than 150,000 racehorse names.
This long weekend, the west’s favourite race caller has been named in the Queen’s Birthday honours, receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia, for his service to the horse racing industry.
Where it all began: Hodges’ interest in races dates back to the playground at Gunning Gap primary school, where in the late 1950s he would spend the recess and lunch breaks calling harness races. “There were about 20 kids when I started there,” he remembered. “We’d get the skipping ropes and make harnesses out of them, I had kids driving the other kids and I called the races.” Growing up on the family farm, his interest in racing held through school at Forbes High and a career in shearing.
Long-time local race caller Bobby Gunn noticed and encouraged him – the youngster called races into a tape recorder, sitting in the grandstand or the car. “Bobby Gunn gave me my first gallops call – one race at Gooloogong – and then Bobby had a clash with a meeting so I called my first full meeting at Fifield.” When Gunn retired, Hodges took on his rounds and his race-calling career began in earnest – every weekend after a week in the shearing sheds.
“It’s a high pressure job, it takes a lot of concentration,” he said. And that pressure has only increased as technology has enabled racing to be televised live around the world. “When I started, you were only calling to the people on the ground,” Hodges said. “Now with the TAB and Sky Channel the races are beamed around Australia and you’ve got people betting on them from Las Vegas to Hong Kong.”
The other great change in the game has been the rising prize money in country racing and the way it has drawn the Sydney stables west of the mountains.
“They’re coming to Bathurst and further,” Hodges observed. “You might be racing for $20,000 now, so locals are competing with major stables from Sydney.”
Not all his gigs are so high pressure, Hodges has also given his time to hundreds of charity calls over the years. “I’ve called yabby races, a draughthorse race, wheelbarrow races at the Forbes Christmas carnival and exhibition rugby league games,” he said.
Hodges calls for 32 race clubs from Bathurst in the east to Broken Hill in the west, north to Enngonia and Louth, averaging 100 meetings a year.
And whether a meeting is TAB, non TAB or one of the picnic race meetings that continue to thrive, he treats all meetings the same.
Reflecting on the honour of adding the title OAM to his name, he said he felt incredibly fortunate.
“All those trainers and jockeys who get up on frosty mornings or go out in the stinking heat, if they didn’t do what they do I wouldn’t have a job,” he said.