Four members of Gloucester District Archers competed in the Australian National Field Archery Championships recently bringing home one Gold, one Silver and a Bronze medals. James Terras took first place in Junior Boys Bowhunter unlimited C grade.

Evette Terras fought hard to secure second place in Ladies Bowhunter Unlimited B grade, while Jeff Jennings secured third spot in Veteran Men’s Bowhunter Unlimited. Lamont Terras was unplaced in Men’s Bowhunter unlimited B grade.

The national championships were contested over five days with the best three days scores being counted for the final results. Over two hundred archers were in attendance for this the first competition at the new national venue, ABA Park, near Mudgee. 

Jeffrey Jennings

Junior Hockey

This week the Sharks came up against the Dragons and the game was a close one as both sides had many chances but good defence from both teams kept the score at 0-0 for the first half. Jackson Blanch proved himself a very strong player for the Dragons.

In the second half, Dean Germon got his team on a roll and had Dragons defence working overtime. Toward the end, the Sharks scored two goals to take out the game 2-0. 

Goal scorers: Sharks Zane Commons 1,Dean Germon 1. Best and fairest: Dragons – Charlie Macdonald 3, Tristan Beard 2, Jonas DeAngelis 1. Sharks – Matt Wood 3, Hayden Reid 2. Dean Germon 1. 

The match between the Tigers and the Devils was a different story. As the Tigers were without three of their top players and their coach due to other duties, the Devils were far too strong.

In the second half, the Tigers put in a better effort and kept the game more even but they could not match the Devils' offense finishing with a final score of 7-0. 

Goal scorers: Devils – Ben Haynes 3, Bethany Hester 2, Travis Sansom 2. Best and fairest: Tigers – Chloe Reid 3, Tyler Johnson 2, Keira Macdonald 1. Devils – Lachlan Sansom 3, Travis Sansom  2, Bethany Hester 1. Next round: Dragons vs Devils, Tigers vs Sharks

Ollie Rinkin

Womens Golf

After the fog cleared another beautiful day greeted us. The course is beautiful but the scores should be better. Wednesday's event was the Monthly Medal Stableford, sponsored by Shirley Sansom, sorry Shirley wasn't able to be present to hand out the trophy to the winner, anyway it was good of you to sponsor the day which was greatly appreciated.

The winner of the day was Myrelle Fraser with 31 points. NTP 6th and 15th. Division 1 Ev Blanch, Division 2 Debbie Wilson and no one from Division 3 reached the green. 2nd shot on 4th and 13th was Effie Crawley. Ball Comp Effie Crawley 29 points, Ann Mullen 29 points and Alison Windeyer 28 points. Hope the ladies who went to Taree Open Day brought home some trophies, haven't heard how the ladies went yet. 

Kay Holstein

Veterans Golf

Last week, the veterans played a four ball best ball stableford competition sponsored by Bert Newman. There was an individual competition run in conjunction. Two of the current form players, Peter Buettel and Barry Peacock took out the competition with a great score of 46 points. Runners up were Keith Whitby and John Herd on 44 points. They were followed by Phil Hawkins and Bruce Fraser on 41 points.

Not surprisingly, the best individual score for the day was Peter Buettel on 37 points. Roy Crichton had the nearest the pin  and the stayers award went to Di Pritchard and Elaine Murray. Next week will be the first round of the Veterans Championships, with the day sponsored by David and Maureen Hjorth.

Derek Bardwell

Mens Golf 

Saturday June 18, a stableford for the teachers trophy and a stroke was played for the Arkwood monthly medal. Winner was Jamie Andrews with a very good 39 pts, r/u Brian Mcinnes 36, 3rd Dave Mann 36, Matt Joyce 36. B Grade winner B Murray 37, r/up S Burns 32, M Howland 32, P Bignell 30, C grade winner Paul Hawkins 35, r/up Ken Wiggins 32, Doug Barron 32,. Bill Mansfield 30 Ball comp J Andrews 39, B Mcinnes 36, B Murray 37, M Joyce 36, D Mann 36, P Hawkins 35, G Leighton. A grade NTP B Mcinnes, B Grade NTP W Murray, C grade NTP D Barron 2nd shot P Wenham C grade L/drive D Barron. Stratford Coal super seven winner P Markey 17, P Hawkins 17, P Buettel 15, J Barraclough 14, W Murray 14, G Marsh 14, W Madallena 14, P Blanch 14, D Mann 13. NTP M Groves. Next Saturday event is the mens foursomes championships over 27 holes a time sheet start from 9.30 to 10.30am. The winner of Arkwood m/medley was Jamie Andrews with 69 nett a very good score, B grade winner Bill Murray 71, C grade winner Phil Hawkins 73. The sponsor of foursomes championships is Col Laurie and a friend.

Roy Crichton

Golf Croquet

On Saturday June 18, the golf croquet Club Championship was held. Seven players contested the event, with wet weather jackets on hand. Games were played off level play. First to seven hoops or 45 minute timed games was the order of the day with a two games loss before contestants were finished. Players were Brenda Pennicuik with 6-7, 7-1 and 5-7; Cecily Mahoney 2-7 and 1-7; Col Weismantel 4-7 and 5-7; Yvonne Bagnall 7-2, 7-4, 4-7 and 4-7; Paddy Steven 7-6, 4-7, 7-5, 3-7; Robyn Roberts 4-7, 7-5, 7-4 and 7-3 and Al Minis 7-4, 7-4 and 7-4. Having had only one loss Robyn went through to the semi-final to play Al Minis who had had no losses. Robyn won that game 7-6. As this had been Al’s first loss he had the right to challenge a second game.

The final then resulted in a win to Al 7 hoops to 3 and becoming Club Champion for 2016. Al’s wins also resulted in a handicap change for him, now going down to a 4. Robyn also had a handicap change down to a 9. Congratulations Al and Robyn. Congratulations must go to all players - we witnessed some excellent croquet throughout the day. 

Coming events: a visit to Fern Bay on June 25 and our AGM on July 18 at 11.00am.

Please remember membership is due at the end of this month and payable before the annual meeting. Thanks also to helpers and buyers of tickets in our street raffle over the long weekend. Winners were J Simpson, Sydney and R Griffiths, Nelsons Plains both visitors at our caravan park for that weekend.

Barb Ikin

Womens Tennis

One player commented “when does the Winter comp begin?” It was so warm and sunny. Fay Harris won the raffle. 

Divison 2 – Staples vs Parish Final score of 3/30 to 3/26 to Team Staples after some great tennis. The final set score of 6/1 Di Relf and Sally Martin over Mae and Diana sealed the win for Staples. Every player got at least 1 ace while Mae was the only player free of double faults. Well done. Many well placed returns were the highlight of the match. 

Divison 1 – Munn vsersus Murray Another 3 set all result with team Munn taking the points 30/23. Julie sent down the only ace on this court while double faults were few and shared only by Sue and Margaret. Julie and Fay’s 6/0 win in 4th set over Elaine and Betty seems to have been the deciding set. Lots of marathon rallies full of great shots. 

Higgins versus Germon Thanks to Gai Falla playing for Sharrone. Team Higgins took the points 4/30 to 2/25. Again, the standard of tennis was high. Bev sent down the only ace while Gai (3), Merrilyn (2), Joannie and Sally (1 each) shared the double faults. The 3rd set win 6/1 by Joannie and Merrilyn over Sally and Gai was the most decisive set score of the match. All players present voted that scoring shall remain as is.

Di Mansfield

Mens Bowls

Thursdays social bowls was enjoyed by 28 players in 4 matches of triples and one of pairs.

Clear first prize winners with a huge 20 shot winning margin and 19 bonus points were Graham Turnbull and Gordon Pritchard in their win over Jim Whittaker and Barry Peacock. Second prize went to Mike Sheely, Neville Holstein and Barry Wade for their 17 point win against Charlie Faulkner, Peter Green and Peter Sansom. Third place getters were David Hjorth, Eric Latimore and Lu Urby who won against Ken Baxter, Vic Hebblewhite and Kevin Burley by 20 shots to 13.

The last matches in the first round of the major singles went ahead on Friday and Terry Davies was victorious against Vic Hebblewhite by 31 shots to 23. Alex Cuthbertson forfeited against Peter Jones who then was unable to play on Saturday and he forfeited his round two match against John Andrews. In round two on Saturday good wins were achieved by Kevin Everett against Mike Sheely, Lu Urby against Kevin Burley, Col Linton against Terry Davies, Steve Higgins against Peter Sansom and Mark Groves against Bruce Wilson.

Closer matches were Bob Charman's win against Kevin Baker by 31 to 21 and Tony Tersteeg's victory by 31 to 21 against Matt Higgins. On Sunday the last 8 teams were due to play in the pairs competition. One match was deferred until midweek but three went ahead in constant drizzle but were unfinished after the weather deteriorated to storms.

Of the three, two were declared complete when the scores were beyond recovery. Tony Tersteeg and Bob Charman were 28 to 16 shots ahead against Kevin Burley and Tim Wilson and in match two Jim Whittaker and Brad Martin were 27 to 10 shots ahead of Barry Wade and Bob Crittenden.

The third match will be completed on Saturday morning with Mark and Phil Groves leading Col Hebblewhite and Bruce Wilson by 18 to 13 on end 18.

Thursday afternoon will be social bowls and one match from the pairs quarter finals and on Saturday will be the singles quarter finals and Sunday the pairs semi finals.

Steven Howlett