The competitions will resume after the holidays on Saturday, October 15.

The masters competition is for players wanting more serious tournament play, with proper tie-breaker sets being played.

There is prizemoney for the top twenty players in the competition for all players having played five matches, as well as a best-and-fairest award.

To take part, just turn up at the start time of 3pm until 5pm.    

New leader of the masters competition is Caden Maxwell on eight points, close behind Oliver Plum on seven points then Reece Rutland on five points with Sam Hood and Lara Plum tied on three points to make up the top-five positions.

The junior tennis competition is open to all juniors wanting to play tennis in a friendly relaxed format, and is their first steps to playing competition.

All players should be able to serve to take part. There will be trophies to all players having played at least five matches.

As well there is a special best-and-fairest award presented at the end of the competition.

This competition starts at 3pm to 5pm.

In the junior tournament, Lachlan McDonald is on five points ahead of Emma McDonald and Tory Grantham tied on two points.

The McDonald’s sports awards last week went to: Masters winners Lara Plum and Robert Grantham. Junior tournament winner was Lachlan McDonald.

All inquires about the junior competitions or tennis lessons please contact Roman Adamcewicz on 6922 4963 or 0439 584 125.

Social tennis every Monday and Thursday night from 7pm for all standards at Forest Hill.

Contact Col 0447 464 234 or Trevor 0407 513 974.

Well, folks, it has be one hell of a week with heavy rain throughout the week, Saturday didn’t look good for shooting.

With the range setter producing a short range to hopefully dampen the effect of any rain storms that might come our way, we were chasing the clay targets. But we still got wet with water heavy under foot.

The range setter, depending on who you spoke to, had fun setting up as I said it was wet under foot, so driving around was done with great care.

If your vehicle broke surface it was stuck in the soap underneath, hey, Matt and Rick.

The range had some interesting targets but two members were able to come close to the perfect round. Bad luck to Greg and Alan for missing that 25 out of 25

Thirty-five shooters turned up to shoot this being a handicap event here are the results:

AA Grade: winner Greg Newton (3) 72

A Grade: winner Alan Le Poi Devin (6) 72, second Milton Jaeger (9) 70

B Grade: winner Steve Tipping (18) 78, second Gary Byron (15) 73

C Grade: winner Lisa Riley (27) 69

Bruce Irvine raffle

Thanks to Kate for afternoon tea.

Meeting was held on Tuesday night at Sportsman’s Hotel 7pm, meal beforehand (good meals). Range to be set by committee.

Next shoot October 8 –  100 targets with 10am start.

Twenty-four teams from throughout the district played for $1500 prizemoney in Monday's Settlers Group sponsored Over 50's tournament.

Ron Rynehart and Dick Sedgewick from Batlow took out first prizemoney of $600 with three wins plus 41 shots; second place and prizemoney of $400 went to Peter and Richard Durnan of Narrandera with three wins plus 39 shots; thirrd place and prizemoney of $200 was won by Gary Clarke and John Hetherington with three wins plus 34 shots; fourth place and prizemoney of $100 went to Bill Butz and John Salter of Tumbarumba with three wins plus 21 shots.

Best game one winners and $60 prizemoney were Narrandera's Graham McComber and Joe Gibson plus 20 shots; game two winners Martin and Jack Cousley plus 11; game three winners Bruce Firman and Bruce Saffiotti of Temora plus 23 shots.

Wednesday blind draw triples winners: Paul Fenwick, Jack Cousley 24 points; runners-up Ron Francis, Ron Browne, Bruce Barber 20 points; third place Doug Murray, Mile Knezevic, Peter Hoskins 19 points.

Saturday blind draw winners : Keith Wellham, Tony Cantwell 22 points; runners-up Paul wilson, Kevin Chase 21 points; third place Dennis Rawliongs, Peter Chase 19 points. Nominations close October 19 for open draw Club Triples Championship; first round to be played October 27.

Coming Events

Wednesday blind draw triples – names in by  noon for 1pm start. Friday nominated pairs – names in by  noon  for 1pm start. Saturday blind draw – names in by noon for 1pm start. Sunday mixed blind draw – names in by noon for 1pm start.

The only dry day for a while happened last Wednesday and Doug, Les and Oscar took a short ride across to Temora through Coolamon. 

Lunch at the Round-A-Bout Bakery was up to its usual high standard and after the mandatory banter they headed home, racking up about 230kms for the day. 

Oscar was back after a bout of medical treatment and he is back to his old self.  

Then the weather reverted back to cold showers, winds and miserability.   

Saturday began  as a particularly rotten start to the long weekend and the three-day ride was cancelled for the time being. 

In spite of the lousy day, we had a very good attendance at the meet and geet on Saturday morning. 

It was good to see Alan Tye there back after another session with cancer treatment and I must say he looked very well. 

Alan is on an experimental treatment program and at this stage it seems to be on the right track.

And Sunday proved to be a great day with blue sky and fairly warm temperatures so Mick Ellis, Graham Mutton and Ian Adams ventured out – and in Mick’s own words:

“Well … What a magic day for riding motorbike after this long wet winter.

“Graham, Ian and I thought we’d venture up the hills to check out the dams. Well we got to Blowering anyway.

“Headed out to Wantabadgery but as you could imagine the bridge across the river was closed so we head toward Nangus and found some more water but at least passable.

“Up to Tumut to check out Blowering and back down to Tumut for lunch. Back home via the Link road, Westbrook road and Tarcutta.

Just great to be out on the bike in the sunshine.”

Our next ride is the Pink Ribbon ride on Sunday, October 16. Jackie Starr will be in charge and there is an entry fee of $10 per person, which goes to cancer research, as does all other money raised on the day.  The day starts at McDonald’s Edward Street Car Park at 9am and will progress to Jugiong for morning tea and other necessary functions. 

With that out of the way the next step will be across to Temora for a Pink Ribbon lunch in the park (bring your own sandwiches) and the last sector will be a stop-off at Gary Crabtree’s School House Café in Bethungra, before the last leg home.  Fuel is available at all stop off points.

The next branch meeting is on Tuesday, October 18 at the Radio Club Rooms in Small Street.  Start is 7.30pm and the doors open at 7pm.  Come along and bring a friend or a new prospect to join our ranks, we need some new young blood from the age  of 40 and over.

The first ride for November is on the sixth and will take you to Walwa for lunch – more details later.

Meet and greet on Saturday mornings at 10am at Billy’s and Wednesday rides leave  Billy’s at 9am with the destination to be decided on the day.  If you are going off with a mate or two check the road conditions, a lot of roads are closed.

The vets managed just the one comp round last week when they played their nine-hole stroke event last Monday.

Winner on the day was John Hazell with a score of 27 nett, from John Donohue, Peter Kirkman, Danny McIntyre and Tony Pollard on 29, followed by Phil Powell 31 nett on a c/b from Peter Briggs and Barry Longmore.

Last Tuesday saw the ladies complete the final round of their club championships, which had to be reduced to just three rounds due to the ongoing wet weather. Scratch winners on the day were Janelle Doust 98 (Div 1), Lorraine Hickey110 (Div 2), and Jan Leonard 114 (Div3). Handicap honours went to Lyn Donohoe 84 (Div 1), Sue Matthews 83 (Div 2), and Colleen Mavroudis 81 (Div 3). NTP’s to Jan Marks (Div 1), Lorraine Hickey (Div 2) and Val Brunskill (Div 3).

Well done to 2016 club champion Jo Williams, who was a model of consistency throughout the event. Jo’s 54 hole score of 287 was well clear of runner-up, Monica Kember, 312. In B Grade, the scratch winner was Lorraine Hickey on 329, from Una Pocock 334, while Jan Leonard claimed C Grade scratch honours with a score of 347, from Carmel Pearce, 352.

Jo made it a double by adding the Division 1 handicap trophy to her haul with a nett score of 237, from Cassie Gill, 255. In Division 2, Una Pocock turned the tables on Lorraine Hickey by scoring 250 nett, to Lorraine’s score of 253. Jan Leonard also made it a double by adding the Division 3 handicap event to her scratch prize with a nett score of 235, followed once again by Carmel Pearce on 254.

The Peg Bagley Memorial Trophy winner was Jan Leonard, while the Judy Buchhorn Jug was collected by Jo Williams. Jo topped off a great championships event by adding the Joyce Redman Veterans Jug to her other trophies, while the Joyce Redman Super Veterans Trophy went to Cassie Gill. Congratulations to all the girls who competed in what can only be described as very difficult conditions. Special congratulations once again to Jo Williams for her championship win, and all the other winners over the three rounds.