St Kilda Sports Club

Pathway to bowls: a social and community day

St Kilda Sports Club is participating in the City of Port Phillip seniors festival week activities.

Saturday 16 October, 12.30 pm – 3.30 pm

St Kilda Bowling Club,

66 Fitzroy St, St Kilda.

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Its on again,and of course you can watch action of Collingwood vs St Kilda battle it out all over again on the big screens at the bowling club.

Bowling, Drinks, BBQ & AFL its all happening this Saturday 2nd October!

Confirm your attendance: AFL Grand Final mk II @ the Bowls Club

Sunday 3rd – Andy Baylor

Sunday 10th – Stringbusters

Sunday 17th – Firebird

Sunday 24th – Benny & the Flybynighters

Come on down to St Kilda this Sunday and support your team mates as they take on Port Melbourne, Middle Park and Albert Park for the glory of the annual Port Phillip Cup.

There will be BBQ run during the day and with the forecast for 20C, it should be a great day! The usual best sandwiches in Pennant will be available for the players!

RULES OF PLAY

• Dress is Club Uniforms
• Be there at 12.00 noon for a 12.30 pm start
• Fees are $5 per player
• 3 games of 10 ends against each of the other Clubs
• Each game has a time limit of 90 mins
• No dead ends with a re-spot on 1.5 metre mark
• Presentations will be at approximately 5.30 pm

SCORING

• 2 points for a win
• 1 point for a draw
• If there is a draw, the winner will be decided on shots up

THE SIDES

Reserves:  Karina van Weel, Maxine Niner, Aaron Bilcock

Watch all the action of Collingwood vs St Kilda on the big screens at the bowling club.

Bowling, Drinks, BBQ & AFL its all happening this Saturday 25th!

Confirm your attendance: AFL at the Sports Club

Did someone mention darts?

Yes it is on this Thursday at the club, the Grand Final of the Winter Darts Comp.

“Oh the Glory of it all”……the 2 teams competing are from OUR Club.

All welcome 7.30 tomorrow for a Right Royal Home Derby.

The reigning Champs the Donkeys take on the Barra Boys

come down for a lot of Ooohs and Aarrghs!!!!! Pass it 0n….

Now that summer is coming its time to book a bowling day at St Kilda for your next Social or Corporate Function. And for the rest of 2010 Saturdays are available. But get in quick – bookings are filling fast!

BOOKING’s – 9537 0370

This year the green will be closing at the end of 2010 for maintenance so don’t miss out.

Thought it might be of interest to some of you what the experience was like in general at Tweed Heads for the Indoor Championships cos’ hopefully lots more of us will make it next year!

We got up there-relieved to have a break from work and wandered down the road to the Tweed Heads Bowls Club where they were very welcoming- telling us to jump on the carpet and practice as much as we liked. I felt the practice was as much an exercise in getting to know the general feel of the carpet, finding the speed where the carpet was joined and the like, more than determining how each rink ran. They told us that the rinks would be changed for the actual comp, so there was no point in taking in the run of particular rinks. One thing that is overwhelming is how hot it is on the carpet and under the lights. It’s a very humid heat and lots of water needs to be had!!

We watched the PBA comp where others like Geoff Maskell and Barrie Lester trying to qualify to the English, Scottish and Welsh comps at Potters-Barrie got through-and it was great to see the level of competition with Brett Wilke playing incredible draw bowls.

Anyway back to the Australian Indoor Comp – got out on the rink to play Lisa Prideaux – a good bowler from Cabramatta and was feeling ok except for the heart rate settling in at about 30 beats a minute from where it should be. First set went ok but still felt that I didn’t have a good rhythm even though I had taken it 8-6.  Got slaughtered, 3-12 in the second set but was thinking about the tie-breaker from half way through the set. I think I should have been thinking about my rhythm rather than the possibility of winning-a few basic mistakes that probably lost me the set. Got to the tie-breaker and basically didn’t play the shots I would have been more comfortable playing but went for the so-called “safe shots”. Talking about it later Robbie pointed out that I should have been looking at the wider picture at the second end of the tie –breaker rather than whether to play a safe shot. I was 3 down after the 1st end, three up until Lisa put in a good bowl to put me one down-I should have tried to punch her bowl through-which would be a normal shot for me but decided to play safe. A great lesson in playing your own shots. I ended up one down on the head and 4 down overall.

Basically I had to make a four on the last end and couldn’t get there and – that was it! All done in about 2 hours after months of build up and tension. It gets even hotter out there in the middle of the competition and your brain gets overwhelmed with options at times. I think this is where the experience of competition comes in. We stayed and watched Karen Murphy go out, then Julie Keegan, Lyndsay Armitage and Anthony Kiepe, Barrie Lester with the eventual winners being Katriona Wright and Brett Wilke.

Watching the finals you realize how claustrophobic and terrifying it becomes with the crowd squashed into about 2 feet outside each boundary of one rink, with the cameras going up and down overhead and 2 other cameras set up outside the rinks. You realize that you would be restricted to one side of the rink if you trailed the jack to the edge of the rink because the crowd is set too close to play onto what would be another rink normally. So all in all it was a a great experience.

I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Board for the financial assistance they gave as (unless you took the sponsored accommodation) no remuneration was given for airfares or accommodation-lunch(at THBC) and accommodation was provided until you were eliminated from the competition and then you were paying your own way. This would make it difficult for anyone who was not employed to do this so the support of the club is essential. Maybe we need to lobby Bowls Victoria to encourage more Victorian Bowlers to enter and then be sponsored for at least the airfares to get to the competition to represent the State. Food for thought !!

Thanks again Tara

Saturday 18th September: 8 Bands – BBQ and cheap drinks. BITTERSWEET KICKS, COLD HARBOUR, GUT, THE VICE GRIP PUSSIES, WHISKEY PRIESTS, BURN IN HELL, MERCY KILLS, ROSIE HADEN