Fond farewell from MMBC members



Thursday 17 January 2013

Fond farewell from MMBC members

Men’s Results

Members attended a memorial and ashes ceremony for John Hocking on Saturday morning which was held on the Daintree River. A special thanks goes to Lee Lafferty for the use of his vessel which was a key element for the occasion.


The memorial continued with social games in the afternoon at which Morrie and E Smith def. M Plummer and C Wills 20-16, B Gard and Doug Pitt def. A Douglas and P Cleary 28-17.

Jack Dwyer, Jason Dwyer and C Dwyer def. K Dwyer, B Dwyer and D Egan 23-11, T Pisot and Kiwi def. Zilly and R Patterson 28-15, T Pitt and D Blain def. G Marsh and P Gorsuch 36-17 and the big winners were Dick Pitt and N Tesch who romped over Rangi and C Maxted with a score of 43-8.

Next Saturday Mossman will host the McFarlane Shield with games commencing at 1.30pm. Players are reminded to wear whites for this event.

A reminder to members to register for this year’s club competitions a soon as possible.

Ladies Results

Welcome back to a new year of bowling. Carole Maxted and Clair Holloway were winners last week while Robyn Petrus won the raffle.

Ladies wishing to play competition please have your names in with Greta Burke (Games Director) as soon as possible. Kaye Dean and Bev Zillfleisch are this month’s selectors.