Issue 806
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Sports News
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Lois Mawter rolls one down for Lismore Workers Heights at the Pennant competition at Lismore city last Tuesday. |
Val Willis from South Lismore Bowling Club bowls while Esme Eggins from East Lismore looks on. |
Establishing correct line or grass is probably one of the easier aspects of bowling, while one of the most difficult aspects for most players is achieving correct weight control.
Ask as many good bowlers as you like and the answers received will be many and varied. So, what is the answer?
Gil Steinhardt, who was the Administrator/ Coach at Merrylands Bowling Club in 2000, and trained the winning Number 1 Pennant side in that year, gives the following pointers for you to contemplate, try if you like and embrace or reject.
'After long months of experiment and trials, I have achieved best results by using the eye level to control the pendulum swing. What started to be an experimental exercise quickly developed into a mathematical exercise. Part of my weight control theory is used every day by most bowlers without even knowing it,' he said.
'Correction is the name of the game but how do we correct? We have been taught for many years, for instance that if the first bowl is short, we should take a bigger step, we should stand more upright or we should increase our pendulum swing.
The only adjustment necessary, using my theory, is to change the focus point of the eyes. This means the same step, the same grass line - in fact the same everything except where the eyes focus.
Your grass line is established by your normal method and once this has been achieved, envisage the arc where your bowl will be required to travel to reach the desired position. Fix your eye on a point along your grass line and retain that eye position until it has been passed by your bowl. Your hand should follow through to stop at the same point of focus on the green.
If your concentration is maintained, your follow through should be restricted by the angle of your head at the moment of delivery. If your grass line is correct, you should then adjust your weight by looking at a point further up the green if the first delivery was short.
This allows your head to be slightly raised, allowing your hand to follow through the extra required distance. Our next step is to assess the change of the point of focus needed to achieve that extra length.'
Gil's article then presents a table to show the connection between pace of green, eye level and distance too short or too long. He points out that by adjusting eye level only, and keeping normal stance, step and delivery, there is less room for error.
If you are having weight problems, this may be worth a try and if you would like a copy of the table presented in Gil's article, please contact me at The Echo on 6622 2888 or email lmawter@lis.net.au
Until next week,
good bowling.
Hook and Sliceswith Stan Bendall
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Mother and son: Andrea and Sav Glavocih took out the ladies and men's gross trophies in the 88.9fm charity golf day for the rescue helicopter at Coraki last Sunday. |
This weekend three teams of Northern Rivers golfers, the match committee chairman, Northern Rivers promotions officer and I will travel to Coffs Harbour for the annual interdistrict encounter against Mid North Coast.
The team members to travel to Coffs are: Seniors: Steve Fredericks (Lismore), Steve Morrissey (Lismore), Warren Colefax (Murwillumbah), Wayne Poetschy (Murwillumbah), Damon Flood (Casino), Nathan Weir (Coolangatta-Tweed Heads), Brendon Griffin (Mullumbimby), Rodney Davison (Coraki). Colts: Lloyd Kelly (Lismore), Anthony Newman (Coolangatta-Tweed Heads), Nathan Purdy (Ballina), Simon Long (Coolangatta-Tweed Heads). Juniors: Peter Hall (Coolangatta-Tweed Heads), Marco Zirov (Byron Bay), Rhein Gibson (Lismore).
Rhein has also been chosen in the NSW side to play in the Australian championships in Adelaide over the Easter weekend.
Good luck fellas and let's bring home the goodies! Bus leaves Lismore Workers Golf club at 9.30am Saturday morning!
The Northern Rivers Directors Day will be hosted by Mullumbimby golf club on Sunday, February 24, with nine new holes on show. When returning nomination sheets to Mullumbimby please indicate which committee you are on at your club, so the club may put match committee, green committee and so on together in order for different committees to converse and maybe advise.
The official opening of the golfing season will be celebrated this Saturday, February 16, with a mixed 4BBB stableford to be played with a single for members in conjunction. The Mazda mixed four ball club qualifying round will also be played in conjunction.
Smiling Tony Clark took out A grade in the single event last Saturday. Bob Davis won B grade and Carl Mills C grade.
The inaugural 88.9fm Charity Golf Day was held last Sunday in aid of the Rescue Helicopter. The people from the radio station did a superb job running the day, and it was a great success with the course in top condition and some very good scores recorded. Andrea Glavocih won the ladies gross and her son Sav won the men's gross. The Glavocih family picked up a couple of nice trophies with Andrea also taking out the long drive. Good to see big Howie over there representing the chopper with the young fellas. A great day was had by all and a big thanks to Coraki Golf Club for use of the course for a top charity.
The second and final round of the Green Construction trophy will be played this Saturday. It is so wide open you wouldn't be game to pick a winner.
A contingent of more than 30 golfers travelled to Grafton for the Herron Cup last weekend. The locals had a top day but were beaten by two matches in the end.
Last Saturday the boys at home took part in a single with Frank Tarlington, recording the best score of the day, 41, to take out B grade. A grade was nip and tuck with four players returning 40 points. After the obligatory countback Ray Stock was declared the winner over young club talent and Northern Rivers rep Trenton Root, with Trev Everest and Mark Patterson missing out. Andrew Campbell too our C grade from Ian Spencer on a countback for second spot. CCR 68 with 35 or better winning a ball on a countback.
Thirst open qualifying round for the Greg Norman Junior Masters will be held on Sunday, March 3 with the 18 holers to pay $15 and the nine holers $8. Contact the club for further enquiries.
Don't forget the Yamba-Iluka trip is on the weekend of February 23-24.
Members - the nomination sheets are on the board for Easter and the nomination sheet is on the board for the Directors' Day at Mullum.
Lloyd Kelly won the single stableford last Thursday with a very good score of 42 points, winning on a countback from Peter Hartas (Windaroo) and John Reading also on 42. Joe (the pasho man) Mielcarek won the first nine from Martin Hughes. Steve Fredericks won the gross with a fine par round and looks in form for Coffs.
David Martin won the A grade last Saturday in the first round of the Summer Cup with 64, winning by 1 from David Knight. Bruce Nobbs is enjoying a little purple patch and took out B grade by 1 from Athol Lavis, who takes my two bob every week. Ron Winkler won C grade with 66, by 1 from the book man Dick Ryan. Peter Michael, who is going to bring his own towel in future, won the Bradman's.
Shirley Batrim took out division one in the ladies back to golf single stableford last Wednesday from Tracey Makings. Alison Weaver won division two from Betty Wotherspoon. Norma Bultitude was victorious from Narelle Lewis in division three and Mary Monaghan won division four.
Mark Kenny won the back nine contest with 27 last Sunday, 2 ahead of John Shuttleworth and Gary Rogers.
A 4BBB stableford will be played this Saturday.
Hazel Campbell won the ladies 12 hole summer comp from Dot Cox last Wednesday.
Paul Kerr won the Charlie Wright memorial day from Rodger Bonham.
Jean Pike took the honours in the ladies single stableford last Sunday and David Brodin again won the RSL trophy.
What's My Linewith Ian Clark
I was once told of a theory that the earth is a living organism.
The creatures and plants that inhabit the earth act like parasites. We will not be able to kill the earth. The earth shall survive by adjusting to the imbalances that have been created.
It could be any number of natural phenomenon's that could occur as a sign of adjustment. One for example is that of the El Niño effect. We have all heard of this over the last couple of years. Over the last nine months scientists have found that temperatures in the Pacific Ocean have been rising.
What is suppose to happen is the trade winds push the warm surface water from the South American coast to Australia. The high surface temperatures in the north causes the warm moist air to rise and thus you get your average rainfall.
In the Pacific's East, cold sub surface currents replace the warm bringing with them nitrates, phosphates and nutrients which encourage plankton growth and thus starting a food chain.
The El Niño is the opposite. The trade winds are either weak or they can reverse. The warm water surges back towards South America halting the up welling of cold water. This is where it can decimate your coral reefs and your fish populations.
Is this the reason behind the lack of mackerel numbers that are usually caught around this time of year?
Is it the reason why fishing can be so spasmodic in results? Or is it just a case of wrong time, wrong bait?
There are many theories and you do not have to be a scientist to see that fish stocks are depleting.
As we went to press a strong wind warning was coming through so I hope it does not mess the seas up too much this weekend.
There are some nice schoolies in the Richmond ranging from 1.5kg up to one at that was just under 15kg.
The blackfish are in their usual haunts and there are still some muddies about - apparently.
At Evans it is pretty quiet, although the trawlers have been out and had a good hall of prawns. I have beard the Co Op has been selling them cheap as well.
Tailor, bream and dart have been good along Seven Mile Beach with some trevally popping up off the headland.
Gary of Ballina Charters has been out a few times with yellowtail kingies, mowies and nice sized squire coming home in the icebox.
Lennox looks the go this weekend or the Richmond for some schoolies.
Until next week, fun fishing.
Amy Curran, one of Australia's best female skateboarders in Ballina last week.
While Georgina Matthews isn't normally content with being a spectator last Wednesday at the Ballina Skate Park she had no choice.
Matthews, from the Bay of Plenty in New Zealand, is part of the Gallaz National skateboarding tour, but recently suffered an injury which has been keeping her off her board.
'Two days before the tour I was practicing in my local park. I was going down the rail and I fully twisted my foot - the muscles in my toes are all torn and my foot is three times as big as normal,' Matthews said.
The tour is being staged to help promote female skate boarding across Australia, something Matthews is well qualified to help with.
'Two of my mates from down the street started skating - fellas - and we used to muck around on the weekends. We built little things and practiced on them until we had enough courage to go down to our local park. I was the only chick there,' Matthews said.
Matthews believes that fear plays a large role in the small number of females learning to skate board.
'Girls don't want to get hurt. I was scared at the start but after a while you get used to the pain - you hurt your shins all the time. You get used to it - there's pain involved in every sport,' she said.
Matthews is enthusiastic about her part in becoming an advocate for the sport she loves.
'I really want to tell other girls there are girl skaties - you can do it too - take up the challenge, don't sit and watch. Skaties can be girls as well. We're really pushing the girl factor in skating,' she said.
Monica Shaw was showing off her moves at the Ballina skate Park last week as part of the Gallaz tour.
Ballina mayor Peter Moore was pleased to be able to help the Gallaz tour with their aim.
'To date skateboarding is known as a male dominated sport, these girls are set to change the way we view skateboarding and show girl power is alive and well,' he said.
Although Matthews was disappointed she wasn't able to show off her skills at Ballina, she hasn't given up hope of being able to perform in Australia.
'We're going on to the world cup in Melbourne which will have all the best girl skaters in the world - I just hope my foot's better so I can get out there and skate.'
Sean Mead hit 59 not out for Norths-Goonellabah RSL against Brunswick-Byron in a one day match for the LJ Hooker cricket league.
With only two rounds to go, all results in this weekends LJ Hooker Cricket League take on extra importance.
Brothers will have a tough one against the Casino Cavaliers over the next two weekends. Casino are one point ahead of them on the table and with only two more rounds to go a win is important to sure up a spot in the semis.
Brothers lost their one day game to Eastern Districts last weekend after Easts restricted them to 129. Al Nowlan took 5-13 from eight overs, ripping through Brothers batsmen almost too quickly to see.
Easts replied with 5-131, thanks to a solid effort from their middle order.
North-Goonellabah RSL will need to be a bit more consistent than they have been recently if they are to take care of Eastern Districts this round at Nesbitt Park.
Norths took care of Brunswick-Byron last weekend but throughout the season they have struggled to find form in their top order, often relying on just one player to save them.
Brunswick-Byron scored 7-172, with David Ryan top-scoring with 56. Norths then quickly scored 180 for the loss of only 5 wickets, Sean Mead the best with 59 not out.
Despite their shock loss to Lennox Head last week Souths should have no trouble taking care of Brunswick-Byron. Brunswick-Byron are now in last position on the ladder after Lennox's victory and Souths shouldn't have too much trouble against them, although Brunswick-Byron do have the home advantage at Thompson Oval, Brunswick Heads.
Lennox won the toss and batted first, totalling 183, with captain Todd Fisher leading the way with 59 before being caught off Paul Fredericks.
Souths started strongly and looked to have the match sewn up at 4-144 but Lennox put paid to their plans, restricting Souths to 160 and taking the match.
The Ballina Bears should also have a close game against Lennox Head at Fripp Oval, Ballina.
After their win last week Lennox are only two points behind Ballina on the table.
The Bears played out a draw against the Casino Cavaliers in the only game played over two days.
Ballina declared at 9-296 but couldn't take enough wickets against Casino, the Cavaliers finishing at 3-140. Adam and Andrew Shields did the job for Casino, scoring 71 and 47 respectively.
Tintenbar-East Ballina will need to score more runs than they did last round if they want to defeat Workers this weekend at Oakes Oval.
Tintenbar could only manage 55 in reply to Alstonville's 6-111, easily giving Alstonville the win and a clear lead in the table.
The first junior surfing contest of the year, the Maddog Junior, went off spectacularly at Cosy Corner, Tallows Beach last weekend.
The event was a huge success with over 60 juniors from Sawtell through to Queensland competing in the 1-1.5m surf.
Under 18 Boys was a very tight contest with a close final which saw Byron Bay's Robbie Gell just beat Brad Wilcox (Lennox Head) and Beau Walker (Byron Bay) with Malcolm Beard (Byron Bay) fourth.
The under 18 girls saw the highly experienced Brooke Charlton just defeat Lennox Head's Kerene White in a close final with Yamba's Sarah Arndell third and Lennox Head's Emma Hewett fourth.
The under 16 boys had the top Australian surfer for the age group Ben Dunn (Old Bar) win over Lennox head's Stephen Walsh and James Wood with Josh Hamilton from Alstonville fourth. It was a very close final and Ben had to work hard for his win.
In the under 16 girls Brooke Charlton couldn't repeat her performance in the under 18s and was just nudged out by Kingscliff's Bianca Lintern with Tahnee Anderson (Ballina) third and Brodie Moir (Ballina) fourth.
Sawtell's Heath Joske took out the under 14 boys from Madison Williams (Coffs Harbour) and Stuart Kennedy (Lennox Head) and Dane Bellato (Lennox Head).
In the under 12 boys another Sawtell surfer took first place, Billy Kean. There was a countback for second between Byron Bay's Kurt King and Torren Martyn with King the victor. Ben Donohoe from Suffolk Park came fourth.
The third Annual Lake Ainsworth Swim is scheduled for Sunday, February 24, from 9am to noon.
The Lennox Head Playgroup have organised swimming races, games for the toddlers and food for all.
There will be cash prizes for the first place getters in the adults races - womens, mens and veterans open - generously provided by the Lennox Point Hotel, Lennox Hardware and Lennox Handimart. For the children there will be four divisions - under 8, 10, 12 and 14 - with trophies and prizes donated by local businesses. This year there will also be an open surfboard paddling race.
Race registration is essential. Early bird registration may be arranged at the Lennox Head Post Office for $3 or on the day it will be $3 for children and $5 for adults. For further information call Michelle 6687 6226 or Annie 6687 6084.
There is a monster raffle with fabulous prizes donated by local businesses, North Coast Toy Hire will provide free entertainment for the toddlers, there will be face painting, sausage sizzle, corn on the cob, cake stall and drinks. A fun day for all in a great location.
Any queries please call Annie Benzie (co-ordinator) 6687 6084.
Byron Bay premier division soccer teams travelled to Tweed Heads last Sunday for their first trial game of the season. The Bay performed well in both grades with premier division coaches Graham Bird and Wayne Richards pleased with winning performances.
The Rams first grade team ran out 4-0 winners with two goals from Bruce Morhaus and one each to Jed Wright and Nathan Jones. Glen Sheldrick and Jens Walter, paired in midfield for the first time, played well whilst Luke Glanz, played without luck up front, hitting the post twice and going close on a few other occasions.
Meanwhile the reserves had a comfortable 3-0 win.
There has been a strong turn out of players at early training sessions with the bulk of last seasonís squad plus a sprinkling of new faces turning out at the Recreation ground on Tuesday and Thursday nights at 6pm.
The vacant goalkeeping position has been filled by Kai Connel who has spent the past few seasons with Southern Cross University is expected to have a big season.
Other new signings include former first team players Evan Cooper, Ian McGlone and Stuart Dickie, who have all returned to the area. Brendan Parks has joined the club from neighbouring Bangalow, and is expected to challenge for a first team place once he adjusts to the step up in divisions.
The premier division teams will travel to Burleigh Heads and Murwillumbah over the coming weeks, then will be back home for a hit out against Lismore Workers in what will be the last game prior to the Anzac Cup competition commencing on Friday, March 8.
The club is still signing players particularly in the second division and over 35 teams whilst the senior ladies team is also seeking more players.
The Under 17 Youth squad has commenced training under the watchful eye of Chris Bourke. Players in the 15 to 16 age range are also being encouraged to attend training as the club will be entering a team in this age group as well.
Potential players wishing to find out more about the club can contact Graham Bird on 6686 8336 or Wayne Richards on 6685 4935.
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