News/Photos

Photo Album - see link in left column for photos from District events

Jan 23: Check the Downloads Page for new documents sent to clubs during January, including Draw for Night Pennants, Nomination Forms for Poinsettia Cup, and Nomination Form for Management Committee.

Jan 4: New Constitution and By-Laws for Cunningham District Bowls Association now available for viewing/downloading on Legal Page

Dec 7: Congratulations once again to Cunningham pair, Jay Cross and Des Cann Jnr, who have this week been selected for the Men's Under 25 State Squad. See more details Front Page.

Nov 15: Thank you to all clubs who supported the raffle for two sets of Taylor Bowls. The draw was made on District Day, and the winners were Mrs Elsie Simmonds of Corinda Club and Mr John Hood of Brisbane North District. Congratulations.

Oct 27: Congratulations to Ken Evans, of Ipswich United Services, for his success in winning the State Men's Singles Champion of Champions. This makes a remarkable achievement for Cunningham District players, as it follows the win by Jindalee pair Jay Cross and Des Cann Jnr in winning the Men's State Champion of Champions Pairs. (Oct 26 news)

Oct 26:

Men's District Singles -Jamie Smith (Salisbury) defeated Geoff Wright (Tarragindi)
State Champion of Champions - Jay Cross and Des Cann Jnr of Jindalee Club defeated L. Dalakis & G. Wordsworth of Mooloolaba 23/12 in the final of the Men’s State Champion of Club Champions Pairs event

Oct 10: Metropolitan Challenge Result: Congratulations to the Men's and Juniors' Teams for their wins in the Metropolitan Challenge on Sunday 9th October. The Seniors lost to Brisbane North by 7 shots but went on to beat Brisbane by 37 shots and Caboolture by 48 shots. Brisbane North lost to Brisbane in the last match by 5 and Cunningham District had a margin of 28 to win from Brisbane North. The Juniors played very well, and won on a count back. Click on thumbnail for larger photo. See also Juniors Section

Oct 3: Junior News - Metropolitan Challenge Teams, and Results of District Pairs. See Junior Section

Sept 13: Pennant Results: 1. Ladies Final Winners and 2. Men's Finalists

Sept 13: Ladies Brisbane North Challenge: See report and photo here

Sept 4: Ladies Saturday Shield: (Report from Marie Lipp, District Match Committee) The Ladies Saturday Shield was contested for the first time this year and the competition was highly spoken of by the players . They have enjoyed it so much that requests have been made for 2012 for another competition. Ladies from various clubs paired off to play a three bowl pairs game. It was a learning experience for most of the ladies as many of them have never played in any form of competition before. They all are to be congratulated and the ladies match committee hope that they continue to enjoy their bowls.

As Ladies Match Chair Person, I would like to specially thank the match committee ladies of Dulcie Frost for doing the score board for the final and Wendy Ferguson for her presence at the inaugural Saturday Ladies Competition and the clubs who conducted the games on a Saturday at their various venues.

The final was played between a combined pair from Jindalee and Darra/Cementco and a combined pair from North Ipswich and Ipswich United Services. Both teams played some great bowls but the experience of Helen Wood-Bradley edged her and her partner, Val Joffille, to victory. Pam Clarke and Susan Connellan should feel proud of their efforts. They pegged back towards the end to go down 27-18.
Owen Smith , the CDBA President, presented the shield and a badge to the winners and a small pennant flag to the runners-up.
Congratulations to the winners and to the whole group of spectators for their enthusiasm and the spirit they showed in applauding every good bowl. See Photo Page

Aug 29: Report from Toogoolawah - Sunday 28th August a special day was organised at the Toogoolawah Bowls Club for the Presentation of Life Membership for two of its hard working members, Tyrone Richter and Rod Mc Naught. A morning game of bowls was followed by an enjoyable lunch prepared by the lady members of the bowls club with the help of BBQ Guru Greg.

Visitors came from Lowood, RAAF Amberley and Rosewood. Owen Smith, President of Cunningham District Bowls Association, recognised the outstanding service of Rod McNaught and Tyrone Richter to the Toogoolawah Bowls Club by presenting both with Life Member Badges.

Rod and Tyrone have had long stints on the clubs Committee as President, Games Director and Club Delegate to the district. Owen Congratulated both men and said it is one of the few ways a club can show their appreciation for the Service given by both men. Rod McNaught was also presented with his super veteran badge. See Photo Album

Aug 28: Ladies Champion of Champions Fours - The Champion of champion fours was played between Swifts and IUS. It was an exciting game, with Swifts getting off to a good start. On 18th end the score was even at 17 all, but the Swift ladies of J.Camplin, E.Stacey, R.Brockie, S.Hardy came out winners........26-17 over I.U.S team. Congratulations to the winners. See also Ladies Champion of Champions Page

Aug 22: Congratulations to Ken Evans of IUS Club who won the Champion of Champion Zone play offs against Gold Coast's Brett Wilkie (25 to 19). Ken now progresses to the State play off at Bribie Island on 22 – 27th October. (Click photo for enlarged version)

Aug 15: Success in Quad Series - Cunningham District won the Quad series played at West Toowoomba yesterday (Sunday August 14th), beating Gateway District 76 - 52 and the Downs District 67 - 55. The last game against Gold Coast/Tweed was rained out, but their greater margin gave Cunningham the Shield.

The Juniors also won both their matches, but Gold Coast were overall winners with a bigger margin.

Congratulations to all involved.

Aug 11: Ladies Champion of Champion Singles - The spectators witnessed some great singles bowls in the ladies champion of champion today. In the tightly contested semi-final, Julie Ezzy went down to Eryn Brightwell. The final between Eryn and Wilma proved to be a swinging game with each player taking the lead on several occasions. In the final few ends some terrific bowls were played by both players and Wilma played a bomb on the last end to capture the two shots she needed to win the game 25-22. Well done Wilma.

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July 10: Men's Champion of Champions Fours: IUS team of Kevin Fuller, Ted Lyons, Charlie McAnany and Ken Evans won the Champion of Club Champions Fours today at Moorooka. A close game against Jindalee's Fours Champions was decided on the last end. The IUS team now go on to comete in the Zone play off against the Gold Coast later in year (September)

July 5: Downs Challenge: Thanks to Jindalee for hosting the yearly challenge between Cunningham and the Downs on Sunday 3rd July. Cunningham made a clean sweep of the 2011 Downs Challenge, with the men, ladies and juniors all having convincing wins.

Congratulations to all the players and for the enjoyable day conducted by Jindalee.

Photos of Junior teams - click the thumbnail for larger photo

Jun 29: Results of Junior District Singles Championship: In a close and exciting final, Francis Ryan from Goodna Club narrowly beat last year's winner Mitchell Mears of Algester in the Cunningham Juniors Singles Championship. Third and fourth places went to Cohen and Logan Litfin. The bowls played during the two days was of a very high standard, with great sportsmanship shown by all players.

See Photo Album Page.

Jun 26: District Mixed Pairs:

Congratulations to Marcia Macoun and Greg Akeroyd of Moorooka, who defeated fellow Moorooka members, Pam Winterbottom and Paul Smith in the final of this event. More......

Jun 22: Rathdowney News: On the 29th of April, the Rathdowney Bowls Club celebrated their 25th birthday. President Owen and Vice President Jill attended on behalf of CDBA, and enjoyed a game of scrounger’s bowls with members of their club, other club members from West Moreton Section and Beaudesert Bowls Club. Local Member Aiden McLindon was invited to speak, President Dot related the history of the club and Betty Richards, Ether Hardgrave and Margaret Salisbury cut the cake and President Owen awarded the prize for winning the super scroungers to Stuart Simpson. President Dot and her committee must be congratulated on their work to claw the club back to 25 full bowling members. See photos on Photo Album Page

Jun 22: Ladies District Singles: Congratulations to Yvonne Taylor of Algester for winning the District Singles.
The final between Yvonne Taylor and Lesley Behnke was an entertaining game which seesawed throughout with Yvonne Taylor winning 25-22. Over the three days onlookers witnessed some very closely fought battles. Well done to Yvonne, Lesley and to all players who participated. Photo on Ladies District Championships Page

Jun 9: Congratulations to the winners of the District Championships for Men's Pairs and Ladies Triples. The Men's Pairs was finalised last Saturday, with Gary Groeger and Ross Linneman of Tarragindi Club winning, 22-15. The Ladies Triples final was played at Jindalee on Wednesday 8th, with Jenni Woods, Bev Formby and Marilyn Kelly of Jindalee Club winning 27-26. This was the first time that the two bowl format was used in a District Championship Triples event.

From left to right: Marilyn Kelly, President Owen Smith, Bev Formby, Jenni Woods

Congratulations to the Cunningham Ladies District Side who were magnificent in winning the State District Sides Competition (Division 1) for 2011. Congratulations to the Cunningham Men's District Side for their second place in Division 2.

see also Ladies Special Events (includes photo with names of players)

Congratulations to Des Cann Jnr of Jindalee Bowls Club, who was awarded "Club Player of the Year - Male" at the recent annual Bowls Queensland Awards night.

The award is in clear recognition of Des's outstanding performance on the green over the last year.
On behalf of all in Cunningham we offer our sincere congratulations to Des and wish him every success in the future.

Apr 18: Congratulations to the winners of the Men's District Fours Championship, M Bretherton's team from Darra Cementco, who defeated G. Groeger, Tarragindi, 23-12 in a very good game not reflected in the scores. Thanks to Swifts who hosted this event.

Apr 12: Congratulation to the winners of the Ladies District Pairs Championship, Maureen Breingan and Pam Botterill (Algester), who defeated Mary Acutt and Sandy Gilbert (Ipswich United Services). Both teams played great bowls and in the fast few ends the ladies from Ipswich United Services were looking for extra shots but the accurate bowling of the Algester Ladies prevented that from happening. A sporting game was witnessed by all the onlookers. Well done to Pam and Maureen.

Huge Congratulations to the Cunningham District Junior team on winning the Poinsettia Cup for 2011. (front row Logan Liftin, Cohen Liftin, Francis Ryan, David Trevor - Back row Bryce Liftin, Normy Row, Sean Gilles, Di Cross, Liam Stephan, Zac Adams & Mitchell Mears. The win, by 16 shots overall, is the first since 2005. Well done!