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March 17, 2016
First karate
national champs
at Fish River Sun
THE first national championship for the
newly formed United World Karate South
Africa (UWKSA) will be hosted at the
Fish River Sun from March 17 to 19.
“The Fish River Sun has been hosting
regional and national karate championships
since 2007, and is ideally placed because
of its central location and facilities,”
said Gary Grapentin, inaugural championship
organiser, UWKSA president and
head instructor of East Cape Shotokan-
Ryu.
United World Karate (UWK), which is
based in Switzerland, was formed in 2014
while UWKSA was established in March
the following year.
“The 2016 UWKSA National
Championships will be a significant occasion
because it will bring the UWKSA affiliated
federations and dojos together for
the first time.
“The championship will also serve as
trials in order to select a UWKSA Team
for the 2017 UWK World Champions
h i p s, ” Grapentin said.
The championship proceedings will kick
off today with an officials’ course from
3pm until 5pm where referees and judges
will undergo training conducted by
UWKSA’s chief referee.
Ending off the day will be a course for
all team coaches from 5pm.
Tomorrow the competition itself will
start with individual kata and team kata
from 9am.
On Saturday action will start at 8am
with all individual kumite (shobu nihon
and shobu sanbon) and rotational team
kumite categories.
The public is welcome to watch the
championships at the Fish River Sun. The
entrance fee is R30 for adults and R20 for
school children.
Special packages are being offered by
the Fish River Sun to support the championships.
Weekend rates (Friday and
Saturday) for single occupancy is R1 150
per person per night and includes dinner,
bed and breakfast. Double occupancy is
R690 per person, per night and includes
dinner, bed and breakfast.
There is also a family package of R1 655
per room per night. This includes dinner,
bed and breakfast for two adults and two
children under the age of 12.
NIGHT ACTION: The Albany Insurance team, together with friends, at the Kowie Night Bowls on Friday evening were,
from left, Rouxle Hattingh, Keyser and Myrna Murray, friend Lynette Harbrecht, Angelique Hutchinson, event organiser
Mike Tomlinson and Bronwyn Fick
Picture: ROB KNOWLES
Cloudy skies no match
for Pick n Pay Nite Bowls
LAST Friday night, round two
of the Night Bowls Competition
was played in cloudy
weather with all participants raring
to go.
The “performer of the night”
Kenton Bowling Club
THE monthly Dias Insurance
Trips last Wednesday was
won by Rob Croly, Ken Nixon
and Kevin Bates.
Eastern Areas (EA) Ladies’
League played their first four
rounds this year, two each last
Saturday at Albany and Sunday
at Grahamstown. The results
are not known at the time
of going to press.
The men’s first and second
league played round three of
the year at Kenton on Sunday.
The preliminary results to date
(to be verified) are: First
League - Port Alfred 18, Albany
15, Grahamstown 13,
Kenton 11, Kowie 3; Second
League - Kenton 22, Kowie
20, Albany 12 and Port Alfred
6.
The finals of the Kenton Business
League were held on
Monday with the two sections,
Bushman’s and Kariega (six
teams each) going head to
head, strength against
strength.
The results will be published in
next week’s Bowl Banter. This
has been a most successful -
and enjoyable - tournament
and plans are afoot to continue.
Tomorrow will be the March
round of the Personal Trust
Trips. The next round will be
on April 15. Teams from other
EA clubs are reminded that
they are most welcome to participate.
The closing date for
entries is April 13. If you are
not able to get to Kenton to put
your team on the entry list just
e-mail (or phone) your entry to
the Kenton secretary.
The Friday night draw on
March 11 was missed by Don
Armstrong. This week it will be
R600.
Duties for the week March
21 to 27: Tabs cashier - Addie
Wolf, Bar - Dave West and
Terry Bowen.
Special thanks to recent “extraordinary”
bar duty personnel
(during the Business
League and EA League):
Keith Benson, Don Young,
winner again came from the
B section, with Kenny’s Sports
Bar taking the honours with a
score of 6 / + 17 for the night.
The sponsored swindle competition
was won by Theresa van
Anthony Copeman, Ivor Rule,
Pippa Swift, Mick Carle, Jo
Lawson, Stoffel Scheepers,
Willie Aab, Kevin Bates, Lee
Slater, Lottie Brink, John and
Carol Crandon, and Stompie
Bellingan. We wouldn’t be a
club without your support.
Thought for the week: It is rumoured
the SPCA have invented
a motorised rotating
bowl for tired goldfish. Why not
a motorised bowl for tired
bowlers?
Port Alfred Bowling and
Croquet Club
March is filled with bowls fixtures,
keeping the
clubs busy and the
bowlers fit.
A report back of last
week’s games: The
ladies played the
Vroom Cup and won both their
games. The men played the
Timm Cup and ended up winning
two games and losing two
games.
Over last weekend, the EA
ladies’ league played four
rounds, with our ladies winning
four and losing two
games. At the same time, the
EA men’s league played and
our A team won three and lost
one, nabbing 7 points, putting
them at the top of the log with
18 points. Keep it up guys and
gals.
Unfortunately the Ocean
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Lavieren of Leach Pharmacy, who
took home the bottle of hooligan
juice. The rollover competition
was drawn at the end of the night
and no team actually had the correct
score for the four ends that we
Basket-sponsored competition
had to be postponed due
to rain. A date to play is still to
be decided.
This weekend, the EA ladies’
league will play round 5 at
Kowie Club in the afternoon,
and Sunday will see both the
EA ladies’ and men’s league
playing all day at Port Alfred
Club.
On Tuesday March 22, round
2 of the ladies’ and men’s trips
and on Wednesday March 23,
the Doris Ford will be played.
Which brings us to the Easter
weekend. Just a friendly reminder
that the club will be
CROQUET CORNER
THERE was no winner
in our monthly rollover,
so the kitty is carried
over to our next draw
which will be held on
Saturday April 2.
There were no crazy
croqueteers who
would brave the storm
wanted and where to find it.
They were in and out within
four minutes.
If anyone is offered a Waldorf
five-channel amplifier and set
of 100W speakers or a Sharp
DVD it most probably does not
belong to them. Please contact
the SAPS or the club.
On Thursday, we hosted the
Port Alfred BC for the Timm
and Vroom Cup competitions
in delightful weather after the
heat and humidity of the past
weekend. Again it was Port
Alfred’s day in the ladies competition,
as our ladies lost both
their games. After two rounds,
BOWLSBANTER
open on Saturday March 26,
and the Radue-sponsored
competition will be played on
that day. Visitors are welcome
to join us.
Duties for the week March
21 to 27: Tabs – Anne Kotze
and Dalys Cowie, Bar duty –
Chris, Phil and
Alison, Ironing – Gordon Goff.
Kowie Bowling Club
The early week’s rain resulted
in last Tuesday’s bowls being
cancelled – the main problem
being the rain which resulted in
no green preparations being
started even though the weather
cleared later in the day.
This resulted in the
Spar-sponsored competition
being postponed to this Tuesd
a y.
In the early hours of Thursday
morning, we had a visitation
from some uninvited guests
who undertook some affirmative
shopping. It was someone
who knew exactly what they
this gives Port Alfred an
eight-point lead with a healthy
shot profit.
In the men’s competition it was
a closer contest with each club
winning two and Kowie with a
1 shot profit on the day. Overall
Port Alfred leads the log by
12 points to 4 with a +17 shot
profit.
Last Saturday morning we had
a storm of note with lightning
and thunder and a little rain.
With threatening weather the
turnout was very small for
bowls. The Courtyard-sponsored
competition was postponed
to a soonest available
date.
This weekend was the start of
the ladies’ league on Saturday
at Albany with our teams playing
each other in the first game
and the A team just managing
the win. In the afternoon, the A
team lost to Port Alfred and
our B team went down to the
other PA side.
and wind which we
experienced on Saturd
a y.
Our raffle box in the
clubroom is filling up
slowly, so folks please
raid your kitchen (or
bar) and bring your
contribution for the
had drawn, so it carries over for
another week and the kitty grows
to R180.
The players were in party mode
on Friday and kept the barmen
busy until after 11pm!
On Sunday, the ladies travelled
back to Grahamstown to
play at GBC and in the morning
session the A team beat
GBC by four shots and the
B team had a good win against
Kenton.
The afternoon session was
good to our teams with the A’s
defeating Albany and the B’s
defeating GBC in a very closely
contested game.
On Sunday, the Men’s league
continued at Kenton with our A
section playing against Port
Alfred and our A team losing
on the last end with the B’s
winning and overall taking the
bonus point with
a positive shot
profit. In the afternoon,
both our
teams went
down to Port Alfred
in the reversal games. The
B section teams had mixed results
against Kenton, our A
team had a good win with the
B’s going down but we still had
the positive shot profit for the
bonus point.
In the afternoon on the reversal
games, it went the other way
with the A team going down
and the B team having a very
close win and allowing Kenton
to pick up the bonus point.
I have not yet received the log
results but in the B section –
after three games – Kenton is at
the top with 22 points + 31 s/p,
followed by Kowie on 20 points
+ 44 s/p, with three rounds of
games to still be played.
Duties for the week March
21-27: Greens – (Roll) Pieter
Stegmann, (Mark) Laurie May
and Allan Sheridan, Tabs –
(Cash) Jean Churchley, (Select)
Peter Ford, Bar – Siggie
and Dot Rohrs.
hamper as the Allan
Wilson Classic is just
around the corner.
The entries for the
Allan Wilson Classic
have now closed, so
thanks to all who have
entered.