OLBA Championships 2018

Your executive felt some of you may be interested in these dates, which have been posted on the OLBA website. They will, of course, be found in the OLB annual when it is available this spring.

2018 OLBA Championship Schedule
Fours:

·        Open event will be held at the Leaside LBC on June 1, 2, & 3, 2018

·        No Districts - players may form teams with players from any District in Ontario

·        Non-refundable entry fee is $500.00 per team payable in advance by May 4, 2018

·        Entries and entry fees sent to Tom Roth, roth@olba.ca    226-798-5460

·        Top two teams of Women and Men advance to National Championships in Regina, Sask.

 
Pairs:

·        Qualifying event will be held at the Hanover LBC on June 22, 23, & 24, 2018

·        Team members must be from the same District

·        Entry fee of $35.00 per player at both District and Provincial levels

·        Top two teams of Women and Men advance to National Championships in Regina, Sask.

 
Singles:

·        Qualifying event to be held at a venue Belleville LBC on June 15, 16 & 17,2018

·        Entry fee of $35.00 at both District and Provincial level

·        Top four Women and Men advance to the National Championships in Regina, Sask. and the “Champion of Champions” tournament in Austrailia.

·        Players qualifying for National Fours and Pairs may enter this event

 
Mixed Pairs:

·        Qualifying event will be held at the Cobourg LBC on July 14 & 15, 2018

·        Entry fee of $35.00 at both District and Provincial level

·        Top two teams advance to National Championships in __________, British Columbia

·        Players qualifying for National Fours, Pairs or Singles are not eligible to play Mixed Pairs

 
Senior Triples:

·        Qualifying event will be held at the Burlington LBC on July 26 & 27, 2018

·        Entry fee of $35.00 at both District and Provincial level

·        Top two teams of Women and Men advance to National Championship in _________, Alberta

·        Players qualifying for the National Fours, Pairs, Singles or Mixed Pairs are not eligible to enter

 
Novice Triples:

·        Qualifying event will be held at the Sarnia LBC on Aug. 11 & 12, 2018

·        Entry fee of $25.00 at Districts and $30.00 at Provincials for every player

·        Team members must be from the same District and meet OLBA eligibility rules

 
Novice Singles: 

·        Qualifying event will be held at the Elmdale LBC on Sept. 15 & 16, 2018

·        Entry fee of $25.00 at Districts and $30.00 at Provincials for every player

·        Players must first win their club to qualify for Districts

·        Players must meet OLBA eligibility rules

 

Have a fantastic day!

2017 Annual Meeting and Banquet

Great food and good Company. That's a wrap for 2017. See you on the green in the spring. (Once again you can click on the photos to enlarge and scroll through them).

The room is ready

So is the hardware

... and the executive kind of looks ready

The crowd is just about all here

Let's get the business out of the way

Jitney Award Winners

Shirley accepting on behalf of her team who were all busy preparing the food. Stephen Thurley, skip Ken Clarke and Robert Taylor (the only photo I had of Robert). Third place finish in the first half.

Second place was skip George Jenkins and Neil Wilson with Frank Johnson absent.

Winners of the first Jitney - Donna Robottom, skip Linda Clarke and Ellie Watt absent.

Third place in Jitney 2 - skip Bob Stewart with Ellie Watt and Terry Green absent.

Second place - Shirley Rew, Lynette Graham (skip) and Rae Jenkins.

Winners of Jitney 2 - Wilma Jileson, skip Larry Rew (in the kitchen) and Richard Green absent.

Monday Individual Champs

Women's - Linda Clarke

Men's Ken Clarke

District 4 Women's Novice Champs - Ros MacDonald and Loretta Whitfield

Sonia handing off our Social duties (literally). Thanks for a great year Sonia and good luck Mark.

Ok - Come and Get it.

Stratford Lawn Bowling Could Use Our Help

Stratford Lawn Bowling are fighting a battle to hang on to their historic greens and they could use all the help they could get from the lawn bowling community.

Link to Stratford Lawn Bowling Appeal

Grand Cove Activity Fair

This is one of our best opportunities to recruit new bowlers and we were very organized in our approach this year.

Cap Reit Blue Gold Tournament

This is our final tournament of 2017 and it happens to be an OLBA sanctioned tournament. Thanks to teams from Sarnia, Seaforth and London for joining us.

(you can see comments on photos from here but if you click on any photo it will enlarge and from there you can scroll through them)

We missed George bowling but he did our draws for us

Unedited view of Brian's form

Ken's raking form - not bad

Rick setting the jack

A head

Another head

and another

Murray praying for an extra point - no he is measuring

Even if it's your wife you had better measure

Thanks Bob for the great burgers and dogs

and Sonia for setting up the food - great job as always

Great lunch

Dave and Sandy from London beat us in the first game

Linda eyeing a back bowl

Our greens show so well

A mat and a head

Murray making shadow puppets - no he's giving a path

Carefully edited shot of Loretta's form

Les was pressed into service as a skip for the first time

final shots of the Championship Game

It's handshake time

Waiting for the last games to wrap up

Third place goes to our own Loretta and skip Brian

Second place to skip Rick and Murray from Seaforth

This year's Champs - skip Jack and Bob from Sarnia

That's a wrap