Witta Tennis Fun Day for local kids

THE Witta Tennis Club are hosting a Kid’s Fun Day as a boredom buster for kids of all ages and levels to attend, costing $25 to participate in the fun.

On the day, all who attend will have lots of tennis fun and games no matter how young or inexperienced they may be.

There will be a mini round robin tournament to allow the more competitive kids to battle it out in a social style competition, as well as targets and he was extremely happy with his team’s improvement in their defence during their April 1 game against Kawana, who were a hard team to face.

Maleny High School students were back on the green on Thursday 30th March with 19 players competing in scroungers competition. This draw bowls game is a terrific format to introduce new bowlers to our game with aim and accuracy required to score points. There is a break for school holidays with them returning in mid April for a further 7 weeks of competition.

Maleny State School is planning on conducting after school lawn bowls during term 2. Last year this program proved very popular with 43 students from Prep to Grade 6 participating in weekly one hour sessions of lawn bowls. This is also a terrific pathway for parents, carers, family and friends to give lawn bowls a go when they come to pick up the students. This is also an important recruitment driver for our free junior membership program.

“It was a really tough game, they kept us under pressure, but we kept up with them and I was really proud of the boys,” he said.

“They absolutely improved, I think Kawana had six dropouts and we had to defend our line six times in a row, and they only scored a try when we were down to eleven men.”

Samuel Fullerton, James Hill and Kai Busiko were among those who scored tries during the first and second half of the game, with a 75 percent conversion rate for Mathew Kidd.

Hill praised Rowin Jardine’s efforts

“Everyone was pretty good, but our front rower Rowin Jardine did the hard yards in the middle and that was really good,” he said.

“We were 10 nil at half time, and then we scored after we held them out so that was a really good effort, and we scored right at the end there, it was a really tough game, it was really close.

“They really dug in in their defence, their attitude was really good, they never got frustrated with all the penalties we got, we got penalised a fair bit, so I think our lack of frustration really helped.”

Beerwah now have a bye over the easter holidays and will be back to battle it out against the Noosa Pirates on April 15 at 6pm in the Bulldogs’ first home game for the year.

To allow kids to stay fuelled up throughout the morning from 8am to 12:30pm, there will be a homemade morning tea, fruit and hotdogs on offer.

The club asks kids who will attend, to wear sunscreen, a hat and trainers, and to bring water to stay hydrated.

If you or your kids are interested in going along, you can register by emailing mareehooley@gmail.com or text 0437 295 501.