Rainbow Dragons Regatta this weekend.

All the excitement of the 2023 Rainbow Dragons Regatta is happening this weekend and everyone is welcome to this free event, on the shores of Shaws Bay, East Ballina.

Northern NSW and south east Qld clubs have been training during the cooler winter conditions and are ready to start their racing season at this regatta.

The weekend will start Saturday afternoon with 1km chase race and the State of Origin sprint.

This won’t be a normal 200 metre sprint, they’re lucky drew teams who have never paddled together before and it will be over 250 metres, so we’ll see which State has enough puff to last that extra distance.

Then Sunday is a full day of 200 metre racing where the tussles are not restricted to dragon boat club. A variety of business groups and organisations will also get to test their paddling skills in the “Community Team Challenge” and the champions get to donate $250 to their chosen charity..

These community teams will also showcase their costuming skills, in the Best Dressed Team and yes- things can get a bit crazy when they get into competitive character.

Rainbow Dragons welcome all the community to come along and enjoy this free family friendly, alcohol free sports event.

There will be food, drink stalls and Rainbow’s Whoppa Raffe (it’s big) which they thank local business’s for their generous prize donations.

Bring a chair or picnic blanket - It this weekend.

Casino Social Golf Results

20-08-2023

The single stableford played on the top 11 was won by Darren Diews with a stableford score of 26 points from Trevis Jenkins with 22. The putting trophy went to W.Jackson with 14 putts and T.Hook won the players draw.Nearest to pins: 8th, D.Diews. 9th & 13th, T.Jenkins. 10th, R.Ruttley. 11th, W.Jackson.

12th, D.Hampson. 14th & 18th, G.Shephard. 15th, C.Hatfeld. 16th, G.Skennar. !7th, J.Rankin. Next Sunday’s event sponsored by Newstead Automotive Services, Casino, will be a single stableford on the bottom 10 holes and visitors are welcome to play with hit off from 6-30am till 7-30am

Casino Womens

BOWLS RESULTS

On Wednesday 16/8 there were 3 games of round 1 for Major Pairs championship & the results were:

N. Moran & A. James def J. Creighton & K. Jonsson

T. Maxwell & M. Mead def D. Grice & I. Watson

J. Carthew & R. Skirrey def M. Hellyar & C. Doyle

CHERRY STREET

CROQUET CLUB

SPORTS RESULTS

ASSOCIATION

CROQUET : Club Championships Handicap Doubles.

G.Drew H.Young 1, P.Waters R.Chapman 2, L.Hardy G Porter 3. RICOCHET

CROQUET :

H.Young

N.Poynting11d N.Barnes

R.Allen 3

R.Poynting M.Russell

9 d C.Edlund P.Scott 9

J.Copeland J.Hannigan

16 d M.Field C.Lane 5

J.Hamilton N.Watts 11 d J.Doust R.Offey 7

NRCA RICOCHET

TOURNAMENT :

Level Open Singles : R. Chapman 1, D.Scott 2, P. Waters 3, R.Hughes

Winners for the day were:

M. Jordan, J. Dwyer & D. Skinner def M. Jordan, L. James & H. Lavelle.

3. Handicap Singles : R.Poynting 1, J.Hannigan 2, P.Scott 3, G.Porter 4, G.Drew 5.

Level Open Doubles

Crystal Cup :

D.Scott R.Chapman 1, P.Martin G.Martin 2, P.Monds D.Warner 3, G.Drew P.Waters 4, M.Hughes J.OBrien 5.

Robyn Poynting, Jim Hannigan, NRCA Ricochet Handicap Singles Champion & Runner Up.

CORAKI VETERANS GOLF RESULTS

THURSDAY 17/8/23

A very large feld played the second round of the vets championships

Winner G Flaherty, 2nd P Brophy, 3rd W Henwood, free game

J Voght, chicken/ball winners G Gibson, J Sauer, W Lunnon, R Mackay, S Smith, W Swindle, S Reddell, B McDonald, A Parr, J Perkins, T Duff, J

Nilsson, J Sheridan. Nearest pins 3rd/15th

K Osborne, 6th/15th

T Doyle. On next Thursday 24/8 the third round of championships will be played commencing with a shot gun start at 8.30am this will also be a single stableford event.

AS USUAL TILL THEN GOOD

GOLFING

EVANS HEAD BOWLING CLUB

Evans Head Bowling Club held the Annual Seaside Carnival Ladies Fours on 9th August 2023.

Winners 2W+22 - S. Carter, J. Sutcliffe, J. Draper, L. Sanderson Runners/up 2W+9 - L. Stratton, L. Hayes, P. Freeman, T. Cselka (absent from photo)

Seaside Carnival Ladies 3 Bowl Pairs on

11th August 2023

Winners 2W+20 - L. Vidler, B. Montague. Runners/up 2W+19D. Hesperdon, E. Hall. Round 1+13 - V. Hart, L. Stratton. Round 2+16 - G. Marczan, J. Bilney.

Congratulations to everyone who competed in the Carnival & helped make it so successful.