Newmarket Bocce Club

Submitted by Mario De Marco, Secretary of the Newmarket Boce Club

Hello again and welcome to my world of Bocce.

There are so many sports out there and I can understand how difficult it can be to keep members motivated. It may be just a matter of giving them new challenges. No different with Bocce. Bocce Australia, in conjunction with a Bocce club in Victoria, decided that to entice new members to bocce and keep old members challenged they would develop a new strategy and the Precision Bowling game was developed.

In the photo below you can see the succession of three large rings and a small ring where the Kitty/Jack is placed. Now that outer circle is about 2 meters wide, plenty of room to bowl a ball in: well think again. So you can play singles, doubles and even triples. Each player has 4 bocce ball and bowls into the circles. The point system is 1 point, 3 points and 5 points from the outer circle. If you move the jack and your bocce bail remains in that small circle its 10 points. It is very difficult to achieve. A player plays all 4 bocce balls and it is possible to hit one of your balls which can add or lower your point score depending where it travels. So, on each bocce rink/court you play two ends. Your team score is added and recorded. As we have 4 bocce rinks/courts we play 8 ends in total.

I hope you got all this! The winning team, of course is the team that has the most points. Note the photo with our treasurer Bill and you will see some great bowling. There is also a group shot of the club players. We played this as a

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Newmarket Bocce Club members competition a couple of weeks ago and all members enjoyed the game and can’t wait for the next one. Of course we had a BBQ beforehand which went down well. To give you an idea the winning team achieved 134 points, second 122 points and third 102 points.

Remember, if you want a go at bocce or just want to come have a look, give me or Bill a call on 0403257325 or 0431458481.

The three concentric circles

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Club Treasurer Bill was delighted with his great bowling