News Archive

Leeming Bowling Club
News Archive

Leemings Blue Tree

On Tuesday, our ladies gathered to paint one of our dead trees blue. The Blue Tree Project began in Western Australia and encourages people to choose a deadtree that needs a ‘blue lease on life’ and paint it in memory of a friend who lost their life to depression or had battled illness. Well done…

Leeming ‘Galah’ Day

Friday 5th Nov 2021 , 28 teams of 4 (112 participants) attended our Gala Day representing 15 different clubs from metro and Peel regions. Some players had never been to Leeming before and commented on how lovely our grounds and club was. The competition was run using the Skins format of 2 games of 10…

Melbourne Cup/Calcutta

This years Calcutta saw an increase in the first prize pool by including a percentage of the auction bids. Over 100 people came for the auction and were treated to a another great night hosted by our auctioneer Tim Gossage who kept the crowd on their toes. Congratulations to Cedric Smith and his team of…

Inaugural Skins Tournament

The inaugural Leeming Skins Competition got under way in cold but near perfect conditions. Sponsored by DR Jags Krishnan, MLA Member for Riverton and with a field of 28 teams from Yanchep in the north to Waroona in the south and York in the east the qualifying games began on lightning fast greens. After qualifying…

Members road trip to Denmark

A number of our members visited Denmark over the March long weekend and it seems they had a great time. Check out the video of their trip Denmark Bowling Carnival from Gary Pike on Vimeo.

Club Presentation Day 2021

Sunday 21st March 2021. The club held the finals of both the Mens and Ladies singles championships with Jan Pass winning for the third straight year and Karl Vandersluys winning for the second straight year with nearly 70 members in attendance to watch some great bowls. The finals was followed by presentations to all our…

Leeming host the State Development Squad

On Sunday, we hosted the State Development squad who went through some coaching and drills while our Ladies played their first day of the Pairs Championships. They then went on to play the Police team who unfortunately didn’t go too well.

Melbourne Cup Calcutta

A great night last night at our first ever Melbourne Cup Calcutta. The night started out with the draw with 24 lucky attendees winning a horse in the race while everyone else went home with a prize which included paintings (donated by a number of our club members), wines and various vouchers from our sponsors….

Barefoot Bowls

Community Bowls (barefoot bowls) starts again on Wednesday 21st October 2020. It will run through to around Easter 2021 with a short break over Xmas. It is open to non members as well as members and all you have to do is turn up as a team of 4 and join in. There are sets…

Club Open Day

Last Sunday was our club opening day and although it was a wet and windy day we got our game in. The opening jack was rolled by our current Mens champion Karl Vandersluys and the first bowl was rolled by our Ladies champion Jan Pass. The day started with the ‘spider’ which was won by…