Wednesday -- State Teams

A quick (really quick) blurb as we don't actually have stats for the bowlers, just the final results BUT...

On Wednesday the state teams (Open and Cole Cup squads) competed with the following results:

The Open team vanquished all comers and obliterated the competition (while, obviously, displaying great sportsmanship on the way) and came First.

By streets.

Congratulations to the squad and the Hornsby Rocket's representative, Adam Mandarano.

Competition was much, much closer in the Coles Cup, with only 11 points separating 1st from 7th and five separating 1st from 3rd.

The NSW squad (with Rockets Ben Barber, Angela Moxham and Natham Constable) tied for 4th.

A great effort by all!

Melbourne, bow before the Rockets

Day three of bowling, 14 June, and the Rockets continue to punch above their weight.

DOUBLES 

• Mark M -- 48 pins over average for the series, including a turkey in a nice game of 179 as well as a 4 bagger in a great game of 215
• Karina -- 28 pins over average for the series, including turkeys in games of 204 & 180
• Tim -- 33 pins over average for the series
• Natham -- 30 pins over average for the series
• Emma M -- 27 pins over average for the series
• Warren -- 25 pins over average for the series
• Amy  -- 20 pins over average for the series
• Adam -- 20 pins over average for the series
• Mark L -- 19 pins over average for the series

SINGLES 

• Natham -- 32 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game 162
• Tim -- 35 pins over average for the series
• Emma M -- 24 pins over average for the series 
• Amy  -- 21 pins over average for the series including her first turkey ever in a nice game of 136
• Mark L -- turkey in a nice game of 156

Tomorrow our state team bowlers -- Adam (Open) and Natham, Angela and Ben (Cole Cup) -- compete for NSW. Results tomorrow evening.

Many thanks to Natham Constable for his daily compilation of stats. 

More Rockets in Melbourne -- 13 July 2016

If you thought yesterday was good, you should see how well the bowlers did today...

TEAMS 

• Adam -- 41 pins over average for the series, including a 5 bagger in a great game of 224
• Mark M -- 26 pins over average for the series
• Tim -- 23 pins over average for the series
• Amy -- 18 pins over average for the series
• Natham -- 15 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 145

SINGLES 

• Natham -- 51 pins over average for the series
• Adam -- 36 pins over average for the series
• Angela -- 23 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 159
• Candice -- 23 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 130
• Warren -- 22 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 171
• Mark M -- A turkey in a nice game of 177

DOUBLES

• Adam -- 39 pins over average for the series, including a turkeys in games of 195 & 201
• Emma M -- 43 pins over average for the series
• Warren -- 30 pins over average for the series
• Amy -- 27 pins over average for the series
• Mark M -- 19 pins over average for the series
• Angela -- 19 pins over average for the series
• Lizzy  -- 15 pins over average for the series
• Natham -- 15 pins over average for the series

It was another fantastic day.

Tomorrow is Doubles and Singles again. Looking forward to more fantastic results.

Nationals 2016 -- Melbourne, Look Out [First day of Bowling]

It was our first day of bowling at the 2016 Nationals in Oz Ten Pin (Epping, north of Melbourne) and there were some outstanding results.


Teams

• Adam -- 30 pins over average for the series, including a turkey in a nice game of 182 as well as  7 strikes in a great game of 233 with no open frames
• Mark M -- 25 pins over average for the series, including a turkey in a nice game of 203 

Doubles

• Ben -- 33 pins over average for the series, including a turkey in a nice game of 170
• Warren -- 29 pins over average for the series
• Emma M -- 25 pins over average for the series
• Angela -- 22 pins over average for the series
• Natham -- 21 pins over average for the series          
• Emma C -- 15 pins over average for the series

And some pics from the day...

WHAT A CHALLENGE NIGHT!

Last Friday was our annual Hornsby Rockets Challenge Night, and the place was packed. Many thanks to our sponsors and patrons who showed up in force to compete.

In addition to the camaraderie on the night, we used it to raise a bit of additional funds.

But more on that a bit later.

The winners this year were:

1st place = Mixed Probus - Heather Thomlinson, Keith Carson, Ken Cooper and Ted Tyler

2nd place = Ben's Bunch - Ben Barber, Mike Spratt, Declan O'Connor and Ron Crompton

3rd place = MC's - Emma Matthews, Amy McFadden, Natham Constable and Adam Mandarano

Well done all of you, and best of luck to the others next year.

On the fundraising front, 

In addition to the team fees collected we raised $66 in the lolly jar guessing competition (I didn't win, despite my scientific methods) and $347.65 in the raffle (and loose change donations). The overall profit on the night was $1296.05 

Thanks everybody!

On the night one of our patrons, Matt Keane, Member for Hornsby, brought along a symbolic cheque for $2,000 representing the NSW Sports and Rec grant recently awarded to Hornsby Rockets. Many thanks, Matt.

 Thanks again, everybody, and practice up for next year!

Nationals T-shirts

Many thanks to Peter Cowie of Westleigh Chiropractic for his donation of T-Shirts for the nationals squad. I'm sure we'll all look great in them.

The front:

And the back (note that only Amy will get a shirt that says Amy. You will have your name on the shirt ;)

Thanks Peter!

Wrinkle-Free Fundraising Event

Thank you... 

...to Sonia Weber for organising and holding this event at her house as a fundraiser for the Hornsby Rockets.  A lot of hard work was put in by Sonia not to mention the generous donation of the gifts for the raffle prizes.  Sonia also provided the food and drinks for this event.  The ladies that attended enjoyed a relaxing mask (you can wear it while you are doing other things around the home).  After the mask was removed we applied a serum and then a moisturiser which was very light and quickly absorbed.

No need for a facelift or botox when these products are available. The Instantly Ageless was magic seeing wrinkles disappear within minutes and lasts for 8 hours!!

To top the afternoon off we also sampled a sachet of Reserve which is a blend of superfruits containing a powerhouse of antioxidants which works as a defense against free radical damage.  Taking one sachet a day costs only $3.00 (less than a cup of coffee) but much much better for you.

Please visit Sonia's website for more information at https://soniassecret.jeunesseglobal.com/en-AU/ or contact her at sonia@dancelikeanegyptian.net.

Sonia also comes to bowling to watch Sasha most Saturday so you can also speak with her there.

We had $185 generously donated to this event (thank's to Sonia kicking butt with her networking!!) and the raffle made $247 so a total of $432 was raised for the Hornsby Rockets.

The winners of the raffle were:

1st Prize - Jeunesse Cleanser, Serum and Night Repair Cream (RRP $392) went to Jitha (Red ticket C016)

2nd Prize - Box of Reserve (RRP $173) went to Leonie Bank (Red ticket B020)

3rd Prize - Instantly Ageless (RRP $107) went to Kristen Budd (Black ticket B76)

A great turnout...

First prize winner

Ageless!

Jenny with the mask on...

Removing the mask