The Australia Adult Championship

CONGRATULATIONS NATHAM

On Saturday 8^th October Natham Constable bowled his first ball for the All Ability Team as part of the Australian Adult Championship, held at Lidcombe TenPin City.  His team mates came from Gosford (Steven Warren), Tasmania (Thomas Brown)  and Queensland (Martyn Challinor).

He bowled continuously from Saturday till Thursday then fronted up for the Orange City Disability Championships on the following Saturday – a total of 36 games played.

Natham bowled each game over his average and was awarded the Chairperson’s Award, given to the bowler who scores the highest scores over average.  This even included the “abled-bodied” bowlers.  He entered with an average of 110 and scored a high game of 160 -- 50 pins above average. This was a "scratch" score – no handicap added.

In this tournament, your average increases with high scores and Natham had an ending Tournament Average of 136.

Well Done Natham

The Hornsby Rockets Invitational

We had a fantastic turnout at the Rockets' Invitational. Saturday and Sunday were well attended and mucho thanks to LEsley, Anna and Natham who organised it to a tee.  And thanks also to AMF Hornsby for keeping things ticking along.

And without further adieu, the results (thanks again to Natham, the Statsman)

HORNSBY ROCKETS INVITATIONAL RESULTS 2016

On Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st August, the Rockets held their annual invitational at AMF Hornsby. After 2 long days of bowling all of the Rockets' results are listed below.

SINGLES
FEMALE
A Grade Female (out of 3)
Karina (394) – 2nd
Katina (390) – 3rd
B Grade Female (out of 8)
Emma M (393) – 2nd
Angela (364) – 4th
Belinda (363) – 5th
Angela (363) – 6th
Emma M (338) – 7th
Emma C (329) – 8th
C Grade Female (out of 10)
Candice (328) – 1st
Candice (323) - 2nd
Elizabeth (298) – 5th
Elizabeth (279) – 9th
D Grade Female (out of 8)
Lucy (296) – 2nd
Amy (285) – 3rd
Lucy (268) – 4th
Rachel (221) – 7th

MALES
B Grade Male (out of 11)
Mark M (392) – 3rd
Mark L (377) – 4th
Ben (371) – 7th
Kevin (368) – 8th
Mark (364) – 9th
Ben (350) – 10th
C Grade Male (out of 15)
Tim (425) – 1st
Declan (385) – 3rd
Tim (362) – 5th
Natham (359) – 6th
Robert (307) – 9th
Natham (300) – 10th TIE
Warren (300) – 10th
D Grade Male (out of 7)
Patrick (309) – 2nd
David (276) – 4th

DOUBLES
A Grade (out of 4)
Karina & Mark M (923) – 1st
B Grade (out of 13)
Karina & Angela (847) – 1st
Emma C & Mark L (774) – 5th
Ben & Emma M (771) – 6th
Kevin & Mark L (758) – 8th
Declan & Angela (706) – 11th
Emma C & Ben (699) – 12th
C Grade (out of 11)
Natham & Emma M (756) – 1st
Tim & Warren (703) – 2nd
Candice & Elizabeth (695) – 3rd
Patrick & Robert (670) – 7th
Warren & Declan (607) – 8th
Candice & Tim (573) – 9th
David & Robert (554) – 10th
D Grade (out of 8)
Amy & Lucy (580) – 3rd
Lucy & Elizabeth (576) – 4th
E Grade (out of 9)
Lauren & Rachel (357) – 5th



TEAMS 
A Grade (out of 6)
Karina, Mark M & Mark L (1249) – 2nd
B Grade (out of 5)
Kevin, Ben & Angela (1192) – 2nd
Tim, Mark L & Karina (1125) – 4th
C Grade (out of 11)
Warren, Natham & Emma C (1103) – 2nd
Emma M, Angela & Jeremy (1082) – 3rd
Warren, Natham & Emma M (1057) – 4th
Tim, Candice & Elizabeth (1041) – 6th
David, Robert & Declan (856) – 11th
D Grade (out of 4)
Rachel, Lucy & Angela Douglas (Gosford) (835) – 2nd
Rachel, Amy & Robert (825) – 3rd

ALL EVENTS
FEMALE
A Grade Female (out of 2)
Karina (1213) – 2nd
B Grade Female (out of 5)
Emma M (1183) – 3rd
Angela (1170) – 4th
Emma C (1033) – 5th
C Grade Female (out of 8)
Elizabeth (1049) – 1st TROPHY
Candice (957) – 2nd
D Grade Female (out of 5)
Amy (886) – 2nd
Lucy (844) – 3rd
Rachel (672) – 4th

MALES
B Grade Male (out of 9)
Mark M (1356) – 1st TROPHY
Kevin (1171) – 4th
Ben (1151) – 6th
Mark L (1050) – 9th
C Grade Male (out of 9)
Tim (1198) – 1st TROPHY
Natham (1110) – 3rd
Robert (977) – 6th
Warren (945) – 7th
D Grade Male (out of 3)
David Hunter (820) – 2nd

HIGHEST GAME
Angela Moxham (190) – 1st TROPHY

Gold = 8
Silver = 22
Bronze = 17
Trophies = 4

Medals = 47 and 4 trophies

MANY THANKS TO ALL THE HELPERS OVER THE 2 DAYS, AND WELL DONE TO EVERYONE WHO COMPETED.

Thursday, our last day of bowling.

We finish the competition today. Tomorrow the lot of us visit Puffing Billy and on Saturday is Carers Challenge where we bowl.

And the bowlers laugh.

But to today's results...

TEAMS

• Natham -- 46 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 184
• Candice -- 35 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 175
• Adam -- 33 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a nice game of 194
• Warren -- 21 pins over average for the series
• Amy -- 20 pins over average for the series
• Tim -- 20 pins over average for the series
• Mark M -- 19 pins over average for the series

SINGLES

• Adam -- 31 pins over average for the series including nice game of 186 with no open frames
• Tim -- 27 pins over average for the series
• Emma M -- 24 pins over average for the series
• Warren -- 19 pins over average for the series
• Candice -- 18 pins over average for the series
• Lizzy -- 16 pins over average for the series
• Natham -- 15 pins over average for the series

All-in-all, it's been a great competition. There will be results from the Carer's Challenge on Saturday (don't expect these kinds of numbers, people) and the results of any medals we've received.

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...