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

Fantastic Illawarra Results

Some of our competition bowlers headed south to Albion Plains for the annual Illawarra Star Strikers Challenge, and we did pretty good...

ADAM

Trophy Classic All Events 

1^st A Grade Teams

3^rd Classic Singles

3^rd A Grade Doubles

ANGELA

2^nd B Grade All Events

2^nd C Grade Teams 

3^rd B Grade Singles

BEN

Trophy B Grade All Events 

CANDICE

2^nd C Grade Teams 

EMMA C

1^st C Grade Teams

EMMA M

Trophy – Female Highest Pins over Average  

Trophy C Grade All Events 

1^st C Grade Teams 

KARINA

1^st A Grade Teams

2^nd A Grade All Events

3^rd A Grade Doubles 

NATHAM

Trophy C Grade All Events 

1^st C Grade Teams 

2^nd C Grade Singles

TIM

1^st A Grade Teams

2^nd C Grade All Events 

2^nd C Grade Singles

WARREN

Trophy – Male Highest Pins over Average  

1^st C Grade Singles

2^nd C Grade Teams

TOTAL            

6 trophies

7 gold medals 

7 silver medals 

4 bronze medals

WELL DONE TO ALL THE ROCKETS WHO ATTENDED 

Illawarra Star Strikers Challenge -- Albion Park

On Saturday 12^th March the following bowlers: Adam, Amy, Angela, Ben, Candice, Declan, Emma C, Emma M, Karina, Natham, Tim & Warren travelled to AMF Illawarra to compete in the Illawarra Star Strikers competition.

Despite a very long and tiring day of bowling, we achieved some great results:

Singles

Warren              Scored 50 pins over average for the series including games of 169 &170

Tim                   Scored 35 pins over average for the series

Amy                  Scored 21 pins over average for the series

Natham             Scored 20 pins over average for the series including a Turkey

Adam                Scored 16 pins over average for the series

Doubles

Natham             Scored 34 pins over average for the series

Adam                Scored 20 pins over average for the series including a very nice 204 game

Declan              Scored 15 pins over average for the series

Teams

Adam                Scored 43 pins over average for the series including 2 very nice games of 205,

with both a turkey & a 4 bagger in the series

Emma M           Scored 40 pins over average for the series including a turkey in a very nice game of 162

Angela              Scored 24 pins over average for the series

Warren              Scored 20 pins over average for the series

Natham             Scored 15 pins over average for the series

Watch this space in the coming weeks for any medals and full results from this competition.

NSW STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS -- WARNERS BAY

Nsw State Championships

warners bay

On Sunday 14^th February Karina Peters, Mark Milner, Natham Constable & Warren Seymour travelled to Warners Bay to compete in the NSW State Championships. The following Sunday (21^st February) Angela Moxham, Ben Barber, Candice Lundie and Emma Crompton joined Karina, Mark, Natham & Warren to represent the Rockets again.

Here’s a selection of our outstanding results. .

Male, D Grade All Events         

1^st         Warren Seymour

2^nd        Natham Constable

Female, C Grade Singles         

3^rd         Emma Crompton

Female, D Grade Singles         

1^st             Angela Moxham

Male, D Grade Singles             

1^st         Natham Constable

2^nd        Warren Seymour

3^rd         Natham Constable

4^th         Warren Seymour 

Mixed, C Grade Doubles          

4^th             Karina Peters                 Mark Milner

                       

Male, D Grade Doubles            

1^st         Natham Constable          Warren Seymour

Mixed, D Grade Teams            

1^st         Karina Peters                 Natham Constable          Mark Milner                   Warren Seymour

(1^st Place is a New record for this grade 1657 pins)

2^nd        Natham Constable          Karina Peters                 Angela Moxham Ben Barber 

3^rd         Mark Milner                    Warren Seymour            Emma Crompton            Candice Lundie

Please note: The grading used in this competition is NOT our normal grading as this was an abled bodied event

Well done to all who attended