Ballarat Memorial Sports Bowling Club

Fixtures and dates for members:

September – Thursday 24th BHBR Veterans’ Day 1pm (12.45pm registrations) hosted by Sebastopol Bowling Club
November – Sunday 8th Diggers’ Day registration 10.30am; Reveille 11am
November – Wednesday 25th Ladies Triples annual tournament 10.30am start
January – Sunday 3rd BHBR Heartbeat Tournament (40th year) 1pm start
January – Sunday 24th Mickey Mason’s Memorial Tournament 9.30am start
February – Friday 5th Ekkie Martini Odd Socks Triples; 6pm start
March – Saturday 27th Easter Saturday Medley Pairs 10am start
Bluey’s Day tournament – to be determined

Robert Dickinson is aiming to resurrect the Bluey’s Day tournament this season with Stephen Byron's help. If held as an evening tournament, it could be held earlier, after Pennant mid-March, while daylight saving hours apply. Robert may have an update.

Results of Scroungers 4/9/26
And the Friday night club draw winners.



Played in cold, blustery conditions.
23 bowlers
Winner: Jeff Ryan. 11

Runner Up: Shane Manley. 7
Rink Winners: Frank Palanca, Chris Smith, Mick Storey, Geoff Allan
Mystery Spot Prize: Lisa Meade

Here are the draws for our Midweek pennant teams.

It’s getting close. Here are the draws for the Saturday Pennant season.

A remind that our first inter-club practise match is on this Sunday, September 6th. We will kick off at 1:00 pm and will have a sausage sizzle and a chance to have meet the coach.

Go Diggers.

Friday Scroungers winners and draw winners hosted by the BMS club.
Scroungers results:
28 bowlers
Winner - Chris Smith
Runner Up - Di Palanca
Rink Winners - Barry Harris, Frank Palanca, Cam Bryce, Al Kincaid
Spot Winner. And new member, Sue Carr.
Photos are the draw winners on our regular Friday night at the club.

Friday, the BMS Bowls club extended their appreciation to Western Ag Company by letting them use our spacious new clubrooms for a corporate function. The BMS facilities have been touted as an excellent location for holding events such as these in the middle of our city. Not only having new bar and kitchen facilities, the club also allows guests to partake in a barefoot bowls. They are guided by our bowlers on how to deliver a bowl sufficient for them to enjoy the experience.
Founded in April 2005, Western Ag is headquartered in Derrinallum, approximately 90 km southwest of Ballarat, they have branches in Bannockburn, Ballarat, Willaura, Hamilton, Kyneton, Benalla, Goroke, Nhill, Horsham, Kaniva, Bordertown, Naracoorte, Millicent, Huntly, and Seymour.
Western AG is a leading independent provider of agronomic advice and farm production inputs, operating across 16 locations in the Western District, North East Victoria, the Wimmera, and South East South Australia.
The BMS club welcomes any association, business or sporting club to make enquiries about your function or events by phoning our club (number on this page) and come experience the hospitality and congenial atmosphere of our club, then enjoy the fun of some barefoot bowls.

Yesterday afternoon’s game for the BMS Ladies Pairs championships was between Shreya Miterani and Di Hampson. The runners-up were Lynette Bryce and Annette Daniels.
Well done to all our indoor bowlers who made themselves available to compete in this season’s competition.
Our appreciation, as always, goes to Jeff Ryan, who organises and prepares things to make our Club’s indoor bowls possible, with the help of his band of hearty volunteers. Well done everybody. Cheers, Anthony McCabe, Club secretary.

Three BMS Players Picked to Represent Victoria

What an achievement! Three BMS players, all from the one club, have been selected to represent Victoria at the Australian Indoor Bowls Championships.

It may just be that BMS Ballarat is the only club to produce this calibre of players!

Veteran competitor and BMS Ladies’ Lawn Bowls Club Champion Michelle Tait, junior player Yuvi Miterani, and his mother Shreya Miterani will proudly pull on the Victorian colours when the championships get underway at Blacktown, New South Wales, on Tuesday, August 24.

Michelle will be making her seventh appearance at the Nationals, competing in the Fours. Yuvi, in his second year at the championships, will compete in the Juniors, while Shreya will also make her debut, playing in the Ladies’ Fours.

Michelle knows only too well what lies ahead. Playing two games a day over five days is an arduous task, but she believes the three BMS representatives are up to the challenge.

Michelle is certainly no stranger to championship success, having already collected one Gold in the Ladies’ Fours, two Gold medals in Mixed Fours and a Bronze in Mixed Fours.

For Shreya, however, this will be her maiden voyage at the Nationals, making an achievement for a mother and son selected even more special.

The BMS members wish Michelle, Yuvi and Shreya all the very best. We know they will give it everything for themselves and for Victoria—and, of course, they’ll be flying the BMS colours with pride.

Go Diggers!

The Training Season Begins

The time has arrived at BMS Bowls Club, with President Paddy Kennedy announcing the start of our 2026–27 training season. Thursday 20-8-26

Our newly appointed Director of Coaching, Andrew Cullen, looks forward to meeting the members and, no doubt, seeing just what sort of players we have at BMS!

Everyone is asked to be at the club green by 4.30 pm to get a head start, with Andrew joining us at 5.00 pm after finishing work.

We hope to see a great roll-up to give Andrew a real BMS welcome and get the new training season off to a great start!