KBC Kaikorai Bowling Club

To all club members:

Get amongst a fantastic cause and register for this years KITTYHAWK fours!
Everything required to enter is on the wee flier!

A special mention to Mitchell Scott and Jacob Potiki-Tagg who currently kickstart their U26 5-a side campaign today in Wellington for Dunedin.
Mitchell will feature as the skip for both The pairs and the fours, where Jacob featuring as Lead for the triples and fours.

Go well lads, with your team we’re sure you’ll go well!!

Will try update as much as we can!

Congratulations and all the best to our club members Cameron McKean and Jacob Potiki-Tagg for being selected in the prestigious U26 national singles being played October 2nd-4th!!

📣 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗟𝗜𝗩𝗜𝗡𝗚 𝗛𝗢𝗨𝗦𝗘 𝗕𝗨𝗥𝗡𝗦𝗜𝗗𝗘 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗨𝟮𝟲 𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗘𝗦 𝗙𝗜𝗘𝗟𝗗 𝗔𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗘𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧

A weekend of bowls for the Kaikorai members in a couple of competitions.

First off, Nigel Birkbeck and Jonty Horwell were up in Hastings competing in the Champ of Champ men’s pairs. Unfortunately the lads were unlucky and didn’t manage to qualify. A very good effort making it to the competition though!

PBA:
Kaikorai had a number of participants competing, where we have three quarter finalists set to play at 8:30am tomorrow morning!

Cailan Thompson started an impressive run beating Methven’s Jeff Nowell in a thrilling tie breaker before dispatching Wakari’s Tane Loper. He will now face Kylie Johnson of Brighton tomorrow!

Jacob Potiki-Tagg won in straight sets against Brightons John Knapp, where he then had a nail biter of a tie breaker win against stadiums Paul King. He is now faced with playing Stadium counterpart and ex club man Joko Susilo, who earlier knocked newer club member Nigel Thompson out of competition.

Cameron McKean had a default in his first round where he then went into a tiebreaker win against Graeme Jeffrey of Omakau/Stadium. He will now face St Clair’s Marty Kreft.

Nigel Thompson and Russell Dawe registered a win in their first rounds but couldn’t quite get over the line in their next matches. Really good effort lads!

Johnnie Potiki featured in a first round match up against clubman Russell Dawe, sending it to a tiebreak but falling just short!

A really good showing over the week for Kaikorai members and still more to come! Can another Kaikorai member cement themselves into PBA finals weekend? Maybe! Come find out with quarters kicking off at 8:30am. Go KBC!!🖤💙

GEOFF DOES IT AGAIN!
Geoff Wilson has successfully beaten St Clair’s Marty Kreft in the final of the PBA Scottish singles.
Being a returning player and winning two of the three events is no easy feat. Congratulations Geoff, a force to be reckoned with for the final PBA event due in August.

PBA Weekend:

Kaikorai had a number of participants for the PBA Scottish singles this weekend.
Kane Matheson, Jacob Potiki-Tagg, Carol Dick and Cailan Thompson all unfortunately went down in their first round matches.

Russell Dawe advanced to the next round but lost out in a closely contested tie-breaker ending his run.

However, Kaikorai has two standing participants into the quarter finals. Geoff Wilson will play Jeff Nowell and Cameron McKean is set to play Jason Wheal.
All happening with an 8:30am kick off. Can Geoff go back to back or can Cameron go all the way?, come and find out!

Congratulations and all the best to:
Jacob Potiki-Tagg
Mitchell Scott

These two lads will be heading away battling it out against other centres for national glory.

Our Kaikorai youth were part of the winning Dunedin team that faced Canterbury over the weekend. Winning 9 Games to Canterburys 4. Every game was played in great spirits and Dunedins loses were all within the 1-3 scoring range.

Jacob Potiki-Tagg: Singles Win, Triples (L) Win, Pairs (L) Win
Cailan Thompson: Fours (L) Win, Triples (L) Win, Pairs (L) Win
Mitchell Scott: Fours (S) Close loss, Triples (S) Win, Pairs (S) Another close loss
Cameron McKean: Fours (Three) Close loss, Triples (S) Win, Pairs (S) Win

Overall, our Kaikorai lads all represented themselves well showing their own class in some tightly competed games. Well done on the overall win!

Jacob Potiki-Tagg living it up in the Australian open!

Jacob has done himself and club proud over in Australia, within the U18 boys competition.

Jacob qualified for post-section, being second packed in his section with 2 wins and a +31 differential.

Jacob was faced with the only fellow kiwi in the round of 16, Harry Hamlyn, where unfortunately it wasn’t Jacob’s day.

Still an incredible feat in a very strong field. Well done Jacob!

ALL CLUB MEMBERS:

Kaikorai bowling club will be hosting our AGM on June 28th, starting at 2pm.
This your chance to see how the club will look for the 26/27 season regarding Club committee roles and selectors.
Feel free to come along and have your say!
It is also a chance for newer members to come and see the faces around our club!

Thanks,
KBC