 Our end of outdoor season Crazy Bowls event was a great success. The bowls games were different and challenging, but good fun, bowling in an unconventional way and still, mostly, achieving good results. Definitely an event to be repeated. The afternoon was followed by a delivery of delicious fish and chips from Krispies in Exmouth. A nice ending to a successful afternoon. Thank you to Tony Mackness for all his hard work. Congratulations to the winners and runners up who are shown below.  The worthy winners, Paul Griffin, Marilyn Foreman and Tim Bull, with one of our sponsors from Cameron Jones  Second place went to John Sheppard, Brian Ward, Mary Grove and Charley from Cameron Jones  Third Place to Terry Flynn, Ann Vincent and Trevor Davey
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 U3a Winners Bob Norton, Margret Alvarez, Chris Williamson & Chris Woodward  U3a second place. Les Gay, Sue Davies & Ricky Alvarez On Tuesday 17th September, the Exmouth and District u3a Bowls Group played their final Outdoor game of 2024 at Budleigh Bowls Club. The game involved Crazy Bowls, which required skills such as right-handed players having to use their left hand to play the Wood and left-handed players using their right hand. After 2 hours of play in mixed teams, the clear winners were the team of Bob Norton, Margaret Alvarez, Chris Williamson and Chris Woodward. In second place was the team of Les Gay, Ricky Alvarez and Sue Davies.
The Exmouth and District u3a Bowls Group was established in 2022 and play at Budleigh Bowls Club each Tuesday at 10.30am and 2.00pm. More than 80 u3a members have had a trial session and each week up to 50 u3a bowlers travel to Budleigh to play friendly yet competitive games U3a is a national charity, and the Exmouth & District branch is one of the largest branches with around 1200 Members. The u3a motto is Live, Laugh, Learn and the Exmouth branch offers nearly 100 activities that include sports such as bowls and golf, arts and crafts, languages, book clubs, pub visits and many more. Further information can be found on the website https://exmouthu3a.online  Ladies 4 Wood Championship winner Penny Weeks, runner up Melissa Camp The Internal Outdoor competitions have now concluded with an action packed Finals Weekend which took place on 13th, 14th and 15th September. The weather was very favourable following a terrible previous week. Andy Skudder and Marilyn Foreman did a wonderful job organising the event although they claim they did not arrange the great weather.  Men’s 4 wood Championship winner Andrew Cardy, runner up Paul Griffiths  Open 4 Wood winner Norman Upchurch, runner up Evelyn Crook  Ladies 2 Wood winner Rosemary Carter, runner up Melissa Camp  Men’s 2 Wood winner Mike James, runner up Ted Shanahan  Ladies 106 winner Rosemary Carter, runner up Penny Weeks  Novice Cup winner Ted Shanahan, runner up Les Gay  Open Pairs winners Peter Cooper and Mike James, runners up Ted Shanahan and Margaret Ringsell  Men’s Pairs winners Peter Foreman and Simon Griffiths  It was great to have Madeira visit us on what will be our penultimate friendly match of the outdoor season. On an unexpectedly lovely day the Madeira team were great company and went away with a decisive victory. We look forward to meeting again outdoors next year.
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