IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ! CLOSURE OF BALAIA BOWLING GREENTHE BOWLING GREEN AT BALAIA IS PERMANENTLY CLOSED
THE CLUB RELOCATED TO
VALVERDE BC NEAR ALMANCIL AND SHARES WITH THEM |
Balaia Bowls Club Competitions 2024 - 2025
Our club competitions will very soon be under way. As last
season, there will be mixed pairs, men's pairs and a one day
singles competition with short format games. |
Bowls Algarve Winter League 2024 - 2025Fixtures for the Saturday League and Super Ten's are
available here. |
Bowls Algarve Summer League Cup 2024
The summer League is now concluded. We finished bottom,
despite valiant efforts. |
FUNDRAISING AND CHARITIES |
The club has entered the Bowls Algarve League for the winter 2024
- 2025 season. Those games will mostly be played on SATURDAY
mornings. It's a long season of twenty matches. We have also
entered a team in the Super 10's competition, which will mostly be
played on Thursdays during January and February 2025. That will be
a further eight competitive matches. This will allow as many
members as we can fit in to play at least one competitive match
each week. For those who don't know, the Super 10's consists of
matches home and away against the other member clubs. The format
is two pairs and two triples. That needs ten players. Which is why
is is called Super 10's. League fixtures and in time the results here.
It was agreed at a meeting between the two committees that
playing fees for Balaia Bowls Club members will, with immediate
effect, fall into line with those paid by members of Valverde BC.
Pay as you go - €85 a year plus €8 per game. Three months,
including all match fees, €175; six months €270; Annual €420.
VISITORS to the club will pay €12 per match. All payments MUST be
in cash, on the day.
Memberships will have the added benefit to Balaia members of membership of Valverde BC with all rights and privileges included. As a Valverde member, you will be eligible to enter their competitions.
Picture taken April 8th - click or tap to see full size
These pictures were taken this morning, before the
Committee Meeting. It's a public holiday today, so no-one was
working. I was able to get a better look than before. It is clear
now that what is being built between the green and the big white
wall of the building behind is a turning circle for cars and a
little lay-by for perhaps two or three parking spaces. A fire
hydrant has appeared on one corner of the green where the water
pumping mechanism once stood. This work has cut away another
corner of the green, which was not expected. That whole work area
is very close to what would be the edge of the green. The trench
along the side has been filled, but there are all sorts of pipes
and cables laying around. The good news is that the grass is still
being cut - you will see the mower in a couple of the
pictures. Elsewhere, construction of the roads on either
side of the driving range continues.
To see a larger version of the pictures, please click
or tap. The situation was discussed in Committee. All members have
been sent the notes of the meeting.
Monday 5th February - Frances and Jill, defending their
title, reached this season's semi final with a 21 - 11 win over
Susan Kinane and Greer Hogg from Floresta.
They were defeated in the semi-final 23- 10 by Nick Gooch and Mark
Richards of Pedras BC.
An excellent gathering, enjoyed by all, at Restaurante O
Lavrador near Boliqueime. A raffle raised €210 for our
charity, the Albufeira Food Bank. Click or tap a picture to see a
larger size.
That concluded our activities for 2023. The bowling season resumes
on 3rd January 2024.
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