WELCOME TO THE NORTHEAST DIVISION OF BOWLS USAStretched from New England to Southern Virginia and out to Western Pennsylvania the Northeast Division is the birthplace of lawn bowls in the United States of America.
In the early 1900's the American Lawn Bowls Association was formed in Buffalo, NY and continues today as BOWLS USA with clubs spanning from coast to coast. Our division is a very active one with tournaments nearly every other week during the summer as well as an annual week-long open tournament with potential visitors from all over the globe. The Northeast Division supports a strong local club base and encourages clubs to join and spread their wings to other clubs and more competition. We support clubs who foster strong camaraderie, league play and social events throughout the year and who seek to promote and grow the sport for future generations to enjoy. The Northeast division has a long tradition of excellence with several national champions and even a world champion in its past and current membership. All the clubs welcome guests who want to try out this sport and joining is easy. Contact us today and we'll get you started in a game that you can play and enjoy for a lifetime. It is a great family game with husbands and wives playing at the same time with their children. It is not unheard of to have three generations all playing on the same green. We all have witnessed 12 year olds competing against 80 year olds, grandfathers against grand-daughter and brothers teaming up for 2 and 3 decades. It is truly a sport one can play and compete at a high level for many many years. The most common phrase we hear from new members who came to the game in retirement is, "I wish I knew about this game before!" Come give it a try! Click on image below to find your nearest club....
Photo courtesy from Tee Adams
We belong and so do you!
Rule Book of Bowls
Download the laws of the sport of bowls here! LAWN BOWLING BASICSThe video below was created by Charlie Hebert, who is an avid bowler and champion with an extreme interest in promoting lawn bowls. Thanks Charlie from your friends in the Northeast!
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President's Message
The 2017 NED lawn bowling season has now been in full swing. We have completed 3 of our NED Tournaments with 2 more to go and completed our Pairs and Singles Playdowns. We are very proud of all of our winners (see results below) and cannot wait to see how they represent us in the National Championships in California later this year in October! Our NED Open is coming up on the last week in Aug (Aug 26 to 31), which is being hosted at two beautiful venues in the Poconos, Skytop and Buck Hill Falls. We are looking forward to seeing folks from all over the country attending this mixed open event of Triples, Pairs and Singles. As I mentioned in my last President's message, one of my goals for my term was to increase membership and awareness of our underrated sport. Since the beginning of this year, we have formed 3 different committees: 1) Marketing, 2) Recruitment of clubs, 3) Coaching/Clinics, to work on these goals. We now have some exciting news to share: - One of our previous NED clubs, Sunrise Lawn Bowling Club located in Eisenhower Park in Long Island, NY, has recently come back into our division again. We are committed to assisting this club in getting their greens up to standard so they can host future NED Tournaments, market the sport in their area and assist them with any clinics for their club members to be more active competitively. - We recently hosted a bowls clinic before one of our NED tournaments c/o Eileen Luba & Patrick Duffy, both official Bowls USA coaches. We wanted to educate and provide our members with a refresher course on the etiquette, rules and strategy of the game. We plan to have future clinics depending on the needs of each club, prior to an upcoming NED tournament. - Membership of the Northeast Division has increased by +14% from last year with various initiatives of the clubs to increase membership. We want to keep this momentum for next year and will target for a 20% increase. If anyone has any additional questions, thoughts or ideas, please feel free to email us at nedbowls@gmail.com. We welcome any feedback or participation in our division to make us better. Sincerely, Veronica Sum NED President July 2017 HALL OF FAMERS
There is a rich tradition of excellence in the Northeast division. Click here to see our Hall of Fame and read a little about some of our members who have achieved National recognition. We have inducted the following bowlers in our NED Hall of Fame for 2017:
Colin Smith, Essex County LBC In Memoriam: Ron Buck, Dupont LBC Lois Saladin, Frick Park LBC |
NED TOURNAMENT NEWS
2017 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP UPDATE: LADIES' PAIRS REPRESENTATIVES
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As of 9/19/17, the runner-up team of Veronica Sum and Frances Shen of Essex County LBC will now be representing the NED in the Ladies' Pairs at the National Championships at the end of the month, for Doreen Alexander and Eileen Luba of Frick Park. Eileen has made a tough decision to pull-out of the Championships due to some health issues. We wish the best for Eileen for a speedy recovery and a strong comeback!
Good luck to all the NED representatives at the upcoming Championships... Dates: Tues, Oct 3 to Fri, 6, 2017 Location: Newport Harbor Lawn Bowling Club, Newport Beach, CA
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2017 Ladies' Pairs Runner-ups (l to r): Veronica Sum and Frances Shen of Essex County LBC
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2017 NED OPEN...IN THE NEWS
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During our 2017 Northeast Division Open from August 26 to 31, 2017, we received some great local news coverage in both print and TV about our sport on two of our beautiful venues in the Poconos, Skytop and Buck Hill Falls. On our last day of the NED Open singles at Skytop, Veronica Sum, NED President and Colin Smith, NED Tournament Director and VP, were interviewed by the largest news channel in the Poconos...very cool!
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UPCOMING NED TOURNAMENTS
2017 Tournament Schedule Available now! Click here...
**We held our last NED of 2017 - HALL OF FAME TRIPLES at Essex County Lawn Bowling Club in Bloomfield, NJ on Sept 9 & 10, 2017 **
SEE YOU ALL NEXT YEAR!
2017 NED TOURNAMENT RESULTS
2017 HALL OF FAME (HOF) - ESSEX COUNTY LAWN BOWLING CLUB, BLOOMFIELD, NJ
September 9 & 10, 2017
Congratulations to the team of Patrick Duffy of ECLBC, Duncan Farrell of ECLBC and Yatish Uchil of NYLBC, who went undefeated ( 5-0 ) in the 2017 Hall of Fame Triples.
There was a 3 team playoff of 8 ends for 2nd and 3rd for teams that finished 3-2. In the first game the team of Sam Johnson, Veronica Sum and Frances Shen defeated Maurice LaFond, Scott Snyder and Robin Goldman, both teams representing ECLBC. In the final game we had some real excitement as Sam's team came back from a 13-3 deficit after 5 ends to fall short 15-14 after 8 ends to the team of Ed Last, Alex Last and Michele Arculli, all from ECLBC.
2nd Place: Ed Last, Alex Last and Michele Arculli/Skip Arculli
3rd Place: Sam Johnson, Veronica Sum and Frances Shen
Congratulations to our winners and all that participated.
There was a 3 team playoff of 8 ends for 2nd and 3rd for teams that finished 3-2. In the first game the team of Sam Johnson, Veronica Sum and Frances Shen defeated Maurice LaFond, Scott Snyder and Robin Goldman, both teams representing ECLBC. In the final game we had some real excitement as Sam's team came back from a 13-3 deficit after 5 ends to fall short 15-14 after 8 ends to the team of Ed Last, Alex Last and Michele Arculli, all from ECLBC.
2nd Place: Ed Last, Alex Last and Michele Arculli/Skip Arculli
3rd Place: Sam Johnson, Veronica Sum and Frances Shen
Congratulations to our winners and all that participated.
2017 NED OPEN - SKYTOP AND BUCK HILL FALLS IN POCONOS, PA
August 26 & 31, 2017
2017 NED OPEN TRIPLES RESULTS:
Congratulations to the 2017 NED Open Triples winners: Frances Shen, Veronica Sum and Scott Snyder of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club (ECLBC) against Susan Berg of Williamsburg, Sven D. Berg of Williamsburg and Sam Johnson, who were both undefeated with a 5-0 record going into the final playoffs. It was an exciting and very close final. Playoffs for 3rd and 4th were played between two teams with a 4-1 record. Bob Patterson of ECLBC, Patrick Duffy of ECLBC and Jurgen Fessler of Canada defeated Russ Sheldon, Jeri Spann and Gary Mosso of Frick Park.
Congratulations to the 2017 NED Open Triples winners: Frances Shen, Veronica Sum and Scott Snyder of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club (ECLBC) against Susan Berg of Williamsburg, Sven D. Berg of Williamsburg and Sam Johnson, who were both undefeated with a 5-0 record going into the final playoffs. It was an exciting and very close final. Playoffs for 3rd and 4th were played between two teams with a 4-1 record. Bob Patterson of ECLBC, Patrick Duffy of ECLBC and Jurgen Fessler of Canada defeated Russ Sheldon, Jeri Spann and Gary Mosso of Frick Park.
2017 NED OPEN PAIRS RESULTS:
Congratulations to Bob Patterson and Patrick Duffy of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club, who defeated Frances Shen and Maurice Lafond of Essex, as both teams had to play a final playoff since both teams were undefeated with a 5-0 record. 3rd place went to Robert Behncke of Milwaukee, WI and Jurgen Fessler of Canada and 4th place went to Tony DeCarolis and Wick Hall of Frick Park.
This is Frances' second consecutive placement in the NED Open with her 1st place win in Triples and her 2nd place win in Pairs! Awesome accomplishment!
Congratulations to Bob Patterson and Patrick Duffy of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club, who defeated Frances Shen and Maurice Lafond of Essex, as both teams had to play a final playoff since both teams were undefeated with a 5-0 record. 3rd place went to Robert Behncke of Milwaukee, WI and Jurgen Fessler of Canada and 4th place went to Tony DeCarolis and Wick Hall of Frick Park.
This is Frances' second consecutive placement in the NED Open with her 1st place win in Triples and her 2nd place win in Pairs! Awesome accomplishment!
2017 NED OPEN SINGLES RESULTS:
Congratulations to Derek McKie of Canada, who won our NED Open Singles today at Skytop in PA with a 6-0 record. Derek has only been bowling for 2 years and searched for a tournament he could play in the US. We are pleased he and others from the Midwest and Florida participated in our tournament.
There were five players with 5-1 records that had playoffs with eliminations.
2nd place: Ruble Hastu of New York Lawn Bowling Club
3rd place: Yatish Uchil of New York Lawn Bowling Club
4th place: Colin Smith of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club
Thank you again to Buck Hill and Skytop for hosting such a great tournament and all of their hospitality! We look forward to having the 2018 NED Open back there again!
Congratulations to Derek McKie of Canada, who won our NED Open Singles today at Skytop in PA with a 6-0 record. Derek has only been bowling for 2 years and searched for a tournament he could play in the US. We are pleased he and others from the Midwest and Florida participated in our tournament.
There were five players with 5-1 records that had playoffs with eliminations.
2nd place: Ruble Hastu of New York Lawn Bowling Club
3rd place: Yatish Uchil of New York Lawn Bowling Club
4th place: Colin Smith of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club
Thank you again to Buck Hill and Skytop for hosting such a great tournament and all of their hospitality! We look forward to having the 2018 NED Open back there again!
2017 FIRST ANNUAL SALADIN PAIRS - FRICK PARK LAWN BOWLING CLUB IN PITTSBURGH, PA
August 12 & 13, 2017
Congratulations to Veronica Sum and Dick Sayer of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club on winning the 1st Annual Lois Saladin Pairs. There were 15 teams that showed up to play and remember Lois in Pittsburgh on Aug 12-13. Veronica and Dick finished undefeated with 5-0 wins. Three teams finished with 4-1 records, which required playoffs. Joe Kelly and Ryan Hastu of New York Lawn Bowling Club defeated Alex Last and Patrick Duffy of Essex County Lawn Bowling Club, who had previously defeated Russ Sheldon and Jeri Spann of Frick Park.
Thanks to all the came out for the day and to Frick Park for hosting.
Results:
1st : Veronica Sum & Dick Sayer
2nd : Joe Kelly & Ryan Hastu
3rd : Alex Last & Patrick Duffy
4th: Russ Sheldon & Jeri Spann
Thanks to all the came out for the day and to Frick Park for hosting.
Results:
1st : Veronica Sum & Dick Sayer
2nd : Joe Kelly & Ryan Hastu
3rd : Alex Last & Patrick Duffy
4th: Russ Sheldon & Jeri Spann
2017 DREVITCH PAIRS - NEW YORK LAWN BOWLING CLUB (NYLBC) IN CENTRAL PARK, NY
July 22, 2017 (one day tournament)
Congratulations to Maurice Lafond & Jerry Demello of Essex Lawn Bowling Club (ECLBC), on winning the Drevitch Pairs which was re-scheduled to a 1-day event with 4 games due to the weather forecast. They were undefeated and had the best plus points with 34.
In Second place were Ryan Hastu and Joe Kelly of NYLBC, also undefeated but with lower plus points.
Third place went to Patrick Duffy and Alan Winson of ECLBC with three wins and a tie with Les Winter & Yatish Uchil with the best plus points from the three wins.
Thanks to NYLBC for hosting and all who played.
In Second place were Ryan Hastu and Joe Kelly of NYLBC, also undefeated but with lower plus points.
Third place went to Patrick Duffy and Alan Winson of ECLBC with three wins and a tie with Les Winter & Yatish Uchil with the best plus points from the three wins.
Thanks to NYLBC for hosting and all who played.
FOR ALL OTHER 2017 TOURNAMENT RESULTS FROM MAY, CLICK HERE.
FOR ALL OF 2016 TOURNAMENT RESULTS, CLICK HERE.
IN OTHER NEWS....
Check out some videos of the Finals at the 2016 World Bowls with some of the greatest bowlers around the world!
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Institution of new fliers and business cards for use at some clubs in 2014...
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We developed a new promotional flier and business card that will hopefully help spread a positive awareness of our sport around the communities that have bowling greens. This is our first new step towards working with clubs to build membership.
The fliers are tri-fold and are meant to be used in combination with the business card with each club's contact. Currently, Frick Park, Essex and Fernliegh LBCs have been issued cards and we will work to get more clubs involved.
You can click on each individual image on the bottom to enlarge.
The fliers are tri-fold and are meant to be used in combination with the business card with each club's contact. Currently, Frick Park, Essex and Fernliegh LBCs have been issued cards and we will work to get more clubs involved.
You can click on each individual image on the bottom to enlarge.