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April 28, 2026

Rugby season kicked off at Lyon Park, Whitianga with a hard-fought match between the Mercury Bay Premiers team and Te Aroha College Old Boys.

Rugby News

Rugby season kicked off at Lyon Park, Whitianga with a hard-fought match between Mercury Bay Premiers team and Te Aroha College Old Boys. The score was 16 to 13 with a win for Whitianga.

Next Sunday is another game at Lyon Park – Mercury Bay versus Waihou.

The Women’s Rugby begins next week with Mercury Bay playing Ngatea in Ngatea.

MERCURY BAY BOWLING AND SPORTS CLUB

The Mercury Bay Bowling and Sports Club played the Patrons Cup on Sunday of ANZAC weekend. The winner was Dale Tegg, 2nd – Wayne Edmonds and 3rd – Nirie Reddy.

MERCURY BAY INDOOR BOWLING CLUB

Thursday, 23 April

Winners: Alan Henderson, Wayne Fisher and Robert Jackson

Runners Up: Ray Rout and Betty Simpson

Good Sports: Cheryl Henderson, Lee Pudney and Pat Fisher

MERCURY BAY CLUB SNOOKER

Wednesday, 21 April

Only 2 players remained undefeated after 3 rounds of section play. In the play-off final, Rob Reilly and Ken Gibson showed good form to take out a comfortable win over Ken Gibson. Brian Codyre and Ian Baumgren achieved 2 wins each.

Saturday, 25 April

Four rounds of games were completed in section play with many frames going down to the final black. The in-form Rob Reilly was the only player to win all 4 of his games to take out the day’s top prize. Ian Baumgren achieved 3 wins and Phil Jones scored the highest break of the day with a well-compiled 25.

Entries are being accepted for the 10 Red Championship until the end of this month.

MERCURY BAY BRIDGE CLUB

April Competition round 4

Wednesday, 22 April

North/South – 1 Giorgio Allemano & Don Barry 58.6; 2 Ischelle Stevenson & Robyn Hogg 55.0; 3 Gavin Hedwig & Pete Hogg 51.8

East/West – 1 Alison Tichbon & Rose Tegg 60.8; 2 Alan Drew & Kate Palmano 55.0; 3 Tadek Gawor & Terri Lipanovic 53.3

Buffalo Pairs round 2

Thursday, 23 April

1 Deidre Stevenson & Tadek Gawor 65.9;2 Terri Lipanovic & Ischelle Stevenson 56.4; 3 Larisa King & Gavin Hedwig 51.6

The Hahei Bridge Club

Results for week 3 of the Purangi Pairs, 21 April

North South – 1st Alison Tichbon and Peter Hogg 65.28%, 2nd Maggie Beattie and Tia Ormsby 51.39%

East West – 1st Robyn Hogg and Don Barry 75.00%, 2nd Carol Henwood and Pam Churchill 56.94%

Mercury Bay Club Darts

20 players this week, so 501 singles were played. Two players went through winning all four sets – Fletcher Bale and Rex Donaldson. A one game final was won buy Rex Donaldson. Highest finish for the night for the men was 123, scored by Beau Hamilton. This was a great effort with a bullseye finish. No finishes over 50 for the ladies. One player scored a 180 this week and that was Steve Martinovich.

MERCURY BAY GOLF CLUB

Tuesday, 21 April

9 Hole Ladies;

Division 1 winners net:

1st Audrey Vickers, 2nd Jenny Leyton & 3rd Christine Godden

Division 2 winner: Bobby Preston.

9 Hole Men Stableford

Winners: Edwin Lyle (17), Gordon Brain (16) & Rodrick Bott (15)

Wednesday, 22 April

18 Hole Women.

Aotearoa Cup: Winner, Karen Johansen

Best Gross Cup: Winner, Rachel Johnstone

Coronation Medal: Winner, Rachel Johnstone

Veterans Trophy: Marg Maher. LGU round 1: Karen Johansen. Scramble: Div 1: Rachel Johnstone. Div 2: Karen Johansen. Congratulations to all winners.

18 Hole Men Scramble Net:

Winners: Wayne Kearney (64), 2nd Rohit Ranchhod (65) and 4 tied on 70, Kevin Wallace, Sam Murphy, Steve “Birthday Boy” Collins & Tony Bartlett.

Two’s: Steve Geach, Dan Ray, Sam Murphy, Cam Walls, and with 2 two’s Mickey “The Brickey” Henderson.

The men’s competition was a hot one, with Rohit Ranchhod shooting a career best 79 and Wayne Kearney having his best round for quite a while, the latter prevailing. Well done lads.

Saturday, 25 April

Mens scramble:

Gross winners: Mark Boe, Senior with 74 and Vern Bahr, Junior with 91.

Net winners: Richard Steel (68) 2nd, Kevin Smith (69) and 3rd Greg Peterken (71)

Twos: Les, Wallbridge, Justin Wilson, Wayne Kearney & Steve Collins

Wednesday, 22 April

We had 27 ladies in the field vying for 5 different competitions. Yet another well-organized outing for our ladies. The day dawned fine & sunny with no wind to speak of, so a great day was had.