Milwaukee Lake Park Lawn Bowling Club
Milwaukee Lawn Bowling
The 2013 Potlicker is in the record books. Congratulations to the pairs team of Bob Schneider and Rob Behncke for winning the annual two day tournament! Six teams competed in this year’s tournament that was held June 8-9. Amazingly, the tournament ended in a three way tie for second place for teams Anna Witt / Paul Legwinski, Max Cavender / Joe Zinna, and Jim Cavender / Carl Landgren. Also competing were teams Steve Nelson / Rebecca Nguyen and Leif Andresen / Jim Grzybowski / Dat Nguyen. Special thanks to tournament director Leif Andresen for coordinating this annual special event.MLPLBA hosted the William D. Reed Club Triples Tournament on Saturday, June 21. Twelve players participated. Mindful of the win and plus points they would need to achieve in their final game, the team of Max Cavender, Anna Witt, and Matt de St. Aubin just managed to pull ahead of Carl Landgren, Jim Grzybowski, and Jacob Blundon…
This club tournament was inspired by the veteran novice pairs tournament played at Jefferson Park in Seattle, WA and we started playing our own version in 2011, typically with two matches in the morning and two matches in the afternoon. The Veteran Novice Pairs Tournament teams veterans with more than three years of lawn bowling…
The Otto Hess men’s triples tournament was started in 1963 by the Milwaukee Lawn Bowling Association. And the Sydney Steller women’s triples tournament was started in 1971 by Sydney Steller of the Lake Park Ladies Auxiliary. To maintain a competitive spirit, triples teams are limited to a maximum of two “skip-experienced” participants and must include…
Four Milwaukee Lake Park bowlers met in Orange County, California from September 8-14 to compete in the 94th US Open Tournament of Lawn Bowling. Bob Schneider successfully fought his way through an international field of 64 teams over three days of competition and emerged from the Grand Championships on Friday, after a very close game,…
Milwaukee bowlers competed in the club’s 2012 Singles Tournament Saturday August 11th. Congratulations to tournament winners (pictured left to right) 3rd place – Lorraine Gebert, 1st place – Carl Landgren, 2nd place – Pat Wimmer. Also picture Glorianne Mather. Pat Wimmer lead for the majority of the game against Carl Landgren and went on to…
MLPLBA members are welcome to bowl in the Open Tournaments of the seven Divisions of Bowls USA. Several of our members took advantage of this opportunity to play in the South Central Open, February 7-12, 2015, in Sun City and Sun City West, AZ Southeast Open, March 7-12, 2015 in Sun City and Sarasota, FL Southwest…