Milwaukee Lake Park Lawn Bowling Club
Milwaukee Lawn Bowling
This past weekend Milwaukee bowlers Bob Schneider and Rob Behncke emerged as winners of Men’s Pairs Playdowns and will represent the Central Division in the US National Championships in Arcadia California October 16-20. This annual event is competition amongst bowlers who represent Bowls USA’s seven divisions. Congratulations and best of luck to Bob and Rob.MLPLBA hosted the Butler Blind Pairs tournament on May 24,2014. Twenty bowlers participated on this beautiful Saturday at Lake Park. The championship game came down to the top ranked skip and lead (John Kirkwood and Dave Olsen) vs. the second ranked skip and lead (Rob Behncke and Alice Sedgewick). Kirkwood/Olsen won. Scott Wisniewski (skip) and Jack Britton…
The Otto Hess/Sydney Steller 2-Bowl Triples event was held on Saturday Aug 31st. Congratulations to winners: 1st- Rob Behncke, Tiff Reilly, Steve Sedgwick (pictured above) 2nd- Pat Wimmer, Crandall Hays, Marg Knitter 3rd- John Kirkwood, Alice Sedgwick, Steve Thomas 4th- Jim Grzybowski, Rebecca Nguyen, Dat Nguyen
The Reed Club Triples tournament was held on June 22, 2013. Twelve members participated. First place went to the team of Jack Britton, Norma Harrington, and Viki Olsen. Second place went to the team of Dave Olsen, Renee Harmon, and Margie Knitter. The event was highlighted by distinctly different weather conditions (rain, sun, fluctuating temps) for each…
15 bowlers particpated in the first Veteran/Novice tournament held at Milwaukee Lake Park LBA on Sunday, September 25, 2011. Creative lawn bowling attire was encouraged and some teams got into the spirit by wearing tie-dyed t-shirts, Hawaiian shirts, and Packers jerseys. Format of play was Australian Pairs, making the traditional designation of skip and lead irrelevant. Teams…
Twelve bowlers from the Central Division competed against each other in Singles competition on extremely fast greens Saturday August 6th. Congratulations to Steve Nelson for capturing the Singles Championship. Competitors who placed included: 1st – Steve Nelson 2nd – Leif Andresen 3rd – Glorianne Mather 4th – Tony Case (1st year bowler) 1st Flight– Max…
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…