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​A Note About Photos: The photos here have been saved lower resolution to speed up process time. If you'd like a copy of any photo, email us at oakmontlawnbowling@gmail.com and, if we have it, we'll send you a higher-resolution picture.

December 2 Holiday Awards and Gala

We still aren't back up to our pre-Covid attendance figures, but we had a good turn-out and a wonderful party. The evening began with music and mingling while the gifts were wrapped. Then a good selection of pasta and salads. Tables were decorated by our social committee and one lucky member received a free year's membership. After dinner, Jim Krause and Steve Pickell gave out the tournament awards. Then Jerry announced the volunteer of the year. Looked like almost everyone stayed to clean up after. What a wonderful group!

And now, thank you's. I KNOW I've missed people. Just let me know and I'll get this right.

Our social committee is stupendous, wonderful and fantastic. Thanks to Pam Dempsey, Linda Pickell, and Marilyn McKeever for doing so much to make this happen. Thanks to Jeana Garcia for the slide show with the best of the best photos from 2022. Thanks to Pam, Linda, Marilyn, Jeana and Mary Blake for making the gift tree happen. Thanks to the sea of volunteer gift wrappers who took our gifts and made them look beautiful. Wrappers included: Diane and Kirk Vandagriff, Linda Goodwin, Liliane Rains, Marilyn and Jerry Garland, Diane Ethier, Steve Wallace, Janet Johnson, and John Jay. AND virtual hugs and kisses to all of you bowlers who bought gifts.

Thanks to Bonnie Johnston and ​Marilyn McKeever for greeting us as we came in the door and to Greg Goodwin for serenading us as we settled in. Thanks to Steve Pickell for overseeing trophy distribution. Thanks to Jim Krause for emceeing (and sneaking into almost every picture and taking a good number of awards). 

​Here are the photos:

November 22 Thanksgiving

We had a beautiful day for our tournament. 18 bowlers, 3 rinks, 3 winning teams. Steve P and Pam D mixed things up quite a bit by having us throw 2 jacks. We didn't center them. We then scored each jack as though it was on it's own. That means that a bowl that was close to both jacks could be counted twice. In one case, the jacks were close enough that the 4 bowls closest to one were also closest to the other, giving the team 8 points. And the opposite could also happen, where one team had 3 bowls on one jack and the other had 3 bowls on the other jack, so they canceled each other out (OK, yes, you had to be there to understand). What was interesting to me was having so many non-centered jacks. It was greet training for fine-tuning your bowling. And, of course, a bit frustrating, too.

But I was bowling I didn't do a great job of taking photos so here's what I got:

October 28 Halloween

Thanks to Diane and Linda P for the photos!

September 27 Novice Singles


End-of-Summer BBQ

Thanks to Pam Marsh for these BRILLIANT photos!

August 23 Women's Singles


July 26 Open Triples Tournament

Teams were:
Kevin, Marilyn and Rob vs. Denise, Janet and Mary
Steve, Jodi and Steve vs. Jerry, Bonnie and JB
Jim, Mark and Liliane vs. Francis, Ande and Linda

July 12 Women's Triples Tournament


2022 Independence Day Tournament

Steve P and Pam crafted a very interesting tournament. We played 3 4-end games and changed rink and position between each game. 

We had 24 players making 8 3-person teams. The winners were the 4 teams who earned the most points in the 3 games.
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  • Mark, Marilyn G, and John took first with 16 points
  • Steve P, Steve W, and Diane and  Jerry G, Linda P, and Gerry M tied for 2nd with 14 points
  • Richard, James and Jim B won 3rd with 13 points

2022 Vet/novice Tournament

From our substitute reporter Jodi: Jim K and Richard are this year's Vet/Novice champs. Final score was lopsided, but the first half of the game was very close. Half dozen plus in the viewing gallery for the match.  (Photo by Jodi.)
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2022 Sonoma Wine Country Games


May 17 Open Pairs Tournament


May 4 Women's Pairs Tournament


May 3rd BBQ


St. Patrick's Day Tournament

A beautiful day and 24 players. Denise's team came in first place.

President's Day, February 21, 2022

Our first tournament of 2022 had 24 bowlers spread out over 4 rinks. It was very cold and very windy. I suspect a few knees were knocking out there. We also had our first spider of the year.

September 13, 2021, Open Singles

A beautiful day, 16 bowlers, 8 rinks!

September 4, 2021, Labor Day Fun Game


August 18, 2021 Women's Singles


August 10, 2021 Men's Singles

We had 8 men this year. Steve, Jim K, Tom and Francis were the winners in the first round. Jim K probably thought he was lucky to face a very new bowler, but Richard bowled very well and gave Jim a true battle - which was just a taste of things to come. Jim faced Steve in the semi-finals, winning by 2 points in the 21st end. Then Jim faced Tom and, again, won in the 21st end. 

August 2, 2021, Open Triples

Semi-finals were cold and gray and then smoky. Final winners were Tom's team: Tom, Marilyn and Liliane.

July 26 Demo Day

It's been much too long since our last Demo Day. This time, at least 22 people showed up to learn about the game and 18 have signed up for lessons. Thanks to everyone who came out and helped make this event so successful. Special thanks to Tony and Mark for organizing.

July 21 Women's Triples

 We had 4 teams, 3 women in each team. First round winners were Marilyn, playing with Pam and Ande and Jeannette, playing with Janet and Liliane. Final winners were Marilyn's team. Thanks to Jodi and Jeana for photos.

July 20 After 5 BBQ

Great food and a wonderful turn-out. Who could ask for anything more?

July 14 Men's Pairs Tournament

First round winners were (1) Jim K with Paul, (2) Jerry with Rob, and (3) Phil with Mark. Jerry's team will face Phil's some time after July 21. The winner of that round will face Jim K and Paul. Thanks to Jodi and Jeana for photos!

July 5, Independence Day Fun Game

Thanks to Mary and Jeana for photos.

June 24, 2021 Vet/Novice Pairs

Plans change and I missed the semi-final match between Bonnie and Marilyn (Bonnie's team were the winners). And we don't yet have a date for the finals match. But here are some photos from the semi-final match between Jim and Tom (Tom's team won). 

June 16, 2021 Open Pairs

The photos here show each bowler with their opposition. So, leads are with their opposing leads, skips with their opposing skips. That's really how we play. In pairs, the skip and lead are like ships passing in the night. The skip might try to give a quick encouraging comment or a fist bump, but your opponent is the one you really get to visit with.

The winning team: Tom and Janet

June 7, 2021 Women's Pairs


May 31, 2021 Memorial Day Tournament


May 17, 2021 Verticutting

It was early on a cold morning when some brave volunteers showed up to help with the verticutting. The result? Better work and OVA saved money!

2019 Holiday Party

Friday, December 6, 2019

2019 Thanksgiving Tournament

Monday, November 25, 2019

2019 Halloween Tournament

After THREE power outages and some voluntary evacuations we rescheduled Halloween for November 8th. The first place team, with the most points, was Jim K, Jeannette and Ted. Second place team, with biggest spread, was Francis, Marilyn and Jim B. Third place team was Jerry, Kathleen and Topher.

Women's Pairs Tournament

May 8, 2019 to November 9, 2019
We had a trip to the fjords, a bad fall, an serious illness and a move to Florida. And yet these women persisted! Final game was played on November 9, 2019. Marilyn and Pam defeated Jeannette and Janet!

Men's Triples

September 24, 2019. Four teams: Teams with skips Jim M and Francis won the first round. Francis and his team won the final round to be champion of the men's triples! ​(Thanks Jeana for taking the photos!)

End of Summer BBQ

September 10. Great food and wonderful company.

Labor Day Tournament

September 5: Bright colors and fun!

Open Singles Tournament

Starting August 30, 2019 until ?????
​Thanks to Mary for photographs

Women's Singles Tournament

Starting August 16, 2019, ending August 31 2019
​Thanks to Mary and Jeana for photographs

Men's Singles Tournament

Starting August 5, 2019, ending August 15, 2019
​Thanks to Mary and Phil for photographs

Open Triples Tournament

July 24, 2019
(Thanks to Jim B and Topher for the photos!)

Women's Triples

 July 8, 2019 - Day ONE


Day TWO: This was an incredibly close match with brilliant bowling on both sides. I was bowling one rink over and kept on hearing oohs and aahs and the spectators (I counted 13 at the end) watched each time out do the other. Finally, the winning team was Denise (skip), Ande (second) and Sue (lead).

Independence Day Tournament

July 4 2019
​OLBC is a truly wonderful group of people. Here's what it's like to get a group photo:
Rest of the photos from the Independence Day Tournament:

Vet/Novice Tournament

June 28, 2019

Open Pairs Tournament

June 12, 2019

June 11 After 5


Sonoma Wine Country Games (aka Senior Games)

June 7 and June 8, 2019

The photos for the Senior Games are in several slide shows, from "Getting Started" to "Awards Ceremony". If you don't see what you're looking for, scroll on down. Also, just email me (Mary) at OakmontLawnBowling@gmail.com if you'd like a full-sized version of one of these photos. I had to make them small for the website, but I have larger versions of every one of these pictures.

Photos here are by Bev Shelhart and Mary Blake.

​Getting started:


Team Photos:


​Group Photos


​The Spider:
Play
Awards Ceremony


​Memorial Day Tournament

May 27, 2019


Men's Pairs

4/25/2019

April Fools' Day Tournament



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