Ray Dennison has been named the A-grade bowls singles winner for the Moree Services Bowling Club.
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It's the eighth time Dennison has been crowned the singles winner since 2000, to go along with five A-grade pairs titles and four A-grade triples titles.
It's an impressive list of accolades but Dennison is more focused on supporting the club and continuing to grow the game.
"Even though I've won singles that many times, we've still got a lot of new bowlers coming along," he said.
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This year, the club had a Pennant No 6 team make it through to the state competition, and while they may not have got the results they'd hoped for, Dennison knows the experience will be extremely valuable.
"There's a lot of bowlers that would have benefited from that experience going away playing against teams from all over NSW," he said.
"That's where I think our club will grow, from players like that participating and picking up experience.
"Experience is one of the big things, if you haven't got that experience you get a lot of anxiety, a lot of things which end up going wrong down there."
Dennison has been a part of the club for more than 30 years, is a past president and has also been a national umpire for around 25 years.
One of the highlights of his career was back in 2016, when he was part of the No 4 Pennant team that finished runners-up at the state competition.
He says they were beaten by a "stacked side" but was still very proud of that achievement.
Dennison's main goal now is to continue to encourage more people to come along and increase numbers in the club.
The Moree Services Bowling Club will celebrate their presentation this Saturday, December 14.
