BULLI Gold will be hunting arch-rivals Austinmer Blue when the Warilla Bowls Surf Boat Series resumes with today's third round at Port Kembla.

NELSON Bay have gone with the experienced Rex Johnston as their marquee player for the Invitation Big Bowls Challenge elimination semi-final against Kurri Kurri at Kurri tomorrow night.

EXPERIENCE trumped enthusiasm when Shane Garvey's team defeated a side skipped by Geoff McGillivray in the South Pacific Bowls carnival fours final yesterday.

MATT Sargeant and John Green would have been partying like it was 1999 last night, after surviving a bloody day on the green at the South Pacific Bowls Carnival by a whisker.

THREE-TIME player-of-the-carnival Troy Somerville didn't break three years of self-imposed South Pacific Bowls Carnival exile to leave the tournament empty-handed.