TAREN Point Bowling Club is building an empire.
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For the third year in succession the club's No. 1 men's pennants team has won the Bowls NSW top grade state title.
In 2013, 2014 and now in 2015, the club has reigned supreme.
And who is to say they cannot make it a fourth state pennants title in 2016.
Club bowls co-ordinator and former Australian player and Commonwealth games medallist Wayne Turley said the club's mantle "the best" is something they are very proud of.
Turley said every player and official takes great pride in the achievement.
Officials Bowls NSW records state that North Sydney claimed the honour in 1934-37, adding to their victories in the A Pennant in 1931-32 and 1932-33 and the A Blue Pennant in 1933-34.
"Taren Point claim the honour of being the only side to have won three successive pennants since the change to the twelve a side (three teams of four players) from sixteen (four teams of four players) in the early 1990s," Turley said.
Taren Point made the "three-peat" recently winning the Bowls NSW No.1 Pennants crown defeating South Lismore 70-53 at Dapto Bowling Club.
The No. 1 pennants players in 2015 are Joel Mitchell, Craig Donaldson, John Green (NSW player, Wayne Turley (Australian player Ali Forsyth (New Zealand player), Chris Green (NSW under-25s player), Simon Lyttle, Reg McCulla (NSW player), David Axon (Welsh international), Cy Threlfall (NSW player), Mike Nagy (New Zealand international), Steve Garry and team manager/club life member Denis Bernasconi.
Turley said Taren Point has been the winner of Bowls NSW Club of the Year in 2013 and 2014.
John Green and Wayne Turley were joint winners in 2013 and Craig Donaldson was the 2014 winner.
Tradition continues
The Rogers family tradition continues at the Cronulla Sharks. Jack Rogers, 19, the son of Mat and grandson of the late and greatest Sharks player of them all, Steve Rogers, made his Holden Cup under-20s team debut against Parramatta on Saturday. His mother Chloe Maxwell tweeted: So excited for our Jack Rogers scoring a try for each generation of Rogers on debut! #upupcronulla #HatTrick, Chloe Maxwell @chloemaxwell.
Rogers scored two tries in the first half and a third in the second half, playing on the wing in the game the Sharks lost 32-24 against the Eels on Saturday at Pirtek Stadium. Rogers is a De La Salle, Caringbah, junior.
