Author: huddersfieldpetanque

A great win at a regional event this weekend. HPC members Doug and Carol playing as Work in Progress won all 5 games at the Stockton Fox Pairs competition beating some established county level players to win the first prize.

Sue C won the June melee; Steve and Christine were joint second. These were the only 3 to win all their 3 games but Sue 2 was +16 on points difference and the other two were +15.

But the overall winner for all monthly melees from January to June was Amy. She scored 36 out of a possible 39. Mel D was second with 28 and Doug was second with 27.5.

43 members played in the 6 month long competition; 7 didn’t trouble the scorers. It was very close at the top of the table (apart from Amy being runaway winner) and the full table is below. Next monthly melee competition starts 5th July and the winner will be announced on December 5th.

Eleven players defied the drizzle for Sunday’s melee. And the winner was Amy.

And the cumulative scores for the Spring competition are below. It is possible that 2nd place will overtake 1st place and win but it’s unlikely. There are however 14 players who could make second place. Final round on 7th June with presentation of trophy to the winner.

Nine pairs took part and the only team to win all 3 games was Brendan & Nell. 2nd were Doug & Mel D with 2 wins and a points difference of +19 then Shirley & Roy H with 2 wins and +16.

Spring sunshine, April showers.

8 Clubs entered.

Over 60 players on the terrain all day.

14 players went home saying I reached a final and won it.

28 people can say we won a cash prize in the event.

Everyone enjoyed themselves shrugging off the heaviest of downpours but peeling of their layers as the sun came out. It started slowly as one player wasn’t there at the official start time (as he’d got lost) so we eventually started without him and fortunately he made it 7 minutes later after the first end.

We played leagues of 4 in the morning with top two in each league going through to Gold KOs and bottom two to the Silver KOs in the afternoon. There were 3 competitions running simultaneously (Pairs, Mixed Pairs and Mixed Triples). All scores were added together to find the top club.

Trafford were the top club and received the trophy from Amy as well as the envelope.

Best HPC result was Carol, Mel & Shirley winning the Mixed Triples Gold Final.

Click on thumbnails below to see more bigger images.

All photos by Roy Henstock. This event will probably run next April as well. Look out for it!