Author: huddersfieldpetanque

A group of francophiles enjoyed a social evening playing boules on 11th August. As they were all keen French speakers much of the session was conducted partly in French. We had our resident frenchman Didier and his wife Dominique to add a taste of real French speakers.

After the usual explanation and practice a 2 round melee was played although it was cut short with a sharp shower. The scoring was done and although Christine had a similar record the eventual winner was Ann. She won the gold medal and had a photo taken next to an impressive trophy. We hope to see them again next year.

35 people at the terrain today. 12 playing a league match; 6 at boule school; the rest playing social games. Mr Blue sky is living here today. Hey hey hey.

A good day for Huddersfield Pétanque as all our three teams reached the Main knockout Finals.

Robin and Rita went on to the Final of the Mixed Pairs but lost the big prize. Roy and Brendan were losing semifinalists in the Open Pairs as were Kevin, Christine, Pete and Margaret in the Mixed Triples.

When the results of the three competitions were aggregated HPC was tied for second place with Hollicarrs but lost out on count back of wins. So we were placed 3rd out of the 8 clubs who had entered. Leeds won the overall title. A great day of Petanque.

Last Melee winner Maureen demonstrated how to do it winning all 3 games with a massive points difference of +21 in the August 1st Melee. As July was washed out this is the first of the second half of the year. Next One 5th September.

	W	Pts
Maureen	3	21	13
Nigel	3	9	12
Melvyn	2	10	10.5
Keith	2	10	10.5
Alastair	2	8	9
Mark	2	2	8
Phil	2	0	7
Yvonne	1	-1	6
Sue C	1	-7	5
Reg	1	-8	4
Cathy	0	7	3
Amanda	0	-7	2
Jan	0	-9	1