Author: huddersfieldpetanque

“On Sunday next, December 6th, we will be holding our First Sunday in the month 3 round snake competition. You can choose your partner in advance or take pot luck on the day. Please turn up early to give the organisers sufficient time to get the score sheet sorted out and play started. 

Sunday January 3rd, all being well, we will return to our Member’s Monthly Mêlée. The first leg of the 2021 competition will run through to June 6th. The second leg will be held from July 4th to December 5th.

Despite our governing body informing us we can continue playing under certain conditions Kirklees Council has told us that we need their permission as landowner and they are not giving it. So until further notice there will be no HPC activity in Greenhead Park.

Or at least his holes have. It was agreed at our recent virtual AGM to acquire some pigeon holes for members to use for storing boule and other pieces of kit. These arrived earlier this week and Brendan, Paul & Roy spent some time today, Friday, erecting them in the club house. Members are advised to use these as the club house is more secure than the shed. We may move the kit notice board onto the wall above so this will become the “kit corner” ‘

A pairs competition. 11 teams. 22 players, 3 rounds, 2 new players.

Turned out nice despite threats of rain and a full afternoon of petanque with only 2 teams winning all 3 games. Roy and Brendan edged out Kevin and Christine (a fairly thick edge) on points difference. Well done Reg & Brenda. Thrown in at the deep end on their first visit and beat quite a few experienced teams to finish 6th.

Next similar competition November 1st. We may have to start earlier with the change of hour. Sunset that day is 1633. Watch the blog and AWIP.

With monthly members melees on hold due to Covid 19 we had a 3 round pairs competition on the 6th September. Social distancing was observed and only one person did all the paperwork. The latest version of Auto score was used to record the results. Here they are.