Author: huddersfieldpetanque

Kevin and Sue were the 3 game winners. Here’s the league table.

	Apr	May	Jun	Total
Rita	11	13	13	37
Nigel	13	7	12	32
Robin	9	9	9.5	27.5
Sue	5	8	11	24
Sandra	8	5	9.5	22.5
Richard	10	10		20
Phil		11	8	19
Jack		12		12
Sandy	12	0.5	2	14.5
Bob	3	3.5	4	10.5
Alasdair	7		3	10
Amanda	0		6.5	6.5
Jack			6.5	6.5
Malcolm	4	2		6
Paul	6			6
Steven		6		6
Yvonne	0		5	5
Pauline		3.5		3.5
Sandie		0.5	2	2.5
Maureen	2			2
Marie	1			1
Brendan	0	0.5		0.5
Elaine	0		0.5	0.5
Linda			0.5	0.5
Denise		0		0
Elizabeth		0		0
Marie		0		0

Alasdair & Yvonne

The club’s 2019 Pairs competition took place on Sunday June 30th. Members played a 3 round snake. After round 1 everyone enjoyed a break for Strawberries and Prosecco! After 3 rounds only one team had won all 3 games and were the clear winners. This was Alasdair and Yvonne playing as the Hibernators. In second place on 2W +13 were Sandra B and Malcolm, team name A.N.Other, and with 2W + 10 to get third place were Maureen and Richard playing as  Jammy Dodgers.

On a Saturday there was different format for a change. 10 teams of triples from around the region had entered an all day 123 event. Each team played 8 games but each player only played 5. This included singles. It was strange format not well understood at the beginning but people gradually worked it out.

 

Good news was that it  all went smoothly and finished around 4 after a 1030 start and the winning team had 2 HPC members in it. The second place had 3 HPC members. Read a longer report at Huddersfield 123 event.

Roy, Paul & Brendan entered the London Petanque Club Crystal Palace event in early June. It had 128 teams from all over Europe and most of them were very very good.

We played a team of French giants in our 3rd game. They were 6 ft 5, 6 ft 7 & 6 ft 8. They were a family who came from a village in the Dordogne and I asked them when we met how they had grown so tall. The answer was “Eating Duck and truffles”. They beat us but I took a fantastic photo. See more about the event by clicking on this link…crystal

Sunday 9th saw an Open Day at the new Boules pitch in Thurstonland. Two members from Huddersfield called in to see how  it turned out as we’d known it was being done but it’s taken longer than planned. It’s very well made with new wooden sleepers surrounding a 2 lane terrain with gravel path running around it.

It’s dedicated to David Stubbs who was instrumental in starting off the project some years ago but didn’t live to see it finished.

It joins other villages in Kirklees with a boules terrain such as Honley, Lepton and there are some planned in Brockholes, Kirkburton and maybe elsewhere. Maybe soon there will be a competition for these villages.

At the opening there was paté on toast, red wine, a selection of cakes and a group of interested people including David’s family and some parish and KMC councillors.

After some small talk a game took place between Thurstonland and Huddersfield. At first Thurstonland played well and raced into a 5-0 lead but gradually as Huddersfield got used to the soft surface they finished strongly and Paul & Roy beat Peter and David 13-9. If you look closely in the first picture you can see a boule flying through the air at 2 o’clock.