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Inner wheel, Holmfirth social event

Today, Huddersfield Petanque Club hosted a social event for 8 delightful ladies from the “Inner Wheel Club Holmfirth”. Since we started over 4 years ago we have had a steady stream of community organisations who have had a petanque day or a petanque afternoon. Some of them like it so much they come back every year. Inner Wheel were on their second time this Monday.
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Robin & Rita hosted the event with assistance from our Photographer Roy.
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The event consisted of Introduction to Petanque, Rules of the Game, Practice & then Play.
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The winner (again) was organiser Wendy.
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A good day was had by all. If any of our Blog readers would like to have a social event with Huddersfield Petanque Club please contact the Club or look at our Club info tab and read the page about planning an away day.
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Summer Wine Pairs

Report from Robin (Organiser)

The ‘Last of the Summer Wine’ Open pairs 3 round snake competition attracted 6 pairs.
The weather actually stayed fine, although looking dark & with the potential of rain.
After 2 games only one pair had won 2 games – that was Brenroy – not the most cryptic of names.

Anyway in the 3rd round they played Rock ‘n’ Roll who were in 2nd place after 2 rounds.
It was a thrilling encounter which was the last to finish, so the other teams watched & marvelled at Robin putting 3 consecutive boules by the coche & Brendan shooting them out for Brenroy to win & take the money.

A good time was had by all.
Thanks were given to Brendan for providing the red lemonade & Robin the white lemonade.

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Ashes to Ashes

We entertained Heckmondwike on Tuesday. We’ve been playing this ashes fixture for four years if I remember rightly and only won it once. Here’s Robin’s report.

Hi Paul, after 3 games we had lunch delightfully prepared by Elizabeth & it was good. At that stage it was neck & neck both Huddersfield & Heckmondwike 9 games each, but with Hecky +8 ahead on points.
Sadly Huddersfield could only win 2 of the final 6 games, so we lost 13 to 11 & the Ashes went along the A62 to Heckmondwike.
Only one triple won 4 games that was the Hecky team of Georgia/Tony/Walt & therefore won the prize of a bottle of wine each.
The best Huddersfield team were Kevin, Christine & Nigel (who was substituted by Dave for the final game, which they won 13-0!!)
The game as always with Hecky was played in a very friendly, but competitive manner.
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Summer melee results

It was all over last month but experienced players put in a strong performance at September’s monthly melee. Robin won the day but the overall summer season was won by Paul. Marie continued her impressive run of successes with 3rd and Sandra B showed she can really play to take 2nd.  40 different players took part and only 1 managed to play in all 6 events. October melee starts on the 7th then the following dates move to second Sunday. Check your diaries now! Presentation of trophy in October.

Player Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Total Adj
Paul 13 13 12 38 38
Marie 11 6.5 13 11 41.5 35
Richard 10 9.5 10 11 40.5 31
Robin 7 10 2 13 32 30
Sue 3.5 6.5 7 1.5 10 8.5 37 25.5
Roger L 5 13 7 25 25
Amanda 12 4.5 0 6.5 23 23
Christine K 11 8.5 0 2.5 22 22
Maureen 3.5 8 6 7 24.5 21
Rita S 9 12 0 21 21
Phil 1 11 8 20 20
Christine A 3 12 3 18 18
Sandra B 6 12 18 18
Nigel 0 8.5 9 0 17.5 17.5
Roy 13 4 17 17
Yvonne 11 4 15 15
Kevin 9.5 5 0 14.5 14.5
Fred 5.5 4 5 14.5 14.5
Malcolm 4 10 14 14
Reg 12 0 0.5 12.5 12.5
Rita P 2 9 0.5 11.5 11.5
Mary 0 4.5 6 10.5 10.5
Bob 8 0 2 0 10 10
Alasdair 0 0 8.5 8.5 8.5
Brendan 0 0 8 8 8
Barrie 2 5 7 7
Janet 6.5 6.5 6.5
Pauline 3 3 6 6
Margaret 5.5 5.5 5.5
Elaine 1.5 0 2.5 4 4
Sandie 1 0 1 2 2
Jack 1 1 1
Pete 0 0 0
Michael 0 0 0
David W 0 0 0
Elizabeth 0 0 0
Sandra L 0 0 0
Maggie 0 0 0
ian 0 0 0
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Match abandoned

Today was a match between Great Yarmouth PC and Huddersfield PC as part of their Tour de Yorkshire. Yesterday they played and beat Heckmondwike and today we had a 4 round competition with a lunch in the middle scheduled. As I drove to the terrain there were a few spots of rain but we started on time at 10am.

The format was pairs and timed at 50 minutes. Each club fielded 5 pairs. The rain gradually increased in intensity.

After the first round it was 4-1 to Great Yarmouth but in the second round Huddersfield won 3-2 and by the end of the second round we realised we weren’t going to get 4 rounds in. There were 2 options  – play one more then lunch or lunch and forget the rest of the games. While we were thinking about this the puddles became larger and the decision was to abandon the match. The score at the halfway point was 6-4 to Great Yarmouth with a points difference of 14.

Shame about the shortened game – it was keenly fought with a few games decided by just one point. It could have gone either way but we’ll never know. Best Huddersfield team was Sue & Marie with 2 wins out of 2. Brilliant lunch by Elizabeth.

Great Yarmouth presented us with a box of Norfolk fudge and a donation to our clubhouse project. A good day but could have been better.