Do people ever say to you “Why do you play that funny game – isn’t it just big marbles?”. Now you can point them to this link.
Here’s the answer
…https://huddersfieldpetanque.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/why-play-petanque.pdf …
Men vs Women
Other local clubs put on this type of event and it’s been popular so we started our version Tuesday. 17 players were there and with a little juggling we had 4 teams on each side. We only played 3 rounds although we could have played 4 but it was a touch warm in the sun (and when the cloud cover came over chilly).
After round 1 it was 2 games each; after round 2 it was 4 games each but after round 3 it was 7-5 wins in favour of the men. The men also had the better points difference.
A tasteful silver vase was presented to both captains after the event. The winning team will now decide what to call this trophy and we’ll have the base engraved. Roy’s suggestion of “We hammered them” wasn’t well received. We’ll play for this again in Spring and also in autumn next year. Here’s another picture of the captains.
Boule eye – eye boule
Huddersfield Petanque Club showing their support for the 2024 Boules Sport Olympic bid. You can show your support for us and our new clubhouse project by visiting our JustGiving page at http://bit.do/HuddPet and donating a pound/euro/dollar or two.
They think it’s all over
August members melee has 25 players to start but they dropped like flies in the heat and only 20 played the 3rd round. One player stood head and shoulders above the rest by winning all her 3 games. It was Marie after her big win in midweek at Brandsburton she won today’s melee. 14 players won 2 games and Paul was the best points difference followed by Richard. It means that we have a winner (subject to scrutinisers checking) as Paul cannot be caught.
| Player | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Total | Adj | |
| Paul | 13 | 13 | 12 | 38 | 38 | ||||
| Richard | 10 | 9.5 | 10 | 11 | 40.5 | 31 | |||
| Marie | 11 | 6.5 | 13 | 30.5 | 30.5 | ||||
| Roger L | 5 | 13 | 7 | 25 | 25 | ||||
| Sue | 3.5 | 6.5 | 7 | 1.5 | 10 | 28.5 | 23.5 | ||
| Maureen | 3.5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 24.5 | 21 | |||
| Rita S | 9 | 12 | 0 | 21 | 21 | ||||
| Phil | 1 | 11 | 8 | 20 | 20 | ||||
| Christine K | 11 | 8.5 | 0 | 19.5 | 19.5 | ||||
| Robin | 7 | 10 | 2 | 19 | 19 | ||||
| Christine A | 3 | 12 | 3 | 18 | 18 | ||||
| Nigel | 0 | 8.5 | 9 | 0 | 17.5 | 17.5 | |||
| Roy | 13 | 4 | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Amanda | 12 | 4.5 | 0 | 16.5 | 16.5 | ||||
| Kevin | 9.5 | 5 | 0 | 14.5 | 14.5 | ||||
| Reg | 12 | 0 | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Yvonne | 11 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Rita P | 2 | 9 | 11 | 11 | |||||
| Mary | 0 | 4.5 | 6 | 10.5 | 10.5 | ||||
| Bob | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 10 | |||
| Fred | 5.5 | 4 | 9.5 | 9.5 | |||||
| Brendan | 0 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Barrie | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Pauline | 3 | 3 | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Sandra B | 6 | 6 | |||||||
| Margaret | 5.5 | 5.5 | 5.5 | ||||||
| Malcolm | 4 | 4 | |||||||
| Sandie | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||
| Elaine | 1.5 | 0 | 1.5 | ||||||
| Jack | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Pete | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Michael | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Alasdair | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| David W | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Elizabeth | 0 | ||||||||
| Sandra L | 0 | ||||||||
| Maggie | 0 | ||||||||
| ian | 0 |
Final summer melee is Sunday September 2nd. Winter league starts October 7th.
Fundraising starts
Can you – an individual who loves the game of Pétanque – help us to build a new clubhouse? Many small donations would add up to a good amount.
The link for our Just Giving page is http://bit.do/HuddPet where you can read more about our project and see who else is supporting us.
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