Author: huddersfieldpetanque

The first in a never ending series of photos of members playing petanque in foreign places. Robin popped over to Australia and found a tournament to enter in Sydney and reached the fnal. Here’s some proof. Only the English wear shorts in Spring.

And here’s Robin and Rita posing with a boule in their hand in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. No wait!  It’s a glass of some liquid or other…

 

 

 

Eknatep is of course Petanqe backwards. Other members send in your photos. Lets look for Malta, Portugal, France. The list is almost endless.

 

Things are changing every week. The first 2 league fixtures have been reported before. The next few are here.

First Week 3 was a good week for Huddersfield 1 but a disaster for Team 2. The figures don’t tell the true story. In 2 games they were 11 points to the good but lost both 11-13. It could have been a 2-3 defeat which wouldn’t have seemed as bad. Meanwhile Heckmondwike 1 are storming to the top of the table but Hecky 2 are dropping like a stone. Hudd 1 are 3rd in the table.

Mirfield 1	4	1	Mirfield 2
Huddersfield 1	4	1	Heckmondwike 2
Heckmondwike 1	5	0	Huddersfield 2

Week 4 and our teams played each other and it was a strange result – Team 2 beating Team 1. Elsewhere Heckmondwike 1 are slowed down but Heck 2 are still having problems. Hudd 1 are 4th, Hudd 2 are 5th.

Mirfield 1	3	2	Heckmondwike 1
Huddersfield 2	3	2	Huddersfield 1
Heckmondwike 2	1	4	Mirfield 2

Week 5 sees Team 1 slip to a bad defeat at home to Mirfield but Team 2 keeping on winning.

Huddersfield 1	1	4	Mirfield 1
Heckmondwike 2	2	3	Huddersfield 2
Heckmondwike 1	3	2	Mirfield 2

Week 6 Team 1 loses narrowly 2-3 to the league leaders but one game ended 12-13 when it could just as easily have been 13-12. Meanwhile Team 2 win again with the ladies team playing a 90 minute marathon and winning 13-12. A big change in the league table as Team 2 leapfrog Team 1 and Mirfield 2 into third place! One result to come but it won’t alter the places just the number of games won.

Mirfield 2	1	4	Huddersfield 2	22
Huddersfield 1	2	3	Heckmondwike 1	3
Heckmondwike 2			Mirfield 1
	Won	Pts
Heckmondwike 1	22	96
Mirfield 1	16	48
Huddersfield 2	14	-2
Mirfield 2	14	-14
Huddersfield 1	13	-37
Heckmondwike 2	6	-91

Four more weeks to go. It looks like Heckmondike 1 will win but 4 teams are in the race for second.

The numbers have been crunched and all the results are in. Some interesting facts first…

1. Everyone of 18 members who entered scored at least 1 point.
2. The person in last place will surprise you.
3. The hardest event was pointing into a circle 8m. (only 4 people did it).
4. The highest scoring event was shooting at 6m. (only 2 failed to do it)
5. 43% of scores were zero.
6. We didn’t give some people enough credit on the day – Christine and Sandra L performed much better than our hasty back of an envelope calculations suggested.

Here’s the winners. Click to see bigger pictures.

 

Winner of the 6m coche throw after an exciting tiebreak where he beat Malcolm.

Barrie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner of the 10m coche throw with 3 coche just below 10m. No-one else came close.

Marie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner of the Pointing competition

Melvyn

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The club’s best lobber after a tie break with Barrie

Paul

 

 

 

 

Winner of the 6m shoot

Sandra

 

 

 

 

Winner of the 7m Shoot after a tie break with Barrie. Winning her 2nd pot of the day

Marie

 

 

 

 

 

 

Winner of the 8m shoot. See – you can shoot!

Sue

 

 

 

 

Winner of the whole event

Barrie

who took away the trophy to keep for a year

 

 

All the scores on the boards

Name	Coche 6	Coche 10	Tyre	Point	Shoot 6m	Shoot 7m	Shoot 8m	Total
Barrie	5	6	7	0	6	6	0	30
Marie	3	15	1	0	3	6	1	29
Christine	3	5	3	2	6	0	2	21
Sandra L	3	0	3	0	6	0	5	17
Paul	0	0	7	0	6	3	0	16
Richard	3	0	2	0	6	4	1	16
Maggie	3	3	2	0	4	1	1	14
Sandra B	0	0	3	0	7	3	0	13
Sue	0	0	2	3	0	3	5	13
Yvonne	3	5	1	0	3	0	0	12
Malcolm	5	0	2	0	3	0	1	11
Elisabeth	0	0	3	0	3	3	1	10
Melvyn	0	0	2	5	3	0	0	10
Amanda	0	0	2	0	4	0	2	8
Alasdair	3	0	3	1	1	0	0	8
Fred	0	0	2	0	4	0	1	7
Pat	0	0	3	0	3	1	0	7
Roy	0	0	2	0	0	1	0	3
Average	1.7	1.9	2.8	0.6	3.8	1.7	1.1	13.6

What have we learned.

a) it was lot of fun although Roy suffered from the curse of the organiser

b) We made it too hard. Rolling coches should have have bigger targets. Pointing should have been at 6m as well.

c) We need more variety. Other events have been suggested like 10 pin bouling towards 10 half full lemonade bottles. Your suggestions welcome.

d) We’ll repeat it next year

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our Heptathlon featuring 7 skills tomorrow is being postponed until the following sunday. Heavy rain is forecast  and even if it does clear up at 1400 or 1500 as they suggest the terrain might still be unplayable. We’ll try again Sunday 23rd. If anyone wants to defy the rain and play there will still be social play tomorrow but be prepared to get wet.

League matches

Both teams started poorly losing 1-4 in their first fixture but both bounced back winning 3-2 in their second. So after two weeks both teams have played 10 games and have 4 wins and are both in the middle of the league table.

Autumn Pairs

25th September saw the Autumn Open Pairs and member Janet teamed up with non member Sylvester to win all 3 games with +30 just beating Pat & Barrie with 3 wins and +16.

Winter Melee

October event was well attended and Sue won all 3 games to take an early lead. A new member who hasn’t been playing long, Richard, also won 3 games.

Winter Melee	Oct
Sue	13
Richard	12
Jack	11
Daniel	10
Elisabeth	9
Fred	8
David	7
Edwina	6
Alasdair	5
Barrie	4
Amanda	3
Sandie	2
Rita W	1
Sandra L	0