Author: huddersfieldpetanque

Monday was the first of 6 fixtures in the West Yorkshire League and the team did really well winning 4 out of the 5 games in the fixture. The team was Robin, Rita, Brendan, Sue, Mike & Christine Kinder and as well as winning 4 games they built up a useful points difference of 22. Next fixture will be a home match on Tuesday 26th April at 1300. There will be room for casual play as well or you can support the team. Well done the captain & the team.

Update late tuesday night. Leeds beat Hecky 4-1 with a points difference of 21. Huddersfield are top of the table after week 1. I know that not everyone is a Northern member so don’t have access to the results so I’ll always post a weekly update here. NP uses the word Match which is the same as our word Fixture. It’s games that count followed by points.

The annual meeting will be in the community room at noon on the 24th April. It should take about 30 minutes. AGM papers can be seen by clicking on CLUB INFO from the menu bar above. There will be paper copies on the day.

After the AGM there will be a pairs competition starting at 1300 with cash prizes (and an entry fee).

Club members are recommended to read the AGM papers. There are proposals for discussion and the Secretary is resigning although remaining a committee member.

Subs will be due at the end of the meeting. Hope to see you there.

Talk to a committee member if you need to ask anything about this meeting.

21 members and guests enjoyed an excellent days coaching from Matt Blyton & Lee Edgar today despite the early poor weather.

Both pointing and shooting techniques were covered in the morning with practice techniques, game control and terrain domination featuring after lunch.

 

Three players won awards for best use of learned techniques. Yvonne in third place and Kevin placed second were awarded. medals but Sue was judged best performance and was presented with the winners trophy and medals. Everyone learned a lot from the day. Tomorrow’s Monthly melee will be interesting!

And it was. The new scoring system was explained. 13 for best player, 12 for next best etc down to 1 point for 13th best. Today there were 20 players on a lovely sunny day and only 2 players won all three games. We separated them by points difference and Marie was the winner followed  by Mick and Sue took 3rd place. Here’s the full results.

	April
	W	Diff	Rank	Points
Marie	3	19	1	13
Mick	3	16	2	12
Sue	2	12	3	11
Hazel	2	7	4	10
Brendan	2	6	5	9
Sandra B	2	5	6=	7.5
Robin	2	5	6=	7.5
Geertje	2	4	8	6
Sandra L	2	3	9	5
Malcolm	2	2	10	4
Edwina	1	6	11	3
Paul	1	0	12	2
Roy	1	-1	13	1
Elaine	1	-4	14	0
Rita W	1	-5	15	0
Yvonne	1	-7	16	0
Amanda	1	-7	17	0
Melvin	1	-12	18	0
Diane	0	-16	19	0
Polly	0	-18	20	0

 

 

These start again on Sunday 3rd April. Current winter Champion is Robin and defending Summer Champion from 2015 is Roy. Following the trial scoring system of best 3 scores count over the winter the Committee felt that the current system was unfair to members who won when only a small number played. So for the Summer 2016 league starting April 3rd the scoring system will be :- 1st scores 13, 2nd scores 12 etc to 13th scores 1. The best 3 scores to count. This will run from April with the final Summer melee on 4th September.

These are today’s winners Pat was 1st then Gertje 2nd then Barrie 3rd. They al won an Easter egg. We had 16 people attend on a very changeable day with sun, wind, rain and hail with even a bit of thunder thrown in.

Next Saturday is Coaching and Sunday is monthly member melee.