Author: huddersfieldpetanque

Wednesday at 5-30pm ladies from Holmfirth Inner Wheel (a type of female rotarian we were told) came to the terrain to learn the game and played a mini tournament of 3 games. Everyone had a good time and some impressed us with their learning curve. Boules that at the beginning of the session were many metres from the coche started to rest on the coche at the end.

Incredibly after 3 games the three who had won all three games (seated above)  all had the same points difference so we had to have a one boule shoot-off. The winner in the centre is showing off her small but perfect trophy. The other two took home medals and everyone received a Certificate of Attendance. More pictures in Gallery.

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Not a good result at Heckmondwike. In fact a very bad one. We lost 0-5 with a points difference of -33. The day was fine; the new surface at Heckmondwike played well; they were excellent hosts but the bottom line is that they played better than us. Much better  than us. And it showed in the scores.

Table updated on local league page. Leeds also beat Mirfield this week and at the halfway stage of the league we are still second but Heckmondwike are looking good.

Our first 4 round melee went well. 17 people turned up and paid their pound and after 4 rounds 3 players had won 3 of their games.

They were Pat, Martin and the best of the 3 time winners was Brendan who got his entry fee back. But two players had won all 4 games and Janet was beaten into second by Julie W who had a very respectable points difference of +29 to Janet’s 19. They won £10 and £5 respectively. Cold and occasionally showery but a good day out. Only took 3 hours for 4 games.

Date for your diary  – Thursday 23rd July there will be an all day 5 game melee. Bring your lunch as it’s a 1030 start. We hope to have a few players from outside for this one. Another entry fee means more cash prizes.

 

Next Sunday is a slightly different event. We’re running a melee with 4 games as it’s going to be light well into the evening as it’s the longest day of the year and the nights start drawing in afterwards. It’s an open event so anyone can play not just club members although it helps to know how to play the game. We may have visitors from other clubs.

We do have some spare boules for newbies. Entry fee £1 with prizes to the winners. Draw takes place for first round at 1pm prompt. A wonderful afternoon of fun, frustration and finally for some fine fellow first place and a few fivers.

Heckmondwike were the opponents this afternoon in Greenhead Park and after 5 matches it ended 3-2 to the visitors. The two triples were shared but Heckmondwike had a purple patch in one match when they scored a 6 and a 4 in 2 consecutive ends which effectively won the match.

The pairs were going Heckmondwike’s way  – 2 wins from the first two games but Huddersfield came back to win 13-12 in the last game to finish. Could have been so much worse in that last game – Heckmondwike had  3 boules in hand to beat a Huddersfield boule about 15 inches from the coche but couldn’t do it! Latest table after we get the result of the Leeds/Mirfield match this week.

Congratulations to the team – Brendan, Roy, Julie, Phil, Christine & Paul.