Author: huddersfieldpetanque

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.

It was a dull day but at 1pm we only had 16 players which made it difficult to play the planned Triples event. Everyone agreed to do a pairs event and we’d hold the triples later in the summer.

So we made up some teams and started on a 3 round snake with maybe a final at the end. Another player turned up so she joined an existing team which was already in play.

At the end of 3 round only 2 teams had won all their games. Martin & Julie with +29 points and Paul, Sandra & Janet with +19. So a comfortable win for Martin & Julie.

At this point some went home as it had been an on/off rainy type of afternoon but the top two teams decided to play a final. This had added spice as Sandra knew Martin & Julie well as she was Martin’s mum. And the match went the way of the oldies as Paul, Sandra and Janet beat Martin & Julie 13-4.

No picture as the wifi down here in the south of France is pretty patchy. But the good news is that Pauline won today’s event and the leader board has a definite female look to it. Pauline was the only person to win 3 games and with a healthy points difference of +24. Well done. In the south here it’s 30  degrees and we’re doing pastis instead of petanque. See  you Tuesday!

Last weekend we were open for business from before lunch until tea time on both Saturday and Sunday.  We called it an open day and the idea was to get more people playing. And we succeeded. On Saturday 11 new people tried the game and more sat on the new benches and watched.

Thank you to all the members who gave up their time to help out. We’ve already had 2 new members and many more took a card or a leaflet. As the weather warms up no doubt we’ll see more visitors to the terrain.