On Tuesday 13th June Huddersfield Pennine Rotary Club, 20 of us, held our annual tournament and social . It all started at 4.30 with nibbles and pre-game drinks. By 5.15 we were ready for Brendan’s introduction before we embarked on our three game melee, two games to 11 and the last one to 9.
Yvonne emerged as the winner, for the second time, and was presented with the Taylor/Cartwright Bowl and a HPC medal by President Mike. We then sat down for a faith supper, which went down well! The last members departed at 9.30 [ish!], the park gates close at 10! We couldn’t have asked for better weather. We could have been forgiven for thinking we were in the South of France!
Thanks to HPC members Brendan, Jane, Pete and Margaret for ensuring that everything went smoothly and who were on hand to give advice and adjudicate and to Pherris for raking the terrain. A successful evening. Looking forward to June 2024.
What a great evening of petanque on Wed 14th where HPC hosted the now annual event for the Huddersfield French Circle in brilliant sunshine with plenty of drinks and refreshments on hand as play commenced at the 5 45pm start time.
The three round melee (First to 10) competition was facilitated by Pete & Margaret with help from Robin and Rita but the star of the show was undoubtedly Pherris whose warmth and enthusiasm towards the players helped make the evening a huge success.
A close fought contest between determined players resulted in no-one winning all 3 games but with 2 wins +8 Chantel was declared the winner with Moira a close second with 2 wins +5.
The evening closed at 8pm with the medal presentation with a request from the group for us to repeat the event again next year.
Pete.
Quelle belle soirée de pétanque le mercredi 14 où le H.P.C. a accueilli l’événement annuel du Cercle Français de Huddersfield sous un soleil éclatant avec de nombreuses boissons et rafraîchissements à disposition dès le début des parties à 17h45.
Le tournoi en trois manches (premier arrivé à 10 points) a été organisé par Pete et Margaret avec l’aide de Robin et Rita mais la vedette de la soirée était sans aucun doute Pherris dont la chaleur et l’enthousiasme envers les joueurs ont contribué au succès de la soirée.
Une compétition acharnée entre des joueurs déterminés n’a pas permis à quelqu’un de remporter les 3 parties mais avec 2 victoires et 8 points de différence Chantel a été déclarée gagnante suivie de près par Moira avec 2 victoires et 5 points de différence.
La soirée s’est terminée à 20h avec la remise des médailles et le groupe a demandé que l’événement soit repeter l’année prochaine.
Four HPC members (Rita, Moira, Amanda and Vero) travelled to Stockton on the Forest Pétanque club for the second Yorkshire ladies day in early June and joined in with 20 other teams from all over Yorkshire. And at the end of the day Amanda and Vero nearly podiumed… 4th place out of 20 teams is a great result. See more pictures at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2488266854781350/
It was a first* for the club. After 6 months of melees on the first Sunday of the month two players tied for the title of Spring Melee Champion. Both Robin and Yvonne had scored 39 points (which is the maximum possible) so to decide the winner a one end tie break was played and Robin won it. It was his second victory in this competition which started in 2014.
This is one of the longest running competitions at HPC. The trophy was donated by Daniel Mawdesley who just happened to be the first winner. Since then 14 names have been added (Robin and Daniel have won it twice) and there’s room for a few more. To start with it was 6 events and the scoring system was players received a point for everyone they beat. In the first competition there were 21 players so 1st place took 20 points and the 21st player received none. It meant that on days with a large attendance the top players recorded significant scores and that those who turned up for every event scored the most.
Things changed in 2020 when covid arrived and the club shut down for months on end. In the enforced shutdown the club changed the way it was played. Only 13 points would be awarded to the winner down to 1 point for 13th place. Anyone lower than 13th didn’t get any points. Also it was decided to count a player’s best 3 results to allow for holidays or other reasons. It was also changed to run from Jan to Jun and Jul to Dec. Most of the early seasons were run by Paul & Roy but over time members have learned how to run a melee and spreadsheet solution has been developed to manage the “best of 3 games” concept. Phil took over scoring for a while and Jane is currently keeping the scores.
Previous winners are 2015 Daniel & Roy, 2016 Robin & Marie, 2017 Daniel & Sue, 2018 Pete & Paul, 2019 Brendan & Richard, 2020 covid, Spring 2021 Maureen, Autumn 2021 Christine, Spring 2022 Kevin, Autumn 2022 Jane P and finally Spring 2023 Robin.
*Other notable firsts include an abandoned melee when a sudden winter gale forced most players off the terrain in the middle of the second game and who refused to play on, winter days when the terrain was covered in snow and a day in 2022 when the temperature rose close to 40 degrees C. Next season starts July 2nd. In Spring 2023 there were 45 members taking part. Let’s get to 50 in the next 6 monthly melees..
Mathematicians may spot that Robin and Yvonne were both given 13 points in June. It should have been 12.5 but didn’t affect the result. Here’s another picture from 2019 which shows the trophy better and also shows a picture of Richard who is no longer with us but is greatly missed.
Huddersfield Pétanque 