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17 people, some of them on time…  But a great evening. Although some left early many games were played and the light lasted until well after 8.

Fast becoming our most popular day with club members although Sunday is better with walk-ins.

If we start at 1730 for the next three weeks it should be fine. Still half a dozen spectators some of whom promised to return.

Not expecting much apart from getting our new club polo shirts for the first time it turned out to be a fantastic day of petanque with at one stage 25 people playing and many newcomers promising to join.

Christine, Alan, Dick, Martin, Julie, Denise plus two whose names we missed but are promising to join Tuesday. If it all goes well we’ll jump to 49 members .

 

And Roy’s melee is on Tuesday

As Paul is on holiday for most of September Roy and Sue will be running the show and Roy’s first event is the melee on Tuesday 26th August at 1pm.

Members only; No entry fee; no prizes just the satisfaction that only winning can give. Three rounds where we keep scores. One individual will win the whole thing…

 

And Thursdays will continue for a while.

We were planning to stop Thursdays at the end of August but they’re proving popular with members who are still working (hard luck!) so they’ll continue as long as the light holds out.

If you can arrive earlier than 6pm it would help.

The rain was spitting and off and on and the waterproofs were everywhere until about 8pm when it threw it down and we all went home to watch Hollyoaks on catch up TV. In the meantime we played 3 rounds with 12 players including a junior member Jasmine. Going into the last round only 2 players and won every game and in the end Sandra triumphed mostly due to a 13-1 win and a 13-2 win. Thank you for turning up and well played everyone.

Sue Crofts.

Pictured here with Ted Beetham who won our Open Midsummer Melee This Sunday Sue did it all on her own. Following a 3 round snake where she won all her games with the best points difference of the three players who did the same she played a very good final against Robin and won 13-10. Sue Horner from Honley was 3rd.The standard of the final was remarkable and the handicapping system worked well as most matches were very close throughout the event.

It was a windy and wet weekend  but 10 players turned up and had great time dodging rain showers. After the event which only lasted 90 minutes we played a few social games. 4  more interested players arrived and promised to join so overall a good weekend.

Today we played a social fixture at Heckmondwike Petanque Club. They’ve been going 2 years longer than us and have over 60 members. The experience showed in the end. 3 rounds with 6 teams each side and at the end it was a really close one with the final score being 10-8 to Heckmondwike.

A very creditable performance on our first friendly match as a club.  Good individual performances from Maz and Paul who won all 3 games but overall a great day out and once the rain had cleared a very nice day. We’re going to invite them back in a month and hope to win the return. Loved the Obut rings. Think we’ll buy some.