This will be Friday 27th January in Greenhead Masonic Hall at 1900. Menus are in the clubhouse for you to choose from. It’s not a Xmas menu. Take one, tick your choices, add your name and return it to Sue with £10 deposit and it’s done. We have a limit of 40. On the day in addition to the meal there will be speeches, silly games and a raffle and a bar.
League Results
Tuesday 22nd November saw the final match of the Kirklees Autumn League. It didn’t have any bearing on the League winners but Huddersfield 2 lost 2-3 to Heckmondwike 2.
After the game the trophy was presented to the winners – Heckmondwike – and was accepted by Roger and Clive just before the rain arrived.
The winners won 35 of their 50 games. Mirfield 1 came a very creditable 2nd winning 33 of their games. Huddersfield team 2 were 3rd. Full results below.
| Won | Pts | |
| Heckmondwike 1 | 35 | 146 |
| Mirfield 1 | 33 | 104 |
| Huddersfield 2 | 22 | -46 |
| Huddersfield 1 | 21 | -69 |
| Mirfield 2 | 20 | -79 |
| Heckmondwike 2 | 19 | -56 |
It has been a long season (10 weeks) and although most games were played in reasonable conditions the last 3 weeks saw a cancellation because of snow and a couple of matches played in atrocious rainy conditions last Monday.
Clubs should now talk with their members about the good, the bad and any other aspects of the league for a meeting in a few weeks to review the season.
Next League is planned for after Easter and will be the West Yorkshire League. Details about all leagues so far available on the leagues tab on the menu bar.
Winter Pairs Off
Sunday’s Winter Pairs is postponed. There are only 5 pistes playable at present. The other 5 have lying water. Things will probably get worse rather than better. After consultation with Alan we have called it off.
Rearranged date when we have one.
Last Sunday
Sorry it’s taken a long time but the results sheet got lost between Spain and Huddersfield and suddenly I was without email then it was Flamenco night then it was a long bus trip then it was flying home.
But now the results are in. November melee winner is Daniel. Here’s the results.
| Winter Melee | Oct | Nov | Total |
| Daniel | 10 | 13 | 23 |
| Sue | 13 | 8 | 21 |
| Fred | 8 | 8 | 16 |
| Michael | 12 | 12 | |
| Sandie | 2 | 10 | 12 |
| Richard | 12 | 12 | |
| David | 7 | 4.5 | 11.5 |
| Sandra B | 11 | 11 | |
| Jack | 11 | 11 | |
| Elisabeth | 9 | 1 | 10 |
| Amanda | 3 | 6 | 9 |
| Christine K | 8 | 8 | |
| Edwina | 6 | 6 | |
| Alasdair | 5 | 5 | |
| Malcolm | 4.5 | 4.5 | |
| Barrie | 4 | 4 | |
| Marie | 3 | 3 | |
| Rita W | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Geertje | 0 | ||
| Sandra L | 0 | 0 |
Some questions need answering as the scoring still perplexes some folk. No matter how many players there are the points available are 13 for winner, 12 for second etc down to 1 for 13th. If there’s fewer than 13 then the last few points are not awarded. If there are more than 13 the bottom few will not receive any points. If two tie for a place they share the points for the two places combined. If two players tied for first place they’d both score 12.5 (13+12=25\2). In this melee there were 3 players tied for 5th place so they shared 9, 8 & 7 resulting in 8 each. Clear?
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The first in a never ending series of photos of members playing petanque in foreign places. Robin popped over to Australia and found a tournament to enter in Sydney and reached the fnal. Here’s some proof. Only the English wear shorts in Spring.
And here’s Robin and Rita posing with a boule in their hand in front of the Sydney Harbour Bridge. No wait! It’s a glass of some liquid or other…
Eknatep is of course Petanqe backwards. Other members send in your photos. Lets look for Malta, Portugal, France. The list is almost endless.
Huddersfield Pétanque 