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Today’s results

Marie	13
Barrie	12
Pat	10.5
David	10.5
Daniel	9
Brendan	8
Sue	7
Sandie	6
Hazel	4.5
Roy	4.5
Geertje	2.5
Paul	2.5
Malcolm	1
Sandra L	0
Sandra B	0
Edwina	0
Michael	0
Amanda	0

The cumulative total

	Played	Total
Marie	4	39
David M	4	33.5
Daniel	4	30.5
Brendan	4	28
Sue	3	27
Robin	2	21
Roy	5	20
Amanda	4	18.5
Pat	2	18.5
Sandra L	4	16
Barrie	2	15.5
Rita S	3	14.5
Paul	4	14
Pauline	1	13
Mick	2	12
Malcolm	3	11
Jack	1	10
Christine K	1	9.5
Geertje	2	8.5
Sandra B	3	7.5
Rita W	1	6.5
Elaine	3	6
Sandie	3	6
Hazel	2	5.5
Kevin	1	5
Edwina	3	3
Reg	1	3
Yvonne	2	2
Christine A	1	2
Elisabeth	2	1
Melvin	1	0
Diane	1	0
Polly	1	0
Alasdair	1	0
Fred	2	0
Maggie	2	0
David W	1	0
Jeannete	1	0

The verdict

Marie has 3 of the 4 melees she has entered. It difficult to see anyone else winning the summer season.

A good day. Six teams battled it out over 3 rounds to produce a final between 2 “home” teams featuring Brendan and Brendan (BBC) against Roy and Emily (EmRoy)

Teams that didn’t make the final were the Yorkshire rose, The Bazzar Duo, JL and PG Tips.

As to the final it looked bad at 11-0 to Emroy but BBC clawed their way back to 11-6 then Emroy recovered their form and ran out 13-6 winners.

 

Sweets and medals all-round to every junior player and winners took away the trophy to hold for a year. We’ll do it next year. Every one involved felt it was agreat day. Why not enter next year? Teams from across the region welcome.

Due to lack of pictures and other factors we’ve not reported the success of some of our recent events. So even though we’re still missing some pictures here’s what’s happened.

14th July Bastille Day. Limonade et Liberte

There were a few frenchmen and women and wine and peanuts were consumed copiously. After 3 rounds the top two players couldn’t be split  both being on 3 wins and +16 points so Brendan & Yvonne were the winners.

17th July was Club Triples competition.

It was also a special day for two of our youngest members. Martin & Julie were leaving us to live in France so we gave them a card and said Goodbye. We’ll be seeing you again when you arrange the Franco-Britannic competition.

In the meanwhile the triples winners were Sandra, Malcolm and Rita W. Worth noting that Rita is our most decorated triples player winning for the second consecutive year.

26th was our Midsummer melee starting early  at 1030 and fitting in 5 games and a lunch. Surprisingly only 14 were there at the start of the day but 4 more arrived just before 1 o’clock. The day was complicated by Roy and Colin (probably the two best players on the day) being drawn toegther for the first 4 games. In the last round they weren’t and Colin suffered his only defeat which allowed Roy to scoop the first prize. Colin was 2nd with 4 wins and a large points difference.  Marie won 3rd with 4 wins and a smaller difference.

This coming weekend is generation game but there’ll be room for social play as well.

 

 

Stockton on the Forest Petanque club is one of the nicest places to play the game in the north. It’s rural and the terrain is huge (in fact there are 2 terrains with about 15 pistes in total) and the welcome is always friendly. It used to be the home club of Mick Hardisty who was Head Groundsman, septic tank engineer and experienced pipe smoker. He was also a demon shooter. He would walk slowly into the circle ( he never did anything quickly), take aim and usually hit the target boule cleanly.

I played with him when I was a novice pointer and he guided me through to some of my early victories in Northern events.  Sadly Mick died last year but a bench in memory of him has been installed at the terrain.

 

Last Wednesday some members from Huddersfield travelled to Stockton for one of their famous all day melees. 5 games in a day. Over 40 players. £3-50 entry fee and as many sausage rolls as you can eat alongside your sandwiches. Fairy Cakes, Jam tarts and sometimes swiss rolls. Add the free tea and coffee all day and an exciting raffle at lunchtime and what more could a man want.

 

Sue and Brendan won 2 of their 5 games; Paul won 3 but Roy won all 5 including a 13-0 victory.

Obviously he was in among the prizes but couldn’t quite make top prize which went to Tony (a Stockton member and very experienced player) on +45 but Roy came in 2nd with +41. Here he is with 2 expensive bottles of wine and a traffic cone.

A great day and there are more Stockton melees this year.

Why not have a go. Talk to Roy about how easy it is.

 

 

Thursday 21st july at 6pm alongside the normal session we’ll be holding an information session for players who will be in the Kirklees autumn league starting September.

There will be brief talks and practice games showing the system and style for league matches. All welcome.

Robin & Paul wil be doing the talking.