Competition Results 2007

  

Lamb Winter Open, Burridge

The last event of the year took place on 30th December with the weather surprisingly warm and sunny. The number of teams varied during the day as several little problems beset some of the players - for instance: breaking down en route, getting lost in the wilds of Hampshire, having such a good holiday in Bulgaria that all things English were forgotten, turning up at The Lamb instead of Burridge, to name but a few! However, with a re-shuffle of the morning leagues, play got underway about 10:20 am and by lunchtime we had caught up with ourselves.

In the afternoon, after Mike’s famous bacon rolls and soups, league winners and the next best two went into the Main, the next 8 went into the Plate and the remaining 8 into the Spoon Snake. In the Main and Plate competitions the first-round losers went into the respective Consolages, so everyone had at least 5 games.

The results were as follows:

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Shedfield

The forecast of gales and heavy rain obviously put off a lot of people as only 10 players were at Shedfield on Sunday 9th December for the start of the second winter mêlée. As it turned out the first three rounds were played in the dry and there was even some sunshine! A few late arrivals increased the numbers to 13 before the rain eventually arrived and forced an early end to round four.

SCPA Winter Mêlée,  Limes

With over 100 members attending the AGM, the first of the winter mêlées held after the meeting had an excellent entry of 40 (compared with 16 last year).

SCPA 9-a-side Salver

Held at Crondall, there was a reasonable turnout of 8 clubs (24 teams). Play started in bitterly cold weather and wasn't long before the threatened rain arrived resulting in really miserable conditions. Three games were played in the morning, but the weather continued to deteriorate and there was general agreement to abandon the afternoon's games. The placings were (prizewinners in bold):

SCPA Secretary's Cup

This season's event was held in the east of the region at Handcross on Sunday, 11th November and saw 14 teams taking part. There was obviously some home advantage with 3 of the top 5 places being taken by teams from the home club! However, only 1 team won all 5 games and the title went to this team from Cobbetts.

SCPA v Isle of Wight Juniors and Espoirs

Held on Saturday, November 10th at Burridge in pleasant autumn sunshine. The SCPA Juniors and Espoirs overcame the Isle of Wight team 13-7 to retain the trophy and draw level at 4 wins each in the series. The 2 SCPA espoir teams drew 4-4 with their Isle of Wight counterparts but had the better points difference. The SCPA juniors won 9-3 but also played a round against an island adult team which did not count in the overall score but is shown in the individual team scores below (team 3 beating the adults!). Matt, Callum and Hannah were best SCPA team and best team overall.

SCPA Mixed Doubles

Despite the appalling weather and the clock change all 32 teams entered duly arrived at the Limes at the right time on Sunday, 28th October! John Billett, half of last year's winning team made a valiant effort to defend his title, this time partnered by Beth Godwin, but lost out in the semi-final to one of our juniors Charlotte Dennis who was playing with Daniel Hill. It was a good day for the junior ladies of the region with Helen Manley reaching the other semi-final with Graham Elcome. Having beaten Helen and Graham, the home team pairing of Mary Sheppard and Jed Stone went on to take the title by beating Charlotte and Daniel 13-8 after a very tense final played in torrential rain. It was a family affair in the all Adur plate final, Vanessa and her other half Anthony beating her mother Veronica and Ray Austen.

SCPA Doubles

Another lovely day at Southampton City's terrain on Sunday, 21st October saw an excellent entry of 30 teams (only 17 last year!) compete for the regional doubles title. Last year's winners Dave & Kath were beaten in the first round of the knockout by the home team of Graham & Andy. The Skippers (Graham & Andy) then went on to beat The Blue Army (Michael & Matt) followed by The Slugs (Richard & Mark) 13-7 in the final.

SCPA Summer Doubles

A lovely sunny day saw the top 8 teams contesting the finals at Burridge on Saturday, 20th October. Two teams won all of their three games in the morning leagues and fittingly these two teams won their respective semi-finals so that they met in the final. The opening few ends were very even before some very accurate pointing gave Dave & Bob a '6-ender' to take a 10-4 lead. Karen & Mark hit back immediately with some excellent play to score a 4 and a 3 and eventually they took the title by the closest of margins 13-12.

General Wine 6-a-side Trophy

Once again there was good weather for the finals of this knock-out competition held at the Ship Inn on 7th October. In the morning semi-finals Hampshire Rose Vikings beat Crondall 3-2 and Shipwrecks beat Southampton City Pilgrims, also 3-2. After a leisurely lunch Hampshire Rose finished 5-0 winners over Shipwrecks in a tensely fought out final.

Flight Refuelling Open Doubles

On 7th October, 14 teams arrived at the venue near Poole to compete in a 5 game snake. It was a very relaxed and friendly day with the weather becoming quite warm in the afternoon. The prizewinners were:

SCPA Triples

It was a lovely sunny day at Adur on Sunday, 23rd September but there was a slightly disappointing entry of 12 teams. After the morning leagues, the top 8 teams contested the main knockout and the remaining 4 teams played a round robin in the plate. Having scraped into the main in 8th place, KDM quickly dispatched the top qualifiers Blue Army and then repeated the feat to beat Crondall in the semi-final. The other semi-final saw a very hard fought battle won 13-12 by The Slugs (a.k.a. Les Escargot!) against Golddust. KDM then raced into a 12-4 lead in the final only for The Slugs to hit back with a 6 and a 2 to draw level. The Slugs then won the deciding end to take the regional triples title by the narrowest of margins.

SCPA Junior Triples

Held at Adur on the same day as the SCPA Triples, the three teams entered played each other twice. Not surprisingly the current GB triples champions, Charlotte and Helen, playing with Samantha from Southampton City won all their games. Final results were as follows:

Inter-Regional Competition

This was held at Brean Sands over the weekend of 8th and 9th September. For the first time since 1994, the SCPA squad were overall winners in Division 1 and were crowned Inter-Regional Champions. In the Challenge Cup, the SCPA team came 5th (out of 12). Full details can be found on the EPA website (opens in a new window) and the Team Manager's reports are below:

• Team Manager's Report - Bernie Miles
• Challenge Squad Team Manager's Report - Pam Treend
• Junior Team Manager's Report - Peter Galton
• Kernow Junior Team Manager's Report - Graham Galton

ABC Kirdford Open Triples

On Sunday, 26th August and a full house of 16 triples teams, the day was a great sucess.Teams were present from Gravesend, Croydon, Southampton, the Hampshire Rose, Adur and there were several home teams. The results were:

Flight Refuelling Open Triples

This took place on Sunday 8th July, a very sunny and warm day. Teams from the SCPA, the New Forest Pétanque League, the Isle of Wight and as far away as Cherbourg, France were welcomed and the competition was played in a relaxed and entertaining way. The prizewinners were:

SCPA Masters

For the first time the Masters were held at The Ship at Owslebury and took place over the weekend of July 7th and 8th. After all the recent rain the competition was blessed with a dry, sunny weekend.

The top 8 teams will represent the SCPA in the Inter-Regional Championships at Brean Sands on September 8th and 9th. Teams 9 to 12 will represent the SCPA in the Pontin’s Trophy.

Cobbetts Open Doubles

Despite the appalling weather only two teams of the entered teams and the BBQ cancelled! The remaining 31 teams played through the pouring rain with timed games in leagues starting at 1pm followed by a knockout. Jean-Francois playing with Kath from the Lamb, who are twinned with his club Trévières, just failed to take the trophy to France losing out in the final to home club players Steve and Glenn. A very close final in the plate saw Chris and Liz fight back from 2-9 to beat Hilary and Gianni 13-12. There were some fine junior performances from Sam and Christian who both reached the main quarter finals and Neil and Callum. The latter just losing out in the final of the Wooden Spoon to Dave and Gina from the Lamb. The juniors Neil and Sam also 'Smashed the Egg' to reach the final of the shooting competition along with their more senior rivals Dave Stubbs, Bob Thomas, Chris Barron and Tony Giordano. Tony took the prize with the only hit in the final.

SCPA Qualifier 2

Just like last year, the second qualifier at Farmhouse on Sunday 3rd June was held in glorious sunny weather. Congratulations to the top 12 teams who have qualified for the Masters weekend to be held at The Ship on Saturday 7th and Sunday 8th July.

Shedfield Weekend

In dreadful weather for the time of year, 8 teams entered the Triples competition on Sunday, 27th May, which was played according to the traditional format: leagues in the morning followed by knockout rounds after lunch.

On Monday, 28th May, the afternoon Doubles Competition was held in equally bad weather with again only 8 teams entering. The top team was Jackie Lee and Jed Stone who won a prize of £15.

SCPA Singles and Shooting Competition

A pleasantly sunny Sunday at Bordon on 20th May saw 26 players competing for the this year's SCPA Singles title. After playing 5 games in the morning leagues, Chris Wilcox (Oxshott) and Dave Stubbs were both undefeated. Chris fell to Mark Duncan in the first game after lunch and Mark went on to reach the semi-final before narrowly losing 13-12 to last year's runner up Frank Charlesworth. Frank missed out yet again losing the final 13-6 to Dave (who himself had been runner-up on several occassions but had never before won the title). A special mention for Neil Floyd who was in last place after the morning leagues but bounced back to win the Plate in the afternoon. A great example of how you should never get despondent and give up.

For the first time the SCPA Shooting Competition was run alongside the Singles and this seemed to work very well with 15 players taking part. However, it was very hard work for Liz and a couple of extra non-playing helpers would be nice next time!

Michael and Reynald both scored highly in the first round but could not repeat their efforts in the last 8, although Reynald only just missed out on a place in the top 4. Dave scored consistently to reach the last 4 along with Stuart, Ashley and Mike. Dave went first in the final but was tiring from his efforts in the Singles (that's his excuse anyway!) and scored 18. This surprisingly proved enough to give him runner-up spot ahead of Stuart and Ashley but not enough to prevent Mike taking the title.

SCPA Adult/Junior Doubles

This competition returned to its usual Bank Holiday Monday slot but unfortunately did not get the usual Burridge sunshine! 17 teams competed for the title. After a 5 round snake the top 2 teams played off in the final and Ian and Stuart ran out 13-4 winners.

SCPA Qualifier 1

23 teams entered the qualifying series for the SCPA squad this year, slightly up on the 20 last season. The first qualifier was held at Crondall on Sunday, 6th May.

Crondall Open Doubles

On a glorious Easter Monday, 9th April, a splendid turnout of 42 teams competed in this annual competition. The format was a five game snake, with three games played in the morning and two after lunch. Prizes were awarded at every level, the results being:

Pictures of the prizewinners are available here (opens in a new window).

Lamb Spring Open

Another pleasant spring day at Burridge on Sunday, 1st April saw 26 teams competing in the Lamb Open for the Liz Hordern Memorial Cup. Stuart Hale and Ian Burchell met Barbara Burchell and John Billett in an all Hampshire Rose Final. Stuart and Ian were 13-6 winners in what could be Stuart's last competition before moving to Bulgaria!

Worthing Open Doubles

On a surprisingly dry day at Lancing Leisure Centre on Sunday 25th March, Worthing PC held their first full open competition. There were 26 teams from all over the Southern Counties as well as teams from the Isle of Wight, London, Kent and Anglian Regions. Ages ranged from 11yrs to elder statesmen!
We were all kept very fit between games with the 5-mile walk to the loos and the bar around all the building work going on at the leisure centre! Thanks must go to Brian Searle from Adur PC for all his help in setting up and tidying away and to Chris Barron, who proved himself a most capable seller of raffle tickets!
The prizes were presented by the President of Worthing PC, Mr John Townsend-Green. Special mention must go to the junior team of ‘Bye’ (Christian Waller and Martin Brooks) who made the Plate Competition and even more to the junior team of ‘Washing Machine’ (Dan Stanley and Mike Priest) who made the top 8 of the Main Competition.

Winter Doubles Final

The 12 finalists did battle at Burridge on Saturday, March 24th. The final was contested by two teams from the North of the region with Michael and Matt from Bordon beating Richard and Rod from Crondall 13-4 in the final. Final positions were as follows:

All of the result sheets bar one were returned after the 5 qualifying rounds. There were only two conceded matches and one not played. The qualifiers for the final were as follows:

Farmhouse Open Triples

24 teams braved the cold at Farmhouse on Sunday, 18th March with a north wind strong enough to regularly move the jack! After 5 rounds two teams had won all their games, Jems and Les Escargots. With the arrival of heavy rain to accompany the bitter cold, the final was shortened to 3 ends and the Jems ran out 2-1 winners!

Hampshire Rose Open Triples

There were 19 teams present on a lovely spring day for the 2nd Hampshire Rose Open on Sunday, 11th Match. After 5 rounds, there were three teams who had won all their games. KDM fought back from 4-11 down to win 13-11 in an excellent final while Harrow had to settle for 3rd place.

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Ship

A glorious sunny day saw an excellent turn out of 37 players for the fourth regional mêlée at the Ship. Four players won all of their four games with Dave Cross just winning the battle of the Daves to take first prize.

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Crondall

The bad weather forecast probably put off a number of players as only 10 turned up: 5 from the local club and 5 others. However, in spite of a bitterly cold wind, the predicted rain stayed away. After 3 timed games (1 doubles and 1 triples) the results were:

Lamb Winter Open Doubles, Burridge

Held at Burridge on Saturday, 30th December 2006 with an excellent turn out of 36 teams including a welcome first visit from 2 teams from the Whitnash club in the West Midlands. After a sunny start to the day the weather took a turn for the worse after lunch. However play continued without interruption, unlike at nearby St Mary's Stadium where kick-off was delayed in Southampton's match by 45 minutes because of the torrential rain - those footballers are such wimps! Hampshire Rose 2 won a close fought final against Farmhouse 13-9. The plate final was the last game to finish at around 6pm and both teams deserve credit for continuing in the atrocious conditions. The Lamb A team just beat Crondall A 13-10. Full results were as follows:

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