Competition Results 2008

  

Lamb Winter Open, Burridge

The last event of the year, held on 28th December, was as popular as ever with 26 teams competing on a cold, but sunny and bright day. The format in the morning was leagues of four (with one league of six), with main, plate, and two spoon competitions after the usual lunch of Mike's excellent bacon rolls and soup. There was an splendid raffle and plenty of prizes, shared out among the following:

Second SCPA Winter Mêlée, Shedfield

The second of the Winter Mêlées was held at Shedfield on Sunday, December 6th. There were around 25 players (difficult to say exactly how many with several comings and goings during the morning!) braving the icy conditions, but eventually the pitch did thaw in the winter sunshine. Jed took the honours by being the sole winner of all 4 games ahead of numerous players on 3 wins, including amazingly three all on +16!

First SCPA Winter Mêlée, Limesdowne

With around 80 members attending the AGM, it was somewhat disappointing that there were only 15 entries, from just 5 clubs, for the first of the winter mêlées (compared with 40 last year). Presumably the heavy rain in the morning meant that most people had already decided not stay on after the meeting despite it turning into a dry but cold afternoon.

SCPA Secretary's Cup

On Sunday 16th November the Secretary’s Cup was held at Oxshott PC. This competition is for members of club or Regional committees as a ‘Thank You’ for their work for pétanque over the year. 12 teams competed, representing 9 clubs and the Regional Executive. The weather was kind for half the day then the damp set in! The great hospitality shown to us by members of the Oxshott club more than made up for this, and we thank them for it. There were prizes at all levels and the results were as follows:

For the 4 teams who were not placed there was a small consolation ‘goodie’ bag!

SCPA Doubles

There were 24 teams at Southampton City on Sunday, October 26th on a grey and wet day. As often seems to be the way, the 8th team from the morning leagues, Paul & Sheila Hayward, beat the No 1 team, Jed Stone & Jackie Lee, in an all Limesdowne quarter-final. They followed this by beating another Limes team, Danny Corp and Tony Jones, in the semi-final. Meanwhile, Dave Stubbs & Richard Greeves, having beaten last year’s champions Graham Galton and Andy Powell in their morning league, went on to beat another team playing on their home terrain, Gianni & Hilary Dalmasso, in the other semi-final. In the final, the lead changed hands several times before, at 10-10, a ‘trick shot’ by Paul with the last boule of the end left them on for 3 to give Paul and Sheila the title.  

SCPA Summer Doubles Finals

The top 8 teams from the 24 who entered the competition were at Burridge on Saturday, October 18th to compete for the June Lombard Memorial Trophy. Fittingly this included June’s son, daughter-in-law and grandson – Steve, Karen and Callum.   After a very hard fought battle Dave Stubbs and Richard Greeves beat last year’s winners Karen Lombard and Mark Duncan 13-10 in one semi-final. In the other semi-final were Bob Bish and Wendy Watkins, who had almost withdrawn from the final as Bob had broken his right elbow and left finger playing cricket! Despite this handicap they had won two of their morning games but were defeated 13-5 by Steve and Callum. This meant that the two teams that had won all of their 3 morning games were in the final. Dave and Richard ran out 13-4 winners in the glorious October sunshine and ended the competition undefeated.

SCPA Mixed Doubles

There were 21 teams at Burridge on Sunday, October 12th and with thick fog it did not look like a very promising day. However, the fog lifted shortly after start of play and it turned out to be gloriously warm and sunny. After the morning leagues the cut for the Main competition could not have been closer with two Limesdowne teams, Paul & Sheila Hayward and Mike Sheppard & Jackie Lee, in equal 8th place with 2 wins +6.  Paul & Sheila had more ‘points for’ and made the most of getting through by defeating one of the more fancied teams, Karen Lombard and Michael Tull in the last 8. They then went on to beat Kath & Mike Knight (past winners of the competition in 1999 & 2000) 13-12 in the semi-final. Meanwhile Alison & Dave Stubbs fought back to beat another of the ‘bookies favourites’ last year’s champion Mary Sheppard playing this year with Mark Robertshaw. Dave & Alison defeated Paul & Sheila 13-4 in the final to take home the Ian Cook Memorial Trophy for the fourth time. This was a fitting victory as Ian was a member of the Cobbetts club and Dave & Alison were the first winners of the trophy when it was presented 25 years ago in 1983.

SCPA Singles

The late arrival of summer saw the sun shining at Bordon on 14th September and an excellent entry of 34 players competing for this year's SCPA Singles title. There was a familiar look to the main competition with three of last year’s semi-finalists reaching the same stage again. Mark Duncan went one better this year beating last year’s winner Dave Stubbs 13-10 in the semi-final while Harrison Ash lost to the eventual winner, Matt Slater. Matt and Mark were both undefeated going into the final and in close fought match Matt took the title with a 13-10 win. Michael Tull was runner-up in the Main Consolage for the 2nd year running losing to Glenn Floyd in the final. Doo won the Plate competition and Tomasz beat Jed, the 1996 champion, in the Plate consolage. With just two teams in the Wooden Spoon, Bernie and Kath played the ‘best of three’ with one game on each of the different terrains!

SCPA Shooting Competition

The SCPA Shooting Competition was again run alongside the Singles with 24 players taking part this year which must be a record for the competition (there were 15 last year). Thanks to Jack who was kept busy all day scoring and everyone who helped retrieve boules etc.

Last year’s winner Mike Knight just failed to make the cut for the 2nd round while last year’s runner-up Dave Stubbs again scored highly to lead after round 1. Some high scoring in the 2nd round saw 5 players going through to the last 4! There were 3 players with a score of 20 or more (enough to win the final!) who just missed out. Dave again used the excuse that 7 games of singles and 2 rounds of shooting had taken too much out of him. Going last (having triumphed in the games of ‘Paper, scissors, stone’ that decided the shooting order for the final!) he had to settle for 3rd place behind Harrison and this year’s champion Rod. So the winners were:

The detailed results were:

Inter-Regional Competition

This was held at Brean Sands over the weekend of 6th and 7th September in pretty appalling conditions. Unfortunately, the SCPA squad were not able to defend their 2007 win, but finished in 6th place and remained in the 1st Division. The Southern Juniors came in 5th in division 1. In the Challenge Cup, the SCPA team came 3rd (out of 11). Full details can be found on the EPA website (opens in a new window) and the Team Manager's reports are below (not all are available yet):

• Team Manager's Report - Bernie Miles
• Challenge Squad Team Manager's Report - Chris Barron
• Junior Team Manager's Report - Peter Galton
• Combined Junior Team Manager's Report - Liz Farrow

SCPA Masters

The Masters Competition was held at The Admiral Cunningham on the 19th and 20th July.  The Competition enjoyed two days of dry, warm and sunny weather after a short but heavy shower of rain before the start of play on Saturday.

As usual the teams that finished in the top 8 places will represent the SCPA in the EPA Inter-Regional Championship and the other teams will represent the SCPA in the Inter-Regional Challenge Trophy at Brean Sands on September 8th and 9th 2008.

SCPA Triples & Junior Triples

Only 12 triples teams and 4 junior teams played in this event held at Farmhouse on Sunday, 13th July. Although the weather was generally unsettled, it turned out to be a warm and dry day. The results were:

Southampton City Open

Held on Sunday 29th June, it was an excellent day and good to see the terrain being fully used. We were very pleased to see Jaroslaw Kraus from Cheb in the Czech Republic, who played with Southampton City members, Graham Galton and Richard Trent.

SCPA Qualifier 2

The second round of the qualifying series was held at Crondall on 22nd June. The final results (aggregated with those from the first round) are shown below. The top 12 teams will play in the regional masters weekend where they will play-off to find the top 8 places and these teams will form the regional squad. Places 9 to 12 will form the regional challenge squad.  The teams in 13th to 16th will for the combined squad along with 2 teams each from Kent and Northern region, along with a 2nd SCPA junior team.

Lamb Spring Open Doubles

On an unexpectedly fine day on 15th June, 22 teams gathered at Burridge in memory of Liz Hordern who was a well-loved member of The Lamb for several years and wife of the present President, Mike. Mike welcomed everyone and the games were underway, playing leagues in the morning and knock-out in the afternoon. There were prizes for 11 of the teams taking part and each of the 7 juniors who played received a certificate. The results were:

Thanks must go to Mike Knight who slaved away in the kitchen, keeping us
fed with bacon rolls, hot dogs and burgers, and the Cobbetts for the use of Burridge Pavilion.

SCPA Juniors/Espoirs v Isle of Wight

This was held on Sunday, 8th June at Sandown Rugby Club on a glorious hot sunny day. In a very close match the SCPA Junior 4 team won the last game of the day 13-11 to seal a win for the SCPA Juniors and Espoirs by 13 games to 11. With the SCPA retaining the trophy they now take a 5-4 lead in the series. The 2 SCPA espoir teams won 6-2 against their Isle of Wight counterparts with Graham and Ben winning all 4 of their games. The SCPA juniors narrowly lost 7-9. Rebecca played with the two youngest Southern juniors, Hannah and Jordan, and they played extremely well to be the best SCPA junior team winning 3 games and losing the other 12-13.

SCPA Qualifier 1

23 teams (the same number as last year) entered the qualifying series for the SCPA squad, the first round being played at Adur on 1st June.

Shedfield Weekend

In the triples held on Sunday, 25th May, 14 teams competed. The results were:

In the doubles on the following day, in spite of the bad weather, 11 teams played in an informal modified snake competition with cash prizes after each round. Most teams played seven games and a good time was had by all.

SCPA Adult/Junior Doubles

Bank Holiday Monday (5th May) saw 18 teams at Burridge for this event. After morning leagues the top 8 teams went forward to the knock-out stage. The father and daughter pairing of Steve and Hannah took the title beating Graham and Sam 13-5 in the final. The remaining 10 teams played a 3 game snake in the Plate competition and Derek and Martin were well deserved winners being the only team to win all their 3 games.

Hampshire Rose Open Triples

An overcast day with some sunny spells and showers saw a small entry of 10 teams on Sunday, 13th April. Despite this, fun was had by all who attended and the team from Farmhouse ran away with 5 wins to become the overall winners.

Worthing Open Doubles

A busy weekend at Burridge saw 22 teams there on Sunday, 30th March for the Worthing Open Doubles and again the weather was generally kind. The entry included 11 junior players from around the region and several of them were amongst the prize winners.

Winter Doubles Finals

From an initial entry of 30 teams the following qualified to contest the finals at Burridge on Saturday, 29th March:

After a dry but windy morning, weather more appropriate to the winter doubles arrived at lunchtime and the afternoon play was in steady rain. The two teams that reached the final had both won the competition twice previously, Michael and Matt in 2004/5 & 2006/7 and Mike and Paul in 2000/1 & 2003/4. Mike and Paul made it a hat-trick of victories with a 13-4 win. Two other previous winners also made the top 5 with Mike & Kath (2002/3) losing 13-6 to Richard and Mark in the 3rd place play-off, while Dave & Chris (1998/9) beat John & Bob 13-8 to take 5th place.

Cobbetts Open Doubles

The forecast of snow did not put off too many people and 26 teams turned up at Burridge on Easter Sunday afternoon (March 23rd) for the Cobbetts Doubles. It turned out to be a cold day but much better day than expected with just one heavy hailstorm during the afternoon. One of last year's winners, Steve Lombard, was again in the final against one of last year's runners-up, Kath Knight. Steve, this time playing with Karen, triumphed again by beating Kath and Mike 13-4. An all Cobbetts plate final saw Dave Stubbs (playing with Alan Forse) beat his wife Alison (and Mike Porter) by the same score. The main consolage final was a much closer affair with Graham and Chris just beating Glenn and Steve 13-12. The junior team of Hannah and Rebecca narrowly lost to Wendy and Jackie in the wooden spoon final and the best junior team was Michael and Sam who qualified for the main competition.

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Adur

Sixteen players attended the last of the current series of Mêlées. The results were:

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Ship

A dry but very cold windy day saw an excellent turn out of 44 players at The Ship on Sunday, February 3rd. Unfortunately, when the scores were added up, Jackie's drawn game was missed and so she did not appear in the original list of prize winners.

SCPA Winter Mêlée, Crondall

After a frosty start, the weather soon turned out to be mild and sunny for the 16 players who took part (11 from the home club and 5 others). Four rounds of doubles were played and the results were:

© 1998- Phi Web Design