Competition Results 2009

SCPA Masters

On a very warm weekend (27th & 28th June) the 12 teams that had qualified to play at Brean Sands for Southern Counties met at the Limesdowne Petanque Club in Catisfield, near Fareham. Six games were played on the Saturday and a further five on the Sunday. Both days were lovely, with one or two spots of rain on the second day. The leaders on the Saturday were slowly overhauled as they appeared to be out of luck, finaly winning their last game and making them 4th. The three above them in the final rankings slowly overhauled the previous deficit making a very close finish. Outrage became the final winners although good team spirit was shown by everyone who made it a very good weekend of competition. The results were:

Southampton City Open

Given the dwindling number of triples events in the Region these days and with the Masters only a week away, more than twelve teams might have been expected to turn out for Southampton City's annual tournament on 21st June.  However, a good spread of strong and experienced players from clubs across the Region - plus old friends from the Island - took part, on a warm day with clouds hiding the sun on-and-off.  Morning play was in leagues, each of which ended, remarkably, with one team having won three games, one two, one one and one none.  The three league winners plus the next best five teams went into the afternoon knockout, from which first round losers went into the Plate. The four triples who'd missed out on the knock-out played an afternoon league for the Wooden Spoon. 

The second day of the annual Southampton Kite Festival was also taking place at Lord's Hill Outdoor Recreation Ground, while during the day a helicopter from Hampshire Air Ambulance and another from HM Coastguard landed and took off close by the terrain, all adding further to the atmosphere.  A good time was had by all and half the teams entering took home prizes.

The results were:

The Lamb Spring Open

There was changeable weather for the Lamb’s Liz Hordern Memorial Trophy competition held at Burridge on 7th June. There was a small, but select, entry of 16 teams, which made a league and knock-out morning ideal. It was good to welcome Jan and Tim from the Isle of Wight and to welcome back past-master Geoff Sully, who has not lost his touch after all these years of ‘resting’.

The prizes were presented by the Lamb PC President Mike Hordern, in memory of his wife Liz, who was a well-loved member of the club.

SCPA 2nd Qualifier

The second qualifier was held at Adur on Sunday, 31st May, again in superb weather. The following results are the aggregate of scores from the 1st and 2nd rounds and the top 12 teams will play in the Masters on 27/28th June at Limesdowne to determine the Main Regional Squad.

SCPA 1st Qualifier

This qualifier for the Inter-Regional competition was held at Crondall on Sunday, 10th May. A very bright, warm and sunny day greeted the 20 teams trying to gain a place to be one of the 12 going to represent the region at Brean Sands in September. The second round is to be played at Adur on the 31st May.

SCPA Adult/Junior Doubles

On a fairly warm Monday Bank Holiday Monday (4th May), 10 juniors joined their adult partners at Cobbetts, Burridge. The top 4 pairs from the morning’s leagues entered the main competition in the afternoon, while the next 4 battled it out in the plate. This left 2 contestants, including 7 year old Declan, who was playing in his first competition, joined by his more experienced father.  These two played against last year’s winners of the competition, losing out on the best of three games.

The final was a close fought contest with both of the juniors pointing extremely well whilst the adult did the shooting. This was an entertaining game to watch and like all the games played in excellent spirit by adults and juniors alike. Many of the adults commented afterwards how much they had really enjoyed the day.

Crondall Open Doubles

There was a good entry of 34 teams for the Easter Monday event. Fortunately the weather forecast was wrong and it began to brighten up soon after the start. By the afternoon it was warm and sunny - just ideal conditions to play in. A "snake" format was used with 3 games played in the morning and 2 after lunch. There were some very challenging matches and the top 6 teams won all 5 games. The prizewinners were:

Cobbetts Open Doubles

There were 18 teams at Burridge on Sunday, April 12th for this event. Dave and Alan, last year’s plate winners, were trying to go one better this year by winning the main competition. With a 12-5 lead in the final they seemed set to achieve this but Paul and Sheila hit back in style by taking 6 points in the next end. However, Dave and Alan recovered to win the next end and the honour of being the first names on the new perpetual trophy.

7 players made it to the final of the ‘Shoot the Egg’ competition and the first round saw Dave, Tomasz, Chris Barron, Sam Thatcher and Mike Knight eliminated. Mark Duncan, the winner the previous week at Hampshire Rose, could not quite repeat the feat and eventually shared the prize with Steve Lombard.  John Limburn of Shedfield won the pointing competition.

Hampshire Rose Open Triples

This event was held on Sunday 5th April. Despite the glorious weather only 10 teams were present. The ‘snake’ system was used and after 5 rounds two teams had won all of their matches with Steve, Sue and Dave beating the home team of Beth, Mark and Matt on points difference to take the title. Mark had some compensation winning the Smash the Egg competition by 2 eggs to Dave’s 1 in the ‘smash-off’ which also included Sam Thatcher, Maurice Jetten and Chris Barron.

Farmhouse Open Triples

20 teams played on the Farmhouse terrain in Portsmouth on Sunday 29th March on a dry, sunny day, but will a chill wind. All teams played 5 games according to a pre-drawn Snake format. Prizes were awarded down to 12th place, the top four being as follows:

SCPA Winter Doubles Finals

The Winter Doubles Finals was held at Burridge on Saturday, 28th March. The top team after the 5 winter rounds was Harrison & Ashley. Mike & Mary were unlucky not to qualify but were given a reprieve when Tomasz & Ben had to withdraw. These two teams met in the first match of the morning and Mike & Mary upset the form book by winning 13-12 (having led 12-5!). Harrison & Ashley recovered well to win their next two games and win their league. Steve & Karen won all three of their games to top the other league. In the semi-finals, Steve & Karen beat Mike & Mary and Harrison & Ashley comprehensively beat the Summer Doubles Champions Richard & Dave. After a very one-sided final Harrison & Ashley were worthy winners of this year’s title.

Fifth SCPA Winter Mêlée, Hampshire Rose

There were 27 players at the Hampshire Rose on Sunday, March 1st for the last of this winter’s mêlées. For the second mêlée running the top prize went to Roz Silvester but it was a close run thing this time with four players winning all their games.

SCPA Quiz

The annual SCPA Quiz was held on Friday 27th February at The Limes. There was a reasonable turn-out of 8 teams but disappointingly only 5 clubs were represented (plus Tiny and Trish from Shedfield who, along with Mary Sheppard and Dave Meyer from Limes, were last year’s winners and so had the dubious honour of organising this year!) All of those who did take part had a very enjoyable evening.

The Lamb team (Mike and Kath Knight, Tim and Micheline Lawson) had built up an early 6 point lead by Round 3 but a couple of good scores saw RADS (Dave and Alison Stubbs, Richard and Sue Greeves) draw level by Round 5. It was neck and neck from there on in with The Lamb never more than 2 points ahead. The ‘running round’ on ‘ologies, ‘ectomies and phobias proved to be the decider with RADS picking up 24 points to The Lamb’s 21 to take the title back to Cobbetts for at least the 8th time! The 3 person Cobbetts team of Alan and Penny Forse and Marie Gravell also did very well to take 3rd place.

Fourth SCPA Winter Mêlée, Ship

31 players turned up at the Ship Inn on Sunday, 1st February in dry but very cold weather. The results were:

Third SCPA Winter Mêlée, Crondall

On Sunday, 4th January, only 12 players braved the bitterly freezing weather (8 Crondall PC members and 4 from other clubs). After four games, the results were:

 

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