Competition Results 2008

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 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 ay 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:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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