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Andrew Winn Takes Bury Mid Summer Advanced Tournament

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Heaton Park 7/8th July, Mid Summer Advanced Tournament

Hosted by Bury CC and managed by Bury member Paul Rigge.
Bury Club Chairman Barbara Young presented the Trophys,
Advanced Summer Silver Trophy – Andrew Winn.

Only Nine players braved the current *English Summer* to enter this year, but after sweeping the standing water of the three required surfaces on Friday prior to setting up, we didn’t get another drop until all contestants had left Sunday evening.
Format; All play all as a single block – eight games each over the weekend? In the end it worked out and Bowdon Member ( what again????) Andrew Winn was the clear winner – totally unbeaten.

Andrew Winn Beat Dave Nick +17
Jon Lamb beat Matt Holmes +26TP
Jerry Guest beat Francois Garcia +4
Paul Kenworthy beat Mike Steer +15
Paul Rigge beat Matt Holmes +3 OTP
Jon Lamb beat Dave Nick +26
Andrew Winn beat Mike Steer +13
Fran Garcia beat Paul Kenworthy +16
Dave Nick beat Jerry Guest +17TP		 Jon Lamb beat Paul Rigge +1T
Matt Holmes beat Jerry Guest +26
Paul Kenworthy beat Dave Nick +16
Andrew Winn beat Jerry Guest +19
Francois Garcia beat Mike Steer +23
Paul Rigge beat Paul Kenworthy +23
Jerry Guest beat Jon Lamb +19
Matt Holmes beat Dave Nick +13otp
Andrew Winn beat Francois Garcia +16
Matt Holmes beat Mike Steer +26TP		 Jerry Guest beat Paul Kenworthy +11
Dave Nick beat Paul Rigge +2
Andrew Winn beat Paul Rigge +17
Jon Lamb beat Paul Kenworthy +4
Francois Garcia beat Matt Holmes +2t
Jerry Guest beat Mike Steer +1t
Andrew Winn beat Jon Lamb +2
Matt Holmes beat Paul Kenworthy +5
Paul Rigge beat Mike Steer +24
Francois Garcia beat Jon Lamb +6

Lancashire Still in Top Flight

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Southwick (Brighton) Croquet Club, June 2-5th, 2012 Inter-Counties.

Lancashire remain in top flight despite fielding a weaker team than normal.

Bury members Matt Holmes & Paul Rigge turned out for their county over the Jubilee weekend on the south coast (Matt for the first time).
The campaign started badly with three straight losses, but over the course of the long bank holiday, the team gelled and managed enough wins to crawl up the leader board from the bottom, ending mid-table and beating neighbours, Cheshire, along the way to yet again re-affirm their Division one status.

Next year’s contest will be a cracker – Yorkshire, having been promoted, after finishing second in Div2, will be fair game next May Bank!

Photo (l-r);Paul & Matt, Lee Hartley, David Openshaw(C), Dave Nick, Ailsa Lines.

David Walters Wins Millennium Advanced (Paul Rigge Reports from Heaton Park 22/04/12)

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Heaton Park 21/22rd April, Neil Williams NW Federation Advanced Tournament

David Walters receives the Neil Williams Millennium Trophy from Bury Chairman Barbara Young

The annual Federation Millennium competition was hosted this year by Bury at Heaton Park. Geoff Young managed the event. Only Fourteen players were sent this year by their clubs to compete for the Federation’s only advanced tournament of the year. The Cup was played as a flexible swiss with David Walters displaying total dominance. The Trophy was won by Roger Schofield again, he last held it three years ago.The weather forecast for the weekend was dire but day one remained dry and calm, and only a single cloudburst on Sunday morning tried to spoil the enjoyment causing lawn one to flood for a couple of hours, solution – all retire to club house to eat Liz’s birthday cake(s) and don tutus. High jinx in the hut during a cloud burst that submerged lawn one and left large puddles on two.Luckily, Liz had lots of birthday cake (I did ask how old she was but she answered in croquet scores!).You’ll need to buy one of those present a drink to get any details about the dress or the special award given to Dennis! Fun was had all weekend and we hoped Liz had a Happy Birthday.

Roger Schofield Receives the Woodlands Trophy from Bury Chairman Barbara Young

 

 

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