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Five Croquet Courts for Five Winners

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Easter Celebrations at Pendle  (John Beech Memorial Tournament 14-17 April 2017)

Pendle at Easter – It really doesn’t matter when this Croquet event falls, the Earby weather always helps to test croquet players in varied conditions: cold, warm, wet or windy, pick your day and/or combination. Only 13 entries this year dipped in and out of the four day event, even the manager was part time this year!

Because of the low numbers entered, it was a huge treat to play all croquet rounds across the five superb courts as single banked – no mucking about with markers required.

Catering of course was well up to this club’s very high standards (although this reporter was upset to miss out on Fridays home made Hot Cross Buns).

OK, back to the croquet, by Monday we had winners for all the various trophies available:

John Beech Handicap Trophy – Roger Staples
Peter Dowdall Cup (adv) – defended by David Walters.
Under 10 Handicap Trophy – Andy Brandwood
10 & Over Handicap Trophy – Joe Lennon
Fastest Game – Betty Bates (54mins Vs R Essler)

Thanks to David Walters for publishing the games on Croquetscores (https://croquetscores.com/2017/ac/john-beech-memorial).

Manager Paul Rigge presents the John Beech Handicap Trophy to Roger Staples.
Manager Paul Rigge presents the Peter Dowdall Cup to David Walters.
Manager Paul Rigge presents the Fastest Game Trophy to Betty Bates.
Manager Paul Rigge presents the 10 Plus Handicap Trophy to Joe Lennon.

PRESS UPDATE Another Triple First Success for Fylde

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North West Federation Millennium Association Advanced – 8/9 April 2017 at Fylde

David Walters receives the Federation Millennium Trophy from Fylde Chairman Martin Bradshaw

 

Ian Hall receives the Millennium Adv B Level trophy from Fylde Chairman Martin Bradshaw

Six B class and eight A Class players assembled at Fylde for this event

The B Class was played as all-play-all (5 games over two days) with players from Keswick (Ian Hall and Jim Wilson), Bury (David Barrett), Southport (Alan Pidcock), Fylde (Nathan Baker) and Bowdon (Charles Harding).  The 5th game on Sunday afternoon turned out to be the final between Ian Hall and Alan Pidcock with Ian Hall winning and thus winning the B Class Event.  A special mention to Jim Wilson playing in his first ever Advanced Match and only forgetting one lift!

The A class had players from Pendle (Peter Wilson and Robert Essler), Bury (Paul Kenworthy), Liverpool (Paul Rigge and James Hawkins), Crake (Dave Nick), Bowdon (David Walters) and Fylde (Lee Hartley) who again played all-play-all  (7 games over two days).  Players triple banked on one of the lawns which seemed to cause few problems and much delight.  Going in to the last round it looked like it might be a three way tie with 3 players on 5 wins all of whom had beaten each other. David Walters had beaten Lee Hartley who had beaten Paul Rigge who had beaten David Walters!  However in the final round the A Class Manager (Paul) lost which resolved the dilemma.  Lee Hartley and David Walters finished on 6 wins each and David won as he had beaten Lee. 

The event was held in glorious sunshine and raised £70 for the Federation.  Thank you everyone for coming to Fylde and supporting the club and the Federation.

 

Triple banking can be great fun!

 

James Hawkins goes fishing

Take a look at the drone footage:

Crake Croquet Success with Unique Tournament

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Successful New Tournament – Alternative 18 Point Doubles – by David Lloyd (Tournament Manager) and Elaine Newman (Tournament Secretary).

 

Finalists in the Alternate doubles Crake Valley 8th April 2017- l-r Mike Patefield (Westmorland), Gail Moors (Southport), Peter Wardle (Crake), Tom Griffiths (Crake) and Tournament Manager David Lloyd
Finalists in the Alternate doubles Crake Valley 8th April 2017- l-r Mike Patefield (Westmorland), Gail Moors (Southport), Peter Wardle (Crake), Tom Griffiths (Crake) and Tournament Manager David Lloyd

Crake hosted an inaugural Alternate Doubles Tournament on Saturday 8 April 2017.  The event was fully attended with guests from Pendle, Southport, Westmorland and good representation from Crake with a handicap range of 24 to 0.5 – only a few murmurs about the early start 9.15 for 9.30 am. We got underway promptly with eight pairings seeded into two blocks. After the first two rounds of matches it was all square in both blocks with everyone having played two – won one and lost one. People went into the magnificent lunch feeling optimistic that they could be the pairing that went into the final.

Roger Schofield (Pendle) with another accurate shot.

After the final block match there were 4 pairs on 2 wins.  The final was contested between Gail Moors (Southport) and Peter Wardle (Crake) versus  Tom Griffiths (Crake) and Mike Patefield (Westmorland).  It was still an 18 point game played over two hours, with Gail Moors and Peter Wardle emerging victorious in the late evening sunshine.

A great day out with four matches each, perfect weather and everyone focussed, determined and good humoured. The perfect start to the season for all players.

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