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Ian Lines Wins Neil Williams Trophy Again

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Ian Lines Wins Neil Williams Trophy Again by Geoff Young (26 Apr 09)

The NW Fed Millennium Advanced was played at Heaton Park on 25-26 April 2009 under the mangement of Bury Croquet Club.

Two sections were played. The Neil Willams Trophy in the A Section of 11 players was a Flexible Swiss, won in a close contest by Ian Lines who lost only one game – this was to new face Lee Hartley of Fylde, contributing quite a bunch of index points towards his handicap reduction to scratch by making five wins out of seven. David Walters (Bowdon) also won 5/7, handicap reduction to -1, and was defeated by Ian in a decider. Paul Rigge completed the peels for a quad but couldn’t quite do the pegout.

In the B section for the Woodlands Trophy, Roger Schofield (Pendle & Craven) had a clean sweep of five out of five in a round robin, with handicap reduction to 3.

Full results:

Mill09_Adv_IanLinesA SECTION: Brian Storey bt Bob Burnett +13; Lee Hartley bt James Hawkins +7; Andrew Winn bt David Walters +10; Dave Nick bt Paul Rigge +9; Ian Lines bt Ray Lowe +14; Burnett bt David Barrett +23TP; Storey bt Nick +17; Hawkins bt Rigge +9TPO; Hartley bt Winn +17; Walters bt Lowe +3; Lines bt Burnett +9; Winn bt Barrett +25; Hartley bt Storey +14; Nick bt Hawkins +19; Rigge bt Lowe +16; Walters bt Burnett +9; Hawkins bt Barrett +3(T); Lines bt Nick +25; Storey bt Winn +3(T); Hartley bt Lines +17; Nick bt Lowe +11; Walters bt Rigge +10; Nick bt Burnett +2; Lines bt Hawkins +17TP; Nick bt Hartley +17; Lines bt Storey +25TP; Walters bt Hawkins +20; Rigge bt Winn +19; Burnett bt Lowe +26; Hartley bt Burnett +17; Lines bt Rigge +17TP; Winn bt Nick +5; Barrett bt Lowe +1(T); Walters bt Storey +14; Burnett bt Hawkins +10; Rigge bt Hartley +25; Storey bt Lowe +22; Lines bt Walters +20; TP Winn bt Hawlins +25TP; Burnett bt Rigge +7.

Mill09_Adv_RogerScofieldB SECTION: Mark Lloyd bt Ken Anderton +2T; Roger Schofield bt John Wilkinson +1T; Liz Wilson bt Peter Wilson +2; Schofield bt P Wilson +1T; Lloyd by L Wilson +20; Wilkinson bt Anderton +9; Schofield by Anderton+10; Pwilson bt Lloyd +1T; L Wilson bt Wilkinson +19; Anderton bt L Wilson +5; P Wilson bt Wilkinson +14T; Schofield bt Lloyd +17;; Anderton bt P Wilson +9 Lloyd bt Wilkinson +26; Schofield bt L Wilson +10.

Keith Aiton Wins Southport Jubilee Tankard

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Silver Celebration for Keith Aiton at Southport (20 Apr 09)

Southport_AdvJub_2009Keith Aiton beat Ian Lines to win the Jubilee Tankard, 25 years after he last won it. David Walters won the Consolation Swiss. The lawns at Southport were easy paced at about 9 plummers, but slight hills and good tight hoops (~1/32″) made conditions a little tricky. The weather was blues skies and sunshine all weekend. Some photos are on http://www.southportcroquet.org/news.htm

Day One – Keith Aiton started the day with an SXP against James Hopgood. Day 2 will see a 5 round final between current holder Ian Lines and Keith Aiton.
Day Two – Keith Aiton beat Ian Lines 3 games to 2 in an entertaining final.

Congratulations to Keith and commiserations to Ian. Congratulations also to David Walters from Bowdon who was the winner of the Swiss.

The weather was excellent and so was the play. Our thanks to the catering team, the lawns team and Ian Lines for his management of the event.

 

Southport_AdvJub09_KeithAitonLiningUpMain Event:
First Round: Dave Nick beat Paul Rigge +17; Ailsa Lines beat James Hawkins +16(t); Bob Burnett beat Lee Hartley +13; Steve Lewis beat Alan Pidcock +11; David Walters beat Alan Mayne +19; Ian Lines beat Ray Lowe +2.
Second Round:Keith Aiton beat James Hopgood +24sxp; Dave Nick beat Ailsa Lines +4; Bob Burnett beat Steve Lewis +21; Ian Lines beat David Walters +17.
Semi Final (best of 3): Keith Aiton beat Dave Nick +11, +25; Ian Lines beat Bob Burnett +17qp, +17.
Final (best of 5):Keith Aiton beat Ian Lines -26tp, +26tp, -12, +12tpo, +26tp.

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Pendle Trophy Goes East

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Pendle Trophy Goes to Ilkley by Barbara Dutton (19 Apr 09)

The Golf Croquet Tournament, a non CA event, took place over Saturday and Sunday 18/19th April. Saturday was bright and sunny, but with the bitterly cold wind to contend with. Sunday was sunny and warm, spectators sat out by the lawns instead of huddling under blankets.

Ten competitors took part, playing singles, all against all on the Saturday and then on Sunday doubles with the top 5 partnering the 5 lower scoring players from the singles. In the singles competition, Trevor Wood from Ilkley was First, Martin Wroughton from Ashby de-la-Zouche was second and Geoff Whitaker from Pendle was Third.

In the doubles: David Harkness (Ilkley) with Martin Wroughton(Ashby) were First, Jan McLardy (Pendle) with Trevor Wood (Ilkley) were Second, Dawn Speer and Geoff Whitaker both Pendle were Third and Maureen Whitaker (Pendle) and Hugh Armitage (Pendle & Ilkley) were Fourth.

Manager Abdul Ahmad was thanked for his excellent arrangements and the caterers for successfully feeding the competitors.

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