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Watch the Best of North West Croquet

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Watch the best of the North West
Forget the rugby, forget the weekend shopping watch the best of the North West as Bowdon and Chester take on the best of the South East at sunny Surbiton for fame and fortune in the AC Mary Rose and Longman trophies this weekend . Bring http://www.surbitoncroquet.org.uk/ up on your computers to watch your local heroes

Eugene has been off on holiday and so is unable to bring his equipment to Surbiton to stream the finals this weekend.
The Surbiton Web-cams will however be on-line.  They can be accessed through the club website http://www.surbitoncroquet.org.uk/
There are 3 separate live streams:
Lawn 1 – which will be used for the Mary Rose final on Saturday and the Interclub final on SundayLawn 2 – which will be used for the Mary Rose final on Saturday and the Interclub final on SundayLawn 3 – which will be used for the Longmann semi-final on Saturday and final on Sunday.
Play in the Longman & Mary Rose is scheduled to start at 09:30 whilst the Interclub will start at 10:30.

The webcams are part of the clubs CCTV security system (although they are pointed at lawns rather than areas to protect the clubhouse and equipment sheds).
The original one was put up primarily to enable members to see the state of the lawns (after say heavy rain) and to see if anyone else is at the club for those that don’t like being the only person there.
They are available 24/7 through a streaming service that offers a ‘free’ package but with the restriction that the video is not full HD, there is no sound and the viewer needs to ‘reclick’ play every few minutes to keep the stream playing.
It is therefore not as good as a specific event streaming service through something like U-Tube that Eugene Chang uses for his broadcasts.

Bowdon Win National Short Croquet Competition

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Bowdon won the Short Croquet Inter-Club Competition Final on 15th September in York beating Bury 9-2

Colin Irwin presents Cas Sinclair with the national Short Croquet trophy

Bowdon: Cas Sinclair (Capt); (6)Louise Cheyne (4); Sue Cooper (8); Nigel Matthews (10).
Bury: Richard Leach (6); Vi Richards (7); Harry Anderton (7); David Leach (10).

Louise & Cas beatRichard & David 14-7
Sue 
– beat Vi 14-5
– beat Harry 14-5
– lost to Richard 4-14		Nigel
– beat Harry 14-6
– beat David 14-10
– beat Vi 14-6
Cas
– beat Vi 14-8
– beat Harry 10-8		Louise
– lost to Richard 10-14
– beat David 14-8

Congratulations to all the team and in particular to Nigel who was playing in his first match for Bowdon and won all his games.

Bury (back row) and Bowdon players in the national Short Croquet final

22 Sep 2019
Message from John Harris of York CC:

It was very good to welcome you all to York today for the National Short Croquet Inter-Club final. Official pictures attached as promised of smiling faces! Congratulations to Bowdon for a convincing win; thanks to Colin Irwin for ‘being the CA’: and well done to both Bowdon and Bury for friendliness, helpfulness, positive play and excellent team spirit.

Best wishes John

Alain Giraud Best of Sandiford Six

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Southport September Advanced Tournament – Sandiford Salver – 14/15 Sep 2019

Alain Giraud lining up a shot

Alain Giraud won an exciting final game against Paul Rigge to win the Sandiford Salver at Southport’s September Advanced Tournament.

In an injury-affected event, only six players made it to the last day. Giraud and Rigge played a best-of-five final. Alain won the first two quickly, before Paul completed a TPO in the third. Both players clawed their way around, until Rigge left just two balls on the lawn, with himself for peg vs Giraud for rover. Alain hit his last shot and rolled off his hoop to win by one.

Alain Giraud with the 2019 Sandiford Salver

RESULTS:

KNOCK-OUT – Paul Rigge bt Mark Lloyd +13; James Hawkins bt James Thomas +18; Richard H Smith bt Jerry Guest +26; Alain Giraud bt Peter Wilson +25; Paul Rigge bt James Hawkins +22 +19TP; Alain Giraud bt Richard H Smith +11 +19; Alain Giraud bt Paul Rigge +26TP +26TP +1OTP.

PLATE – James Thomas bt Peter Wilson +1; Jerry Guest bt Mark Lloyd +10; Paul Rigge bt James Thomas +19; Mark Lloyd bt Peter Wilson +10; Richard H Smith bt James Hawkins +11; Mark Lloyd bt James Thomas +17; Richard H Smith bt James Thomas +22; James Hawkins bt Mark Lloyd +9.

Manager James Hawkins (l) with Winner Alain Giraud (r)

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