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Plenty of Winners at the Pendle Midweek Tournament

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Results from Pendle Marathon Midweek Tournament (by Barbara Dutton 09/07/11)

The marathon 4 day Midweek Tournament in which 23 players from all the over the country finished on Friday just before another deluge. Players were alternately baked and drenched over the 4 days but only the thunderstorm on Tuesday drove them temporarily from the lawns, possibly because modern mallets have metal shafts, or possibly that the comment that the nearby metal chimney would probably be an easier target for the lightning was not believed.

There were 8 trophies to be competed for and the results were as follows:

Block A advanced for the Pendle Rose Bowl – Lionel Tibble from Northampton.
Block B advanced for the David Jenkinson Trophy – Peter Moore from Nottingham.
Low bisque Handicap for the Pennine Trophy – Barry Keen from Bowdon.
High bisque Handicap for the David Hoyle Trophy – Joe Lennon from Glasgow.
Doubles for the Woodlands plates – Peter Hallet from Bowdon and Fylde and David Turner from Pendle and Belsay Hall.
Fastest singles game in 23 minutes for the Egyptian Cup – Barry Keen from Bowdon.
The Addicts trophy for most games played – David Marsh from Wrest Park.
The Highest Overall Egyptian for the Irish Cup – Peter Moore from Nottingham.

The managers Peter and Liz Wilson thanked the club for the hospitality, wonderful state of the lawns and the catering. The club can only thank the managers for keeping this complicated and marathon event on track and in such good humour.

Alan Mayne Wins Bury Mid Summer Event

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Heaton Park 2/3rd July, Mid Summer Advanced Tournament (by Paul Rigge 02/07/11)

Bury Club Chairman Barbara Young presenting the Advanced Summer Silver trophy to Alan Mayne.

Hosted by Bury CC and managed by Bury member Geoff Young.  Only Ten players finally turned up after the build up over the last two weeks of ‘hokey-cokey’. Players were in, players were out, some applied, other withdrew. Again Manchester was blessed with soaring temperatures and blue skys over both days, because of the numbers attending only three lawns were needed but the three we used were all running fast!

The Cup was played as a flexible swiss with Alan Mayne still being the ‘in form’ player not only winning the silverware but also hitting his next trigger point – now a minus one.   The B Class Trophy was won by another Bowdon Member, Mike Steer.

 

 

 

Bury Club Chairman Barbara Young presenting the B Level trophy to Mike Steer.

 

Federation Team to Face North East

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Federation ‘Roses’ Teams Announced (by Paul Rigge 30/06/11)

On Sun 24th July at Pendle & Craven CC this year’s annual AC Pennine Battle with the NE Fereration is being held. Pendle & Craven CC will again be providing the catering, so a little Croquet may be possible between courses.

Lancashire: Paul Rigge (-0.5); Matt Holmes (2); Robert Essler (2); Terry Vernazza (6); David Pollitt (7); Dave Holland (9).
Yorkshire: Charles Waterfield (0); Derek Watts (2); Phil Errington (2); Dennis Scar (7); David Millener (7); Sheila Watts (9).

Thanks to all who made themselves available but captains endeavor to match Hcps, so it’s always a closely fought contest.

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