Now before all you North West Federation Members get upset – I don’t mean we lost I mean the actual Trophy is lost!
Two teams of 6 players from Croquet North and The North West Federation met at Pendle for this annual competition. The two Captains did their best to match handicaps to enable the format of 3 Level Play Doubles in the morning and 6 games of singles in the afternoon.
The morning doubles finished 2 -1 in favour of Croquet North with two of the games going to exciting “time turn” finishes in which Croquet North showed great resilience and determination. The afternoon singles were 4 Advanced games and 2 handicap games matching the handicaps as best as could be done. As results filtered in the score became 2 – 2 and then 3 – 2 to Croquet North. The next match to finish made the result 4 – 2 to the visitors. The home team’s players Steve Skelton and Phil Snowden pulled the score back to 4 – 4 and it took Brian Medley to finalise the score at 5 -4 to The North West Federation.
Thank you to non-playing Captains Liz Wilson and Julian Gibson for arranging the event and to Pendle for hosting
Results as follows
Neil Adams and Phil Snowden lost to Phil Errington and Nigel Durie ( – 1 on time)
Brian Medley and Betty Bates beat Terry Vernazza and David Millener (+10)
Steve Skelton and Garry Wilson lost to Derek Watts and Nigel Roberts (- 1 on time)
Neil Adams beat Phil Errington (26TP – 1)
Garry Wilson lost to David Millener (12 – 26)
Betty Bates lost to Nigel Durie (14 – 21)
Steve Skelton beat Terry Vernazza (26 -12)
Phil Snowden beat Nigel Roberts (26 – 16)
Brian Medley beat Derek Watts (26 – 14)
Pictures show all the doubles pairings “in-action”
