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Lancashire Beat Cheshire at Inter Counties (CA Website 05/06/12)

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Teams representing both Lancashire and Cheshire played at the Diamond Jubilee AC Inter Counties last weekend in Sussex. Both teams play in Division 1 and whilst not winning the championship, managed to avoid relegation finishing 7th and 8th in the division. The highlight of the weekend was the match between Cheshire and Lancashire with Lancashire emerging victorious 2-1. The tournament winners were Nottinghamshire who on route to the title beat Cheshire 2-1 and Lancashire 3-0.

Lancashire: David Openshaw (Pendle); Lee Hartley (Fylde); Matt Holmes (Bury); Ray Lowe (Southport); Ailsa Lines (Bowdon); Dave Nick (Crake); Paul Rigge (Bury).
Cheshire: Colin Irwin (Bowdon); Ken Cooper (Bowdon); Chris Irwin (Bowdon); Steve Lewis (Bowdon); Ian Lines (Bowdon); David Maugham (Bowdon); Mike Steer (Bowdon); Sylvia Steer (Bowdon).

County Played Wins Games
Nottinghamshire 10 9 21
Somerset 10 8 21
Glamorgan 10 6 18
Essex 10 6 16
Hertfordshire 10 6 15
Surrey 10 5 15
Lancashire 10 5 15
Cheshire 10 4 16
Channel Islands 10 3 11
Gloucestershire 10 2 10
Suffolk 10 1 7

Lancashire Still in Top Flight

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Southwick (Brighton) Croquet Club, June 2-5th, 2012 Inter-Counties.

Lancashire remain in top flight despite fielding a weaker team than normal.

Bury members Matt Holmes & Paul Rigge turned out for their county over the Jubilee weekend on the south coast (Matt for the first time).
The campaign started badly with three straight losses, but over the course of the long bank holiday, the team gelled and managed enough wins to crawl up the leader board from the bottom, ending mid-table and beating neighbours, Cheshire, along the way to yet again re-affirm their Division one status.

Next year’s contest will be a cracker – Yorkshire, having been promoted, after finishing second in Div2, will be fair game next May Bank!

Photo (l-r);Paul & Matt, Lee Hartley, David Openshaw(C), Dave Nick, Ailsa Lines.

Paddy Chapman Wins Bowdon May Advanced Weekend

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BOWDON ADVANCED WEEKEND, 26th-27th May

The 2012 Bowdon June Advanced Weekend was won by Paddy Chapman who beat David Maugham in the final (-16tp, +14, +13otp, -17tp, +19) to win the Peterson Cup, presented by club President Martin Granger Brown.   The consolation Egyptian Event was won by James Hopgood, who beat Ian Lines in the deciding game.

The Peterson Trophy was presented to Paddy by Martin Granger Brown, and thanks were recorded to Alan Mayne for the fantastic Bowdon lawns, Barry Keen for setting the hoops, and to John Saxby and his team of helpers who provided the magnificent catering.  There was unbroken sunshine all weekend and the lawns were pleasantly paced at about 11 Plummers, and with hoops set at about 1/32” there was a reasonable level of interactivity in most games.  Dave and Paddy were clearly in a league of their own and the final, played under Super Advanced rules, was one of the best quality best-of-fives seen in a while.  In game 2, Paddy was attempting a tpo, but failed to peg out David’s ball (missing from about 2 yards!), so was forced to peg out his own ball and give a contact.  Dave had a good leave, but Paddy then redeemed himself by hitting the 35 yard shot and finishing.  In game 3, Paddy finished off the contact with balls in corners 3 and 4 (he had been popped to hoop 2).  In the deciding final game, Paddy went round 3rd turn after hitting the ball in corner 2, having put his first ball in hoop 5.  David got going off the contact but was hampered after 1 back having done 2 peels of the tpo, leaving Paddy a contact and an easy finish.

 

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