Week 2 of the 2024 Super League started on Tuesday last with a feast of petanque. Rearranged fixtures meant that 6 of the 8 teams were in action whilst the remaining match was played on Thursday.
Mercenaries kept up their 100% record with a 3-1 win against Misfits and the Mustangs had to be content with a draw against Meerkats. Mavericks and Marlins both gained their first points of the season – Mavericks beat Mammoths 3-1 whilst Marlins gained a hard earned draw against Marvels.
The 2024 edition of the Monkstone Open Triples was held at the Club on Sunday 7 July 2024. 16 Teams entered and the format of the competition was 4 pools of 4 in the morning with the top 8 competing in the Gold knock-out stage in the afternoon whilst the bottom 8 went into the Silver knock-out.
The entries were:
Teams drew for “ranking” which determined which pool they were in. After completion of the morning session the rankings for the afternoon knockouts were:
Gold Competition
The results of the Gold Competition were (only the name of the team captain is shown):
It was good to see newcomer Samuel Bigot and his team, Real Socialdads, not only get into the Gold Competition but than fighting their through to the final where they met a very strong team in Three Twyns. Well done to all the Monkstone teams that qualified for the Gold.
Silver Competition
The results of the Silver Competition were (only the name of the team captain is shown):
Well done to the Monkstone team , Plesiosaurs, for taking the Silver competition but special mention should go to the defeated finalists, Boule-dozers who had one of our Juniors, Maddie Bartlett, in their ranks. We are already beginning to see the fruits of our Junior coaching sessions on Sunday mornings
Photo Gallery
Organiser, Bernard Adshead presents the prizes to the winners and runner-up.
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| Gold Winners – Three Twyns | Gold Runners-up – Real Socialdads |
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| Silver Winners – Plesiosaurs | Silver Runners-up – Boule-dozers |
Monkstone PC today ventured into England to play the second leg of a friendly competition between our club and Wilton Bridge PC, Ross-on-Wye, Monkstone having won the first encounter 5 games to 2. The setting for the encounter was picture perfect as Wilton Bridge is situated in a leafy quarter of this pretty Herefordshire market town.
Yesterday, Sunday 7 April, saw the biggest competition ever held at Monkstone Petanque Club – 68 boulers took part in the Open Doubles with all 16 lanes in use simultaneously for the first time.
The rain promised for most of the day did not arrive until around 4pm much to the relief of everybody. We even had small glimpses of the sun.
The competition format in the morning was 32 teams divided into 8 pools of 4 for a round-robin. After lunch, the top of each group went into the Gold elimination competition, second in each group to Silver, third to Bronze and fourth to Tin.
The competition was fierce but friendly and whilst there were some expected winners there were others that came through to take a prize in their section of the competition. Special mention should be made of 9 year old Jack Harris who, partnering his father Richard, won the Bronze competition.
Monkstone Petanque Club wishes thank all those supported the club by entering the competition and made it a truly memorable event.
Play in Full Swing
The Full Results
The morning Pool Stage final rankings
GOLD Elimination Group
SILVER Elimination Group
BRONZE Elimination Group
TIN Elimination Group
The Winners & Runners Up
Mike Jones, Monkstone President, presented the prizes to the Winners & Runners up (except for the Tin Competition where, for obvious reasons, the Organiser had to step in!)
WINNERS RUNNERS UP
Tin Competition
Phil Roberts & Mike Jones Linda & Alan Thomas
Bronze Competition
Richard & Jack Harris Sue Foster & Gail Brooksbank
Silver Competition
Roger Green & Alex Skibinski Didier Mack & Daniel Rawling
Gold Competition
Sean Smith & Ian Bailey Jake Caston & Stewart Spencer
……………….. and Finally
The Organiser at work
The Club’s annual Easter Egg Melee took place on Sunday. The promised rain managed to hold off until the competition finished.
30 Members turned out to try to win the stupendous Easter Egg prizes on offer. The Organiser promised a special twist this year, which would be revealed at the end of the competition.
Round one, as might have been predicted, produced 15 winners with Paul Wilcockson & Colin Burfoot in the lead on +11 closely followed by Francis Ryan & Robin Ralph on +10. Round 2 began to sort out the potential winners with only 8 players on 2 wins – Paul Wilcockson was in the lead on +16 followed by Francis Ryan & Margaret Dyer on +12.
So it was into the final round and unfortunately Paul & Francis couldn’t maintain their momentum as both lost and finishing on 2 wins. Only 3 players managed 3 wins and it was El Pres himself who came up on the rails to win with +18, followed my Margaret Dyer on +15 and Keith Nott on +8. in fourth place was Sean Smith on 2 wins and +14.
The 4 winners received 5 cream eggs (1st). 4 eggs (2nd), 3 eggs (3rd) and 2 eggs (4th) with all the rest of players receiving 1 egg.
It was then that the Organiser revealed that if anyone had a half white and half white egg it was worth £10,000 curtesy of Cadbury’s.
Unfortunately, nobody found the elusive two tone egg!!
RESULTS
PHOTOS
The Organiser, Bernard Adshead, presents the winner, Mike Jones, with the Easter Egg Melee trophy
The top 4, Keith Nott (3rd), Margaret Dyer (2nd), Mike Jones (1st) and Sean Smith (4th)
The competition in full swing
