The inaugural challenge match between the WPA and the Big League took place in glorious sunshine at the Rising Sun, Abersychan, on 9 June and congratulations must go to the Monkstone players who contributed so much to the WPA’s victory by 27 games to 21.
Our club fielded 8 of the 16 players in the WPA team and won 19 of the 27 games, a magnificent effort by the four pairs of Monkstone players:
Bernard & Vickie, Paul & Lynda, Rose & Tony and Brian & Judith.
Well done!
Since early April members of the club having been involved in the WPA Grand Prx Series. This competition comprises 4 rounds and the final round took place over the weekend of 11/12 May at Wenvoe Petanque Club.
The following members of the club have taken part in this competition, they are:
Roger Griffin, John Barnes, Keith Nott & Jim Harrison playing as one team – Monkstone.
Three other members of the club also took part, but as members of other teams, Tony Smith (Binary Data), Brian Dreyer (Blues Brothers) and Rose Fiera (Boulistic Girls).
Congratulations to all those club members who have finished in the top 8 teams, and therefore qualify to represent Wales in Edinburgh in August.
Wenvoe Petanque Club – Sunday 17th March 2013.
Roger Griffin, John Barnes and Jake Caston (The Wheatsheaf PC) receiving the Stuart Clarke Cup.
Congratulations to Barney, Roger and team mate Jake Caston from the Wheatsheaf Petanque Club for winning the 2013 Stuart Clarke Cup. The team qualified as one of the top four teams to go into the semi-finals.
The semi-finals saw the trio drawn against one of several home teams to get a semi-final place, Wenvoe 3. The final saw Barney, Roger and Jake drawn against another Wenvoe team, this time the Wenvoe Raiders, a very experienced trio of Jeff Ball, Dai Cannan and Mike Jacques.
After a game of many twists and turns Barney, Roger and Jake took the game 13/9.
Congratulations, the first trophy of 2013 for the Monkstone PC.
The Wheatsheaf Petanque Club (PC) hosted this years President’s Cup, which saw three members of the club compete in the semi-finals. Both Roger and Barney, together with Jake Caston from the Wheatsheaf PC won through to take one of the top four places to play for the Cup. The star player of the day was Rosie, who with Bill Davies (Wenvoe PC) and Gay Evans (Monkstone Inn PC) also won through to the semi-finals, without dropping a game.
The first semi-final drew Roger and Barney against Rosie, unfortunately, for Roger and Barney, Rosie’s team won through to take a place in the final. Both Bill and Rosie pointed exceptionally well, which caused their opposition difficulties.
In the final Rosie’s team came up against a very strong team of Jessie Lepitz-Robic (Penarth PC), Ian Bailey (Monkstone Inn PC) and Kon Tomczyk (Caerleon RFC PC) who took the title. However, well done Roise on her first solo competition.
All the games were played in arctic conditions and everybody should be congratulated in getting out of their warm beds to make the trip and help to make a good competition.
The Home Nations were hosted by the Monkstone Petanque Club. Eight teams from England and another eight from Scotland had come to compete for the prestigious Home Nations Championship Cup. With the Wales squad on home ground, the undefeated English squad were up for some fierce competition. The Home Nations is played in 12 rounds over two days, and is held in rotation in each of the participating nations’ countries.
The first day of play, saw England win seven out of their eight games, Wales take four wins and Scotland one. England notched another 12 wins over the next two rounds and Wales 10. There were further tight games in the fourth round though the next day did not see a good start for the Welsh squad who lost all their games but one against Scotland. As the day went on the Wales side upped their game and all of a sudden, the all-conquering English outfit were suddenly back in reach. Games at the end of play were England with six wins, Wales with five and Scotland with one.
Round 10 scores continued to improve for Wales. The Welsh squad rallied at the 12th round but not enough to take the title from England, who won the Home Nations Championship with 72 wins; second was Wales with 52 wins and third was Scotland with 20.
The Welsh teams, supported by team managers Barbara Vaughan and Tony Smith, fought a valiant fight but it just wasn’t to be.
Results: Wales 1 (Cyril Royer, Ian Bailey, Neil Dobbins) 10 games; Wales 2 (Matthew Franks, Glynn Attley, Phil Bradshaw) 9 games; Wales 3 (Jeff Ball, Dai Cannan, Mike Jacques) 5 games; Wales 4 (Derek Jones, Mike Brown, Brian Dreyer, Lynn Babbage) 6 games; Wales 5 (Julie Bailey, Gemma Foster, Tansy Mayfield) 4 games; Wales 6 (Stewart Spencer, Kon Tomczyk, Peter and Julie Beresford) 7 games; Wales 7 (Jean-Yves Robic, Jake Caston, Scott Murray) 8 games and Wales 8 (Mike Jones, John Barnes, Roger Griffin, Mike Wigg) 3 games.
South Wales Echo, August 2012.
