Apr/May/Jun 100 Club Draw

18 July 2024 / / No comments

Following are the results of the last 3 draws which, due to an oversight and incapacity, have not been published

April draw:

1 Gill Clark £93.00
2 Roger “Ben” Bennett £31.00
3 Geoffrey Keast £15.50

May draw:

1 Frances Ralph £91.50
2 Gill Clark £30.50
3 Margaret Dyer £15.25

June draw:

1 Gill Greenwell £93.00
2 Spencer Bartlett £31.00
3 Bernard Adshead £15.50

The 100 Club currently has a total of 62 members making the monthly prize pot £139.50, which is still the highest number we have had. In addition there is a bonus draw in December for a prize of around £150 (depending on the number of members). If you are not a member please consider joining.  The more people that join the bigger the prizes and the more improvements we can make to YOUR Club.

Congratulations to the winners but don’t forget:

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

Contact Bernard on treasurer [at] monkstonepetanque [dot] org [dot] uk  or speak to him at the Club if you would like to join or for more details.

Category: Fund Raising /

Wilton Bridge Friendly

11 April 2024 / / No comments

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.

Round 1 consisted of four games of Triples on pistes that were flat and thinly gravelled. At the end,  honours were even at 2-2, although Monkstone had a points advantage of 45-38.
After a tasty lunch provided by our hosts, we played a round of six Doubles and it was clear that Wilton Bridge were up for the fight. With just one game to finish, the scores were 3-2 to Monkstone, but our last pair, Roger and
Roger & Vickie dig in on the penultimate end of the crucial final game
Vickie, were 12-11 down with Wilton Bridge on the verge of  win and an honourable 5-5 draw on the cards. Wilton Bridge failed to take their chance and Vickie was able to point in for 2 to secure the match 6-4 (115-89).
After the match Monkstone captain, Roger, presented Wilton Bridge captain, Phil Lear, with a Monkstone PC pennant.
A fantastic day of boules, with (believe it or not) the sun actually shining for once! More importantly our two clubs have agreed to make our friendly an annual event as is our annual match with Royal Wootton Bassett PC which comes up next month.
The Monkstone team was Ash, Bernard, Beryl, Frances, Ian Campbell, Ian McC, Keith Thomas, Peter Donovan, Phil Roberts, Robin, Roger and Vickie.
Both teams gather for a group photo
Category: Competition, Friendship /

2024 Monkstone Open Doubles

8 April 2024 / / No comments

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

Category: Competition /

Junior Section Up & Bouling

4 April 2024 / / No comments

It’s been talked about for months and yesterday it finally arrived – Monkstone Petanque Club held its first Junior Section coaching session!! 11 young people attended the session – 6 club members and 5 other friends of, or children/grandchildren of, club members.

Introductions being over it was down to the serious business. Tony Smith, the Club Coach, ably assisted by Ash Seath, Roger Green and Melys Phinnemore. put the participants through a number of coaching exercises focusing mainly on pointing but with some shooting as well as the basic concepts of how to throw a boule etc etc.

The participants seemed to enjoy activities such as trying to throw a boule into a tyre, trying as a team to knock boules out of a ring before the other team or trying to knock out a row of boules before the other team – all of them designed to teach skills as well as being fun.

The session continued after a break for squash & biscuits and ended with two  games of triples between the participants.

A big thank-you to Tony, Ash, Roger & Melys and for their hard work and to the other club members who turned up to help or to lend support and we look forward to the next session which is planned to be within the next 2 or 3 weeks.

Monkstone Petanque Club wishes to thank Sports Wales and Magic Little Grants (People’s Postcode Lottery) for their continued support which has enabled the club to start this new exciting venture.

 

Our potential future champions!

GALLERY

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Category: Coaching, Juniors /

Easter Egg Melee

2 April 2024 / / No comments

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

Category: Competition /
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