Two very evenly-matched teams met in the first round of the CA's Longman Cup on Thursday 8th June.
In the afternoon singles, played in handicap order, the SCCC team gave Roehampton, the reigning champions, a total of 3 bisques. SCCC went into lunch 1-2 down with Steve Chapman our winner. David Gillett restored parity but the next game was a win for Roehampton over Chrissie Merrington.
However, the two games that went to time resulted in wins for Simon Fenn-Tye and Steve Chapman and a 4-3 win for SCCC. The next round will be away at Ealing.
Thanks to David Gillett for this report
This was the first time the drawn pairs had been played using Advantage play. There were mixed views on the new system with those who liked it and those who didn’t!
Many hard fought games were played on a beautiful sunny day with the following winning their blocks:
Di Langridge & Rosemary Wyld
Fiona Phillips & Richard Pointon
Ian Johnson & Peter Wyld
Pam Gooders & Vincent L’Estrange
Sandra Towner & Gerald Gooders
Rita Dona & Chris Heath
They will all go through to the next round together with the best 2 runners up:
Ian Cobbold & Jenny Sutton
Diana Rolfe & Graham Tucker
Full results can be seen on CroquetScores and the order for the next rounds have been put on the website.
Many thanks to Roger for the time he spent working out all the starting scores.
Fiona
This was the first time the drawn pairs had been played using Advantage play. There were mixed views on the new system with those who liked it and those who didn’t!
Many hard fought games were played on a beautiful sunny day with the following winning their blocks:
Di Langridge & Rosemary Wyld
Fiona Phillips & Richard Pointon
Ian Johnson & Peter Wyld
Pam Gooders & Vincent L’Estrange
Sandra Towner & Gerald Gooders
Rita Dona & Chris Heath
They will all go through to the next round together with the best 2 runners up.
Ian Cobbold & Jenny Sutton
Diana Rolfe & Graham Tucker
Full results can be seen on CroquetScores and the order for the next rounds will be put on the website in due course.
Many thanks to Roger for the time he spent working out all the starting scores.
Fiona
A Block won by Chrissie Merrington & David King with 6 wins out of 6. The B Block was a tight affair with 4 teams on 4 wins but was won by Chris & Leslie Ardley on net hoops scored.
Thanks to Jonathan Isaacs for managing the event and to Angela Avis and Nira Scutt for organising the lunch.
A | B&RC | CM&DK | FP&TJ | S&AN | SA&VL | GT&RC | MD&LG | DL&SR | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Bob & Robyn Clarke | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 4 | ||
Chrissie Merrington & David King | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 1 | ||
Fiona Phillips & Tony Jolly | 6 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||
Sue & Anthony Nicholas | 5 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||
Simon Ancell & Vincent L'Estrange | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 5 | ||
Gavin Taylor & Richard Carline | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||
Martin Daniels & Linda Gavigan | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||
Diana Langridge & Sue Rice | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
B | A&FF | AB&FB | FA&PG | A&KN | C&LA | PB&RE | PM&SC | NDS&TBP | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew & Fiona Fall | 4 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 6 | ||
Anne Bolland & Fran Box | 7 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | ||
Francis Ainley & Paul Green | 7 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | ||
Adam & Karen Newbould | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | ||
Chris & Les Ardley | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | ||
Paul Brown & Richard Ellis | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 3 | ||
Pat Mecham & Sue Caulfield | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 | ||
Normada De Silva & Tim Broughton Pipkin | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
The AC InterCounties was won by Middlesex. Sussex didn't do so well and was relagated. Never mind!
A big success for the club and a big thank you to everyone who helped in a very busy four days.
Some photos of the event, courtesy of Ray Hall.
12 players took part in a mini competition in AC Short Croquet format. Short Croquet is a recognised form of AC and is widely played in other parts of the UK, not so much in the South East. Being played on a half lawn it makes a transition from GC to AC easier as most shots are relatively short distance. In fact most participants were indeed originally GC players so it proved its worth in that respect. It is also only 14 points so each game takes a lot less time, allowing an AC tournament to be played in one day.
Three rounds were played in full and the fourth round only by those in contention (the chill wind for much of the day and the unfortunate need to double-bank half the games slowed the event down and detered others from playing the final round). Three of the four players ended round four with three wins but Robyn Clark was declared the winner on points scored.
Thanks to Frances Low for managing the competition, and for promoting Short Croquet at Southwick over the last two winters and bringing on a cadre of new AC converts.
Robyn Clark | +7 | John Low | ||
Richard Ellis | +6 | Carol Collins | ||
Nicholas Beard | +8 | Gerald O?Brien | ||
Frances Low | +5 | Rosemary Faulkner | ||
Martin Daniels | +5 | Caroline Barnard | ||
Val Hitchens | +6 | Ann Beard | ||
Robyn Clark | +3 | Gerald O?Brien | ||
Richard Ellis | +14 | Ann Beard | ||
Rosemary Faulkner | +7 | Martin Daniels | ||
John Low | +7 | Caroline Barnard | ||
Carol Collins | +11 | Nicholas Beard | ||
Frances Low | +1 | Val Hitchens | ||
Gerald O?Brien | +14 | Richard Ellis | ||
Martin Daniels | +5 | John Low | ||
Ann Beard | +8 | Rosemary Faulkner | ||
Frances Low | +1 | Nicholas Beard | ||
Robyn Clark | +8 | Val Hitchens | ||
Caroline Barnard | +1 | Carol Collins | ||
Martin Daniels | +3 | Robyn Clark | ||
John Low | +7 | Richard Ellis |
We are sad to announce the death of our member Bruce Carr earlier this week. Our sincere sympathies to his family. Further details in due course.
Bruce winning the 14pt AC competition in April 2021
Bruce will be greatly missed. He was always cheerful and welcoming. His leather jacket and pork pie hat were a familiar and distinctive sight!
The One day GC singles tournament played on Saturday was split into three divisions. Division 1 was for players or handicap 2 and below was won by Morgan Case with six wins followed by Steve Chapman Neil and Jane Humphreys all with 5 wins. Division 2 with handicaps of 3 – 6 was run in two blocks of 6 with the winners of each block crossing over to play a final. Jill Richardson won Block B1 with 5 wins and Block B2 was won by Martin Daniels. Martin won the final.
Division 3 with handicaps of 7 and over was won by Konstantin Yudintsev with 5 wins out of 5 followed by David Comber and Rosemary Faulkner.
Thanks to Roger Sutton for managing the event and to the Catering Team of Chrissie Isaacs and Ann Stanton for the lunch.
(Sorry Morgan and Konstantin, no photo of you)
Block A | MC | BC | JH | NH | CM | AS | SA | SC | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Morgan Case | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | |
Bob Clark | 5 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | |
Jane Humphreys | 3 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | |
Neil Humphreys | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 3 | |
Chrissie Merrington | 6 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | |
Andrew Stewart | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 7 | |
Simon Ancell | 2 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | |
Steve Chapman | 7 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 |
Block B 1 | AG | BH | JR | SN | DD | AH | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Alan Grundy | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | |
Beryl Hughes | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | |
Jill Richardson | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |
Sue Nicholas | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 6 | |
David Dickens | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | |
Andrea Huxley | 7 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 2 |
Block B 2 | MD | TN | DK | PG | DS | FA | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Martin Daniels | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 1 | |
Tony Nicholas | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |
David King | 5 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6 | |
Paul Green | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
Douglas Shand | 4 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 4 | |
Francis Ainley | 7 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
Martin Daniels beat Jill Richardson 7-3
Paul Green beat Andrea Huxley 7-4
Tony Nicholas beat Beryl Hughes 7-1
David King beat Sue Nicholas 7-4
David Dickens beat Francis Ainley 7-5
Block C | NB | KY | DC | DL | JM | RF | Wins | Position |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nigel Bathe | 3 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | |
Konstantin Yudintsev | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |
David Comber | 7 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
David Larkin | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 5 | |
Jim Mander | 3 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 6 | |
Rosemary Faulkner | 7 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 |
On Tuesday 9th May we ran a one day 14 point Handicap Tournament for our double handicap players. The idea of the tournament was to give players experience in playing in a one day AC tournament as well supplying some useful tips from 2 Academy Coaches.
The tournament was played by 10 players over 4 games using a Swiss Format. Three players won 3 of their 4 games and once we took into account who beat whom, Bob Clarke was declared the winner, Steve Chapman 2nd and David Dickens 3rd.
The players appeared to enjoy the format and the club is considering running another tournament later in the season.
Jonathan Isaacs
Only 6 teams took part in this year's AC Teams Weekend over the 7th and 8th May. The weather proved to be rather better than the forecast, especially on the Monday which remained largely dry. Chilly both days for those sitting out and watching their opponents go round anyway!
Six teams meant a straightforward American block was played, giving five rounds and each round a match against another team.
By the end of the first day, two teams were tied neck and neck for first place: Reigate Priory and Medway having 5 wins each, far out in front of any other team.
Monday saw some closing of the gap, particularly by Sussex County who took both games in their match against Reigate, but by the end of the final game it was still Reigate Priory and Medway in front. Medway took the trophy with 8 wins to Reigate Priory's 7.
Thanks to Sussex County for hosting the event as usual.
WINS | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Wins | Matches | Position |
Caterham | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 5 | |
Guildford & Godalming | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | |
Medway | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 1 | |
Purley Bury | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | |
Reigate Priory | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
Sussex County | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 |
NAME | NAME | |||
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Caterham A | +22 | Sussex County A | ||
Caterham B | +6 | Sussex County B | ||
Guildford & Godalming A | +8 | Reigate Priory A | ||
Guildford & Godalming B | +1 | Reigate Priory B | ||
Medway A | +9 | Purley Bury A | ||
Medway B | +5 | Purley Bury B | ||
Caterham A | +1 | Reigate Priory A | ||
Caterham B | +3 | Reigate Priory B | ||
Sussex County A | +3 | Purley Bury A | ||
Sussex County B | +4 | Purley Bury B | ||
Guildford & Godalming A | +4 | Medway A | ||
Guildford & Godalming B | +9 | Medway B | ||
Caterham A | +7 | Purley Bury A | ||
Caterham B | +4 | Purley Bury B | ||
Reigate Priory A | +3 | Medway A | ||
Reigate Priory B | +1 | Medway B | ||
Sussex County A | +3 | Guildford & Godalming A | ||
Sussex County B | +13 | Guildford & Godalming B | ||
Caterham A | +6 | Medway A | ||
Caterham B | +1 | Medway B | ||
Purley Bury A | +5 | Guildford & Godalming A | ||
Purley Bury B | +5 | Guildford & Godalming B | ||
Reigate Priory A | +4 | Sussex County A | ||
Reigate Priory B | +18 | Sussex County B | ||
Caterham A | +24 | Guildford & Godalming A | ||
Caterham B | +18 | Guildford & Godalming B | ||
Medway A | +6 | Sussex County A | ||
Medway B | +1 | Sussex County B | ||
Purley Bury A | +12 | Reigate Priory A | ||
Purley Bury B | +6 | Reigate Priory B |