Ricard Event - Battersea Sunday 13th July
Over 140 triples attended this event, sponsored by Ricard and organised by Bruce, the London President. London Association players were rather successful with Sylvain, Dan and Rachide winning with Nick, Mike and Gordon third. The repechage event was won by Mary, Merle and Mark.
London Singles
On the day after the longest day of the year the singles were held at Croydon. The 11 London members who turned up received a warm welcome from the Croydon members. Play commenced at around 10:30 with two leagues of 4 and a league of three, the top 2 in each going through along with the next best two. The shooting competition was postponed until the next regional day in July.
London Doubles 2008
This year these were held at Harrow with 10 teams turning up representing the 4 London affiliated clubs, Croydon, Kingston Alexandra, Harrow and Parliament Hill Leagues were played in the morning with a rolling knockout in the afternoon. The Parliament Hill's team finished the morning as "top digs" winning all three of their league games.
Play resumed at 14:15 in the afternoon. The final results were as follows:-
1 "Dan the Man" Martin Baker and Dan Hill
2 "Tykes" Tom Creak and Andrew Prince
3 "Dynamic Duo" Gordon Cochrane and Nick Goodheart
4 "Deuce" Jan Baker and David Prince
5 "Whatever" Sylvain Borsi and Ray Impey
6 "140" Brian Brazier and Fidel Debono
7 "Parliament Hill" Mehdi Bira and Bruce Rowland
8 "Mustang" Ben Brousson and Flo Brousson
9 "Shamrock" Merle Sullivan & Mary McDonald
10 "Clapham Boys" Nicolas Cutajar and Francois Mifsud
English Petanque Association Ladies Triples - Round 2
Congratulations to Jan Baker Mary McDonald and Merle Sullivan on their second place result in this competition. this combined with their previous result puts them in 4th position overall. They will now enter a playoff of the last eight to find out who will represent the EPA in the women's world championship.
London Triples 2008
These were held at the newly formed Kingston Club and organised by it's President Ben Brousson.
The start to the day was delayed as two teams had forgot to put their clock forward!
The weather held out and on a fine day 4 triples attended, a slightly low turnout but that left plenty of room on the piste which could hold a maximum of 3 simultaneous games.
Two rounds of a round robin were played. with the morning finishing with three teams on two wins +13 +11 and +6. One team obviously no wins and -30.
After a nice pub lunch three more games were played, the lunch must have revitalised the team in 4th place, as they went on to win all their afternoon games!
Final positions were:-
1 Ben, Flo and Dan - 4wins +19 (Local team )
2 Jan, Nick and Gordon - 3 wins +3
3 Kaoushik, Tom and Andrew - 3 wins -13 (guess who were trailing this AM)
4 Merle, Mark and Rachide - 2 wins -9
Brean Sands 2007
After 1 year back in Division Two London are again back in Division One, following their recent 2nd place victory. Click for full report
EPA Ladies Triple Champions
Congratulations to Janet Baker, Mary McDonald & Merle Sullivan (London Association members) on their recent victory in the Ladies Triples at York. They were presented with their trophies during the event and followed up with a formal presentation at the recent inter regional competition at Brean.
Picture courtesy of the EPA Website
London Singles
These were held at Harrow this year, judging by the recent weather situation we expected a bit of a washout, parts of Harrow had been flooded the previous Friday with nearly a foot (30cm) of water outside of the webmasters house. However it turned out to be a dry hot day with 20 London Members competing. The event was organised as 5 leagues of 4 in the morning with a rolling knock-out for the main and a straight forward knock out for the plate in the PM . There were many close matches (13:12) and the odd fanny.
The day also had some excitement with the Harrow club house being burgled overnight, luckily the bar was still intact so there were some drinks available!
National Triples 2007
London also provided two thirds of this winning team, Silvain Borsi and Moez Ayadi and the other third was an ex member Rachid Hannache.
World Cup 2006
Nick Goodheart, Rob Morton and Ravi Ballgobin succeeded in attaining the rank of GB one and represented the UK at the Petanque World cup, though for personal reasons Ravi could not attend
Champion of Champions 2006
Congratulations to Ben Brousson, Mark Barlow and Merle Sullivan gaining the runners up place.
Ladies Doubles 2006
Merle Sullivan and Mary McDonald (London Region) were runners up in the British Ladies Doubles losing 13:11 in the final to C & K Brooks. Merle and Mary will now go on to play in Europe.