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Bonfire Melee 2009

Due to poor response to this event the meal and fireworks were cancelled, however 6 members played in the melee.

the Winner was Mike Q with Andrew 2nd, they both received a bottle of wine for their efforts.

Thames Valley Presentation Evening - Season 2008

This event was held at the end of November at the Wycombe Wanders Football Club. Again it was an excellent evening. Harrow in addition to 3 trophies they expected to receive, Division 1 runners up (Harrow Karrow), Division 2 Champions (Harrow Seniors) and League Cup Plate Winners (Harrow Seniors). Nick Goodheart also received on behalf of Martin Baker, Mike Quaia and J-P Goodheart the best Triples in the league. He also picked up the Winter Pairs plate 2007 winners on his and Gordon's behalf.

Harrow Seniors Division Winners  Alan, Andrew Ray	Harrow Seniors League Cup Plate Winners Andrew Receiving on behalf of the team	Harrow Karrow Division 1 runners up Nick  receiving on behalf of the team	Best Triple in the League Nick receiving on behalf of J-P Martin and Mike	Winter pairs Plate Winners Nick receiving on behalf of Gordon and himself

Winter Melee 2008

After eight rounds the situation is as follows:-

Congratulations to Joe who actually entered the last event in an unassailable position. After Andrew's dismal showings on the last two rounds he dropped to 5th position. (Ed. "are you sulking?").

Neil as a beginner to the game did very well, though as a guest his results did not count to the overall total for the whole series.

For full table click here

Bonfire Melee 2008

13 people turned up to play with a further 3 for food and fireworks.

Results were as follows

We noted with sadness that Kaousik was not able to attend, however some excellent fireworks were purchased from his brother-in-law's shop.

Harrow Open Cash Triples 2008

Again we suffered from the 2nd EPA qualifier being on the same day, but for those 8 teams who turned up a most enjoyable day was had. The weather was threatening us in the morning but on the whole the sun shone. A round-robin was played and at one point in the morning when after over three hours play we had only complete two rounds the organiser got worried, however play speeded up in the afternoon and all seven rounds were completed well before we had to put any artificial lights on.

Results were as follows:-

Cash prizes were awarded for the first 3 places.

Fullers Mixed Doubles 2008

Despite the low turnout, perhaps due to the rescheduled EPA Qualifier, this event was enjoyed by all with 7 teams turning up for the event.

Results were as follows:-

So for the 2nd year running Merle has won this competition.

I will not reveal who played in "Who is the girl" but let it be known they suffered TWO fannies!

3rd Mary and David	2nd Jan and Sylvain	1st Merle and Flo	With the cup

EPA Top Player

This was awarded to HPC and London Member Martin Baker. He received his award at the recent Inter-regional Championships he won 29 games, 3 games above his nearest rivals.

Harrow Summer Melees

Tuesday 29th July saw the first of a series of 5 evening Melees to be held at Harrow. 23 players turned up on the first nigh with similar numbers on the rest of the occassions. Final placing are decided on the best three games an individual played.

Final Positions were:-

Harrow host the Minors and Junior Coaching Day

On Saturday 12th Harrow hosted the EPA Junior and Cadets coaching day. 12 turned up for this event including two potential London Juniors, Pete and Daniel. 5 coaches along with the EPA umpire and a host of parent helpers put a lot of effort into a very sucessful day. Pete and Daniel were so keen they carried on playing after the event finished. All attendees were awarded a certificate and medal. It was very impressive to see them naturally pick up the style and skills of good petanque.

Harrow host the EPA last 16 (Grand Prix)

The week end of the 7th and 8th June was a busy one at Harrow. On the Saturday we hosted the Junior Squad day that selected the teams to represent England at the North Sea and at the Home Nations. See the EPA website for details. On Sunday the last 16 was held with a team that included Martin Baker (currently ranked 1) competing. Other London Association players were also competing , Benoit Brousson & Dan Hill. The game was played as five rounds of Swiss to define the top 8 whop then went into a seeded knock out.

Dan and Ben along with their partner Graham Elcome missed the cut at 11th Place, funnily they were all in London Association polo shirts, p[erhaps London has a new member they don't know about.

Martin, Herve Bavazzano, Jerome Rousseau and Phil Claydon finished 2nd. They won the quarter final 13:6 but lost the semi 13:11 so the final was between Mat Everson, Ben Gallimore, Robert Silvey, Steve Zimmerman and Marcus Hickman, Kevin Spillett, Alex Bruce, David Blakeley.  Robert Silvey's (ex London) team went on to win 13:6

Harrow host the Espoirs

On a hot May 11th Harrow hosted the first of their EPA events for 2008 ( Espoires, Junior Selection, Last 16 and last 8 Ladies). Some very impressive pétanque was played, unfortunately I don't have any pictures.

Thanks to the Harrow members who helped in this event, we received many complementary remarks from the players and organisers.

Piste Maintenance 2008

Thanks to all those that turned up to help:-  Andrew, Gordon, Joe, Martin, Michael, Nick, Ray, Robert S and Cynthia & Kaoushik who turned up to help but we were rained off on that day.

Bovindon Charity Open 2008

Congratulations to Jan and Martin who last weekend came second in this competition, having played all their 6 matches undefeated, including THREE 13:0 wins, they were defeated in the "Final" by a team that had "only" won 5 out of their 6 matches.

I understand that over £200 was raised in aid of Iain Rennie Nursing.

Harrow  Presentation 2007

Again and excellent evening, good food (Glynn Cuisine) and good company for those 17 people attending, all rounded off with a Quiz from Joe, after most members remonstrating that last years was too hard, we all did slightly better this year, but we still have a long way to go!

Thames Valley Presentation  2007

A small group from Harrow attended this, again, excellent event. As always well organised and run, excellent meal and music.  Harrow Karrow received awards for Division 1 runners up.  Harrow Seniors were not so fortunate as they were demoted following last years run of 12 games without a defeat.

Bonfire Melee 2007

37 people attended this event with 24 playing in a 4 round melee in the afternoon. Harrow welcomed guests from the Jolly Farmer (Thames Valley) and Botany Bay (Chiltern)

The results were as follows

Alexandra Pétanque Club - Kingston - upon - Thames

The Alexandra Pétanque club held their first competition on Sunday 27th October. They are a new club recently formed in London. The terrain can just support 4 pistes, which limited the entry to 8 teams.  Registration was at 09:30 with the league games starting soon after 10am. With teams form Harrow, Croydon, Oxshott and Crondall as well as the local club playing.

Final ranking was

Prizes for main winner and runner up and plate winner were awarded and the Landlord of the Alexandra donated a prize of a meal for 4 and a bottle of wine for the first Fanny.

Thanks to Ben and the landlord for an excellent day

ICQS ~ Last 8 round 1

This event was held at Harrow at short notice.

It is the first of 2 such event to decide who will be GB1 to play in the World Championships in Thiland.

Play started at 09:30 with several rounds of Barrage with Team Vanessa Webb, Chris Allen, Herve Bavazzano and Jerome Rousseau coming first beating Adrian Emson, Myra Huntley, Jeremy Huntley Derek Northend, with a significant points difference, into second place. Third was Lee Jamieson, Kevin Spillett and Phil Claydon who beat David Hurren, Matt Horrigan, Barry Wing and Dave Chalkly into fourth place.

EPA Over 50s

6 players from Harrow attended this event and all came back with mixed fortunes!

The event was played to the Swiss system.

Nick Goodheart and Tom Wilson played very well throughout the day and only let themselves down on the last games against their closest opponents, Mr and Mrs Jameson the final winners.

KG Challenge

On Sunday 25th March an open triples Melee was held at Harrow. It was 100% sponsored by Kaoushik before he returned to Madagascar , hopefully for a short time.

Eight teams entered for leagues in the morning and a rolling knock out in the afternoon.

The triples were drawn on the day and turned out like this

Mark Barlow, Nicolas Cutajar, Martin Baker

Joe Hoyle, Fidel Debono, Merle Sullivan

Francois Mifsud, Manuel Rocha, Tom Wilson

Silvain Borsi, Sue, Tony

Jan Baker, Bill  Page

Andrew Prince, Bruce Roland, Kaoushik Gentilal

Louise Hourcastagnou, John Anderson, Nick Goodheart

Tom Creak, Ray Impey, Mary McDonald

Mark, Nicolas and Martin won all three of their league matches, followed by Tom C, Ray and Mary with two wins.

The morning play provided seeded places to define the order of play of the afternoon, i.e. 1 plays 8 2 plays 7 etc.

The rolling knock out produced the following results

HPC Bonfire Melee 2006

This was attended by 38 people, 26 of who played the rest partook of an excellent shepherds pie and viewed the fireworks.

The Melee was won by Bill Page with 4 clear wins, followed by Joe Hoyle (3wins +18) then Michael Wheatley (3wins +14) the John Riches (2wins +13). Linda Wheatley also received a prize for the first fanny of the day! Well done to everyone.

HPC Singles

In the last match to gain points for the Club Championship it was a disappointing turn out with 6 of the thirty odd club members turning up. the match was run as a round robin with all entrant playing each other.  The result depended on the last game where the two front runners played each other.  In the end Mike Q was victorious against Kaoushik but Kauoshik's win gives him the club championship.

Last 16 ~ 2006

Congratulations to Nick Goodheart, Rob Morton and Ravi Shankra Balgobin for making the last 16 and then going on to become GB number 1.

Boules D'Or - Cleaver Square May ~ 2006

This competition was organised by Simon Adamsdale and his son.  It was won by a team from Croydon, Merle Sullivan, Brian Sullivan and Mark Barlow who went away with £120 and a bottle of Champagne.  Congratulation to them and thanks to Simon and Will for organising it

Grand Prix number 1 ~ 2006

This was held at Detling on the 12th March a few Harrow members and ex London Region members played.  Success of the day went to Ravi Ballgobin, Nick Goodheart and Rob Morton with 6 straight wins putting them at the top of the table.

Founders Cup ~ 2005

Congratulations to Joe Hoyle and Kaoushik Gentilal who were semi-finalists in the recent Founders Cup competition at Luton.  They were knocked out by the eventual winners form the Isle of Wight, Ben and Dan from Croydon were unfortunately late in arriving at the venue and were excluded form the match along with another double! 

BPF Junior Triples ~ 2005

Adeline, David P and Jean-Pierre entered this competition which was held at British Sugar, Bury St Edmunds. 10 Teams entered, which was somewhat down on last year, so a snake was run with the top 4 teams going into the semi-finals.  The Harrow team just made the grade with the last 12 being decided on the final round of the snake.  Harrow got through to the Semi and went into the final where they were beaten game to 9.  Congratulations to all.

BPF Ladies Triples ~ 2005

Sue Morton along with L Ciano and P Treend came 4th

Junior Doubles ~ 2005

Harrow entered two teams, Adrian &   Nathan and Jean-Pierre & Dave P.  Unfortunately the results were not too good, but Nathan and Adrian did ok considering it was Nathan's first competition.  Dave and Jean-Pierre fell at the last hurdle, loosing 13 12, if they had won that game they would have been 2nd in the league.

BPF Grand Prix ~ 2005

Eight members of the Harrow Club are playing in the Grand Prix this year.  Martin is playing with Diz and Phil and they are currently 3rd after 2 rounds, with 22 points 11 wins, +73  Nick, Rob and Mike Q are laying 33rd with 10 points 5 wins +11 Sue Morton with J Cullip and M Hughes are laying 44th with 6 points 3 wins -32 Adeline, Jean-Pierre & David P are 52nd with 4 points 2 wins and -5, but they have only played in 1 round

Bonfire Melee ~ 2005 

A very successful event was held at the Pinner View Club on Saturday 6th November.  20 players turned up for the Melee with partners and friends joining us for an evening event of Fireworks and Shepherds pie. The results were as follows:- Winner -Martin Baker with  6 straight wins;  R/Up - Brian Brazier  5 wins +14;  3rd  - Mary McDonald  5 wins + 4;  4th - Brian Sullivan 4 wins + 14. Thanks must go to Joe for organising the competition, Jan for all the food, Ray for the Bonfire, Graham for the pyrotechnics & Laura for the Mulled wine.

Pinner Bowls v Harrow Pétanque ~ 2005

Following the cancellation of the Pétanque leg of this match, due to bad weather, the Bowls leg took place on Wednesday 14th at Pinner Bowls club.  The club warmly welcomed the Harrow team and gave us a short introduction into the rules and etiquette of the game.  Four matches took place with the final score being a  draw we then settled down to an excellent "picnic" in the club house.   Next week Pétanque at the old Lyonians.

Junior Doubles ~ 2004

Harrow entered two junior teams into the competition Adeline & Orla and Jean-Pierre & David

New York ~ 2004

A group from Harrow went to New York to play  in a couple of events in Greenwich Village. The London team did not come away with any overall victories but had an excellent time.  They hope to return soon to get their revenge

BPA Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles Weekend ~ 2004

Members from Harrow were in attendance and as you can see did reasonably well with Mike Q in the quarter final of the Singles, Martin  in the Quarter final of the doubles and Janet in the Semi Final of the Mixed doubles. Full details on the BPA web site (see links)  

Singles Championship: 

Michel Hourcastagnou 13 v 6 Jim Bell, Mike Quaia 10 v 13 Lee Edgar Sofiane Lachani 9 v 13 Lee Jamieson,  Dave Hodgson 6 v 13 Phil Claydon     

British Double Championship: 

S Lachani & S Bird 13 v 6 M Eversden & P Claydon,  

J Nash & M Nash 5 v 13 D Kimpton & J Rousseau,  

P Roche & M Baker 5 v 13 J Rand & C Brooks,  

C Gordine & M Gordine 13 v 4 T Moulding & R Williams 

British Mixed Doubles Championship: 

Main Semi Final

Jan Baker and Robert de Silva v 

Philippe Roche and Kath Brooks

Robin Hood PC ~ 2004

To celebrate the opening of their new piste at the Botany Bay Cricket Club, Robin Hood invited Harrow to play as their first guests.

Janet & Ray, Rene & Tom, Andrew & Laura, Joe & Debbie (a member of both clubs) played a squad of 11 from Robin Hood.  The plan was to have 4 double matches in the morning with two triples and a further double in the afternoon.

The weather could not have been better when we started play at  1130, but despite timed games we did not finish all the doubles in the morning before hunger struck, when the score was 4 games all.

Play resumed after an excellent lunch, made by Jan, and a drink in the Bar.  Two more doubles rounds were played, before it was really time to stop.  The triples were therefore abandoned.

The new piste is interesting in that it has not settled down yet which made it a challenging to play on.

Harrow won the match 9 games to 7, but the whole point was to have a pleasant afternoons Pétanque which we certainly did.

Thanks Robin Hood, or as you are now called "Botany Bay PC"

BPA JuniorTriples ~ Lords Wood Sunday 25th April ~ 2004

This event was attended by 17 Junior triples, including 3 from Harrow.  

An excellent turnout from Harrow and well done to all who participated.

Junior Open ~ 2004

Harrow Junior Open Sunday March

A return match was held, this time some teams from "The Engine" attended.  David Prince and Jean Pierre Goodheart winning the match and Jean Pierre winning the shooting competition.

Fox and Hounds Junior Open Sunday 22nd February ~ 2004

Harrow entered 2 teams into this competition: Adeline and Orla & David P and Jean-Pierre.  David and Jean-Pierre ended up as runners up with 3 wins and +18.  The winners were Dean and David with 4 wins.  Adeline and Orla were 5th, though they did have the conciliation of beating David and Jean-Pierre during the day. 

One surprise was that David "I can't shoot" Prince won the shooting competition.

Interclub challenge - Whittlesey ~2004

This event was also held on the 21st and 22nd February, Harrow entered two teams Joe, Dave M & Andrew  and Bill, Brian & Mike Q  Harrow ended up in 5th Place with 8 wins.  The competition was won by the local team, though for this event  Sofiane played in the Sunday matches.