Thanks to Patricia Duke-Cox for the following report:

Ten players entered the July C-class event at Nottingham in July, including a visitor from each of the Blewbury and Hamptworth croquet clubs. The event was well managed and catered for by Bob Thompson players enjoyed the luxury of playing on a court without double banking most of the time. Unfortunately the heavens opened with thunder and lightning on the Sunday afternoon and the courts became waterlogged. Two games were abandoned but the result was never in doubt by that time. The runaway winner of the event with 6 wins was club chairman Omied Hallam.

The results are Omied Hallam 6/6: Lawrence Whittaker, Derek Buxton and David Gunn 3/4; David Brydon 3/5; Roger Berkeley and Paul Wolff 2/5; Richard Stevens 1/4 ; David Woodhouse 0/4 and Patricia Duke-Cox 0/5.
 

 

 

This is a quick update on the progress of our various teams in the national inter-club competitions.

Our Inter-Club A team lost to Wrest Park away , but the B team beat Hurlingham at home and meet Colchester away in the next round.

Our first attempt to play at Pendle in the Mary Rose was washed out and I understand that an attempt is being made to re-arrange it.

We beat Hunstanton 4-3 then lost to Northamption 5-2 in the Longman Cup, both matches being away.

In our defence of the Secretary’s Shield, we have beaten Fylde 4-3 and Ashby 7-2, both at home,   We are due to play Middlesborough in the semi-final to meet the Bear of Rodborough in the final.

All those are Association Croquet.  The only Golf Croquet event we entered was the Murphy Shield, in which we lost to Belsay Hall.

The draw sheets for these are all linked on the CA website

If anyone can give me some information about how our Federation league teams are doing, I’m happy to post it.