Archived News & Results 2007/2

5 Nations International 16th June 2007

This years 5 Nations International Competition will be held at Heidelberg, Germany on Saturday 16th June 2007. Full details from the organiser Ken Harris are available by clicking the link button below . The link gives Ken's contact details and a booking form if you wish to book to go to the event

Message From Mike Pegg re Age group definition for ESPOIRS

I have just returned from the CEP board meeting.

The FIPJP has re-defined the Espoirs age group, it is still described as 18-23.

But now they are saying “under 23”.

This means for this year (2007) the players must be born from 1985 to 1989.

I will make the necessary changes to the BPF rules for the Espoirs event, amend the poster and website.

Regards

Mike Pegg

The Royal Mail Sports Foundation have generously donated a cheque for £300 to sponsor the Regional team

Kevin Moss who is a manager at the Post Office applied for the sponsorship to the Royal Mail Sports Foundation and was succesful for the third year in succession in obtaining a grant fom the foundation.

The total over the three years is now almost £1000

Last years grant was used to buy new rain jackets and to provide boule to encourage youngsters to take up the sport in Suffolk schools which was a project run by Kevin.

The Regional Committee will now decide how to spend this years grant and one idea put forward so far is to buy new sweatshirts for the Team

A big thank you goes to Kevin for his hard work in putting together the sponsorship application and achieving success 3 years running

The 2nd Round of the Qualifying competition will be held at British Sugar Social Club, Bury St Edmunds on 20 May

Anglia Junior Pairs Championships

Held at Victoria '51' Petanque Club on Sunday 6 May 2007

8 teams contested the APA Junior pairs championships at Deopham . It was played in a 'round-robin' format so that every pair played each other.

The winners were Delphean Brown & Lauren Ross with 6 wins (+ 53pts)

Runners-up were Fleur Guilman-Beales & Curtis Money also with 6 wins but (+ 29pts)

Third place were Nathaniel Martin & Jonathon Abery with 5 wins (+ 23pts)

Click to view the results table

A full report will be in the June edition of 'On the Piste'

RUSSELL HARRIS FUNS PAIRS HELD ON 13TH MAY 2007

Despite a bad weather forecast Wanderers St Faiths Petanque Club decided to proceed with the Russell Harris Fun Pairs and were rewarded with the presence of forty individuals, eighty percent of whom were from the home Club.

In an attempt to ensure close matches bonus starts of 4 per minor, 3 per cadet and 2 per junior or novice were awarded per game. Each participating pair also used their joker at registration for a double score bonus round.

The wisdom of this format was proven by the fact that the winners recorded an average score of 13-8, whilst the last placed matches were even closer with an average 9-13 score.

It was unfortunate that rain from start of third round spoiled proceedings to a certain extent and it was decided to finish at end of fourth rather than scheduled fifth round.

At conclusion the ultimate winners were Edward and Jonathan Abery of Wanderers St Faiths Petanque Club, who started each game with a plus six by reason of their young ages and finished with a full house of 5 wins plus 26.

They were closely followed by Ros Taylor and Richard Green of Norwich Petanque Club on 5 wins plus 24.

Despite also winning all of their five games with a plus 18 defending champions Glen Meredith and Graham Beales of Deopham Victoria were unable to retain their title and had to settle for third place on this occasion.

The next placed pairs with 4 wins were Natalie and David Abery of Wanderers St Faiths Petanque Club plus 25 and Dave Robinson and Lynne Urquhart also from the home club plus 15.

As well as proving to be an enjoyable fun event the tournament provided a further opportunity for the fourteen young people participating to compete on more equal terms than normal.