SCCC End of Season Dinner

Saturday 8^th October 6.30pm for 7pm

Menu

Smoked Salmon & Asparagus Terrine (a)

or

Butternut Squash & Coconut Soup (b)

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Beef Carbonnade (c)

or

Moroccan Baked Stuffed Aubergines (v)

Potato & Parsnip Mash

Apple infused Red Cabbage

Petit Pois & Buttered Carrots

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A selection of Home made desserts

£15

To book email catering@sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk or sign up on the club noticeboard, indicating your choice of Starter and main course.

There must be a very good crop of mussels this year as the seagulls are bringing lots of them on to our lawns. If you do pick up any, please will you put them in the bins in the huts or the clubhouse. Moving the shells to the side of the lawns might cause the shells to be broken up by the rotary mower and unfortunately the broken pieces might find their way back on to the lawns and this can damage the cylinder mowers.

Thanks

Clive

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Sussex County Annual Tournament

The third 1st this year was the decision to trial running a golf croquet event at the same time as the association competitions. This was advertised around the South East Croquet Federation clubs as a trial and attracted 10 entrants. The intention, subject to final agreement by the Committee is to continue this event next year and a trophy with an interesting and longstanding connection with the Club - the Jellicorse Cup - has been allocated. Like the Abbey Challenge and the Daldy Cups, this is one of the earliest trophies belonging to the club and all have some well-known names on them.

The full results of all the events can be found below.

Golf Croquet - the Jellicorse Cup

To provide sufficient play for the weekend this competition was run as an initial single American block. The same participants were then seeded into an 8 player knockout, with those being knocked out having consolation games as required. The top 4 players from the block stage were Roger Sutton, Jonathan Isaacs, Keith Webb and Richard Brooks in that order. The knockout stage and overall winner was Richard Brooks who beat Keith Webb in the final 7-6. Congratulations to him.

Association Croquet

Abbey Challenge Cup

Six competitors contested this event which was played as an American Block. Some high-class play, particularly from Luc and Cliff. Both suffered setbacks though: Luc was beaten in one round by David Boyd (h/c 2 to Luc's -1) and Cliff went down to Chris Roberts after persistent trouble with hoop 2 and a white ball (eventually checked and found to be oversize!).

The final round was effectively the final, between Luc and Cliff, with Luc emerging the winner. Congratulations to him.

Scott Cup

Eight players contested this trophy arranged in two preliminary blocks with cross-over sem-finals and finals. Daphne Gaitley and Brian Havill were placed first in their respective blocks and also emerged in the knockout stage as the finalists. Trailing through much of the game, Daphne fought back with an excellent break but eventually succumbed to Brian's higher hit-in rate. Congratuations to Brian Havill who won all his 5 games in the weekend.

Daldy Cup

Eight players contested this trophy arranged in two preliminary blocks with cross-over sem-finals and finals. David Gaitley and Clive Hayton were placed first in their respective blocks and they too contested the final. Both players had played some excellent croquet throught the competition and their meet in the final was worth watching; although Clive was ahead for much of the game, it was a match that could have gone either way until a tactical error by David in pegging out one of Clive's balls quickly handed the latter the victory. I believe this is Clive's first open tournament win so special congratulations to him.

Results

GC Jellicorse Cup

Consolation games:
Maggie Webb beat Linda Gavigan 7-2
Tony Jolly beat Des Taylor 7-5
David King beat Jonathan Isaacs 7-5
 

AC Abbey Challenge

AC Scott Cup

AC Daldy Cup

Play-offs for both:

Additional consolation play-off games in Scott and Daldy cups:
Neil Coote beat Chris Coote +17
Caroline Denny beat John M Taylor +14
Caroline Denny beat Liz Farrow +23
Neil Coote beat John M Taylor +5

Phil Dunk beat Frances Colman +15
Arthur Lindley beat John Gosney +11
Chris Rolph beat Ray Hall +1
Phil Dunk beat John Gosney +4
Arthur Lindley beat Frances Colman +1

Here are the results of this year's Ladies Day competition:

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We are participating in this event.

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AC and GC tournaments for players of B level standard were played over this last weekend in pleasant weather and on Sunday strong sunshine.

The golf croquet event was an all-play-all block of 15 players which meant for quite a bit of play and the tournament did unfortunately overrun the usual ending time somewhat. 

It was nice to see 3 players from Latvia taking part; they, together with 2 players from Spain, were participants in the WCF GC coaching Course which was run by SCCC earlier in the week, so they had a chance to put their improved skills into practice.

The winner, winning 13 out of 14 games was Paul Gunn, so congratulations to him! Runner-up was Christopher Heath with 12 wins and by chance (since the players were in random order) the last game of the tournament was between the two of them so we had a real final. We have a new (for this tournament) trophy now and this was presented to Paul, together with an engraved whisky glass to keep.

This is a qualifying event for the National B Level Series and the first four players are notified in order to the Director for further rounds. They are: Paul Gunn (13 wins) , Christopher Heath (12 wins), David Gaitley (10 wins) and Andrea Huxley (10 wins).

Full results are laid out below.

The AC event had 18 players which is a very good number and was organised as a knockout competition with a progressive swiss comsolation event, arrnaged such that all players had 5 games.

The winner of the main trophy was Alex Jardine who beat Sandy Greig in the final.  The winner of the consolation event was Neil Coote with 4 wins in 5 games. Congratulations to Alex and Neil.

Further pictures to follow. If any player has a good one and would like it here, please send it to the webmaster!

Results

Golf Croquet B level Tournament

Association Croquet B Level Competition

Main Trophy Event

Consolation event:

1    Daphne Gaitley     beat     Liz Farrow    +9
2    Alex Jardine     beat     Paul Wolff    +22
3    Jonathan Isaacs     beat     John Swabey    +14
4    David Cook     beat     Ray Hall    +13
5    Sara Anderson     beat     Phil Dunk    +17
6    Ian Anderson     beat     John Reddish    +12
7    Phil Dunk     beat     John Reddish    +6
8    Ray Hall     beat     John Swabey    +4
9    Bill Humphreys     beat     Caroline Denny    +8
10    Neil Coote     beat     Sandy Greig    +1
11    David Boyd     beat     Jonathan Isaacs    +12
12    Sara Anderson     beat     David Cook    +13
13    Ian Anderson     beat     Liz Farrow    +2
14    Neil Coote     beat     Daphne Gaitley    +25
15    Caroline Denny     beat     Jeff Rushby    +8
16    David Boyd     beat     Ian Anderson    +3
17    Jonathan Isaacs     beat     Sara Anderson    +15
18    David Cook     beat     Phil Dunk    +2
20    Ray Hall     beat     Liz Farrow    +4
21    John Swabey     beat     John Reddish    +2
22    Daphne Gaitley     beat     David Boyd    +3
23    Ian Anderson     beat     Jeff Rushby    +1
24    John Swabey     beat     David Cook    +3
25    Ray Hall     beat     Phil Dunk    +10
26    Liz Farrow     beat     John Reddish    +12
27    Neil Coote     beat     Caroline Denny    +25
 

(Photos by John Low and Ray Hall)