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Sussex County Croquet Club

WINTER TOURNAMENT

AC Alternate Stroke Doubles

(14 point)

(Open to all Players)

Saturday 7th November

09.30 start – until Dusk

£10 payable on the day

Refreshments:  £5

(Soup and Roll, Tea, Coffee & Biscuits)

Winter Dress (whites optional)

Booking Essential:
Contact Luc Berthouze:
entries@sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk

tel. 01444 410780

SCCC End of Season Dinner

&

Annual Prizegiving

Friday 9^th October 2015

7pm for 7.30pm

Menu

Broccoli and Stilton Soup

or

Individual Smoked Salmon Terrines

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Coq Au Vin

Pommes Boulangerie

Seasonal Vegetables

or

Vegetable Biryani

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Spicy Pear & Apple Crumble

Hazelnut & Apricot Meringue Pie

Banoffee Cheesecake

Chocolate Roulade

All for £12.50

To book your place please sign up on the club noticeboard or email/ leave phone message with Chrissy Isaacs giving your order for starter & main course.

Here are the results of the 14pt AC handicap tournament held on 7 - 9th August 2015.

Two pleasant days of association croquet enjoyed at Southwick by a small band of 10 players!  The tournament should have been 3 classes but it was reduced to a single Swiss format event for the B class trophy (Scott Cup)

Five rounds were played which resulted in three players, David Boyd, Philip Windred and John Taylor,  ending on four wins each, two not having played each other.

The Manager would have liked to have declared all three winners (and said so) but having only one cup and having already indicated that quality of wins would be used, awarded the cup to John Taylor. 

Everyone won at least one game and all went home (I hope) contented!

(David Boyd, John Taylor & Philip Windred - photo Liz Farrow)

Full results

SUSSEX COUNTY CROQUET CLUB

Victoria Road, Southwick, BN42 4DJ

Tele: 01273 591874

www.sussexcountycroquetclub.org.uk

Need for Change

How can you get more out of the club?

How do we move our club forward into the future?

We have vital points that need to be considered.

We need your ideas.

Initially, we have two consultation meetings for Members arranged

Thursday 6th August at 4pm

Wednesday 12th August at 6pm

Free hot dogs and tea/coffee.

The bar will be open!

This is very important for all members, whether you are a social player, club player or tournament player.

It is the start of the consultation and we want your views.

Following the meetings the committee will summarize and circulate the ideas, then look at development and implementation.

Please book the date in your diary and come to one of the meetings

Photo shows the players in this event on 7th June.  The winner (with the bottle) was Chris Coull

Results of SCCC B level Southern Challenges 2015

1. B level GC Southern Challenge

The tournament was played in a block over 11 x 19 point games and was a qualifier for the National GC B level final later this year.

In spite of a blip towards the end Keith Southern held onto his lead eventually winning with 9 games.

Roger Sutton played well winning 6 of his 11 games & Reg Soffe is to be congratulated on a very impressive performance in his first B level event.

2. B Level AC Southern Challenge

The AC format had to be changed shortly before the event due to a cancellation & Mark Hamilton kindly offered to step down so that we had even numbers enabling a Swiss format tournament played over 5 x 3 hour games.

David Boyd of Rother Valley played strongly all weekend and won all his games. SCCC’s Daphne Gaitley played extremely well and won all her games except the one against David Boyd.

Myra Gosney, long-time member of the Club has died.  Rest in Peace.

Myra was a regular and much-loved player in the Club.  She won a number of tournaments and trophies: the Hazel Parker Salver and Pat Shine Salvers in 1994 (the latter with Peter, her late husband), through to the New Challenge Cup in 2004. A feisty lady with an engaging sense of humour, Myra was a regular player in SE Federation events and the Ladies Day competition in particular.

The event was won by Jose Riva who beat Jack Wicks in the final  +1,-26tp,+9tp

Full results below.

(Jose Riva pegging out photo by Ray Hall)

(Runner up Wicks and Winner Riva. Photo Ray Hall)

Full results

Main competition ( seeded knockout)

Jamie Burch beat Daphne Gaitley +14
Mark Fawcett beat Sarah Melvin +24
Luc Berthouze beat Cliff Jones +12
Mark Avery beat Tudor Jenkins +21
Jose Riva beat Graham Pegley +17
David Cook beat David Mumford +1(t)
Gabrielle Higgins beat Peter Thompson +26tp
Neil Coote beat David Gaitley +7(t)
Jack Wicks beat Philip Dunk +25
Robert Alexander beat Chris O'Byrne +16
Jaimie Mussi beat Liz Farrow +22
Philip Eardley beat Mary Knapp +23
Jamie Burch beat Mark Fawcett +25
Jack Wicks beat Robert Alexander +13tpo
Jaimie Mussi beat Philip Eardley +4
Jose Riva beat David Cook +24
Gabrielle Higgins beat Neil Coote +26
Mark Avery beat Luc Berthouze +24tp
Jose Riva beat Gabrielle Higgins +26tp
Jack Wicks beat Jaimie Mussi +26tp

Semi-finals

Jack Wicks beat Mark Avery +13tpo,-5tp,+23
Jose Riva beat Jamie Burch +7otp,-23tp,+26tp

Final

Jose Riva beat Jack Wicks +1,-26tp,+9tp

Consolation event ( Hands Egyptian)

Peter Thompson beat Philip Dunk +10
Tudor Jenkins beat Sarah Melvin +19
Mary Knapp beat Chris O'Byrne +23
Liz Farrow beat Graham Pegley +4(t)
Daphne Gaitley beat mark Fawcett +3(t)
David Gaitley beat David Mumford +4(t)
Jamie Burch beat Robert Alexander +17
Chris O'Byrne beat Cliff Jones +4
Mary Knapp beat Tudor Jenkins +17
Sarah Melvin beat Phil Dunk +5
David Cook beat Neil Coote +11(t)
Luc Berthouze beat Peter Thompson +22
Mark Avery beat Philip Eardley +15tp
Gabrielle Higgins beat Robert Alexander +11
Luc Berthouze beat Tudor Jenkins +3(t)
Peter Thompson beat Liz Farrow +3(t)
Mark Fawcett beat Graham Pegley +25
Philip Eardley beat Sarah Melvin +17
Luc Berthouze beat David Cook +14
Peter Thompson beat Daphne Gaitley +15
Liz Farrow beat Neil Coote +11(t)
Cliff Jones beat Mary Knapp +7
Chris O'Byrne beat Phil Dunk +5
Mark Fawcett beat David Gaitley +25
David Mumford beat Graham Pegley +3(t)
Tudor Jenkins beat Robert Alexander +13
Gabrielle Higgins beat Phil Eardley +23tp
Sarah Melvin beat David Gaitley +7(t)
Mark Avery beat Mark Fawcett +17tp
Jamie Burch beat Luc Berthouze +25sxp
Mark Fawcett beat David Cook +25
Mary Knapp beat Daphne Gaitley +5(t)
Mark Avery beat Gabrielle Higgins +7tp
TudorJjenkins beat Peter Thompson +6
Philip Eardley beat Cliff Jones +26tp
Liz Farrow beat Chris O'Byrne +2
David Mumford beat Phil Dunk +13
Luc Berthouze beat Graham Pegley +17
Jamie Burch beat Neil Coote +26
Tudor Jenkins beat Graham pegley +8
Jamie Burch beat Neil Coote +20tp

Liz Farrow won the consolation event, runner up Chris O'Byrne