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Sussex win at Ramsgate

Sussex County had a good away win at Ramsgate on Friday 9th August. The team of Robin Wootton, Jonathan Isaacs, Janet Hoptroff & acting captain Richard Brooks managed to gain a 4-3 victory. Well done team!

Special thanks to Jonathan for driving the 220 mile round trip.

SCCC French Evening

Saturday 14^th September 2013

7pm for 7.30pm

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Soupe à l’oignon

or

Pate de Mackerel Fumé

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Pork Normandie

Macédoine de legumes

or

Tarte aux tomates

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Desserts français assortis

£12

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Trophy Awards by Tournament Manager Bill Arliss: Tonbridge Wells - Doubles Winners; Sussex County 1 - Singles Winners: Janet Hoptroff (Captain), Jonathan Isaacs, Fiona Philips and Chris Rolph 

(Photos courtesy of Robin Wootton)

The SECF one ball teams event scheduled for this coming Sunday has been cancelled.

Two events made up the Annual Tournament this year, there being insufficient entries to run all three classes.

The Abbey Challenge Cup (A Class play) was won by Mark Fawcett (4/5 wins), beating Roger Wood (3/5 wins) into 2nd place. Play comprised one american block:

The B/C class event, played for the Daldy Cup comprised two 4-player mini-blocks with knockout play-off.  The event was won by Rall Hall.

There are some photos of the presentations for this CA event held at Southwick in the Photo area.  I have no details I'm afraid.

East Saxons make off with South Saxons silver

A five round Swiss was played, with three games on Saturday. The holders, Colin & Georgeen Hemmings, led the field overnight with three wins. Richard and Pat Jackson were in an unaccustomed position at the bottom of the table. Nevertheless, Sunday morning saw a comprehensive win over the leaders by Janet Overell and Margaret Hampson. Meanwhile, the hastily assembled pairing of Liz Farrow and Keith Slatter (14 bisques) emerged to face the holders (3.5) in the final round. The underdogs went well ahead but, with bisques all spent, were just overhauled as the timer ran down.

Elizabeth Castell contributed a wonderful “Porter Cake” for tea, after which she presented the Castell Soda Siphons to Colin & Georgeen.

Sixteen players had entered, with handicaps from -1 to 16. Five pairs had Southwick affiliation of some sort, the others from Colchester (2) and Purley Bury/Surbiton. The hoops had been moved and reset in the preceding week, and were firm without rabbit runs, but somewhat unforgiving. As a result, scoring was slow, with 14 of 20 games going to the 3 hour time limit.

The modified tournament regulations resulted in five handicaps (for the pair) from 1.5 to 6, and three from 9 to 14. The closeness of most games and distribution of handicaps in the final results suggest that the modified regulation is along the right lines but will, no doubt, be fine-tuned as experience is gained.

(Runners-up Keith Slatter and Liz Farrow)

(All photos courtesy of Ray Hall)

Full results:

Entrants and Final Position

Results by Round

Closing date is 15th July, not June.  Sorry.  Still plenty of time to enter!