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Sussex County Open Evening Singles – 16 June
The weather improved to give us a pleasant (if slightly chilly) few hours of croquet for our first evening event of the summer. 12 players were grouped into 3 divisions of 4, and some excellent croquet was enjoyed by all.
Division C was the first to finish. Tim Weller dominated proceedings, winning all 3 games with a net +13 hoops.
The other two divisions, A and B, were much closer, with net hoops required to establish the winners. In Division B, both Phil Harrison and Mark Barnham secured 2 victories, but Phil’s superior net hoops score of +4, gave him the win.
Finally. Division A went right down to the wire. Tim Bick was leading after 2 rounds, but had to play Morgan Case in the final round to claim victory. Morgan won 7-3 putting both on 2 wins and +2 net hoops. However, as Morgan had won the head to head, he took home the much prized chocolate bar (aptly named “Sweet and Salty”).
Thank you to everybody who made it such a good natured and enjoyable evening.
David
Thanks to David for managing the event
Sussex County v Guildford & Godalming
Another U League win for Sussex County today at Guildford.
Our team comprising Deborah Marcus, David Dickens, Rob Harper and Nigel Billingham won the match 5-2 on difficult playing surfaces - it certainly brought home just how good our lawns are!
We won the morning session ( 3-0) and convincing wins by David and Nigel in the afternoon secured the win.
That's now 3 out 3 so far , with just Ealing to come in a few weeks.
Nigel Billingham
GC doubles competition 13 June
After a week’s bad weather the sun finally shone on Saturday for the one day GC Doubles Competition, although there was still a chilly wind.
22 pairs took part (including five married couples and one father and son team). Because of the numbers involved there were four divisions but two of the divisions only had five pairs each. This meant that divisions C & D were put into a crossover division in effect playing the opposing division so they could still have five games each during the day without byes etc.
Division A had six pairs and the winners were Steve Chapman and Paul Green with four wins. There were three pairs with three wins but Konstantin Yudintsev and Brain Aikens took second place with +8 net hoops. All players were from Sussex County.
Division B again had six pairs. Stephen and Debra Hayns from Ryde and Philip & Julie Tremble from Guildford tied with 4 wins each. However Stephen & Debra took first place with +10 net hoops.
In the C & D Crossover Division Tony Marjoram and Laki Marangos took top spot with five straight wins and therefore won Division C. Kathy McColgan and Davide Cogrossi were in second place with 3 wins and as they were from Division D they took the prize for that division.
Andrew Stewart
Thanks to Andrew for managing the event
Full results
| Division A | KY&BA | RB&DD | SC&PG | BH&IC | VLA | DS&DW | Wins | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Konstantin Yudintsev & Brian Aikens | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |
| Richard Brooks & David Dickins | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |
| Steve Chapman & Paul Green | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
| Beryl Hughes & Ian Cobbold | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 6 | |
| Vincent L'Estrange & Simon Ancell | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 5 | |
| Douglas Shand & Dominic Webb | 6 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| Division B | RF&RC | PT&JT | SH&DH | LT> | SN&TN | FB&MJ | Wins | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosemary Faulkner & Robert Clark | 6 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 4 | |
| Philip Tremble & Julie Tremble | 7 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | |
| Stephen Hayns & Debra Hayns | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 1 | |
| Louise Taylor & Gavin Taylor | 7 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | |
| Sue Nicholas & Tony Nicholas | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 6 | |
| Fran Box & Michael Jay | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 |
| Division C & D Crossover | FP&JC | MT&TT | FA&WA | TM&LM | MA&PH | KM&DC | CB&SK | DR&DF | JB&GP | PH&JS | Wins | Position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiona Phillips & Jo Crosby | 1 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 5 | |||||
| Marc Trevere & Truida Trevere | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Francis Ainley & Will Ainley | 4 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 7 | |||||
| Tony Marjoram & Laki Marangos | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Michael Akester & Philip Harrison | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Kathy McColgan & Davide Cogrossi | 7 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Chris Baccarini & Susan Kilby | 6 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| Diana Rolfe & David Funnell | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 9 | |||||
| John Butler & Gloria Perez-Vitez | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | |||||
| Peter Hill & Jane Sims | 7 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 8 |
Sussex win 4-3 at Ramsgate
Our U League team , comprising Jonathan Isaacs, David Dickens, Rob Harper and Nigel Billingham recorded a hard earned away win ( 4-3) at Ramsgate today. This means we are 2-0 so far this year.
The home team won the morning games 2-1, with our doubles pair of Jonathan and Rob recording the only win.
Sussex won the afternoon singles (3-1) with excellent wins by David , Rob and Nigel. This was despite an hour of really poor weather comprising thunder, lightning , hail storm, high winds and biblical rain!
Ramsgate were excellent hosts and despite the poor weather a good time was had by all.
Next up Guildford away.
Thanks to Nigel for report and photos