Monkstone Pétanque Club

“Three Monkstone teams entered the Over 55s competition held at Wenvoe on a clear but chilly day:

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Monarchs – Roger, Barney and Mike Jones;

Marauders – Wiggy, Norman and Peter;

Minotaurs – Bernard, Vickie and Keith.

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By the end of the morning’s play, the Marauders had unfortunately failed to qualify for the afternoon’s top 8 knock-out but Bernard’s Minotaurs were one of only two teams that had won all their games. The Monarchs qualified in fifth place.
In the quarter-finals the Minotaurs lost 8-13 to last year’s winners, Age Concern, while the Monarchs beat Tortolla 13-1 to earn a semi-final tie against Age Concern. In a very tight game, the Monarchs emerged the victors, winning 13-9.
In the final the Monarchs faced KPB (Barbara Vaughan, Kon Tomczyk and Phil Bradshaw) but were outplayed, losing 5-13. KPB will now be invited to represent Wales in the Over 55s European Championship in Sweden in June.”

Roger Griffin

Final Results are below: (Click to Enlarge)

“Our club fielded three teams for this competition at Wenvoe:

Monarchs: Tony, Nai, Mike W, Paul;

Marauders: Jim, Barney, Peter K, Liam;

Minotaurs: Roger, Mike J, Keith, Peredur.

The competition attracted 18 teams from clubs across the region and for most of the day the players basked in spring sunshine. Wenvoe PC provided a range of pistes to test the competitors and the results for our teams show that some coped better than others!

Congratulations to the Monarchs and the Marauders who finished fourth and fifth respectively, and commiserations to the Minotaurs who avoided the wooden spoon by one place.

But, as the photos show, if there had been a prize for best-dressed club we would have won hands down!”

Roger Griffin

The final results for the competition: – (Click to Enlarge)

Just a quick upload of the Christmas and New Years Eve events for the Monkstone Pétanque Club. The club celebrates many social occasions throughout the year and everybody’s welcome!

Please click on them to enlarge!

Pétanque Blog 3 – 09/03/2014

On Sunday the club celebrated it’s first real weekend of the year of sunshine with a training session packed full of members! The sun was out, the hats were on and the competition was heating up! Members are looking forward to many more sunshine filled weekends to come this season.

Liam Milton

“The Monkstone Pétanque Club fielded three teams for the President’s Cup on the 2nd of March 2014. Despite the pouring rain and bitter wind all three of the Monkstone’s teams (The Minotaurs, Marauders and the Monarchs) reached the semi-final of the Plate.

However, The Monkstone Marauders (John Barnes, Peter Kensett and Jim Harrison) managed to progress to the final to meet the Dambusters. By this time the rain had approached near monsoon conditions and both teams agreed to play one boule each to decide. Sadly the victory went to the Dambusters! Well done to them!

What could have been a great day was sadly spoilt by the weather. The result was nevertheless a good one for the team!”

Jim Harrison