Lynda Hodges RIP

22 April 2025 / / No comments

18 Club members were at Thornhill Crematorium today to pay their respects and say a final farewell to club member, Lynda Hodges, who died last month at the age of 84. Lynda, who had not been seen around the club very much over the last 2 years and not at all over the last year, due to ill health, was a very popular member of the club and a talented player.

She will be remembered by those who knew her for her friendly disposition, her “belly” laugh and, not least for the excellent homemade savouries and cakes that she would turn up at the club with almost every week to complement our morning coffee.

RIP Lynda

 

Category: Friendship, Membership /

Easter Egg Melee

22 April 2025 / / No comments

The annual Easter Egg Melee took place on Easter Sunday under warm and sunny blue skies. 30 members turned out to contest the the 3 round melee.

The idea behind a melee is to level the playing field, giving the less experienced an equal chance of victory. After 3 hours of competitive but friendly play this was shown to have worked as the winners were announced as Roger Green (1st), Francis Ryan (2nd) and Ann Marie Sheridan (3rd).  Both Francis and Ann Marie are relatively new players who finished above many far more experienced players.

Congratulations to Roger Green on his well deserved win.

THE FULL RESULTS

Category: Membership /

April 2025 Club 100 Draw

18 April 2025 / / No comments

The April draw was made today, 18 April 2025 at the Club. The lucky winners were:

1 Rob Harris £103.50
2 Geoffrey Keast £34.50
3 Keith Nott £17.25

The 100 Club currently has a total of 69 members, making the monthly prize pot £155.25. In addition there is a bonus draw in December for a prize of £175+ (depending on the number of members). If you are not a member please consider joining.  The more people that join the bigger the prizes and the more improvements we can make to YOUR Club.

Congratulations to the winners but don’t forget:

YOU HAVE TO BE IN IT TO WIN IT

Contact Bernard on treasurer [at] monkstonepetanque [dot] org [dot] uk  or speak to him at the Club if you would like to join or for more details.

Category: Fund Raising /

Monkstone Open Doubles – 6 April 2025

18 April 2025 / / No comments

The club was blessed with a beautiful, fine, sunny day for our Open Doubles competition on 6 April 2025. For the second year in a row, the entry list had been closed with the maximum number of 32 teams competing.

The Final Entry List was:

The morning session was taken up with 3 qualifying rounds with 8 groups of 4 teams playing in round robin format. The top team in each group then went into the Gold competition in the afternoon, the second team to the Silver competition and so on to the Bronze & Tin competitions.

7 teams achieved 3 wins in the qualifying stage: Double Dose, Lisvane Longshots, Rejects, Kym & George, Boules Frites, Booligans and Los Amigos.

The results in the afternoon knock-out competitions were:

GOLD

Congratulations to Double Dose; Sean Smith & Ian Bailey

.             DOUBLE DOSE                                          BOOLIGANS

SILVER

Congratulations to J-Y & Len; Jean-Yves Robic & Len Field

.                  J-Y & LEN                                              TWYN-Y-FFRWD

BRONZE

Congratulations to Two Point Five: Roger Griffin, Vickie & Bernard Adshead

.               TWO POINT FIVE                                                    PCJ

TIN

Congratulations to Gareth & Rich: Gareth Coombes & Richard Edwards

.           GARETH & RICH                                                   DIJON DOUBLE

Category: Competition /

2024/25 Super League – Final Round

11 April 2025 / / No comments

They think its all over – it is now! Another exciting, competitive but friendly Super League Season comes to an end.

Mustangs & Meerkats who hadn’t lost a match in the first half of the season and consequently topped the table at Christmas were still at the top after the final game. Mustangs had held a very slender lead at Christmas but were pipped at the post by Meerkats, so it huge congratulations to Claude and his team.

Mercenaries who were third at Christmas only picked up another 5 points and slipped to sixth whilst Marvels who were fourth gained another 8 points but still slipped to seventh place.

Mavericks took 11 points to rise from fifth to fourth and Mammoths with an extra 10 points rose from seventh to fifth while Misfits who doubled their points form 6 to 12 still slipped to the bottom.

The form team of the second half of the season were Marlins, lead by Kapitain Katrina, who couldn’t buy a win before Christmas and were languishing at the bottom, gaining 14 points after the restart to race up the table to third place.

Next Autumn we start all over again.

FINAL TABLE

TABLE AT CHRISTMAS

Category: Competition, Super League /
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