Monkstone Pétanque Club

The 2nd annual Monkstone Club Singles were played under sunny skies on 22 August 2026. As last year the organiser was Claude Le Razavet and the control table was manned by Bernard Adshead. Presentations were made by Jeremy Sparkes.

The Mens’ Singles was contested by 16 members with a Pool Stage of 4 groups of 4  in the morning followed by Main and Plate Elimination competitions featuring the players ranked 1-8 and 9-16 after the morning session with QF, SF and Final. The Ladies’ Singles featured 6 entries and was played as a 5 game Round Robin.

Mens’ Competition

After the morning session the players were ranked as follows:

The top 8 Players then contested the Main competition in which, after some exciting and skilful play and a tense final, Elijah Jeffers emerged as the 2026 Mens’ Singles Champion.

                             Winner                                                          Finalists

                       Elijah Jeffers                                        Sam Bigot & Elijah Jeffers

The bottom 8 players contested the Plate competition. Again after some skilful play. The quarter finals went much with the ranking with 3 of the top 4 winning. The exception was Peter Lippett who had been ranked at 8, but won his quarter final and went on to win the Plate Competition in a repeat of last year’s Repechage final.

                                                           Plate Finalists

                                              Keith Thomas & Peter Lippett

Ladies’ Competition

Unlike the Men’s competition, the 2025 Champion, Penny Wooler, returned to defend her title. Going into the afternoon final 2 rounds Gill Clark was leading the pack but the competition was still wide open and some of the players improved on their morning performance while some di not do quite so well. in the end though it was Gill who managed to top the rankings after Round 5 and became the 2026 Ladies’ Singles Champion.

                             Winner                                                          Finalists

                       Gill Clark                                          Penny Wooler & Gill Clark

40 members (41 with Vickie & Bernard merging into one player) gathered today for the MPC Easter Egg Melee – probably the best Easter Egg Melee in the world where everyone gets a prize.

The day proved to be bright and sunny with a cool breeze as Round 1 got underway, after which Alex Skibinski & Vanessa Jones led the way on 1 win [+13] with Leon Sofianos & Spencer Bartlett [+11] and Sharon Paynter & Keith Thomas [+10] close behind.

As usual, Round 2 began to shake up the field and as it finished Alex Skibinski had a clear lead on 2 wins [+20], followed by Leon Sofianos [+18] and Linda Lippett, Sharon Paynter & Andrew Jones all [+16]

So it was on to the final round. Could Alex hold onto his lead or would Leon, Linda, Sharon or Andrew, or somebody lower down the field come through to take the trophy? Alex, Leon & Linda all fell at the last hurdle leaving 8 players on 3 wins. As the scores came through it was looking as if we would need a Golden End to decide the winner with Mike Jones & Linda Thomas, both of whom registered 13-0 wins to shoot up the leaderboard, on 3  wins [+26]. In the end Sharon Paynter who had been around the top since Round 1 came through with a 13-2 win to register [+27].

Well done to Sharon on joining the pantheon of Easter Egg Melee winners.

Thanks to all who took part and helped make it a great day of bouling.

RESULTS (UPDATED)

WINNER

Sharon receives the Trophy from the Organiser

EASTER EGG MELEE ROLL OF HONOUR

Congratulations to Mammoths on their runaway 2025/26 Super League win. Well done the two Peters and all their squad.

As reported last week Mammoths had already won the 2025/26 Super League and they continued their fine form with another win in the final match and managed to go through the whole season unbeaten – a great achievement. The fight for second place was won by Misfits despite their final match defeat as  Marmots and Mustangs drew the their final game on Monday.