Two members of the club took part in the National Doubles at Brecon RFC PC on Sunday 23rd June. Rose Fiera partnered Rod Dobbins (Wenvoe PC) and Tony Smith teamed up with Graham Attfield (The Barn PC).
Congratulations to Tony and Graham who together won the competition beating Phil Bradshaw (Monkstone Inn PC) and Kon Tomczyk (Caerleon RFC PC) 13/8 in a hard fought contest.
The inaugural challenge match between the WPA and the Big League took place in glorious sunshine at the Rising Sun, Abersychan, on 9 June and congratulations must go to the Monkstone players who contributed so much to the WPA’s victory by 27 games to 21.
Our club fielded 8 of the 16 players in the WPA team and won 19 of the 27 games, a magnificent effort by the four pairs of Monkstone players:
Bernard & Vickie, Paul & Lynda, Rose & Tony and Brian & Judith.
Well done!
Since early April members of the club having been involved in the WPA Grand Prx Series. This competition comprises 4 rounds and the final round took place over the weekend of 11/12 May at Wenvoe Petanque Club.
The following members of the club have taken part in this competition, they are:
Roger Griffin, John Barnes, Keith Nott & Jim Harrison playing as one team – Monkstone.
Three other members of the club also took part, but as members of other teams, Tony Smith (Binary Data), Brian Dreyer (Blues Brothers) and Rose Fiera (Boulistic Girls).
Congratulations to all those club members who have finished in the top 8 teams, and therefore qualify to represent Wales in Edinburgh in August.
The club’s two second division teams – Marauders and Minotaurs – have recorded their first league wins of the season. In cold and blustery conditions (well, it’s only May!), the Marauders played Creigiau Jacques while the Minotaurs took on Barn’s Wallace. As expected from two experienced clubs, the visiting teams proved worthy opponents but the Marauders and Minotaurs eventually won their respective matches, each team winning 3 – 1.
The results pushed the Minotaurs up to 5th in Division 2, while the Marauders still have work to do in 8th place.
Teams on the night:
Marauders – Roger Griffin, Mike Jones, John Chichester, Alan Welch
Minotaurs – Tony Smith, Rose Fiera, Brian Dreyer, Bernard Adshead.
