{"id":3152,"date":"2020-09-22T22:53:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T21:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2020-09-26T22:24:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T21:24:44","slug":"monarchs-rein-in-minotaurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=3152","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs Rein In Minotaurs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The first match of Round 3 of the Super League always promised to be a tense affair between the two first division sides with Monarchs searching for their first win and Minotaurs looking to extend their winning run to 3 matches.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the first game Minotaurs Vickie & Pete K, unbeaten in their 4 games so far in the Super League, took on Monarchs Tony Smith & Roger Green.\u00a0 The game was closely fought with the lead\u00a0 changing hands a few times before Minotaurs turned the screw and ran out winners by 13-10. The second Minotaurs pair, Bernard & Pred, came up against Roger Griffin & Mike Jones. Bernard & Pred moved into an early lead but were pegged back by Roger & Mike only for Minotaurs to open up another lead which again was pegged back to 9-8. At this point Minotaurs, with 3 boule in hand, had a point for 4 and game, failed to take it with the first boule, put Monarchs on with the second boule and missed a shot for game with the third. Fortunately this didn’t rattle Minotaurs and they took the game 13-10 for a 2-0 lead at the change over.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reverse pairs got underway and the first game between Vickie & Pete and Roger & Mike was another very close encounter with never more than a couple of points in it. With the score at 12-12, however, Monarchs took the final point to end Vickie & Pete’s five game winning streak. In the second game Bernard & Pred raced into an early lead and were 6-1 up. Monarchs Tony & Roger then picked up 1 or 2 points per end to slowly haul themselves back into the game and with the score at 8-8, Monarchs went into the lead for the first time, a lead that Minotaurs could not pull back, and Monarchs eventually ran out winners by 13-8.<\/span><\/p>\n

A well fought, friendly but highly competitive affair between two extremely well matched teams which was reflected in the 2-2 draw with points also equal at 46-46.<\/span><\/p>\n

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