{"id":6396,"date":"2025-11-06T11:19:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6396"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:19:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T11:19:16","slug":"more-drama-in-the-club-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monkstonepetanque.org.uk\/?p=6396","title":{"rendered":"More Drama in the Club Doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Annual Club Doubles were held on 26 October 2025 in the usual format of a 3 round melee with partners being selected at random with the help of a little seeding to try to get evenly balanced teams as far as possible. 28 Members entered making up 14 teams<\/p>\n

After the first round, among the winners Alex Skibinski\/Stephen Haynes took an early lead with +11 followed by Robin Ralph\/Stephen Haynes on +9 and Tony Smith\/Lloyd Kinsey on +7<\/p>\n

Could these 3 pairs sustain their lead in Round 2? When the dust settled, we had only 3 pairs on 2 wins with Alex\/Stephen and Robin\/Stephen having fallen at the second hurdle. Now the leaders were Tony\/Lloyd +15, Len Christian\/Francis Ryan on +14, Mike Jones\/John Griffiths on +11.<\/p>\n

So onto the final round with all to play for. One of the teams on 1 win could still come through if the 3 leaders failed to win in Round 3. But it proved not to be with all 3 winning to finish as the only teams on 3 wins. But for the second competition running, 2 teams were tied on +23\u00a0 and were even tied on “points for”<\/em> at 38. So it was onto the Golden End.<\/p>\n

Tony\/Lloyd won the toss and Lloyd put in a good opening boule around 30-40cms from the cosh. Inexplicably, Len\/Francis chose to try and outpoint it and after all 6 boules, Lloyd’s boule was still holding and Tony\/Lloyd were declared the winners.<\/p>\n

Congratulations to Tony\/Lloyd, commiserations to Len\/Francis and thanks to all the members who took part.<\/p>\n

For the second year running, Maddie Bartlett won the Best Junior Award. Well done Maddie!<\/p>\n

The big question is, will the Club Triples on 9 November produce yet another tie with a Golden End?<\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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THE WINNERS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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