Compaid Doubles

The Crowborough Pétanque club held their annual Compaid Doubles competition on the warmest October day for many years. This was in stark contrast to last year’s competition when we had torrential downpours and the competition had to be abandoned.  Fifteen teams from Adur, Croydon, Handcross, Harriers, Lordswood, Tovil and Crowborough entered the contest.  Play started prompt at ten-o-clock with the morning’s play divided into three leagues of five.  Several newcomers who had only recently started playing the game had their first experiences of competitive pétanque; although none of them won a game they enjoyed the experience. There were only two teams who won all their games in the morning, two who lost all theirs and just one team was fannied.  Lunch was taken at one-o-clock in the warm sunshine with play starting again at two fifteen.  The winners and runners up from the leagues were joined by the next two best of the rest in the Main in the afternoon leaving seven teams to play in the Plate.  In the Main there were some very close games but Should Not Have Come (Andy Williams & Tracey Holt Lordswood) retired after the quarter finals to leave the Splashers a bye into the final. This was a long drawn out affair with each team taking too long between each throw thus the competition dragged on until late in the evening.  The Slashers, (Neil & Colin Phillips, Tovil) had their revenge for the humiliating 13-2 defeat in the morning by Star Masters (Scott Ashby & Mic Baxter, Tovil)  to beat them 31-12 to win the competition.  The Plate resulted in an easy win by AC/DC Alan & Dawn Constable, Social Club) 13-2 over Croydon (Andrew Randal & Sebastian Siznn).  The Competition raised £200.00 for the Compaid Trust bringing the total donation to the Compaid Trust over the years to more than £6000.00 and the total to all charities to £24000.00, which for a small club is quite good.

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