Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 September 2007 KENT PÉTANQUE GAZETTE
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Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 September 2007 KENT PÉTANQUE GAZETTE Kent come home trophy-less! Inter-Regionals rethink necessary after triple loss Inside this edition For the first time in 11 sometimes all three. But tions for Division One Inter-Regionals 2-3 years Kent have come this year, the Kent team and the Juniors but now Tour de France 5 home from the Brean in Division 1 came sec- some rethinking by the Reports 6,7,11,14 Sands EPA Inter- ond (to Southern Coun- KPA may be required World Champs 7 Regional Championships ties), the Challenge team before the 2008 competi- Junior Reports 8-9 with no trophies. also came second (to tion. Chiltern Region) and the Home Nations 10 Kent, and their prede- What was most apparent juniors were in third League update 12 cessors, South East Re- was not the decline in (behind Southern Coun- Kent Classic 13 gion, have consistently Kent but the increase in ties and Northern ). Letters 15 won Division One, Chal- quality in the other Re- What’s On 15 lenge or Junior titles, of- Last year the seeds were gions with depth ten a combination and set with close competi- throughout their squads. News 16-17 Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 Inter-regional Reports and Results Division 1 Squad close games (to double amount of close games figures) of which we we lost. Below are the results of lost 4. Corinne Cooter each round. As you can Juniors see we played well as a If just two of these squad on Saturday and games had gone the As we have come to took a two game lead other way we would expect, our juniors put into Sunday. After a have retained the title. on a good perform- good start on Sunday Consequently whilst the ance. Like the senior the wheels fell off with four game margin squad their champion- Kent Challenge Squad at play a disastrous 2-7 drub- seemed significant it ship also hinged on the bing by Eastern, which was really down to the two games against was followed by two difference of losing two Southern, which they more lost rounds. close games against unfortunately lost. How- Southern. ever they did contribute Saturday well to the overall team v Wales Won 6-3 v Chiltern Won 6-3 performance. From the above you Corinne Cooter v Northern Won 5-4 can see that the bottom v East Midlands Won 6-3 half of the squad was v Southern Lost 3-6 not as strong as previ- Challenge Division 1 winners, Southern v Eastern Won 5-4 ous years and we only Counties Region v West Midlands Won 7-2 had four teams winning Once again I was hon- Sunday oured to be the man- v Northern Won 7-2 more than half of their ager of the Kent Chal- v Eastern Lost 2-7 games. However the v Southern Lost 4-5 positive points differ- lenge squad for the In- v Chiltern Won 6-3 ence is testimony to the ter-Regional competi- v East Midlands tion at Pontins, Brean Lost 3-6 Sands this Team Performances year. Being un- Further analysis Won Lost Diff able to qualify, this of the results is the next best D1 Kent 1 10 2 +52 shows that 28 way to enjoy the games went to D1 Kent 2 7 5 +25 excellent week- end. However, as 2006 Junior Triples winners Alex double figures D1 Kent 3 6 6 +8 Bruce, Charles Fribbens, Robert (i.e. 13-12, 13- I am sure Sven Cooter and Philip Jarrett collect D1 Kent 4 9 3 +58 11 or 13-10) of and Steve their shirts. these we only D1 Kent 5 5 7 +25 MacLaren agree, won 9 and lost being manager D1 Kent 6 5 7 -14 19. brings a whole D1 Kent 7 4 8 -9 new meaning to However the D1 Kent 8 5 7 0 involvement. whole weekend hinged on the D1 Juniors 9 3 +47 For the uninitiated, two rounds Ch Kent 1 9 2 +51 the Challenge against South- squad is a supple- Ch Kent 2 9 2 +61 ern, both of mentary four which we lost. Ch Kent 3 8 3 +33 teams from each Play on the main terrain, Brean During those two Ch Kent 4 6 5 +4 region playing rounds we had 6 against every 2007 Page 2 Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 Inter-regional Reports — continued other region that wishes was played on Saturday day was a straightfor- ning total on our posi- to enter. This year that evening instead of Sun- ward 3-1 but it was tions but ultimately we was 12 teams in all, day morning and we Round 9, mid-morning won the same number including Devon who suffered another 2-2 on Sunday, where it of games but they had a dropped out of Division against Southern who went wrong. better points difference 2 and only put a Chal- had a strong squad. than us, by 13 points. lenge squad in to the Perhaps a Sunday We were already track- competition. Therefore morning game would ing our results against Chiltern 32 +162 their Challenge teams have been better. Northern and Chiltern Kent 32 +149 1-4 were the equivalent who had played one of every other regions' On Saturday night we another in the previous Ultimately Kent lost the main 1-4 teams. were top of the pile but round. A 4-0 to Chiltern title that they had previ- knew that our good re- really stirred things up. ously won 4 times from The Kent teams were sults were being 5, There were other rea- superb. On Saturday, matched by Chiltern We then played East sons which I am sure we started off with two and Northern regions. Midlands and lost 1-3 the KPA will look at. But perfect scores (all four with only one game be- this writer's opinion is teams winning) and On Sunday, Barry Wing ing closely contested. that it was not the team round 3 was a close 3-1 was complaining he East Midland were very played badly but the win. Rounds four and could not play because happy and we felt we opposition has im- five were the same and he had no hangover. had blown the title. proved and played bet- we were looking very Others were saying the Then we heard that ter. The Kent Challenge comfortable. The team exact opposite. The Chiltern had also lost 3- squad statistics show was happy with its re- Challenge squad was 1 and therefore we were they turned in a slightly sults and was looking probably the most un- both still on the same better result than last forward to success. hungover I have ever number of games (but year, the average seen it (and normally I they had better points' games result per round Then it started to go a am the worst but even I difference). 2.9 - 1.1 was exactly the bit wrong. Round 6 was had had a good night's same as last year and a 2-2 draw against Chil- sleep) so we were well In Rounds 10 and 11 the average points per tern who eventually prepared. We were ly- the squad came to- round was 11.8 - 8.4 won so the -6 point ing first with a two game gether and won 3-1 and compared to last year's score would become advantage over Chiltern 4-0. Frantic to-ing and 11.5 - 8.7 so would significant. and Northern.. fro-ing between our have beaten our own games and the Chiltern 2006 winners. By mistake, Round 7 The first round on Sun- games kept a close run- Martyn Fribbens Kent Challenge Squad Kent Division 1 Squad Page 3 Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 Final Regional Qualifier Positions 2007 Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Reg 1 Reg 2 Reg 3 Reg 4 Total BROWN JUG Roland Jones Tracy Turner Peter Turner 18 9 24 18 69 Rachid Han- MNR Nic Baxter nache Martin Baker Bruno Bove 21 24 0 21 66 KP 1 Kevin Spillet Dave Turner Dean Ashby 19 20 2 24 65 REJECTS Dave Hurren Matt Horrigan Rich Spillett 24 21 0 20 65 Lu000000ke TEAM YELLOW Scott Ashby Jenny Cooter Fribbens 15 19 11 11 56 OLD SHEAF Kevin Wood Kris Smith Matt Shrimpton 2 14 19.5 19 54.5 Margaret Bax- OLD G'S David Baxter ter Ken Pinder Hugh Aldred 14 16 7 16 53 Martin Eggle- Dave Wood- Andrew Wil- GEORGE 3RD ton man liams 16 8 19.5 8.5 52 MOSSY'S BOYS Rob Harvey Jon Holbourn Kevin Atkinson Gary Atkinson 11 13 15.5 12 51.5 Charles Frib- BTY Alex Bruce Phillip Jarrett Robert Cooter bens 12 11 8 15 46 HARTLEY SHAW Colin Senneck Joyce Nash Mick Nash 13 0 12.5 14 39.5 Chas Shrimp- AB FAB ton Mark Dennis Barry Wing Larry Belcher 6 0 18 13 37 Lynn Shrimp- KENT ANGELS Faye Golder ton Sheila King 7 0 21 8.5 36.5 GEORGE-OUS Richard King Neil Phillips Brian King 0 18 9 7 34 Michelle Cre- E-DEPOT Alan Cregeen geen David Blakely 8 15 0 6 29 JOHN BOI Roy Pemberton C. Watkins K. Maggs Mick Weston 0 12 12.5 2 26.5 FLUMPS Sam Littley Steve Brown Matt Whatley 20 1 0 0 21 Stephen Rud- RED ALERT den Ryan Rudden Tracey Rudden Daniel Rudden 4 0 14 1 19 Jean-Louis FCUK Keith Atkinson Steve Golder Guiot 0 0 15.5 0 15.5 NUFF SKILLS Geoff Booth Rob Booth Rob Brewis 9 2 0 0 11 Martyn Frib- MJL John Bradley Linda Bradley bens 0 6 4 0 10 Glynis Johns- P&C 4 Mark Cooter Corrine Cooter ton C Wilson 0 0 6 4 10 DEBS D Snook Mark Thorne T Williams P Mount 1 7 1 0 9 Georgina LITTLE DEVILS Sam Littley Ben Littley Sheppard 0 4 0 0 4 BAT & BALL Jes Paine Martin Pennell Mick Lawrence 0 0 0 0 0 EAGLES John Fowers Mags Yates Ron Yates Eileen Fowers 0 0 0 0 0 HARRIERS NAF N Hurren P Killick A Pucknell 0 0 0 0 0 LORDSWOOD J Patmore Eric Hatfield I Clarke 0 0 0 0 0 MINARDOS P Hardwick A Dunstall L Gilbert 0 0 0 0 0 TOVILEARS P Collins J Selling R Hill 0 0 0 0 0 Page 4 Kent Pétanque Gazette Issue 25 Reports from the Tour de France events Early July saw the first stage of the Tour de France sweep through Kent on its way to France.