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BDPL 17/6/09
In the Daniel Robinson & Sons Braintree & District Petanque League Rayne Swan 4, lying in 2nd place, consolidated their position with a 3-0 win over Rayne Cock 2. Tom Smith, Colin Sams & Clare Courtney took the triples against Graham Hill, Ian Humm & Steve Tooley 13-6 after a slow start.
Sams & Courtney were untroubled in the doubles taking the game 13-2.
In the singles Tooley completely outplayed Smith in the early ends and went into a 5-0 lead. Smith then began to shoot in his own inimitable way which made for a closer game and levelled the scores at 10 all. After good pointing on the penultimate end by Tooley, he made an error of judgement by not shooting out Smith’s boule. Smith did not make the same mistake and shot two boule out for game on the next end for a 13-11 win.

Rayne Cock 1 were at home to Rayne Swan 3 and suffered the same fate as their team mates. Paul Linehan, Graham Hardy & Clay O’Sullivan were well beaten 13-3 by Keith Flack, Matt & Harry Waldie.
Linehan put up a good fight in the singles, taking the experienced Flack all the way but still losing out 13-8.
The same can be said for the doubles with Andy Stead & Harry Waldie squeezing through 13-12 for the 3-0 result.

The Onley team from Stisted, wearing their new Daniel Robinson sponsored team shirts, had a good win at Chequers Black, Gt Tey. In the triples, home team Simon Robinson, Paul Brown and Jack Perfect-Brown, took four at the first end. At 2-4, the Onley played some great shots to take five at the next two ends. Not to be outdone, Chequers also took five to make the score 10-12, but the Onley triple of Trevor, Nikki and Daniel Blows, held on to win 13-10.
In the pairs, father and son, Brown and Perfect-Brown, took the game 13-3 against a below par Daniel Blows and Tracey Austin. The deciding singles started with Robinson taking a 5-2 lead over Trevor Blows but six at the next two ends edged Blows in front. He kept up the pressure and took the game 13-7 to give the Onley a 2-1 win.

Feering Bell 2 travelled to Rayne Swan 2 where the Bell triple of Dave Bird, Jack & Dave Pearse kept in contention early on mainly due to good pointing by Dave Bird. At 6all the Bell’s play deteriorated and the Swan triple of Dennis Smith, Beryl & Lorne Gibson took full advantage to quickly close out the game 13–6.
The doubles between J & D Pearse and B Gibson & Smith was the ‘a typical’ game of 2 halves. Good pointing by the Pearses saw them race into a 10 – 0 lead after 3 ends. The next end Smith pointed in with his last boule to take the Swan’s first point. After this it was all Swan as with a help of a 5 they fought back to 8–10. On the next end Smith had a chance to take the game with another 5, but was unfortunate to promote one of the Bell’s boule to cut the count down to 3. The next end saw the final twist where Jack Pearse’s first boule took out all of the Swan’s and the relieved Pearses were able to point in for 3 and salvage the game 13 – 11.
The singles saw L Gibson in superb form as his accurate pointing gave D Bird little chance. Although Bird put up a good fight he eventually lost 13–3 as the Swan won the match 2-1.

 

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