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BDPL 24/6/09
Bocking Novices gained their first win in the Daniel Robinson & Sons Braintree & District Petanque League. In their debut season they gained a 2-1 result against bottom of the table Feering Sun.
In the triples, with both teams level on 12 each, the Sun just managed to outpoint Bocking to gain the winning point and squeeze through 13-12. All the games were closely contested and Pam Adams and Dave Robinson fought back for Bocking winning their first doubles game 13-9, beating Russell Bingham and Andrew Winter. Malcolm Smith playing his first league game defeated Ian Morgan 13-11 in the singles to give the Novices their first taste of success.

Feering Bell 2 played host to Rayne Cock 2 which saw 3 closely contested games. The Bell’s ‘Team Dave’ Dave Bird, Dave Pearse and Dave West battled with Graham Hill, Ian Humm & Neil Morgan. Early ends were even but at 5 - 5 the Bell started to struggle to score. The critical end came at 8 - 5 where the Bell were punished for being out of boule and with nothing in front of the coche, as good pointing by the Cock made 4. The Cock wrapped up the game on the next end 13 - 5 although the game was closer than the score suggested.
In the singles Morgan started in inspired pointing form racing into an 8 - 0 lead after 4 ends. Bird responded well by scoring 7 over the next 3 ends but Morgan always managed to maintain a lead to win 13 - 9.
The Cock double of Hill & Tooley got off to a quick start with excellent pointing by Tooley seeing them into a 6 - 1 lead early on. The Cock were unlucky not to extend the lead further as with boule in hand on a couple of occasions they promoted the Bell's boule. This helped the Bell back into the game and as Pearse's shooting improved and good pointing from West they got back to 8 - 8. From here they prevented the Cock scoring to run out 13 - 8 winners gaining a consolation point for the Bell and a win for West on his debut.

Rayne Swan 2 beat Chequers Black 3-0 to move up into 4th place. Lorne and Beryl Gibson and Graham Brewer defeated John Perfect, Paul Brown and Simon Robinson 13-8 in the triples. The Gibsons went on to beat Brown & Perfect-Brown in the doubles, 13-6. Brewer went 6 - 0 down in the first couple of ends in the singles and it looked as if the Chequers were going to get a consolation game, but Brewer made a successful comeback to win 13 – 9 to take all the points for the Swan.

Rayne Swan 3 were at home to Chequers White and this game went in favour of the Great Tey club. Lloyd Herman, Frank Britt & Bill Eve finally won 13-7 after a long drawn out opening triples. Britt took the singles against Flack 13-6, but the game of the night was the doubles. The experienced Eve and Lloyd took a comfortable 9-4 lead before the up and coming junior Harry Waldie, showed just how much he has improved in his second season of play. Backed up with steady accurate pointing by Andy Stead, Waldie played some excellent shots to continually take out the Chequers holding boule which meant they gained a very good 13-11 win to keep them in the top half of the table.

Rayne Swan 4 defeated Rayne Cock 1, 3-0 although they made hard work of it. Swan went 6-0 down in the opening triples but Courtney, Sams & Smith got their act together and didn’t let the Cock trio of Linehan, O’Sullivan and Hardy score another point, winning 13-6. It was a similar tale in the doubles with the Swan again going 6-0 down, this time it resulted in a 13-7 win. Smith was firing on all cylinders in the singles however, defeating Linehan 13-2.

 

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