Essex Petanque League Winter 2011
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29/01/12
Despite losing for the second week running, Onley Arms from Stisted, remain top of the Essex Petanque League.
In the triples the home side of Bill Eve, Lloyd Herman and Paul Brown were always ahead of the Onley trio. Tracey Austin,
Daniel Blows and Trevor Blows played well but the positional play of Herman proved the difference as the Chequers ran out 13-6
winners.
In the pairs, Herman and Eve carried on from last week as they beat Austin and Daniel Blows 13-5. Blows deserved more
than two defeats on the day.
In the singles, John Perfect played Trevor Blows for the second week running. The early ends were
shared but Perfect produced a couple of ‘own goals’ to put Blows into a 5-7 lead. Perfect got back into the game and at 9-9 it was
Blows who gifted three points to Perfect. Blows dug deep to point in for two at the next end. At 12-11 Perfect had two boule to move
out Blows holding shot but failed. At 12-12, both players first boule were not within a meter of the head. Blows just made it to
within half a meter but Perfect fell short to give the game 13-12 to Blows. A 2-1 win for Chequers but they still dropped down one place to fourth.
Rayne Swan stay second after a 3-0 win over bottom team Blackwater U3A from Maldon. The Swan team was too strong for the Maldon newcomers.
Jack Vietch put up a good display in the singles to reach 7all against Lorne Gibson before losing out 13-8 but otherwise it was a comfortable
win for the Rayne side.
Bird in Hand from Earls Colne move up into 3rd spot after two wins over Feering Sun. Playing a double header the Bird won both matches 2-1.
Wendy Ridehalgh had two good singles wins 13-9 over Dick Youngs and 13-5 over Tom Winter. Lazlo Szilágyi and Ian Morgan scored 5 and 4 in
two ends and romped away in their doubles match against Youngs and Russell Bingham. Best performances for the Sun were a 13-3 triples win
for Tom Winter, Bingham and Andy Winter. The father and son Winter team also had a 13-5 doubles win.
