Cranleigh Games and Daniel's 18th birthday

 We all had a good morning playing boule and welcoming members of the public who came to have a go at Petanque.  Instead of coffee this morning we  all celebrated Daniels 18th birthday; champagne, cakes and presents! We lit the candles on the cake and set the fire alarms off! 
After the celebrations we went back out and we all tried to shoot an egg at 10 mts to win a bottle of Pastis without success!
We played on until 4pm welcoming another couple of guests so a successful day was had by all.

 Dan, Joan and Daughter

Oh no they are going to shoot!

 Here goes

 

 He missed!

 Get the champagne open

Light the candles, Grandma and Grandad are watching.

 Call the fire brigade!

 Wow chocolate cake!

More please!!

Getting the second piste ready for the Cranleigh Games

We are now adding the top surface to the second piste and this should be finished by Saturday, just in time for the Cranleigh Games.

We would all like to thank Craig, Roger and Peter for all their hard work in getting it finished

 Craig busy shifting the Granite chips

 now its time to make the piles

those moles have been busy!

Final Results of the SCPA Masters

	These are the positions in which the teams will play in this years finals and represent the Southern Counties Petanque Association.
	Teams 1 - 8 will play in the Main competition
	Teams 9 and 10 will play in the Challenge competition
	Team 11 and 12 will play in the Combined squad
	1st HMS Dreadnought Mike Tull, Harrison Ash, Simon Greeves 10 wins, +71 2nd Trinity 2012 Ben Treend, Ashley Jamieson, Bradey Jamieson, Sean Prendergast 9 wins, +61 3rd La Premiership Glenn Floyd, Stuart Floyd, Karen Lombard 8 wins, +38 4th 3 Lions David Plumhoff, Graham Galton, Aaron Giles 8 wins, +26 5th Cobbetts 1 Steve Lombard, Richard Greeves, Dave Stubbs 6 wins, +23 6th The Avengers Mark Robertshaw, Ashley Odell, Allan Paice, Dave Lucas 5 wins, +7 7th Quattro Frank Charlesworth, Christine Peat, Lesley Lewis, Jeff Fox 5 wins, -15 8th Handur Nigel Sibbring, Anthony Kidd, Martin Gordon 5 wins, -18 9th Limesdowne Sheila Hayward, Paul Hayward, Mike Sheppard 4 wins, -34 10th Cobbetts Too Mike Porter, Alison Stubbs, Chris Barron 3 wins, -43 11th The Italian Job Gianni Dalmasso, Hilary Dalmasso, Pam Treend, Trevor Treend 2 wins, -55 12th Incognito Lesley Manning, Richard Baker, Bernie Miles 1 win, -61

Second Round of Regional Qualifiers

Second Round of Regional Qualifiers

Top Twelve Qualify

1st HMS Dreadnought Mike Tull, Harrison Ash, Simon Greeves 8 wins, +51 

2nd La Premiership Glenn Floyd, Stuart Floyd, Karen Lombard 8 wins, +30 

3rd Cobbetts 1 Steve Lombard, Richard Greeves, Dave Stubbs 7 wins, +36 

4th Trinity 2012 Ben Treend, Ashley Jamieson, Bradey Jamieson, Sean   Prendergast  7 wins, +27 

5th Three Lions David Plumhoff, Graham Galton, Aaron Giles 7 wins, +24 

6th The Avengers Mark Robertshaw, Ashley Odell, Allan Paice, Dave Lucas 7   wins, +23 

7th Cobbetts Too Mike Porter, Alison Stubbs, Chris Barron  7 wins, +3 

8th Limesdowne Sheila Hayward, Paul Hayward, Mike Sheppard 6 wins, +25 

9th Quattro Frank Charlesworth, Christine Peat, Lesley Lewis, Jeff Fox 6 wins,   +13 

10th Incognito Lesley Manning, Richard Baker, Bernie Miles 6 wins, +8 

11th Handur Nigel Sibbing, Anthony Kidd Martin, Gordon 6 wins, +5 

12th The Italian Job Gianni Dalmasso, Hilary Dalmasso, Pam Treend, Trevor Treend 5 wins, +17 

13th Arundel Aardvarks Mike Knight, Kath Knight, Tomaz Rypien, Ashish Sewoke 5 wins, +12 

14th Mystical Mayhem Roz Silvester, Matt Silvester, Alex Hepburn, Julie Power 5 wins, +1 

15th Three Men and a Little Lady Stephen Snudden, Michelle Mckenzie, Colin Crofts, Stan Ash 5 wins, +1 

16th Belgium Bound Samanatha Thatcher, Kaylee Thatcher, Wayne Thatcher 5 wins, -5 

17th Pirates Peter Galton, Shane King, Wayne Webster, Jack Hilton 5 wins, -10 

18th JEG Jean Morgan, Elwyn Morgan, Gareth Morgan 5 wins, -17 

19th Useless Graham Elcome, Debbie Elcome, David Cruz, Dani Soriano 4 wins, +3 

20th The Bards Barry McDonnell, Andy Harrington, Richard Foulsham, David Wicks 4 wins, +1 

21st Desperadoes Danny Corp, Tony Jones, Rob Bish, John Limburne 4 wins, +1 

22nd B.B.C Dave Peerman, Sue Marshall, Carol Paice 4 wins, -6 

23rd The Bouledogs Angela Brooks, Tony Jackson, Kay Aplin, Mervyn Waller 3 wins, -25 

24th Adur John Inglis, Cameron Tubb, Ray Austen, Dan Baker 3 wins, -30 

25th Arunrose Tim Lawson, Derek Coates, Maurice Jetton, Peter Maynard 3 wins, -30 

26th Titanic Steve Love, Andy Love, Sue Sandy, Alan Forse 2 wins, -40 

27th JSJ Jed Stone, Steve Bicknell, Jackie Corp 2 wins, -62

28th Four Bar One Chris Wilcox, Tony Richins, Trish Richins, Celia Rawlings 1 win, -56

Saturday 2nd June. Million pound skills competition

On Saturday ten of our club members took part in our first 'Million Pound Skills Competition',
The contest involved five shooting and five pointing skills and was carried out at 6, 7, and 8 metres. 
The top score was an equal 36 points which meant that Peter and Daniel had to play a decider.
Peter won the 1 point to separate the two.

Final Results.
1.   37 points Peter
2.   36 points Daniel
3.   34 points Dan
4.   32 points Richard
5.   27 points Lesley
6.   24 points Roger
7.   22 points Joan
8.   20 points Heather
9.   16 points Anne
10. 12 points Bev

These results will be carried forward to our next contest to see how we have all improved
after our coaching from Chris!
No-one won the major prize but Peter did get £4 and Bev won a drop of wine to ease her hangover

North Downs League

Cranleigh travelled to Kirdford for our latest NDL match.
The evening was lovely and warm and so was the greeting of our hosts.
But the match didn't go our way. We lost 6 - 3 - better luck next time team!
Our team.
Lesley and Jeff
Susan and Richard
Anne and Roger.

Top Twelve in this years Reginal Qualifiers

Well done Quattro!

1. Three Lions (Dave Plumhoff, Graham Galton, Aaron Giles, Rod Fisher)
5wins 32+

2. Arundel Ardvaarks (Mike Knight, Kath Knight, Tomasz Rypien, Ashish Sewoke)
4wins 26+

3. Trinity (Ash Jamieson, Brad Jamieson, Sean Prendergast, Ben Treend)
4wins 19+

4. HMS Dreadnought (Mike Tull, Simon Greeves, Harrison Ash) 4wins 19+

5. Quattro (Leslely Lewis, Christine Peat, Frank Charlesworth, Jeff Fox)
4wins 18+

6. Cobbetts 1 (Steve Lombard, Dave Stubbs, Richard Greeves) 3wins 24+

7. Limes (Paul Hayward, Sheila Hayward, Mike Shepherd)
3wins 19+

8. Italian Job (Gianni Dalmasso, Hilary Dalmasso, Pam Treend, Trevor Treend)
3wins 14+

9. Belgium Bound (Wayne Thatcher, Kay Thatcher, Sam Thatcher)
3wins 12+

10. Avengers (Mark Robertshaw, Ash Odell, Allan Paice, Dave Lucas) 3wins 11+

11. Incognito (Bernie Miles, Richard Baker, Lesley Manning) 3wins 7+

12. Cobbetts (Mike Porter, Alison Porter, Chris Barron)
3wins 6+

Top 12 out of 28

Visit of Cranleigh Mothers Union

On Wednesday we had an evening visit from the Cranleigh Mothers Union. This turned into an evening of fun and laughter for the ladies. Lots of boule was played until it got dark then we adjourned to the club house for drinks. They have decided to come back again in the Summer when we can take advantage of the warm weather.-

Visit of Regional Coach

We had great pleasure in welcoming Chris our Regional Coach for a morning of  coaching.
This included pointing and shooting skills followed by tactical play.
 All our members both experienced and beginners learned useful pointers from the session.
We would all like to thank Chris for taking the time to give us the benefit of his experience and skills.

Cranleigh Petanque Club,

Important note to visiting clubs

Due to recent changes at our Club and EPA rulings could you please forward this Notice to your Club members.

“Non-members of the Cranleigh Village Sports and Social Club are no longer able to use the car parking at the club unless they are attending functions which are being held at the club. All of our club members are now issued with parking permits which must be displayed.

Secondly due to the new insurance from the EPA, only EPA members are insured to play on our piste; it is recommended that all other non EPA players have their own insurance.

No non club players are able to use our piste unless they are accompanied by a member of the Cranleigh Petanque Club Committee or taking part in an organized session.”

We look forward to meeting you all at our forthcoming events

Arundel Open Triples

On Sunday 15th April, Emma, Lesley and Jeff travelled down to Arundel for their Open Triples competition. The weather was lovely; sun block was the order of the day.
In the morning we played three matches in the league format;  two games against the best teams in the competition and one against a new club in our area.
We managed to win 1 and lost 2. but the scores were good.; losing 13 - 10,  13 - 8 and winning 13 - 1.
This put us in the Silver competition in afternoon. Having lost one game after lunch we then went on to win the Silver Consolage
One of the new teams was Castle Petanque from Horsell, I have invited them to come over on a Saturday morning to join us for a social game

Winner of the 2011 most improved player

Winner of the 2011 Most Improved Player Trophy

Roger receiving Trophy from our chairman Kath

NDL Cranleigh v ABC Hornets

Cranleigh played host to ABC Hornets on Saturday 7th April.  The weather was quite cool but at least the rain stayed away.
In the the first Round, Dan and Joan won their game, Jeff and Les and Peter and Richard lost theirs
In the second Round, Dan and Joan and Jeff and Les won their games but Tony and Sue lost theirs
Going into the last round it was 3 games each and all to play for.
Last round;  Jeff and Les won; Tony and Peter lost, leaving all the pressure on Joan and Dan, but they were just beaten in the end.
Final score 5 games to 4 in favour of ABC
Thanks to both teams for an entertaining afternoon which was followed by drinks in the club house afterwards.
Cranleigh:
Jeff, Les, Joan, Dan, Tony, Peter, Susan, Richard
ABC:
Mike, Christine, David, Hazel, Carolyn, Sonia

Will be organising our next two games shortly. Away to ABC Wasps and Home to Crondall Panthers

English Petanque Association Insurance

The EPA Management Committee has arranged a new insurance package for 2012:

 

• The maximum cover is now £5m (note that paragraph 5.3 of the Southern Counties Pétanque Association  Constitution and Rules sates that "Registered Clubs shall be such Pétanque Clubs as are admitted to the SCPA having a Constitution and Rules that do not conflict with the SCPA's. The Officers of such Clubs shall be and remain members of the SCPA. Registered Clubs may admit members who are not members of the SCPA/EPA but such members shall not be entitled to any of the rights and privileges of membership of the SCPA/EPA and shall hold third party liability insurance equivalent to that afforded to members of the SCPA/EPA in respect of any activities related to pétanque").
• Advertised "Come and Try" events are covered as they are looking to engage with the public and encourage them to participate and join the EPA.  People will be insured as long as they take part in no more than three "Come and Try" events.  That could be one held by the region and one more from each of two different clubs then that would be considered the person's "full quota" and they would only be insured once they have joined the EPA.
• Exhibitions and shows are more likely to be organised through the EPA MC and as such are covered.  Local events, such as the Horsham French Weekend, are covered are covered as the SCPA is demonstrating the the sport and encouraging new players and members and the time demonstrating the techniques and rudimentary play is quite short, say 20-30 minutes.
• The EPA insurance only covers members playing in the United Kingdom and not anywhere else.  The exceptions to this is that the EPA Insurance will cover players participating in representative events, such as the World or European Championships, or Invitational events where England, through the EPA, has been invited to send a team.  All other events where playing is the focus, such as twinning or similar will not be covered under the EPA policy and players are strongly recommended to check that their own travel insurance policy covers playing.
• As ever, members must be aware that any claim is subject to scrutiny by the Insurers and no there is no guarantee that a claim will be successful.  However, completing Risk Assessments prior to any event may well increase the possibility of a successful outcome.

NDL Cranleigh v Crondal Lions

In the first rain for months we travelled to Crondall for our first match in the North Downs League.
The evening stayed mainly dry with just a few quick showers.
Joan and Daniel, Emma and Peter  and Lesley and Jeff all won our first games. In the second round Joan and Daniel picked up our fourth win.
Going into the last round we needed one win to take the match; Lesley and Jeff just managed to pull out the stops to take the win.This gives us our first match win and puts us third in the league table.
Thanks to Crondall for providing a good evening's boule and tasty food afterwards.

Celebrating Frank's Ninetieth Birthday

On Saturday 24th of March thirty players attended Frank's ninetieth birthday celebrations at our club.
We were joined by his daughter Lesley and  members of his old club.
After two games of boule, Frank blew out the candles on his cake and we all had a glass of champagne to toast the birthday boy. Our Club presented Frank with a leather bound edition of The Times for the
day that he was born.

 Old Time music to play by!

Frank has already put in his order for his 100th Birthday cake!