This Tournament is a one-day Association Croquet singles competition run by the East Anglian Croquet Federation for
the winners of club AC competitions in the previous year. It is
open to members of EACF member clubs. It is also listed in the
EACF diary.
A block for the Lynnsport Shield: (current holder: Nick Mounfield)
B Block: (current holder: Heather Bennett)
C Block: (current holder: Bryan Harral)
Entries:
Allocation: tba
Closing: 16 April Those who wish to enter should apply to the EACF through their own club secretary.
Entry fee:
tba
Format:
AMD Class Singles, depending on entry.
Provisionally 3 independent blocks: Level advanced, B-level advanced and Handicap.
Notes:
Play starts at 09:30, and players must be prepared to play 3 games in the day.
Tea, soft drinks and biscuits are provided free of charge, and a cold lunch will be available for a small fee.
Details of parking and other arrangements will be sent to participants before the event.
Winners L-R: Stuart Stafford, Nick Steiner, Jeff Farrington
Unfortunately, the day's play got off to a frantic start as Nick Archer unfortunately had gone down with an
ailment that required a visit to the hospital, and although discharged was understandably resting at home. Simon
Hathrell who was acting as the club host and later to take care of the catering and other refreshments agreed to
play as a non-counting wild card until mid-afternoon.
However, play although a little delayed got under way on the Watford lawns
that were in very good playing conditions, and despite an adverse weather report the day proved to be rather
pleasant and which ended in a pleasant spring evening.
Group 1 (Advanced): Although reduced to only three players the overall play was of a high standard as
expected, starting with a +22tp by David Marsh over Alison Maugham. This was followed by Nick Steiner winning +3
over Alison, leading to a block play-off between Nick and David. However, in the final game Nick raised his game
and put in a fine performance to overcome David, running out the block winner with +17 win.
Group 2 (B-Level Advanced): This proved to be a very competitive block with a large proportion of the games,
although finishing in time ran very close to the time limit set at 2½ hours. Jeff Farrington representing the
Colchester Club dominated, winning all his 3 games, although he had a bit of a struggle against home club member
Geoff Johnson who managed to lose only -2T to finish second in the group.
Group 3 (Handicap): Despite being reduced to 18-point games this proved to be a very close block that ran to
the wire, ending with Stuart Stafford (Wrest Park) on 2 wins playing home member David Robinson. Stuart had to
win his final game to run out the overall winner; if he failed this would give the manager a bit of a problem in
that he would have a possible 2 game block tie between 4 players. Unbelievably, it looked as time had expired
that the score was in David’s favour 25 – 24, and having pegged out one ball he looked as he was home and dry.
But the fat lady had yet to finish singing and Stuart carried off an unbelievable peg out to run out the overall
block winner.
Many thanks to the Watford Club for making their lawns available, and it should be noted that despite all
games being reduced to 2½ hours remarkably few went to time.
Open AC Midweek Advanced
Open GC C-Level
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