Category: CA Competitions

The AC Home Internationals are taking place this weekend at Carrickmines Croquet Club. Bowdon members in England’s team: David Maugham (Capt.), Andrew Winn & Euan Burridge. Angharrad Walters is also travelling to Dublin not only playing for Wales but also managing the event.

The AC Home Internationals is a match that takes place between teams of 5 from England, Scotland, Wales & Ireland, rotating the hosting of the event between the nations each year.

This will be David Maugham’s 32nd consecutive appearance in this event, and England will be hoping for their 13th consecutive win since Ireland won in 2013 at Carrickmines. This is Andrew’s first appearance for England.

We wish them well

Captain Cas Sinclair took her merry band over to York to play in the second round of the Inter-Club short competition, this if off the back of the win against Penrith in the first round.

The team was Cas Sinclair (5), Sheila Dix (9), Charles Fraser (3.5) and Liz Webb (2). The York team was Tom Oulton (4), Philip Watson (5), Malcolm Tingle (6) and Denise Foster (9).

The day didn’t quite go to plan for the “A” team, losing two of the matches in the first session. a cup of tea later Bowdon won three of next four matches. So Bowdon went into Lunch 4 – 3 up. The afternoon went Bowdon’s way again winning three of four matches to end up victors by 7 to 4. Well done and onto the next round.

Match scores as follows:

Bowdon	Result	York	Score
Liz & Cas	lost to	Philip & Denise	9 – 10
Charles	beat	Tom	14 – 10
Sheila	lost to	Malcolm	10 – 14
Liz	beat	Tom	14 – 10
Charles	beat	Philip	11 – 8
Cas	lost to	Malcom	7 – 14
Sheila	beat	Denise	14 – 10
Sheila	beat	Tom	14 – 7
Cas	lost to	Philip	7 – 9
Charles	beat	Malcolm	14 – 6
Liz	beat	Denise	12 – 11

STOP PRESS: Angharrad Walters wins the Peterson Cup, beating last year’s winner; Neil Adams 26 – 21 in the final. Roger Brooks wins the Plate. Full story to follow:

Oddly this year the June event is being held at the end of May! Fifteen players, nine of whom are Bowdon members, have entered. They are playing for the Peterson Cup, last year’s winner Neil Adams, from Crake is defending his title.

The players are:

Croquet Club	Players
Bowdon	Alan Dix, Charles Harding, Brian Medley, Ged Smolskas, Brian Storey, Angharrad Walters, Andrew Winn
Ben Rhydding	David Magee
Crake Valley	Neil Adams, Chris Williamson
Chester	Andy Wilson-Chalon
Peterborough	Debbie Lines, Ian Lines
Westmorland	Roger Brooks
N/A	James Hawkins

You can follow the upto date scores on Croquet Score by clicking here.

Good luck to all players, especially the Bowdon members…..

The AC Inter-County Championships takes place this weekend. The Cheshire team includes: Simon Jenkins (Captain), Charles Harding and Brian Medley. The other 4 members of the team include ex Bowdon members: David Mooney and Adam Swinton.

Cheshire are in Division 1 and you can follow the teams progress on Croquet Scores by clicking here

We wish the team well.

Jack Good and Euan Burridge took part in the ERC European GC singles competition at Nottingham. Euan was defending Champion.

Jack was in Block A, and won all his games. Euan, in Block C, won 4 of his matches. As such both of them went through to the knockout stages. Euan was drawn to play Manuel Alvarez-Sala in the first Round (Manual is likely to be one of the Spanish Team visiting Bowdon in June). Euan lost the first game, but won the second to take it into a decider. Sadly, Manual won this 7 – 4.

Euan entered the Bowl competition, making his way to the final, where he lost to Inigo Castanon, another of the Spanish team playing at Bowdon in June. Euan will no doubt now be planning his revenge for the test match in June.

Jack played Otakar Stankus in the first round of the knock out and unusually for Jack he lost the first game, but won the next two to take on Rachel Gee in the next round. Jack beat Rachel 2 – 1 and in the semi final played Andres Alvarez-Sala; another member of Spains test team. Jack won this 2 -1 and met Sam Cuthbert in the final. By now the day was drawing on and after a long day of croquet Jack beat Sam 2 -1, winning 7 – 5 in the decider, to become European champion. Well played Jack and commiserations Euan.

You can check out the detailed scores on Croquet Scores website by clicking here and view the trophy presentation here. If you wind back the video you can watch the final as well.

A Bowdon team captained by David Beddy, travelled to Carrickmines Croquet and Tennis Club in south Dublin to partake in the European GC league qualifiers.

David’s team was Sandra and David Cornes, Chris Williamson and Mike Flannery. They faced teams from Germany (SuedWest B), Spain (Villanueva B) and Ireland (Carrickmines B.)

Bowdon’s first match was against Carrickmines, David and David started the day in the first doubles match winning 7 – 5, Chris and Sandra won their doubles match 7 -2, so a great start for the team. There then followed 8 games of singles ,of which Bowdon won 5, running out 7 – 3 winners.

The other game between SuedWest and Villanueva, resulted in a whitewash for the Spanish team 10 – 0. This set up an interesting match between Bowdon and Villanueva, both teams undefeated!

Mike Flannery joined the team at this stage with Sandra sitting out. David C and Mike won their doubles in a tight game 7 – 6, David B and Chris had a slightly easier match winning 7 – 2. The singles matches followed in the afternoon and concluded the next morning. Bowdon won 5 of the 8 singles matches and won the tie 7 – 3. Meanwhile in the other match Carrickmines drew with Suedwest 5 – 5.

Bowdon’s final match was against SuedWest. This time captain David B stood down and Sandra returned to the team. David C and Mike continued their winning ways in the doubles winning 7 – 5, Chris and Sandra won theirs with the same score. In the singles matches Bowdon won 6 of the 8, winning the tie 8 – 2. In the other match Carrickmines beat Villanueva 6 – 4.

Bowdon won all its matches, second was Carrickmines, third Villanueva and SuedWest came fourth.

Hospitality from Carrickmines was first class and as well as a competitive weekends play. The players also enjoyed each other’s company. Google Translate app was well used between players.

You can get more details on the team’s individual scores on the Croquet Scores website by clicking here.

Three of Bowdon members; Jack Good, Ged Smolkas and Brian Medley, travelled to Hurlingham to take part in the May Weekend.

The tournament was broken down into blocks seeded by rankings.

Ged was in Block B, although he only won 2 of his games, most of them were close matches. Brian in Block C fared better winning 4 of his 7 matches. Jack was in Block A and won all his matches, including beating fellow England player Aston Wade 26-1. Jack accomplished three triple peels and also a spectacular sextuple peel. Well done Jack.

Here’s a picture of Jack with yet another trophy!

Bowdon have two teams in this years Inter-Club short competition, Bowdon A hosted Penrith this week and Bowdon B captained by Brian Medley travelled to Huddersfield to play its match.

As well as Brian, the rest of the team is Brian Story, Alison Acton and Phil Thompson.

Huddersfield team was Patrick Bailey (3.5), Rena Souter (7), Angie Turner (10) and Janet Peace (10).

Bowdon were just a bit too strong for Huddersfield and ran out winners by 8 matches to 3. Here’s the details:

Bowdon	Result	Huddersfield	Score
Brian M & Phil	beat	Rena & Janet	12 – 2
Alison	lost to	Patrick	9 – 14
Brian S	beat	Angie	14 – 11
Brian S	beat	Patrick	10 – 8
Brian M	beat	Rena	14 – 9
Alison	beat	Angie	9 – 7
Phil	beat	Janet	14 – 3
Phil	lost to	Patrick	7 – 14
Alison	lost to	Rena	8 – 12
Brian M	beat	Angie	14 – 7
Brian S	beat	Janet	14 – 1

Bowdon “A” hosted Penrith in this Inter Club match. Bowdon were captained by Cas Sinclair and the rest of the team are: Sandra Cornes, Mike Dale and Carol Steinberg.

The Penrith team were Howard Bowron (0), John Henderson (0.5), Graham Conyers (4) and Robin Swindells (4).

The morning started well for Penrith, winning 2 of the 3 matches. In the second session Bowdon won all four matches, taking a 5 to 2 lead. After lunch Bowdon carried on in its winning ways by winning all the remaining 4 matches, in the end Bowdon were 9 – 2 winners. Well done team.

The individual scores were as follows:

Bowdon	Result	Penrith	Score
Cas & Carol	lost to	Howard & Robin	8 – 9
Sandra	lost to	John	7 – 11
Mike	beat	Graham	14 – 1
Sandra	beat	Howard	10 – 7
Cas	beat	John	14 – 7
Mike	beat	Robin	14 – 1
Carol	beat	Graham	10 – 9
Sandra	beat	Robin	11 – 9
Cas	beat	Graham	14 – 11
Mike	beat	John	14 – 1
Carol	beat	Howard	14 – 4

Jack, had a busy weekend, a 700 mile round trip to get to play in the Sidmouth qualifier for the Ascot Cup. Sidmouth was the only qualifying event Jack could get to. Jack does what Jack does and won the event, only dropping two games the whole weekend.

Jack progressed though his block, winning all his three matches, in the knockout he beat Tim Russell and the Stuart M Smith on the way to the final where he meet fellow England team mate Stephen Mulliner in the final. Jack beat Stephen 2 – 1 in the best of three final, (6-7, 7-3 and 7-2)

We will be seeing more of Stephen as his is one of the England team playing Spain in the International taking place at Bowdon in the middle of June.

The Ascot Cup (English National Single Championship) is being held in September in Nottingham, we wish Jack well.

L to R: Stephen, Jack and Dom Aarvold (Winner of the Shield KO) with their trophies.