St Mary's Road, Bowdon, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA14 2PL
The Bowdon midweek 14pt hcp tournament finished in great style with the finalists being our own Andy Wilson-Chalon and Sarah Andrew from Llanfairfechan. Sarah was the victor. It was a great 2 days, played in good spirits by all & managed beautifully, as ever, by Lorna Frost.
It doesn’t happen often but this week saw Bowdon play Bowdon in quarter finals of the Inter-Club Short competition. Bowdon b ran out winners in a very close match, 6 – 5 and progress to the semi final. Well done.
Brian Medley’s (2P) team (Bowdon “B”) is Nigel Matthews (5P), Brian Storey (3P) and Phil Thompson (7).
Cas Sinclair, (4) captain of the Bowdon “A” team, has selected: Adrian Apps (0), Charles Fraser (3.5) and Sheila Dix (9) for her team.
The match took place at Bowdon on Friday 14 July
Scores – Bowdon B names first
Round 1
Brian M and Philip beat Adrian and Charles 6-5
Nigel beat Cas 14-8
Brian S beat Sheila 14-12
Bowdon B = 3 – Bowdon A = 0
Round 2
Nigel beat Adrian 14-3
Brian S lost to Charles 0-14
Brian M lost to Cas 0-14
Philip lost to Sheila 10-14
Bowdon B = 4 – Bowdon A = 3
Round 3
Nigel lost to Sheila 1-14
Brian S beat Cas 14-8
Brian M beat Charles 10-7
Philip lost to Adrian 10-14
Bowdon B = 6 Bowdon A = 5
Bowdon B will either face Peterborough or Wrest Park in the SemiFinal.
The GC Home Internationals take place at Ramsgate Croquet Club on 18th to 19th July.
The following Bowdon members will be playing:
The B-Class tournament for the Sheila Black Salver took place on Tuesday and Wednesday 30th Jun – 1st Jul. There were 16 players competing for the trophy including 10 from Bowdon. Our visitors are: Matt Cook (Caterham); Roger Schofield (Bury); Mark Simmerson (Sheffield); David Venables (Southport); Liz Wilson (Fylde) and Peter Wilson (Fylde).
Michael Sandler and Adrian Apps made it through to the semifinals but were beaten by Mark Simmerson and Matt Cook respectively. Mark then beat Matt in the final of 3 games by 26-15 & 26-20 to win the Sheila Black Salver. Michael beat Adrian 26-6 to win the Egyptian trophy.
The Bowdon entrants were :
You can check individual match scores on croquet scores by clicking here
The CqE AC Open championship is taking place over the next few days. This is on the back of the GC Opens held previous week at Buddleigh.
Jack Good is Bowdon’s only representative and we wish him well, hopefully he can go one better than is Semi Final placing at the GC Open.
Jack was playing in the doubles and singles tournaments, in the doubles his partner was Robert Fulford, not a bad choice Jack! In the first round they faced Curtis Drake & Wy Louw and beat them 2 – 0. Their next opponents were Greg Bryant & Logan McCorkindale beating them by the same score. In the semi final they faced Chris & Jenny Clarke and beat them 2 – 0. In the final they came up against James Death and Samir Patel. James and Samir won the first game 26(TP) – 9, however Jack and Robert came good in the second game winning 26 – 22 and in the decider Jack and Robert won 26(TP) – 9 to take the Open Doubles Championship. Well done Jack & Robert.
The Singles Tournament followed on from the Doubles, a series of “Swiss” games took place with top scorers going through to the knockout. Jack got through the Swiss and beat Sam Cuthbert (13-26, 26-0 and 26-14) in the first round and went on to face Rick Harding in the quarter final, sadly Rick was too good for Jack beating him by 2 games to nil (26 – 10, 26 – 9). Jack is now taking part on the Singles Plate and is through to the quarter finals.
You can follow Jacks progress on Croquet Scores by clicking here.
Bowdon travel ledto Nottingham in the next round of the GC Interclub. The team was Angharrad Walters, Nigel Matthews, Simon Jenkins and David Cornes. The Nottingham team was: Euan Burridge, Rachel Gee, Ian Burridge and Callum Johnson. A tough opposition for Bowdon.
Nottingham were just too good for Bowdon running out winners by 7 – 0. Bad luck Bowdon.
The individual game scores were as follows:
| Nottingham | vs | Bowdon |
|---|---|---|
| Euan Burridge | 7-3 5-7 7-6 | Angharrad Walters |
| Rachel Gee | 7-5 7-4 | Nigel Matthews |
| Ian Burridge | 7-4 5-7 7-3 | David Cornes |
| Callum Johnson | 7-4 7-4 | Simon Jenkins |
| Euan & Rachel | 7-4 7-5 | Angharrad & Nigel |
| Ian Burridge | 7-4 7-5 | Simon Jenkins |
| Callum Johnson | 7-5 6-7 7-3 | David Cornes |
| 7 | Matches | 0 |
| 14 | Games | 3 |
| 114 | Hoops | 80 |
Bowdons team was Nigel Matthews, Jack Good, Simon Jenkins and Angharrad Walters. Hurlinghams team was Nigel Polhill, Mark Ormerod, Tom Coles and Stephen Allen.
Bowdon eventually beat Hurlingham 4-3 in the first round of this year’s competition.
On Lawn 3, Jack & Angharrad beat Tom & Nigel in the doubles, finishing just in time for lunch. The two games on Lawn 4 Simon v Stephen and Nigel v Mark were paused so that we could all eat together.
In the afternoon, Hurlingham won the two resumed singles matches. Back on Lawn 3 Jack and Angharrad both quickly won their singles matches 26TP to make the match score 3-2.
Mark beat Simon to bring the scores level, leaving Nigel & Stephen to settle the match. Nigel had appeared to be in control but went off the lawn trying to get behind a wayward pioneer for 4 back. Stephen eventually started a TP but only managed 2 peels. Nigel hit in and finished to win +3.
Next up East Dorset.
| Hurlingham | Score | Bowdon |
| Nigel Polhill | 0-26TP | Angharrad Walters |
| Mark Ormerod | 26-14 | Nigel Matthews |
| Tom Coles | 0-26TP | Jack Good |
| Stephen Allen | 26-15 | Simon Jenkins |
| Tom & Nigel | 9-26 | Jack & Angharrad |
| Mark Ormerod | 26-5 | Simon Jenkins |
| Stephen Allen | 23-26 | Nigel Matthews |
If you are unable to get to the club over the weekend and would like to catch up on play, all three days are being live streamed on You Tube.
Here are the links for the various sessions:
Friday Morning – Click here
Friday Afternoon – Click here
Saturday Morning – Click here
Saturday Afternoon – Click here
Sunday – Click here
There short cuts will also be added to the clubs What’s App Group.
The CqE GC Open championships takes place at Budleigh Salterton on 23-28 June. Bowdon have two members taking part Jack Good and Euan Burridge, both of them have some miles to travel to get there as they will be at Bowdon over the weekend, Euan’s in Englands team thats playing Spain and Jack an interested observer.
As well as entering the Singles Championship, both of them are also taking part in the doubles competition. Euan is partnering another England colleague; Callum Johnson and Jack is partnering Sam Cuthbert.
There is a prize fund for the Championships which is unusual and you can read more about it on Croquet England website, by clicking here.
We wish them both well in both the singles and doubles Competitions.
At the moment only the Doubles comp is showing on Croquet Scores, but no doubt the Singles will be added shortly.
Mike Flannery captained Bowdon in the second round of this year’s Longman Cup. The Longman Cup is a 26pt handicap inter-club competition, for handicaps greater than 3.5 and total players handicap has to be 24 or greater.
Mike’s team was: Mike Flannery (11), Adrian Apps (4), Mike Shelmerdine (6) and Alison Acton (16). Crakes team was: Jim Allcock (6), Chris Williamson (7), Paul Galley (10) and Louise McElarney (18).
The match comprised one game of doubles and six singles, being played in very oppressive heat, which no doubt affected both teams. The morning session saw Bowdon win the doubles, but lose the two singles, so Bowdon needed to win three of the afternoon matches to take the tie. However, the afternoon games were shared; two each, meaning that Crake go into the next round winning 4 – 3.
Match details:
| Bowdon | Results | Crake | Score |
| Alison and Mike F | beat | Jim & Paul | 26 – 15 |
| Adrian | lost to | Chris | 20 – 14 |
| Mike S | lost to | Louise | 21 – 5 |
| Adrian | beat | Jim | 26 – 15 |
| Mike S | lost to | Chris | 26 – 4 |
| Mike F | lost to | Paul | 26 – 14 |
| Alison | beat | Louise | 26 – 7 |