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137th Post: Cavan Pétanque Club visit to Bayside Boules Club

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BBC  v  CPC Sunday 3rd November in Alden Park: The outstanding rematch between Cavan and Bayside took place in murky but dry weather in Alden Park yesterday.  Cavan originally expected to have 18 players but their numbers fell to 13 on the day.  Bayside had 27 players on our list and that dwindled also, but able replacements showed up on the day. CPC were treated to refreshments in the BCC and greeted by Eileen D, Eileen O'B, Mary G, Agnes G and Kathryn O'D from the BBC.  They were able to have tea/coffee and sandwiches and use the facilities before decanting to Alden Park.  Our thanks to the ladies who did the 'meet and greet'.  The sandwiches were provided by Perfect Day Café courtesy of the €5 collected from each BBC player on the day.   They arrived well before the scheduled time and were at Alden shortly after noon.  They practiced for a half hour and then we commenced play with the BBC teams being rejigged due to the earlier start.  The Cavan Triples stayed on the
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136th Post: Making progress

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 Monday Competition: What a finish to what might be the last Monday Competition for a while. The top four players Larry, Chris, Sean and Ciarán were separated by just 3 points.  Ciarán, with a Running Total of 233 just pipped Sean to win the trophy.  Congratulations Ciarán. As per Inaugural AGM we are canvassing members to check if a change of date from Monday is desirable.  From the poll results to date it seems that the Monday Competition will remain for now.  A few members are excluded by this arrangement but we may consider a separate Saturday Competition for any interested parties, going forward. Precision Shooting: Ciarán and Dirk represented BBC at the inaugural National Competition in Bushy Park.  They were generally playing at the same time so didn't get a chance to take any photos themselves.  The competition was stiff but they acquitted themselves well.  By next year, with the assistance of Tom Buckley's machine, and more practice we should be better placed to contes
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135th Post: Spreading our wings....

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Monday Competition: The Monday competition is continuing with keen interest from all involved including the latest players, John O'connor, Eddie Phillips,  Hamed Sako, Terry Stanley, Marie Doherty.                                                        Following the AGM earlier in the year the Committee has agreed to move the next Competition to Saturday mornings with a view to permitting working members to play, should they wish, and broaden the appeal to potential new, younger members along with other BBC members who couldn't play on Mondays. If there are less than 20 interested in playing Competition on Saturdays we will return to the Monday slot.  More to follow before the start of October.  Sample score sheet below: Saturday Morning Coaching / Training: To complement the Saturday Morning Training/Coaching Tom Buckley has created a 'Shooting Apparatus' similar to the one in Belturbet.  It is dismantlable for portability as we cannot leave it on site so we will be lo
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