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| Soaring high on Thursday. |
Play continued at a steady pace this week with both organised games and random practice noted. There have also been a few late afternoon/early evening games. As players race against the dying light, those high visibility cochs purchased earlier in the year are now looking like a good investment. The pistes themselves are in good shape and the changing weather is leading to a lot of variation in boule behaviour. It's safe to say some are more pleased about this than others!
Open Play
Numbers have settled at fairly consistent levels on Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays. We look forward to the return of some of our globe-trotting regulars to add a bit of further (presumably well tanned!) variety to proceedings.
Assorted photos from Thursday:
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Ann won the first game but John & Shay battled it out for the second.
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| John watches on anxiously as he closes in on victory. |
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| Marie was playing a stormer on Piste C today. |
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| To the victors go the... scoreboard and the rings in this case! |
Doubles Match Play
Many players have asked again about this during the week - the noise is good and I can honestly say I'm delighted that people are as interested as they are. I'll be taking some time out from work over the next couple of weeks so the organisation of the competition will accelerate. I'm now aiming to start it in early November and have it concluded before Christmas. More information will follow in our WhatsApp groups once details are available.
Group A League Competition
We've been very fortunate with weather so far and Monday was another belter of a day. Cold and crisp to start but it warmed up quickly and was practically t-shirt weather by the end. 10 players arrived this week with the noticeable absence of our Week 4 leader and his better half... a trip to Spain, no less. I never realised the BBC budget stretched to such largesse for each weekly leader!
We jumped into two doubles games and one singles pairing for each round. Tommy Moloney was top dog this week as three fine performances garnered him an impressive 36 points. Charlie drops to 3rd as Ciaran and Sean leapfrog past him into 1st and 2nd place respectively. The full table follows:
As different players have different numbers of games completed, the more telling figures for now are the averages and the number of 13s accumulated. Remember, the more weeks you play, the more chance you have of registering high scores.
Assorted photos from Monday:
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| Telescopic lens required for 13m coch (moved twice)! |
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| James and Tommy overseeing the construction of a new steel wall... |
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| Stealers Wheel song anyone? :) |
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| Michael, always the gentleman, marking up Maureen's score. |
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| Sure, where else would you want to be?! |
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| James stitched up (hehe!) the opposition in Round 3. |
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| A near miss from Yvonne as she takes aim at Tommy's boule. |
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| Gerry holds his nerve and victory is achieved before time runs out. |
The Final Curtain
It would be remiss of me not to mark what is the end of an era in St. Anne's as the final ever game on the old pistes was completed. Our BBC friends Larry, John, Denis & Shay rightly felt the occasion should be documented and duly arranged the photo below. The game was played in the best of spirits and as you would expect, was competitive to the last. Shay is a multiple champion of the regular St. Anne's competition so it was more than fitting that he emerged on the winning team on the day.
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| A great bunch of lads! |
Great post Ciaran. Should be back in time for doubles...tan or no tan!!!
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