News

Archive results from the start of the region have always been available on the website but most of them were held on the old website which is no longer used. All available archive results have now been converted to pdf format and are available on the new Results Archive page.

Some photos from a CD containing 200 photos compiled by Mike Pegg have been added to the results page.
There are a few general ones plus all the photos which had a Northern player on.
The photos link has been removed but the photos are still available from Alan Swift.

A superb result for the Northern squad with their highest ever placing - 3rd in Division 1.
Full results are available via the Results page and photos will follow shortly.

The league tables show us having 58 wins but our results show 59.
The discrepancy doesn't affect the league position but if any of the teams think their scores are incorrect please let me know.

Congratulations to Richard Marston and Andy Willis (both Mistral) who have represented England at the Home Nations in Cardiff this weekend.
On the Saturday they won 5 games out of 6 and on Sunday 4 games out of 6.

The new terrain at York RI Sports Ground , New Lane , York , YO2 4NT is nearing completion.
It will be opened with a come and try day between 11am and 4pm on Wednesday 27th September as part of the York 50+ Festival.
This will be combined with a 5 round melee for more experienced players.
Novices will be given the opportunity to join in with experienced players if they wish.

Details are available at http://www.bridlingtontoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=804&ArticleID=1637375

The Colliers cup is the largest petanque tournament for novices in the country.
Stage 1 is now complete with 62 teams taking part in a total of 84 games.
The top 16 teams now move into stage 2 of the tournament and 23 teams have entered the plate competition.

A group of petanque players are looking to set up a terrain in Mirfield, West Yorkshire. Anyone interested please email mirfieldpetanque@lycos.co.uk to go on a mailing list. When they have a viable group they will get started with a campaign and see what they can do.

21 pairs contested the regional pairs at Wigginton PC in weather more suited to the middle of March than May.
Congratulations to James Hart and Luke Howard from Mistral PC who successfully defended their trophy from last year.
They beat Paul Abbey and Craig Bailey from Stockton Fox PC 13-3 in the final..

After the 2 ladies grand prix events the top 8 teams played off at Cardiff on the 6th May.
Northern were represented by Angie who played with 2 ladies from the Isle of Wight and finished 4th and by Chris and Lisa who played with a lady from Wales and finished 5th.

Congratulations to James, Luke and Hassan and to Marcus (playing with Paul and Neil from Wales) who have all qualified for the top 16 after the Grand Prix series.

The full results are available on the EPA or BPF websites

James, Luke and Hassan are in 2nd position after the 2nd Grand Prix held at Oldbury on Severn.
The full results are available at BPF Grand Prix 2 Results

2 Northern juniors (Richard Marston and Andy Willis) took part in a junior squad day in Kent.
They have both been selected to play in a tournament in Marseilles in July with the possibility of representing GB at the European championships in August if they do well.

13 Northern members took part in the 1st Grand Prix held at Detling in Kent with mixed success.
Check BPF Grand Prix 1 Results to see how they did.

19/2/06 - Development
Mistral Petanque Club - The new terrain in Eccles Park is now open
Leeds Petanque Club - This new club is holding an inaugural meeting at the end of February and hopes to have its terrain available by April.

Bill collapsed with pneumonia nearly 2 weeks ago and has been in the intensive care unit at Northallerton hospital since then.

Bill , a member of Morecambe Bay PC, was a founder member of Northern in 1998 and was the Development Officer for the West of the Region for 4 of the next 5 years. He was a regular player at Northern tournaments and was a member of the Northern Region squad several times including as recently as Brean this year when he played as a fourth player for Northern 2.
Despite having a lung removed several years ago due to lung cancer and at that time being given only a few months to live Bill continued to play and to be very sociable and will be sadly missed.

The Woodstock Pairs had 3 pairs from Northern's newest club - Culcheth PC. This was the first Northern tournament for most of them but 1 pair had a successful day getting to the final (details on the results page).
The tournament also had 4 pairs from Burnage Rugby club, all playing their first Northern tournament. Burnage might be the next club to join Northern.

18/9/05
The Northern squad at the Inter Regional Championships emphatically confirmed Northern's rise by finishing 4th in Division 1.

The aim had been to make 6th place in order to avoid relegation back to Division 2 so 4th was a major success.
We were even level on number of wins with 3rd place but had a worse points difference.
In 2003 when we were in division 1 for the first time we were demoted with 38 wins from 108 games. This time we won 57 from 108.

The Marcia in Bishopthorpe has had a small temporary terrain for a few months but they have now finished their new 13m by 12 m terrain.
Contact details are available on the clubs page (via regional contacts).

2 Northern players reached the semi finals of the national singles then had to play each other. That was won by Luke Howard (Mistral) who beat Angie Gaughan (Westow). Unfortunately Luke then lost in a close final against Sofianne Lachani.

22/5/05
Following quickly on from the Ladies the region has another GB player in Marcus Hilton (Unattached) who is part of the new GB1 team.

Marcus plus Neil Dobbins and Paul Bond from Wales won the International qualifier competition at Cardiff for the top 16 teams from the Grand Prix series. As GB1 they will be one of the 3 GB teams (not including the ladies) at the North Sea tournament in Cardiff on 25/26th June. They will also represent GB at the World Championships in Belgium between September 21st and 25th.

15/5/05
The all Northern triple of Lisa Hoy (Wigginton), Angie Gaughan (Westow) & Chris Best (Wigginton) are the 2005 British Ladies Champions.

They had a very long and difficult day at Loughton in Essex but after 7 games and nearly 12 hours they won the final.
More details of the scores are available on the BPF website (see the web links page).

Lisa, Angie & Chris will now represent GB at the North Sea tournament in Cardiff on 25/26th June and also at the European Ladies Championship in Denmark on 6th and 7th August.