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8/8/10 - Home Nations

Congratulations to Ray Gatenby , Steve Rice and Dan Rice who played as England 2 and won 10 out of their 12 games , only 1 England team did better by winning 11 games.

This was part of a fairly easy England victory. (England 66 wins , Scotland 44 wins , Wales 34 wins).
 

14/7/10 - Petanque in Morley Schools

11 Schools based around Morley took part in a petanque competition held at Wetherby Petanque Club.
Initially Education Leeds contacted Leeds Petanque Club which led to Paul Simpkins and Richard Moss travelling to most of the schools involved to give them some basic knowledge of the game.
The event was held at Wetherby due to the Leeds terrain not being large enough.
Alan , John and Jenny from Wetherby PC plus Ted (Youth Development Officer) ran the event along with Paul and Richard.

2 girls and 2 boys from each school took part , due to time constraints the event was held as a 3 round snake with each game being to 7 points.
This was followed by a final for the top 2 boys pairs and the top 2 girls pairs.

The event was a great success despite the limited time available and the aim is to repeat it next year.
Arranging playing facilities at the schools is difficult but at least one school has an all weather surface available for practising on so hopefully some petanque will be played throughout the next school year.

The schools taking part were
Gildersome Primary
Woodkirk High
Blackgates Primary
Westerton Primary
Morley Newlands Primary
Morley High
Bruntcliffe High
Birchfield Primary
East Ardsley Primary
Asquith Primary
Hill Top Primary

In the girls final Bruntcliffe High beat Westerton Primary.

In the boys final Asquith Primary beat Bruntcliffe High.

The boys from Woodkirk High won all their 3 games but were unlucky that Asquith and Bruntcliffe also won all their games and with a slightly better points difference.

9/7/10 - Home Nations Qualifiers

These were held at Luton on the 4th July.
The only Northern team to enter was Ray Gatenby , Steve Rice and Dan Rice who finished 2nd and so qualify to play for England at Inverness on August 7/8.

14/6/10 - Regional Qualifiers

The qualifiers finished with the usual tense and close finish with the squad not being fully decided until the final game.
5 teams finished on 9 wins with 3 of them making the main squad but the other 2 losing out on points difference.
After 3 days and 16 games the 9th place team finished only 2 points behind 8th.

The challenge squad positions were also very close with the 13th team losing out due to having a 5 point worse points difference than the 12th team.

The last round was played in a torrential downpour which if it had arrived earlier would have caused major problems since large areas of the terrain became unplayable but by this time only 2 games were still playing.

Links for the results and full scores are on the calendar page

10/5/10 - Regional Qualifiers

17 teams have entered the qualifiers.
The 18th place will be taken by the juniors rather than have a bye but the juniors were not available at the first qualifier.
The weather at the Fox was dry but very cold in the morning , it eventually became quite pleasant by the time we finished in the evening.

3/5/10 - Northern vs Leicestershire

The Yorkshire vs Leicestershire annual match has been rebranded as Northern vs Leicestershire , partly to give the Northern squad more chance to play as a squad and partly to strengthen the Yorkshire team after very bad results recently.

The match was played in very cold windy conditions and in the morning rain showers and hail didn't help. It was sunny by the end but still very cold.
The first round was even at 4 games each but in the 2nd round Leicester won all 8.
Rounds 3 to 6 were all close but Northern had the edge in each.

The match was not decided until the final 2 games of the last round with Northern needing to win 1 of those to confirm their victory.

Th final score was Northern 25 wins (+30points) - Leicester 23 Wins (-30 points)    full results

28/3/10 - Northern Ladies at the EPA Grand Prix

After the 1st Ladies Grand Prix held at Lordswood, Angie Gaughan and Chris Best are in 2nd place having won 4 of their 5 games , only losing to the only unbeaten team on the day.
Angie and Chris were the only Northern players taking part in any of the Grand Prix (Mens, Ladies , Juniors)

21/3/10 - Final Winter League Event

The final winter league event took place at Bridlington with14 Pairs enjoying a lovely spring day.
The winners on the day were Bill Vicker and Chris Cann but Bill just missed out on the overall title.

The closest ever winter league went into the final game of the final event with 4 players tied on 28 wins.
Bill Vicker and Mick Hardisty both won their final game but the other 2 tied players Robert Eunson and Ted Beetham were playing each other.
Both had a better points difference than Bill and Mick so the winner had to be Robert or Ted.
Fittingly their game was the last to finish and Robert came out on top 13-2 so the final league table saw 3 players on 29 wins but Robert is this years Winter League winner.

 Click here for the top 50 positions or here for positions after 50.