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ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS 2011
The annual Dinner and awards presentation took place in December at the Red Rose Restaurant, in Trinity.
As usual, the trophies for the competition were presented plus the Player of the Year trophy, which for 2011 went to Ian Foster. Last year's winner, Lawrence Rondel, was runner-up and Gordon de Gruchy, winner in 2005, was third.
Left to right:
Player of the Year Ian, Runner-Up
Lawrence, third Gordon
Photos © K Taylor 2011
SUCCESS AT GUERNSEY OPEN
JPC members achieved success at the 2011 Guernsey Open held over the weekend of 10/11th September.
In the doubles competition on the Saturday, Lawrence Rondel & Tommy Glennie took top spot in the main competition, with Keaven Taylor & Rita Le Brocq, coming third.
On the Sunday, Keaven & Rita with Linda won the triples giving JPC top honours in both events.
Guernsey Open Doubles Champions Tommy & Lawrence Triples winners Linda, Keaven & Rita
Photos © M Rondel 2011
BIRCH-CABARET 2011
The 2011 competition between JPC and CPC was concluded on Sunday 18th September at Les Quennevais.
In the first round, held in June at the Carrefour terrains, JPC won all four rounds 8-7 and therefore brought a useful four game advantage to the home draw. The first round went JPC's way 10-5 and the second by a lesser margin, 9-6. At the tea break therefore, JPC were 8 up on the day and 12 up overall.
The third round saw JPC win again also 9-6, leaving CPC an impossible task. The fourth round was closer but was again a win to JPC 8-7 giving them a 36-24 win on the day and 68-52 overall.
Left - CPC Captain Neil Selby presents the trophy to JPC President Joan
Photo © S Foster 2011
SUCCESS AT JPA TRIPLES
The JPA Island Triples competition took place at the Weighbridge on Saturday 3rd September and JPC were well represented with three teams reaching the last four out of 14 competitors.
In their semi final, Keaven & Linda Taylor and Rita Le Brocq, winners of the Blue Group got off to a very slow start and as their opponents, Ian & Penny Foster and Gerald Rolland, runners up in the White Group, pulled steadily away, they found themselves 0-12 down. With all to play for they finally got off the mark and gradually came up to 5-12 before losing out 5-13.The second semi between winners of White, Joan & Denis Le Mercier and Bill Perry and the Blue runners-up Helene Retrosi, Michel Morel & Chris Romeril, was much closer with each team taking the lead at times and the match was finely balanced with the teams at 8 all. Dennis, Joan and Bill then took 3 points on the following end to bring them is sight of victory, which they got on the next end.
The final too started with each team taking just a point or two until Ian, Penny and Gerald moved from 2 all to a 5-2 lead. Dennis, Joan and Bill retrieved this in the next end and moved ahead themselves to 6-5. It was again anyone’s game as the score moved on to 8-9. However, in the next end Ian, Penny and Gerald left the end wide open after all their boules were played and Dennis, Joan and Bill were holding 4 points but just failed to place their final one to win the game. Inspired by the chance of having another end to play, Ian Penny and Gerald managed to get the four points they needed to snatch the victory 13-12 and become the 2011 Magic Touch Island Open Triples champions.
2011 JPA Triples Champions - Gerald, Penny & Ian
Report & Photo © E Paisnel, 2011
COUTANCES VISIT AUGUST 2011
Just over forty members of the Club made their annual pilgrimage to Coutances to celebrate the 25th anniversary visit to the Loisirs Corporatifs Coutances.
On the Saturday morning, a reception was held at the Coutances Town Hall, hosted by the Mayor of Coutances, Mnsr. Yves Lamy, to mark 25 years of the two organisations' friendship and promotion of the game.
Everyone then re-assembled at the terrains at Agon-Coutanville, where the usual four games were held. After the first round, Jersey were up 10-8 and the break for lunch was held. The now familiar curse of the excess of hospitality took its toll and the first set after lunch finished 12-6 in favour of the hosts. Matters did not improve and the final result was a win for the French by 40-32.
The usual Saturday night dinner and prize giving was held in St Aubin-du-Perron where the assembled boulistes were entertained (?) to an evening of Karaoke; it being noticeable that Jersey volunteers were few and far between.
At the prize giving, the top six Jersey teams got prizes. First were Ken & Beryl Vibert, with Keaven Taylor & Rita Le Brocq second, and Mick Rondel & Pru Vibert third. In fourth was Linda Taylor & Lawrence Rondel, fifth was Ron & Joan Le Herrisier and sixth was Derek Hart, Brain Heard & Steve Foster.
The top team for the local club were Didier Menoyo & Dominique Lenoel with Ginette Legendre & Louis Corniere second and Francis Colas & Dominique Mesange third.
Presidents Joan and Josianne with their trophies Top Jersey team - Ken & Beryl
Second place Rita & Keaven Third place Mick & Pru
On the Sunday, a wonderful lunch was held at Regneville sur Mer for all the hosts and their guests at which the dessert seemed to be served by representatives from the Court of Louis XIV - see right!
Once again, the Jersey players were superbly hosted by our friends from Coutances and here's to the next 25 years!
JPA ISLAND SINGLES 2011
The Magic Touch Island Petanque Singles was played on Saturday 2nd July at the Weighbridge Gardens, with young Jeremy Grigg – one month short of his 19th birthday - wining the Trophy in fine style having last month won the Island Doubles Trophy too!
The 27 players were drawn into four groups and played all in their group, the winners of each group then playing semi-finals. The semi-finals turned out to be a JPC vs CPC affair, with Neil Selby playing Gordon de Gruchy and Jeremy playing Mick Cotillard.
Neil proved too strong for Gordon in their semi-final, Gordon not being able to get into his stride after a long wait; Neil winning 13-3. In the other semi, Mick pushed Jeremy all the way and just lost out 11-13.
Jeremy recovered from this challenge quickly and with his consistent placing and relaxed manner took 9 points before Neil got on the scoreboard. He went on to a 13-3 win to take the Trophy for 2011.
Photo & report © E Paisnel, 2011
COUTANCES VISIT JUNE 2011
Over the weekend of 24th to 26th June, the Jersey Petanque Club hosted 32 Petanque players from Coutances in Normandy in the 25th year of the two clubs’ association. The visitors were entertained by their hosts on the Friday night.
On the Saturday, four games were played, two each side of lunch supplied by the hosts and served at the Club’s terrains at Les Quennevais. Each session consisted of 16 doubles games and after the first round the visitors were 6-10 behind. The second session saw honours go to Jersey at 12-4. After lunch the home team won the first round 11-5, meaning Jersey was well in the lead going into the last game. Coutances were unable to make a come back in the last session and lost 6-10. Jersey had triumphed again on home ground by winning 43 games to Coutances 21.
Joan with presentation from Coutances Rita & Myrtle cutting the cake
Top French team - Michele & Christian Top Jersey team - Ken & Beryl
In the evening a dinner was held at the Ambassadeur Hotel, at which the presentation of trophies and medals took place. It was good to see so many members, past & present attending.
For the visitors, Christian Lesauvage & Michele Terree took top spot with Dominique Mesnage & Francis Colas in second place, equal third were Jean-Claude Le Moigne & Catherine Robbe, & Jean-Dominique Bourdin & Annick Le Moigne.
This year’s top Jersey team were Ken & Beryl Vibert with Lawrence Rondel & Linda Taylor taking second place, and Rita Le Brocq & Keaven Taylor in third.
On the Sunday, lunch was held at the Boathouse, St Aubin.
Report © K Taylor 2011 Photos © S Foster 2011
JPA ISLAND DOUBLES 2011
The 2011 JPA Doubles Championships took place in showery & windy weather at the Weighbridge terrains on Saturday 18th June.
20 teams were divided into four groups and after the first stages, honours were evenly split between teams from JPC & Carrefour.
In the first semi-final Helene Retrosi & Michel Morel from Carrefour had a battle against Rita Le Brocq & Keaven Taylor from JPC. At 12 all it was anyone's game but a thrilling final end saw the CPC pair snatch the game.
In the other match Darren Le Brun & Mick Cottilliard struggled against Keith Pinel & Jeremy Grigg from JPC and were never really in the game, with the JPC pair taking the game in six ends, 13-2.
The final started slowly but at 4 all Keith & Jeremy started pulling away and never really looked troubled, taking the title with a score of 13-7, a well deserved win, being the only pair in the original rounds who won all four games.
2011 JPA Island Champions - Keith & Jeremy
photo © E Paisnel 2011
JPA INAUGURAL MEN'S & LADIES TRIPLES
Men's champions - Dennis Le Mercier, Derek Hart & Gordon de Gruchy
The inaugural JPA Championships for Mens and Ladies Triples was held at the new venue of St Martin’s community park, on Saturday 21st May.
A number of JPC teams entered with very good results. In the ladies competition, runners up with 5 wins + 22 were Linda Taylor, Rita le Brocq and Beryl Vibert (second place to winners Marion Simkin, Julie Brown and Barbara Grover with 5 + 31). In third place were Joan Le Mercier, Dorothy De Gruchy and Karen Bougeard with 4 wins + 29 and fourth were Elaine Paisnel, Maggie Allchurch and Joy Hart also with 4 wins but + 18.
In the Men's game, there were two groups of five and Derek Hart, Gordon de Gruchy and Dennis Le Mercier got through to the semi-final, where they met Ross Payne and Chris & Jake Romeril, they won that by the reasonably comfortable margin of 13-8 but then found themselves in the final against Marc Nicol, Mathew Pinel and Jeremy Grigg.
The final was excellent and after being behind 11-5, Derek, Gordon & Dennis fought back to 11 all, then 11-12. In a final thrilling end, both sides had been in the ascendancy, but Dennis Le Mercier placed two excellent boules to close the game at 13-12 for his team.
ANNUAL DINNER & AWARDS 2010
The annual Dinner and awards presentation took place recently at the Red Rose Restaurant, in Trinity.
As usual, the trophies for the competition were presented plus the Player of the Year trophy, which for 2010 went to Lawrence Rondel. This is the first time that this award has gone to the same person for the second time, Lawrence having previously won in 2008.
Left, Player of the Year 2010, Lawrence Rondel
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