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10 September 2000
National Short Croquet Finals, Intermediate league semi-final & All England Area final
Members of Nailsea Croquet Club had a busy and successful weekend. On Saturday the Club was taking part in the Finals of the National Short Croquet Team Event at Nailsea and the semi-finals of the South West Federation Intermediate League at Bath. Captains of both teams wanted to use the same players and, with some members unavailable, it was difficult to raise teams for both events.
Nailsea Win National Title - September 9th 2000 at Nailsea
Nailsea 10 Ashby 7 Bury 7
Five teams qualified for the National Short Croquet Team Event: Ashby, Bury, High Wycombe, Nailsea and Norwich. Norwich withdrew and High Wycombe was unable to raise a team, so the three remaining teams contested the final.
After one round Nailsea and Bury each had three wins. By the end of three rounds Nailsea had won nine games, Bury six and Ashby three. In the final round Ashby won four games while Bury and Nailsea won one each, giving Nailsea a total of ten wins, while Bury and Ashby finished with seven wins each.
This is the sixth time that the Nailsea Club has won this competition – more often than any other team in the country.
Competitiors at Nat Short Croquet team Final 2000
Nailsea Team’s Results:
PETER DYKE, 3 wins, +5(T), +4, +10, -2(T)
DAVID MURPHY, 1 win, -4, -12, +7, -4
ROY HAWKINS, 4 wins, +12, +5, +8, +10
ANDREW LOWDON, 2 wins, +7, +3, -2(T), -8
Nailsea Win Intermediate League Semi-final
Nailsea 4 Worcester Norton 3
Nailsea’s Intermediate League captain had a pleasant surprise when she returned home after celebrating her mother’s ninetieth birthday. She learned that in her absence her team had got through to the final of the South West Federation Intermediate League by beating Worcester Norton 4-3 in the semi-final.
In the morning the Nailsea team lost the doubles and one singles game to find themselves 2-1 down at lunch, but in the afternoon PAT LONG, GEOFF HUGHES and MARY BARNES all won their singles to pull off a remarkable comeback.
Results:
PAT LONG & JOY WILYMAN lost –7
GEOFF HUGHES lost –1(T) & won +10 MARY BARNES won +13 & +7(T)
PAT LONG won +3(T) JOY WILYMAN lost –13
Marcus Wins Area Final
One member who was not available to play for either of the Nailsea teams was 15 year-old MARCUS EVANS, who was playing in the All England Area Final at Bristol over the weekend. On Saturday he won his first two games comfortably and had his handicap reduced from 14 to 12 before his third game, which he also won easily. He continued his winning form on Sunday with two more wins to win the block, and played the winner of the other block, FRANCES RANSOM (Bristol). He played an excellent game against FRANCES, one of the top lady players in the country and beat her by 26 to win the Area Title and gain a further handicap reduction to 10. He goes forward to the Finals at Nottingham on 16 and 17 September.
Results:
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