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Sat & Sun 16 & 17 June 2001

National & NDCC Short Croquet Competitions & SWF Federation League

Members of Nailsea Croquet Club were busy last weekend.

On Saturday morning four members contested for a qualifying place in the National Short Croquet Individual Competition. The winner was NICK CARTER and he will go forward to the Area Finals later in the year.

In the afternoon Nailsea held its own Short Croquet Competition. There were twelve competitors arranged in three blocks of four. The block winners were MARY BARNES, MARCUS EVANS, and ARTHUR GREEN and the runners-up were KATHY WALLACE, BRIGIT CLAYTON and NICK CARTER. The three winners will go forward to the semi-finals in September and there will be a play-off between the three runners-up for the fourth semi-final place.

Federation League Match

Bath 2 Nailsea 5

On Sunday the Club’s Federation League team played at the Recreation Ground at Bath. The Nailsea team got off to a tremendous start winning all three of the morning games, GRETA STRINGER winning by a maximum 26 points, GEOFF HUGHES winning by ten and KRISS CHAMBERS and PETER DYKE winning the doubles by five points on time.

In the afternoon Nailsea needed to win only one game. GRETA kept up her winning form and soon achieved this. KRISS had a good battle against the Bath captain, whom he beat by six points, but the other two Nailsea players both lost narrowly.

Results:

KRISS CHAMBERS & PETER DYKE won +5(T)

GRETA STRINGER won +26 & +19

GEOFF HUGHES won +10 and lost –8

KRISS CHAMBERS won +6

PETER DYKE lost -6

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