Croquetwest

Over the last fortnight Croquetwest has held three GC Events using the ACA Bronze Medal format (a round robin with each match consisting of best of three 13-point games).

The Bronze Medal was won by Torben Bak (Forrest Park).  Brett McHardy (Forrest Park) GC was the runner up.

The GC Selectors 6 was won by Ben Brown (Gosnells).  Michael Trefusis-Paynter (Nedlands) was the runner-up.

The Inaugural GC Ladies Selectors 6 was won by Joyce Carbone (Gosnells).  Robyn Dart (Busselton) was the runner-up.

Congratulations to all.

The new Belmont Croquet Club is having an open fun day on the 18th October 2020 from 10am at the Belmont Park Tennis Courts, Robinson Avenue, Cloverdale. Click here for more information.

Congratulations to Martin Clarke, representing Gosnells, on winning both the GC and AC Champion of Champions on consecutive weekends (he also achieved this in 2009, 2011, 2013, and 2016).

Martin also won the McBride Trophy for the AC Champion City Player.  Alan Sands (Como) was the runner up.  Eric Ayling (York) won the Thorogood trophy for the AC Champion Country Player from John Jury representing Moorabinda.

In the GC Champion of Champions, Brett McHardy (Forrest Park) won the Champion City Player award, with Martin Clarke being the runner-up.  Paul Christmass (Geraldton) won the Champion Country Player award. from Gary Phipps of Moorabinda.

The 2020-21 AC Advanced Skills Squad was endorsed at the July Croquetwest Management Committee meeting. Congratulations go to the following players on their inclusion: 

Tim Barkes, John Doepel, Megan Fardon, Wendy Prendiville and Sheila Twine. 

For the beginning of the season 2020-21, the Match Committee has released a partial calendar covering the period Oct 1 to Dec 31 2020.  This is in reply to the unusual COVID situation we find ourselves in. Some events for that period are postponed ones from the current calendar and some the usual annually scheduled events.

The situation particularly at ACA and Interstate level is changing frequently, thus this may continue to affect the new calendar. Players should check the website frequently for changes.

The balance of next seasons calendar is at first draft stage and will be circulated to Clubs and Committees for comment soon.

A new tournament was held at Nedlands to celebrate the return to competitive play following the shutdown for COVID-19. Chris McWhirter won the COVID Cup 19 Point Singles and Brett and Janine McHardy won the Isolation Shield Doubles.

The ABC had a camera crew there to celebrate the restart. Click here for a link to the news report.

After many years of service as the AC Events’ Secretary, Keith Shiers is standing down and Croquetwest is seeking nominations from members to fill the position.  For more information please click here.

Croquetwest would like to thank Keith for the great work during his time in the position.

The Croquetwest Events Calendar has been updated following the resumption of competition play post-COVID-19. Click here for the all the event dates for the remaining tournaments. Event details in the Calendar link on the top right hand corner of the Home Page have also been updated.

Croquetwest has agreed that club and State competitions can now resume. Match Committee is reviewing the Calendar of Events with notifications to be issued shortly on the new event dates. Click here for more information.

With the lifting of some restrictions Clubs will soon be able to restart local play. Click here for an interesting article from The Spectator on Croquet being the perfect sport for social distancing.