Around the Courts – 4th March

A busy week for many. The weather was challenging at times, especially in Bunbury. Strong winds Saturday and then high humidity Sunday.


State C Grade Singles

With a new date on the Calendar, the State C Grade Championship attracted a strong field of 14 players.

Many thanks to Victoria Park for hosting and to John for his organisation and tournament managing skills.

  • Winner: Anthony Nelson (Dunsborough)
  • Runner Up: Richard Lobb (Forrest Park)

Full results on Croquetscores.

Winner of Swiss Event below – Allan Hardingham from Dunsborough.


Sorrento Doubles

Jan and Terry (Team Craddock) prevailed at today’s very closely contested club championships. Wendy Price and Janice Davidson (Sister Act) were runners-up (again); with the “Hurt Team” (Amanda and Larry) placing third.

It was a VERY exciting competition to watch and no-one could predict the winners before the last shot was played. Also, thanks go out to Di for refereeing and Sandy for the setting up.

Full results on Croquetscores.


Country Singles A and B

Moorabinda hosted the annual Country Singles and it was great to see players from such a wide variety of clubs participating.

Being a long weekend, accommodation was difficult to find. Don’t ever let this put you off entering though as clubs can often help organise a billet.

We saw some great perfomances with many matches being decided on the 19th hoop. A few highlights, Barrie going through undefeated and dropping his handicap by 2, John winning at his first outing in A Grade and a marathon of rocqueting between Dawn and Les.

Country Singles A

  • Winner: John Bird (Moorabinda)
  • Runner Up: Torben Bak (Forrest Park)

Country Singles B

  • Winner: Barrie Stewart (Halls Head)
  • Runner Up: Alistair Potts (Narrogin)

Full results on Croquetscores.


Belmont Coaching Day

Belmont club held a full day of coaching and tips on Saturday, with Kim and Megan Reynolds.

Members received stroke coaching in single ball shots, hoop running, bombards and stop shots.

Dodging the rain, additional topics included faults, crushes, hoop setting, etiquette, community engagement, how to run a ‘Have-a-go’ day, advertising tips and some fun games to introduce beginners to. Of particular interest were the slo-mo footage taken on site of double tap and crush shots. The club also received a ‘show-bag’ of croquet goodies.

It was a full day of varied activities!


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York – Croquet Challenge

York Croquet Club held its annual Croquet Challenge during February. The challenge which is a doubles competition and open to anyone who is not a Club member, was played between 8 teams.

After 7 rounds of fun and competitive croquet , the 3 top teams ( Bendigo Bank, Rippeyhill and Cheeky Mallets ) were tied on 5 wins each therefore the winner was decided on net points ( points for less points against ) with Bendigo Bank winning with +22 and the other two teams tied for second place with +9.

Congratulations to Robin and Selina

Pictured with Club President Kay Anderson are Robin Milner and Selina Carmichael from Bendigo Bank receiving the Croquet Challenge trophy and the traditional block of Toblerone.

Thank you to Eric for running the Challenge again and to all the participants for taking part and making for a really enjoyable 4 weeks of croquet.


Around the Country

Queensland GC Men’s Open Singles

  • Winner: Bob Martin
  • Runner Up: Gordon Giles

Full results on Croquetscorres.


Coloundra Classic


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Clontarf Foundation – Bunbury Central

Bunbury Central Croquet Club hosted a social event last Thursday 22 Feb for the Clontarf Foundation.

Mentors from the Foundation were attending a conference in Bunbury for mentors from Perth down to Albany and inbetween. They arrived at our club about 5pm and had a BBQ then played a knock out competition amongst themselves.

Peter Teede

Wendy O’Reilly (BCCC), Clint Ernst, Craig Callaghan, Brett Pilling, Jacob Johnson, Sam Parker, Shawn Gillies, Kevin Dalgetty, Pierce Dawson, Bev Styants (BCCC), Liz Teede (BCCC), Tim Hutchison, Steven Jas, Michael Russell,Peter Teede (BCCC), Brandon Penny, Craig Davies, Luke Strnadica, Scott Thomson, Willie Roe, Graeme Simpson, Corey Ward, Cameron Bennell and Neil Johnson (BCCC).


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Around the Courts – 26thFebruary

The weather was much kinder to us this weekend and no doubt everyone appreciated the cooler conditions on court.


Annual AC State Team vs Barbarian

Sunday saw the annual State Team vs the Barbarian take place at Como and it was an excellent hit out for everyone involved. Many thanks to Como for hosting and we wish our State Team all the best for the upcoming carnival in Tasmania.


Gosnells Handicap Doubles

  • Winners: Colleen Sacco & Maura Doyle
  • Runners Up: Gwen Blair & Jean Zelos-Becket

Full results on Croquetscores


Around the Country

Queensland Women’s Open Singles

  • Winner: Mary McMahon
  • Runner Up: Jenee Molyneux

Full results on Croquetscores

Tasmania AC Open Doubles

  • Winners: T & C Bassett
  • Runners Up: R McAdam & K Maloney

Full results on Croquetscores.


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News from the Sailors Cup

Guest Reporter: Terry Brown

Three Belmont Park Croquet Club players (Croquetwest President and President of Belmont Park Croquet Club, Terry Brown with Janet Fuller and Christine Trembath) travelled to Brisbane (Queensland) to board the Coral Princess cruise ship and cruised around New Zealand were paired up with other players from Australia and played in the Sailors Cup at 6 NZ Croquet clubs. 

Terry, with partner Joan (from Bribie Island QLD) were 3rd even though they had 5 more hoops than the winners. 

Christine came 7th and Janet came 8th out of 14 pairs of players, not a bad effort from WA.

Terry and Joan also got 2nd in the consolation competition.

Next year’s Sailors Cup is all sold out already. 

Well done WA (Belmont Park Croquet Club) and thank you New Zealand.


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WA flavour at the Nationals in 2000

Adelaide hosted the Nationals this year and the entries were amazing.

112 players in the Doubles (14 blocks of 4), 68 in the Men’s Singles (17 blocks of 4), 48 in the Women’s Singles (8 blocks of 6) and 96 in the Open Singles (16 blocks od 6). The large numbers meant that courts within 90km of Adelaide were used including Mt Barker and Victor Harbour.

Ian Dumergue and Ashley Faulkner won the Doubles and incredibly, after breaking his mallet on the Saturday (described as looking like the Tin Man from the Wizard of Oz), Ian used Ashley’s mallet, handing it on each time as if in a relay!

In the Open Singles, Daniel, Alan, Martin and Jeff all made it the last 16 with Marty going on to make the final. After losing the first game, Trevor Bassett struck some form to claim the title, 15-26, 26-0, 26 TP-0.

Helene Thurston and Ashely Faulkner battled it out in the Plate, with Helene eventually winning 24-26, 26-20, 26-22

WA achieved double success in the Singles with Helene winning the Women’s Singles and Daniel claiming the Men’s.

Jeff finished 3rd in the Gold and Silver Medal.

WA performed admirably in the EIRE Cup and their game against SA could have gone either way for much of the day.

To top off a successful carnival, Irene Wardell-Johnson won the AB Morrison Trophy.

A thorough review of the carnival can be found in Vol 50 No2 June 2000 of the Croquet Australia Magazine. All images were obtained from the article.


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WA Debuts in the EIRE Cup


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Pesky Balls

John’s latest video.


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Around the Courts – 19th February

Congratulations to all the clubs who hosted tournaments across the state on the weekend. With the predicted high temperatures, some fast thinking was needed and everyone managed to ensure their events were completed successfully.

Love this photo from Mandurah.


CROQUETWEST STATE AC MIXED DOUBLES

Thanks to some fast footwork by the Match Committee, Tournament Manager and players the Croquetwest AC State Mixed Doubles Championship was completed this weekend despite temperatures over 40 degrees.

It would have been an easy decision to cancel or postpone the tournament due to the extreme heat, but the games were shortened to 2h 15 m, with four games played on day one and the final games starting at 7.00am on the second day to beat the heat.

Jeff Newcomme(Como) and Megan Reynolds(Busselton) were the victorious pair  with Alan Sands(Como) and Jennifer Brand(Cambridge) being the runners-up.

Full results on Croquetscores.

This was Jeff and Megan’s third success in this event. A full list of past winners can be found here.


WA Cambridge DAFT Doubles

12 pairs contested the annual event in trying conditions. The semi-finals started at 7.30am Sunday morning to ensure they beat the heat!

  • Winners: Simon Hadlow & Tom King (Como)
  • Runners Up: Nola Kimberley (Forrest Park) & Ciaran Stewart (Belmont)

Full results on Croquetscores.


WA Geraldton GC Doubles LP

A field of 8 pairs contested the Geraldton Doubles onthe weekend.

  • Winners: Glenys Ryan & Sharky Ryan
  • Runners Up: Paul Christmas & Cheryl Samborski

Full results on Croquetscores.


Albany Valentines Tournament – 40 years Strong


Tassie Travels

Brett and Janine again competed in the Tasmanian over the weekend and both met with success.

Brett won the Men’s GC Open Singles and Janine was Runner Up in the Women’s Open Singles. A terrific effort indeed.


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Sunday Watch!

Plenty to keep an eye on today as the following events reach their conclusion.

WA AC State Open Mixed Doubles

WA Camberidge DAFT Doubles

WA GC Geraldton Doubles L/P

Brett and Janine continue their Tasmanian adventures and are very much in contention in the Tasmanian GC Open Men’s and Women’s Singles.


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Jumping Jack McWhirter

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