Over The Pennines Again…

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More from chief roving reporter Alan Bate

A wet and windy day at Trafford in the invitational.

Heckmondwike represented by Alan and Anita plus Clive and Graham.

Alan and Anita lost their first 3 games and yet were only minus 7 points.

Clive and Graham having more success winning their first 3 and that left Clive and Graham in the Gold semi finals with Alan and Anita in the Bronze semis.

Final results being 3rd place in Gold group for Clive and Graham with Anita and Alan winning the Bronze group.

Unfortunately only 3 of the Trans Pennine teams fielded representatives in today’s invitational, with good numbers from Trafford and Rochdale plus the Hecky 4.

Full result sheet here:

Hecky Thump!

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From our roving reporter (and player!) Alan Bate…

A 5 game snake faced the 18 teams who entered the YP Triples at Hollicars on a typically wet Bank Holiday Easter Monday.

Only 1 team contained Heckmondwike members, The Heckythumps, aka Alan, Anita and Shirley.


A poor start losing 13 – 5 (to the eventual winners) followed by 4 excellent wins against decent teams saw us to a 4 win +12 total.

With Anita and Shirley sharing the pointing and making many excellent deliveries with Alan on good shooting form and adding points to ends where we were already lying shot.

We had to wait until completion of the very last game to see if Triple Mix could overtake us with their 4th win by a margin of 5 points. They managed to win 13-10 to leave Heckythump in a hard earned 3rd place and in the prize money.

Well done team. A great day had by all with the sun eventually making an appearance.

(Darren here… Well done team, any HPC related good news anyone wants reporting then please do let me know… Always happy to put it on the blog!)

Spring Melee 3

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Well the sun finally came out for us on Saturday . Forty members enjoyed a day of competitive petanque in the spring melee number 3.

After checking the score sheets a number of errors were found , it was like the final question on the 1% club . Please try and take a little more care when filling in your scores. Nine members archived 2 wins in the first 2 rounds , so it was all to play for in round 3 . Only four members managed the elusive 3 from 3 .

In 4th place with 3 wins + 8 was Cath Clegg . In 3rd place our reigning champion Ken Hutchinson with 3 wins +11. In second was Bev Whittington just pipping Ken by one point with 3 wins +12 . And finally our winner with another fine performance our league leader Clive Westley with 3 wins +21 . Well done Clive .

Yorkshire Petanque Membership

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Hi everyone, it’s that time of year again. Subscriptions are now due for individual membership of Yorkshire Petanque . If you are already a member you can renew via the YP website. Alternatively you can pay me by cash £8 and I will arrange for the fee to be paid. If you are not already a member you will need to download and fill in the membership form from their website. Any issues please give me a call.

Kind Regards David

Plants and Thanks

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As you all know we started a project to improve the banking adjacent to the terrains last year . We obtained a grant from KMC, and with help from our friends at Transformers North we were able to clear the weeds and overgrown plants, lay membrane and bark chippings.

We have now started the process of planting out to make the area a feature. A big thank you to everyone who has already donated plants. In the next few weeks I know many of you will be busy in the garden, preparing for summer, if we get one . If you have any perennial plants that can be split, please bring them down.

Kind Regards

David

WEST YORKSHIRE LEAGUE 2024

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Hi everybody, we have one trophy in the bag, so it’s time to be making plans to win the next one. The West Yorkshire League fixtures have now been published, so we need players to represent our club . There are ten matches, home and away and we will need a big squad. Alan and Tony will be organising to matches and selecting the teams based on published selection criteria (see notice board) . Please get your name down on the list if you would like to be part of the team. Many Thanks David

Lost Keys & Thanks

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Firstly those of you who did come to weed & feed please check your pockets, bags and tools as we have lost a set of keys for a car so please check if you have picked up a set of keys by mistake.

If you have please contact Tony or Karen McDonald as it’s for their car!

Those of you who didn’t attend don’t need to check for keys. You all must have been incredibly busy anyway 😉

Lots of important tasks undertaken by 20 of our members

Today our latest Weed and Feed took place.

A fantastic 21 members (well 20 and a little lad!) turned out to help prepare our facilities and complete a myriad of tasks.

Karen, Tony, Kath, Clive, Alan, Anita, Gordon, David, Bev, Christine, Ron, Eamon, Cath C, Pauline, Ian, Alma, Roger J, Roger F, Colin, Myself and top raker Edison made up today’s task force.

The tasks completed outside included replacing rotten timbers, scraping and removal of moss, restringing broken strings, clearing leaves, gardening on the new banking, removing of moss, grass and weeds from the terrains, redistribution of gravel and much more…

Inside a team were on with cleaning, sweeping, polishing and tidying of our storage areas.

Gordon was on hand, assisted by others to produce a fantastic round of bacon sandwiches enjoyed by all.

To beat the same drum I always do, none of the faces there today really surprised me, nor did many of the notable absences. Whatever your level of ability or fitness there is a job you can do next time.

The club, YOUR club, only functions because of days like this. It’s not a committee job, it’s not someone else’s job, it’s YOUR job to help keep the facilities in good order!

We hope to see even more faces at the next Weed & Feed event.