News
(Contact Nick Pope (pope@secstan.com)
if you have any interesting news item to add.)
2005 Peter Pompili Handicap Tournament
On Saturday 15 January 11 members took part in the annual handicap competition organised and run by Paul McLeod.
It was good to see the younger players doing well with Paul Vas Nunes defeating Peter Spencer in the final and Dominic Maloney beating Martin Griffiths in the closely fought Plate.
2004 Christmas Meal
26 club members and their friends converged on the Artichoke in Brentwood for what was a thoroughly enjoyable social event. Proceedings started, as usual, in the bar but it wasn't long before it was to the tables for an excellent three course meal. Many familiar faces were mixed in with new. The raffle was a success with nine first rate prizes being distributed, albeit less than evenly. Thanks to Paul for ensuring the evening was well organised and successful.
Ladder afternoon (February 2004)
8 members attended our ladder afternoon on 28th February. 2 hours later and
with everyone completely worn out having each played between 2 and 4
matches, the biggest winner was Fabrice Berjot (the French Raider).
Fabrice
lulled us all into a false sense of security by losing a couple of matches
to players in the middle of the ladder early in the afternoon then wound
himself up and stormed a fantastic win against Peter Spencer to jump into
6th place by the end. Paul Vas Nunes also moved up a respectable 5 spots
with a good win against Simon Skeels to take up 14th position.
Ladder afternoon (August 2003)
Attendance was understandably lower during the Bank Holiday Weekend Ladder afternoon. There were eight of us prepared for some sweaty squash on what was another unusually hot afternoon.
With many of the top players absent, Jim, Paul, Ian and Phil - Jacques ended the afternoon undefeated. Others had more mixed results but not suprisingly Martin's regular Ladder challenges in the preceeding months has already (not to mention his admitted tactic of selecting weaker players for early games) given him a significant lead over his peers.
Peter Pompili Handicap Tournament
On February 22nd the third handicap tournament was held in memory of Peter Pompili. Peter, who sadly died three years ago, was one of our most active members since the clubs formation in 1996.
The sixteen people who entered the tournament completed in the main competition plus a plate event.
Phil Waring and Rob Furzer both had hard, close scoring matches on their way to the final. Phil had to overcome Colin (the Flying Scotsman) Atkins, Martin Griffiths and the soft touches of Ian Mann while Rob had equally difficult matches against Nick Pope, Tom Thumb Davey and the left handed wizardry of Gary Lee.
Phil ran out the winner of the main event.
In the plate event there were some very close matches with the Driver family, Gillian and Adam, narrowly losing to Colin Atkins and David Bell 15-14. The final was eventually fought out between Simon Skeels and David Bell with Simon being the victor.
Thank you all for turning up, especially the newly weds Lorianna and Tim, and
congratulations to all of the winners and remember there is always next time for the players who came second.
