After a hard fought competition the Crawley Circle Team "Creepy Crawlies" retained the Cup and Lucy & Laurie came very close to winning in the Plate competition. Doreen and Iris performed admirably too. The Crawley teams included:
Laurie Harding & Lucy Forster: Laurie & Lucy
Iris Jordan & Doreen Newell: The Crawley Girls
Dominic Moorhouse & Mike Newman: The Creepy Crawlies
Well done to all the teams. [And special thanks to Alan Rew for the practice session tuition last week!]
The sun shone brightly, once again, upon the Provincial Croquet Competition held at the 'Sussex
County Croquet Club' in Southwick on 10th June. The event was superbly organised by Adrian
Gilbert, Haywards Heath Circle and the Sussex County Croquet Club.
A record number of Sussex Catenian Competitors took part.
Crawley were represented by Lucy Forster & Laurie Harding, Iris Jordan & Doreen Newell and Dominic Moorhouse & Mike Newman. Each pair initially played three group matches to determine whether they would progress to play their next three games in the Main or the Plate competitions.
In the main competition, Dominic Moorhouse and Mike Newman won the final to retain the Arthur McKivett Rose-Bowl for Crawley Circle (we were the winners last year as well).
The Plate competition came down to an exciting three way 'nearest the pin' shoot out. Lucy Forster looked to have won this for Crawley but lost out to the final ball of the day struck by Jill Corby for Arundel. Our hosts did us proud, with their excellent coaching, luncheon and well organised contest.
