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2022-02-06 Victoria's AC Gold Cup and Silver ShieldIn fine sunny weather conditions, the VCA AC Gold Cup and Silver Shield tournaments were held on the weekend 5 and 6 February 2022. These are high level events with a total of 16 players competing, eight in each block playing a single round robin format. All members of the 2022 Eire Cup played giving them all a good opportunity to compete against other high-level players. The standard of play was high in each event. 2022-02-03 Celebration for Daphne AlcornBrighton Club paused play on 3 February to celebrate Daphne Alcorn’s 80th birthday with a delightful chocolate cake. Daphne has been playing for forty years, was active in the past on the VCA executive, including a stint as Secretary, played in the Victorian state team, and continues to referee club games.
Posted by: Kevin Beard Posted on: 2022-02-09 News Type: Golf Three Golf Croquet tournaments over five daysStarting on Australia Day, the Victorian Croquet Centre hosted five successive days of highly competitive croquet. VCA GC Australia Day tournament 26 Jan 2022 Owen Dickinson (Essendon) won all his games in the low handicap event with Richard Parks (Monash) in second place with only one loss. In the high handicap event, Richard Hingst (Ivanhoe Park), in his first competitive tournament, won all his games to win the event. Runner up was Ann Nicol (Williamstown) with only one loss.
Left: Section 1 winner Owen Dickinson. Congratulations to these players and to the other players for performing well under very hot and trying conditions. Full results can be found at https://croquetscores.com/2022/gc/vca-australia-day-tournament
Victorian GC Doubles Championship 27-28 Jan 2021 Seven pairs contested the Doubles championship, which was played as a Round Robin on the first day, with the top 4 pairs going through to a best-of-3 games knockout on the second day. All games were timed to assist completion of the tournament under the oppressively hot conditions. The top ranked pair after the first day was Philip DeAraugo & Brendan Aikman (Bendigo) with 5 wins out of 6 games. They continued their good play to beat Ally Gray & Barry Dowling (Ivanhoe Park) in the semi-final 7-1, 7-4. In the other semi-final, Kevin Beard & Helen Gammon (Yarrawonga/Ivanhoe Park) beat brother and sister combination Shane Downie & Julie Beasley (Traralgon/Warragul) 7-3, 7-3. The final was a real battle to the finish with Kevin Beard & Helen Gammon winning 3-6, 7-6, 5-4 against Philip DeAraugo & Brendan Aikman. The bell went and play ended while Brendon was about to strike his ball at hoop 10. The ball subsequently went through the 10th hoop, which would have levelled the scores if the ball had been struck half a second earlier. You can’t get a much closer finish than that. The playoff for 3rd place was won by Ally Gray & Barry Dowling 10-7. Particular congratulations are due to Philip and Brendon, who put on a spectacular display of consistent clearing and hooping running against more experienced players. Keep your eye out for them on the GC tournament circuit. Full results can be found at https://croquetscores.com/2022/gc/vca-open-doubles
Doubles final: Philip de Araugo and Brendon Aikman, with storm impending
Victorian GC Singles Championship 29-30 Jan 2021 We had 23 players contesting the Singles championship in 4 blocks of 5 or 6 on the first day. The top two in each block went on to play a 19-point quarterfinal and then best-of-3 13-point semi-final and final. The blocks were won by Lester Hughes (Williamstown), Elaine Coverdale (Essendon), Kevin Beard (Yarrawonga) and Owen Dickinson (Essendon). Of these, only Owen didn’t get through to the semi-finals – Richard Parks (Monash) played extremely well to beat him 10-5 in the quarter-final. In the semi-finals Lester beat Richard 7-5, 7-4 and Kevin beat Elaine 7-4, 7-4. The final was won by Lester Hughes who finished strongly in the final game to win a well contested match against Kevin Beard 7-5, 6-7, 7-3. This was Lester’s 3rd Victorian Singles Championship in a row. Full results can be found at https://croquetscores.com/2022/gc/vca-open-singles
Many thanks to John van der Touw for refereeing and organising many excellent referees including Terri Manwaring, Terry Wilson, Alan Jenkins and Lynne Roberts for multiple sessions over the five days. Also, thanks to Lester Hughes, Owen Dickinson and Chas Quinn for preparing the courts and hoops. Kevin Beard and Brian Reither
Thanks to Sue Downie and Julie Beasley for the photographs.
2022-02-12 Watch the GC President's Eights live streamed!The Australian 2022 Golf Croquet President's Eights will be live streamed from the Victorian Croquet Centre from 10 am Saturday 12 February and 9 am Sunday 13 February 2022. Click on the link below to GET NOTIFIED to not miss a moment of the action. https://livestream.com/mysportlive/events/10148448 2022-02-09 Inspirational workshop at CharltonCharlton CC hosted the 2nd Player Development workshop for Developing AC competitors in warm conditions on 8 and 9 February 2022. Once again Kenn Boal was our coach. This time we focussed on break building, cannons, hampered shots, openings and leaves. |
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