Dom’s success hits the papers.

After his success in the State Triples competition, Dominique Pierre has been the subject of an article in yesterday’s Sunday Mail (complete with a photo!).

Well done Dom, not only has your success been lauded, but the profile of the game we love has been raised, complete with a mention of the Trans Tasman competition on March 18 and 19.

SA State Singles Championships – 5 June, 2016

held at:   Club de Pétanque d’Adelaide

This year’s State Singles got off to a soggy start but, fortunately, the rain cleared after an hour or so and it was largely fine for the rest of the day. A small but high quality field of contestants took to the pistes for what would prove to be a memorable day.

The Open competition was played with a slightly different format this year. It may have been a little difficult to follow but it achieved its aims of bringing the cream to the top while keeping everybody else interested for as long as possible. Despite a few upsets along the way, there were not too many surprises in the early rounds. Similarly, in the middle stages, most games were won by the higher-ranked favourites. It was all going according to script — right up to the final…Continue reading

Results – League Round 4

The attached documents give the full results for League Round 4  held at Eastern Suburbs Pétanque Club 28 Feb, 2016.

1st Rada Pierre, Dominique Pierre & Tomas Heredia CPA 30 5
2nd Alain Rousse, Tony Stojsic & Louis Oltarczy CPA 24 4
3rd Quentin Jones, Greg Anderson & Anthony Pietsch AHP 21 4
4th Wendy Bensen, Deb Rodda & Ray Drummond ESP 18 3
5th Sukrit Vaswani, Raja Jamaleddine & Craig Stewart ESP 12 3
6th Raymond Beaumont, Peter Beaumont & Bill Pilmore PNP 12 4
7th Valmai Nicoll, Brett Williams & Allan Sanderson PP 9 3
8th Alexi Alexi, George Lainas & Arwed Turon ESP (9) 3
9th Martin Verdonk, Grant Ashmeade & Heilke Whitehorn PP 6 2
10th Axel Monneron, Margaret Monneron, Rae Grierson FAB 6 3

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SNAKE CUP 20 March 2016

The Snake Cup will be again held at the Prospect Pètanque Club on the 20th Match 2016.

The prize pool has been spread across the Principal, Consolante and Convival to enable teams of all standards to share in the Spoils.

See attached flyer for more details.

Snake Cup 2016