Williamstown Croquet Club in Williamstown, Victoria, Australia | Sports club

Williamstown Croquet Club

Locality: Williamstown, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 401 999 975

Address: 104 Victoria Street 3016 Williamstown, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.williamstowncroquet.org.au

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14.01.2022 The Victorian Golf #Croquet Open Singles Championship for 2020 was held over the 26 and 27 of January and saw 28 fierce competitors don their croquet armour and... storm the battlefield that is the gentle green courts of the Victorian Croquet Centre at Cairnlea. Some of our players had braved both the Australia Day Tournament and the Doubles in the days previous, so it was really great to see so many people enjoying their croquet for such an extended period. It was lovely to see so many people enjoying the friendship and camaraderie that is forged through meeting each other on the lawns. Block play saw 4 blocks each with 7 competitors fight for the top 2 positions to move on to the Round of 8. Many of the players who didn’t progress to the Quarter Finals came back on the second day to participate in the Plate competition and all of the Sections were hotly contested with a lot of games going longer than usual and/or having very close results. The Quarters and Semi Finals were single 19 point games and saw our final 8 of Owen Dickinson (Essendon), Brian Rowe (Essendon), Helen Gammon (Ivanhoe Park), John van der Touw (Monash), Julie Beasley (Warragul Croquet Club), Chris Eiffert (Quarry Hill), Lester Hughes (Williamstown Croquet Club) and Darren McLoughlin eventually whittled down to a Best of 3 final between Brian Rowe and Lester Hughes. Congratulations to Lester who triumphed over a valiant effort from Brian. Congratulations also to Helen Gammon who won her 3-4 play off with Chris Eiffert to take 3rd place and our thanks to you all for a magnificent display of both the skills and sportsmanship of some very high-class croquet. Our Plate resulted in a showdown between Ruth Duffy (Corowa Civic Croquet Club Inc.) and Elaine Coverdale, with Elaine eventually taking the prize, despite all of Ruth’s hard work and some glorious shots from both players. As always, we were very lucky to have the services of Referees who volunteer their time and energy and we are very grateful to Tournament Referee Eric O’Donnell and his team of Bruce Blay, Shirley Hallinan, Lynette Loutit, Robert Loutit, Ian Matthews, Jim Saunders, Jean Deacon, William Manwaring (RNB) and Kate Patrick. Ian Petersen and Katrina Petersen Tournament Managers See more