Author: khulme

This news item has been superseded by the Federation events 2024 page [07Aug24].

Date	Day	Event	Cost	Code	Manager	Director	Details
19 Apr	Fri	Charity One-Ball	Suggest £10 pp	–	Debbie James	Debbie James	Cash on day + giftaid
25 May	Sat	SC Teams	£32 / team	YSC	Philip Jay	Philip Jay	Short Croquet, teams of 4
19 Jun	Wed	GC Level Play Doubles	£16 / pair	YGCD	Lionel Stock	Eugene Chang	Doubles
7 Jul	Sun	Advantage GC ‘team’	£6	RA	Ted Flexman	Eugene Chang	At Ripon Spa Singles/Doubles following standard YCF match format with scratch teams
10 Jul	Wed	GC Level Play	£16	YGCS	Anna Giraud	Eugene Chang	Singles Asst Mngr: Aileen Hingston
24 Jul	Wed	GC Restricted Doubles	£16 / pair	BMD	John Feeny	Eugene Chang	At Bishop Monkton Joint h/c 10+
21 Aug	Wed	GC C-Level Singles	£16	BMS	John Feeny	Eugene Chang	At Bishop Monkton H/c 7+
31 Aug – 1 Sep	Sat Sun	AC Full Lawn	£16 / day	YACF	Philip Jay	Philip Jay	One day entry permitted

Events at York CC unless otherwise stated
For season – long Fed leagues – see https://yorkshirecroquet.org.uk/blog/category/leagues

How to enter:

• Use the Google Form https://forms.gle/aFnrQHPYVXcBFApYA to book a place (except Charity OB – contact Debbie directly)
  • Allocation date: 6 weeks before event
    • Default to CqE allocation criteria (replacing ‘Croquet England Subscriber’ in Priority Group 2 to ‘Member of YCF Club’) unless stated in Special Event Conditions below
  • Closing date: 2 weeks before event
  • Entries before allocation date are considered to have the same entry date; entries thereafter accepted in order of receipt.
  • Late entries accepted at managers discretion.
• Key contacts:
  • YCF Treasurer (Aileen Hingston aileen@amhinja.net)
  • Tournament managers (in event order)
    • Debbie James charity1ball@gmail.com
    • Philip Jay philip4jay@gmail.com
    • Lionel Stock revlstock@hotmail.com
    • Ted Flexman tedflexman@yahoo.co.uk
    • Anna Giraude ag.giraudnet@gmail.com
    • John Feeny jfeeny44@gmail.com
• If you have been notified that your entry is accepted, make a payment to secure your place. BACS transfer preferred:
  • Name: Y&H Croquet Federation
  • Sortcode: 09-01-51
  • Account number 29781304
  • Use event code (code column) + player surname as reference
• Event special conditions:
  • The CqE Allocation criteria wording is adopted for all events, replacing ‘Croquet England Subscriber’ in Priority Group 2 to ‘Member of YCFClub’
  • Short Croquet Team Tournament:
    • Team or individual entries accepted
    • If oversubscribed at allocation:
      • Priority Group 1: Teams that are in the YCF SC League
      • Priority Group 2: Other full teams
      • Priority Group 3: Part teams and individuals

Other CA Fixtures Calendar events at YCF clubs
8/9 Jun – York – Heart of Yorkshire AC 18pt (min handicap 6)
20/21 Jun – Huddersfield – Annual Full Lawn Mid – week Open Singles
10/11 Aug – York – White Rose AC Advanced
7/8 Sep – York – Viking challenge Short Croquet Singles

Misc events
Inter fed – TBC
intra fed – TBC

This year’s Intra-Fed Challenge, a warm-up for the resumption of the Inter-Fed Challenge next year, featured the Reds and the Blues in a triple bill of croquet – AC doubles, GC doubles and 1-ball. 18 YCF players competed to sample the two codes of the sport.

Eugene led the Reds to a 1 point lead after the morning session of 18-point AC doubles. Callum’s Blues pushed them hard with some fine hitting-in by playing partners Andrea and Chris. 3-2 to the Reds. Fortified by lunch and cake the teams resumed play with two rounds of GC. Newbie James Moir excelled, with outrageously good hoop running at 6 and a fast mastery of the in-off. Strong performances by Eugene and Lionel against Callum and Ted kept the Reds ahead, 9-6 after Round 2.

9 games to go and a final round of 1-ball singles. Could the Blues make up the deficit? Callum led the charge with victory over Eugene, Ted pipped Sally and Debbie pegged out against David. Thereafter a ‘red wash’, though Lionel entertained with several attempts to hit the peg before scoring a 6th point for the Reds. Final score: 15-9 to the Reds. Well played team Red (Eugene, Lionel, Cathie, Jack, James, Sally, Malcolm, David, Ian), commiserations team Blue (Callum, Ted, Philip, Chris, Maggie, Andrea, Helen, Denise, Debbie).

Great to have representation from so many clubs in the YCF (Sheffield, BERCC, Ryedale, Bishop Monkton, Ripon Spa, Huddersfield, York, Driffield) and to have some new faces this year. Special thanks to Ted for tall that he has done to encourage interaction of the codes, and for introducing the hybrid 1-ball to the YCF.

York represented the YCF in this year’s Inter-Club SC competition. Having won two previous rounds against Bury, then Chester, York CC played host for the final against Nottingham. 11 games were played over the course of the day; 2-1 to the visitors after R1 doubles and singles, R2 ended with a cliff hanger between York’s Cathie Dance and Nottingham’s Tom Dewar. The spectators massed round the lawn. Could Tom score 2 peels and 3 more hoops to contest GH? A stylish jump shot and a rush peel, then an audacious long distance take-off to hoop 6 nearly evened the score at time. He came so close but Cathie prevailed. By lunchtime Nottingham were 4-3 in the lead. All to play for in the four remaining singles games in R3.

The afternoon session was decisive. Two York players, Chris Atkinson and Wendy Robertson, both pegged out, Wendy with an impressive 14-0 victory. York were now 5-4 ahead. But Nottingham won the other two singles, David Park and Tom Dewar playing controlled and precise croquet, using their bisques well.

The final result was 6-5 to Nottingham: Congratulations to them! And particular thanks to the CA President Patricia Duke-Cox for travelling north to support the event.

Well done York team (Chris Atkinson, Cathie Dance, Wendy Robertson, Debbie James) on an impressive run to the final. We came so close!

A strong and enthusiastic field of five teams from across the Federation entered: Beverley Minster, Beverley Westwood, Huddersfield, York Eboracum and York Jorvik. A day of competitive play was anticipated as the teams were evenly matched, with combined team handicaps ranging from 20½ to 26½.

The lawns at York were, as usual, wonderfully prepared. As a result of the recent dry weather, they started off playing fast but under the unbroken June sunshine soon became challenging for many. Hoop approaches from anywhere other than directly in front were definitely best avoided.

After a thoroughly enjoyable day of play with each team playing a match comprising of four singles against each other team, the overall result was not decided until the final round of games was played. This was not only due to the close nature of many of the matches but also the complicated schedule of games due to the odd number of teams.

Team winners were York Eboracum who finished with six points from three wins, but they were denied a clean sweep by second placed York Jorvik who finished with five points from a win and three draws.

Best Individual was Alison from York Jorvik who won all four of her games.

Many thanks to York Croquet Club for hosting this event and to all those who helped in any way which made the day so successful.

York Eboracum: L to R – Richard, Sue, Wendy and Tom

Best Individual: Alison, York Jorvik 

There were bigger things than the Coronation on Saturday 6th May; the Charity 1-ball regional final at Nottingham. A strong field of 18 players, including 4 from clubs in the YCF (Dean Morton and Ki Hulme from Sheffield, Cathie Dance and Chris Atkinson from York) contested a day of competition on the magnificent lawns, and enjoyed the superb catering (canapés and bubbly in honour of the occasion).

All 4 YCF players had success over 7 rounds, no one went home disappointed with their play against some testing opposition – ranging from heavily bisqued high handicappers to minus players, GC specialists and AC afficionados.  Cathie made it to the shoot-out to the peg as one of the 3 for runner-up spot, narrowly missing out by a toe length! But she did win a special prize (in recognition of getting so close for a second year) of a Nottingham Forest shirt, emblazoned with this year’s charity logo.

The winner of the final, Mark Innes of Nottingham CC, successfully defended his title.

Nationally this year’s heats raised in excess of £7000 for UNHCR, so well done and  thanks to all who played. Looking forward to doing it all again next year.

A great turn-out from clubs across the Federation for the YCF heat of the Charity 1-ball (York, Ripon Spa, Huddersfield, Lepton, Driffield, Ryedale, Beverley & ER, Bishop Monkton), generously hosted by York CC. 6 rounds of play, keenly contested games, close and exciting finishes, super hitting and ball placement; a great advert for our sport. All played in a spirit of fun and friendly rivalry, cold weather notwithstanding.

Congratulations to this year’s winner, Cathie Dance of York, and runner-up Chris Atkinson also of York. 5 wins each, 70 hoops scored a piece but Cathie beat Chris in R2, so earned the trophy. Special mention to David Young of York for his excellent 4 wins and improved play. Big thanks to all who came to compete and who helped in every way to make the day run smoothly. Also, excellent cakes from Alison, Cathie, Fiona and Wendy added to the total raised for UNHCR of £250. The YCF can now send 3 players to the national finals. Go Yorkshire!