Rich River croquet

Ten players from eight clubs competed in two sections – section one for zero to five handicaps, section two for seven to 10 handicaps.

Section one was a close battle, with the result depending on the last game.

Roger Bird of Quarry Hill was the winner, just beating Harley Johnstone of Brighton by 14 points.

Section two was also won by a Quarry Hill player – Chris Eiffert beat Noel Dealy of Shepparton into second spot by one game and a massive 47 points.

Harley Johnstone also won the prize for best break for the tournament with an impressive break of 13.

Last Thursday five of our members travelled to Mooroopna for a twilight golf croquet competition and dinner, an event enjoyed by all.

The club held a King Ball competition on Saturday with 13 members competing.

Anne Dodd got off to a blistering start, winning nine hoops in the first game.

She was the winner for the day with two games and a nett +16 hoops, followed by Helen Brierley and Ian Grant tied on two games and +14.

Helen and Kaye Joyce scored hoops in one.

On Tuesday, 18 golf croquet players played doubles and a single.

Three members won three games - Dave Maher, Bev Floyd and Jay Grant.

Dave and Bev also tied on hoops, Bev being the winner on a countback.

Echuca Moama

Thursday of last week six members had a great night when they travelled to Mooroopna Croquet Club to compete in their twilight social game of golf croquet.

Three games of doubles were played, it turned out to be quite a good night with some very close games.

Echuca’s Trevor Peters had a good night winning all of his three games and coming home with first prize, well done Trevor.

Monday of this week 15 members played golf croquet, three games of doubles and trio’s were played all before lunch to miss the heat of the day.

Mavis Peters had a real run with the hoops winning all of her three games and receiving the Let’s Do Coffee Voucher, runner up was Peter van der Zande, there were a lot of members trying to execute their jump shots with three members having success.

Trevor Peters (3), Jeff Pumpa (1), John Graham (1), Jenny van der Zande did a beautiful hoop in one.

The club championships will be held over the next two weeks, good luck to all members competing.

Croquet is a fun game, why not come and join us at Vic Park, free lessons available, for more information please ring John Alstin on 0418 505 614.