Ipswich wins East Anglian league

A team from Ipswich has won the East Anglian Croquet Federation golf croquet league, beating Enfield on the final hoop of the tie-breaker yesterday at Leighton-Linslade in a very close and exciting final.  Enfield have won 3 of the past 4 years and were clear favourites.

First, Ipswich won 3 of its 4 league matches and drew the 4th, to win the northern area.  Then on 17th September, we beat Watford (western area winners) in the semi-final and on the 24th, Enfield (eastern area) in the final.

The team for the last two matches was Pam Plumbly, Celia Peace, Jill Waters and Martin French.  Teams for the earlier rounds had also included Peter Allnutt, Martin Hart, Simon Riley, Martin Leach and Steve Miller.  A great effort by all nine Ipswich players.

East Anglia GC League

After 4 successful matches during the season against other clubs in the Northern area of the East Anglian League (won 3, drew 1), today we played Watford in the semi-finals between the 4 areas.  An exciting close match, it ended 9 games all.  So into a 3 hoop tie break - which Ipswich won on the final hoop!

So now next Tuesday, we play the final against Enfield at Leighton-Linslade.  Odd, I didn't think Watford, Enfield or Leighton-Linslade were in East Anglia at all!

Sussex Golf Croquet Championship

Martin French of Ipswich CC won the Sussex Country GC Championship on 7th/8th September, beating the Swede Simon Carlsson in the very tight final, with some tremendous shooting from Simon especially in the second game.  Martin came back in the third to win 7-3, 2-7, 7-5.  David Crawford, also an Ipswich member, made it to the semi-finals before going out to Martin.