By Casey O'Connor
The Stanthorpe mallet players were spoilt for choice again last week with three of the popular croquet disciplines all played last week.
On Tuesday (7 Sept) Grace Howard and Joy Newman played Heather Widderick, Effey Russell and Jenny Tunbridge in a close game of Association Croquet.
Although Howard had two healthy runs of two and one run of three, and Newman one run of two they could not match their opponents who won the game 23-20.
The Golf players were out in force the next day perhaps drawn onto the court by the beautiful conditions.
Kim Foster (3) and John Colman with a hefty score of 11 scored a well-deserved win over Jennifer Gleadhill (4) and Bev Sullivan (5).
Gleadhill scored two jump shots while Foster was excited to score her first ever jump shot in the game.
The two Shirleys (Evans and Page) teamed up to play Di Wren and Liz Ellway.
Page scored five hoops and Evans added another two, but it was not enough get the pair the win as Wren (7) combined with Ellway (6) for a winning score.
After the break Wren played well scoring 11 hoops, one with a jump shot, while her partner Evans added two hoops.
This time their efforts were good enough to give them a decisive win over Page (4) and Foster (3).
In the final game, Sullivan (2) and Gleadhill (5) were out-played by Ellway (3) and Colman (7).
The Gateball group take over the court on Fridays and six players enjoyed four games of Gateball last week.
Gateball is a little different to the other Croquet disciplines.
The games are timed, and each is 30 minutes in duration.
The White team (Les Williams, Joy Newman and John Colman) played well in the opening two games against the red team of Jenny Tunbridge, Heather Widderick and Grace Howard.
In game one Whites scored a 19-10 win after three Agaris were scored.
In the second game Whites continued their good form.
Four Agari’s in this game saw them home again with another 19-10 win.
After the break things turned in favour of the Rd team; it must have been the cup of tea that did it.
Tunbridge, Widderick and Howard played much better losing to their opponents by just one point.
Game four finished in a draw handing honours on Friday to Les Williams, Joy Newman and John Colman.
