By Casey O'Connor
The Stanthorpe Mallet group were on court last week playing three Croquet disciplines .
A small group played Association on Tuesday.
Jenny Tunbridge and Sharyn played Joy Newman and Grace Howard. Tunbridge and Roser led from the start and in spite of some accurate long roquets from Howard, Tunbridge and Roser were in hot form and pegged out first with a score of 26.
Newman and Howard had a final score of 14 and each had a run of two.
Tunbridge had one run of three and another run of two.
In another game Carol Verwey was playing in top form and swiftly dealt with her opponent Heather Widderick.
The final score 26-20.
Verwey had a run of two, another run of three and a peel.
Widderick who also played well had two runs of two and a peel.
On Wednesday (6 Oct) the Golf Croquet group were on court.
Shirley Evans (8) again playing well and with partner Di Wren (2), the pair defeated Kim Foster (1), Liz Ellway (1), and Shirley Page (4).
During play, Evans scored a jump shot and partner Wren a hole in one.
The second game was a much closer. Shirley Page (6) and Kim Foster (3) defeated Liz Ellway (6) and Di Wren (4).
Page scored the first two hoops and played some very accurate long shots.
Wren unintentionally helped the opposition scoring two hoops for them.
Twice Foster went close to scoring a hole in one, but it was not to be.
Near the end of the game, she did score her first jump shot.
The group send their congratulations Judy Locke, one of their long-standing members who along with her husband Don recently celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary.
The Gateball players wrapped up a busy week on the court with games on Friday.
Heather Widderick and Joy Newman won the toss and chose white balls.
Their opponents Grace Howard, Jenny Tunbridge and Sharyn Roser playing the red balls.
Reds took control of hoop two early in the game.
Roser put four white balls out of play as Whites struggled to score only managing to get one ball through hoop two.
Roser scored one Agari.
Reds controlled the game to score a comprehensive 14-6 win.
Reds dominated throughout the second game although Newman managed some accurate long shots.
Howard played a very accurate long spark to score Agari. Reds won with a total of 14 points.
In the third game there was a change in the teams.
Howard and Tunbridge played white balls against Newman, Widderick and Roser playing red.
Both teams struggled to get all balls into play early in the game.
Reds took control of hoops two and three and Whites struggled to score.
Newman scored an accidental Agari (they all count) in the first two minutes of this game and Reds went score a comfortable 12-6 win.
The final game was the closest of the day. With only two minutes remaining in the game Whites trailed 10-11.
Tunbridge had the last shot of the game and secured the win 12-11 with what is perhaps the most difficult shot in the game, the sparked Agari.
