2016-08-14 Victorian Men's and Women's GC Championships
These championships were held on 13-14 August. Seventeen men and nine women contested the event. What was lacking in numbers was made up for by the class of play. ...more 2016-08-24 Mike passes baton to Jim
Jim Clement is the new President of Croquet Victoria.
In a surprise move at the August Council meeting, Mike Cohn resigned after nearly six years in the position of President - his term was due to expire in October.
VCA Council elected Jim Clement to the position. Lorraine Gutcher fills the consequential vacancy on the Committee of Management. ...more News Date: 2016-08-20 Posted by: Christine Eiffert Posted on: 2016-08-24 News Type: GeneralBendigo Festival of Croquet flourishes
On Sunday 20 August the NDCA completed a very successful four day tournament, with two days of Golf Croquet followed by two days of Association.
We were very pleased with the response, though sorry we could not accommodate all the would-be GC entrants. We had a lot of last year's players and were pleased also to see new ones.
Our Northern Districts Croquet Association president Bill Humphreys worked tirelessly to make sure the courts were in the best condition after such a wet winter.
Our four clubs in Bendigo each took a day catering for the players - each day was a different menu. Compliments to them all, the food was superb and plenty of it.
GOLF
We had five blocks for GC. Each Block was keenly contested with some winners winning on hoops.
The Thursday started with bright sunshine 20 deg but on Friday the heavens opened and the players played in rain all day. This did not deter them, everyone finished.
Block 1, for 0 to 5 hcp players, was won by our VCA Treasurer Brian Rowe (Essendon) from last year's winner Graeme Jones (Maryborough). Block 5 was mainly new players some playing their first tournament. All enjoyed the experience. A few of these will progress to the NDCA pennant season which starts shortly.
ASSOCIATION
The AC weekend started with a cold morning but only light showers, however with about an hour to go on Sunday the heavens opened again on us. Most were finished by then but it made cleaning up very difficult.
The winner of the of AC section 1 was Bob Roycroft (Geelong Eastern Park) from local player Rod Kirk (Golden Square).
RESULTS
Detailed results can be seen on croquetscores.com.
GC results
AC results
We are keen to keep running a tournament every year, as long as we have the courts available. Thank you to all who support us.
Christine Eiffert Secretary, NDCA Region
edit 2016-09-06 Success for Victorians in Australian GC tournaments in Perth
In the Gold and Silver Cups, John van der Touw was ranked second in the best of three block competition, but was defeated in a sudden death final and finished up third.
In the ACA GC Singles Championships which followed, John won the Men's GC Singles title in a best-of-five final against Martin Clarke (WA), and in the Women's GC Singles title Gail Hopkins was runner up to Alison Sharpe (NSW). ...more 2016-09-07 GC Interstate Shield Day One: strong Victorian performance
Playing Tasmania in their first Test in the Australian Interstate Shield competition in Perth, the Victorian team won 37 out of 40 games in twenty best-of-two matches. The result was a clean sweep 17:0 in terms of matches.
Next best performance on the first day of competition was from NSW. ...more |