Event report from Lamorinda’s Etienne Rijkheer
(Check back soon for photos)
The Lamorinda Petanque Club hosted the FPUSA
Northwest Regional Mixed Doubles Tournament in Lafayette, CA. on May 20.
Results and prizes:
CONCOURS
Gold: ($156.00) Mickey
Coughlin and Nicole Coughlin (both Redwood Empire Boules Club)
Silver: ($104.00) Narin
Garrett and Peter Mathis (both Valley of the Moon Petanque Club)
Bronze:($78.00) Holly Sammons and Peter Wellington
(both Valley of the Moon)
4th Place:($52.00)
Barbara Hall and Gilles
Karpowicz (both Valley of the Moon)
CONSOLANTE
1st Place:($62.00) Alain Gusella
(la Boule d'Or) and Eva Lofaro (La Petanque Mariniere)
2nd Place:($40.00) Jean Claude Bunand and
Josseline Krauer (both la Boule d'Or)
3rd Place:($26.00) Joe laTorre (Valley of
the Moon) and Maggie
Lane (Petaluma Valley Club)
Antoine Lofaro (National Umpire) was our arbitre on
the day.
The Tournament was run according to FPUSA 1-Day Tournament
Guidelines.
There were 22 teams from 7 NW Regional clubs.
Valley of the Moon PC - 14
players;
Club Francaise de Sacramento - 8 players;
Petaluma
Petanque Club - 6 players;
Lamorinda Petanque Club - 5 players;
Redwood Empire Boules Club - 4 players;
La Petanque Mariniere - 4 players;
la Boule d'Or - 3 players
It is interesting to note that eight of the teams were made
up of players from different clubs.
There were 3 randomly paired games to 11 points in the
morning, then single elimination Concours and Consolante brackets in the
afternoon.
The games started at 9:40 minus Gilles Karpowicz who got
caught up in the Zazzle Bay to Breakers traffic madness in San Francisco. He had called ahead to say
that he was going to be late and fortunately he arrived just in time to avoid
time penalties.
The Concours final game started at 5:05 in the afternoon
followed shortly at 5:16 by a rare annular eclipse that brought on twilight
much faster than usual. The game ended just as the eclipse reached totality at
6:33 pm.
