JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP - Round Two 26 April 2008

Five new players! Jacob Romeril unbeaten in senior group.
Marie Guegan & Cerys Thompson top the younger age group.

The second round of the 2008 Junior championship took place at the Les Quennevais home of the Jersey Petanque Club. While several of the regular players were unable to play, there were 5 new entrants, three in the older age group and two in the younger.

Stephen Tyler and Chloe Redshaw who were introduced to the game at Haute Vallee School and Sophie Rio contested the senior group along with the more experienced Jacob Romeril. The only unbeaten players on the day, Jacob finished with a net +23 and topped the group. While Jacob won the singles game against Stephen convincingly, a ‘fun’ game they played while waiting for the other games to finish was much more closely contested with Stephen taking the lead at one stage and only losing 11-13. Both Chloe and Sophie showed promise and gained wins.

The younger age group had a close finish, with 4 of the players winning 2 of their 3 games. An 11-4 win in her last game took Marie to the top of the group with Cerys Thompson in second place with a +3.

New player Michael Guegan just beat Ashyanna Cooper into third place with a net +1 to her -1.   Wesley Bowen, winner of the recent Carrefour Open, has some tight games, losing his singles to Michael by just 1 point. The youngest player Evie le Breton, trying out the sport for the first time, while not winning either of her games, lost her first one by 10-11.

Full results below:

12-16 Age Group

1st                    Jacob Romeril              3 wins + 23                             

2nd                  Chloe Redshaw            2 wins +2

3rd                    Sophie Rio                   1 win -8

4th                    Stephen Tyler               1 win -11

7-11Age Group

1st                    Marie Guegan               2 wins +9

2nd                    Cerys Thompson          2 wins +3                    

3rd                    Michael Guegan            2 wins +1

4th                   Ashyanna Cooper         2 wins -1

5th                    Wesley Bowen 0 wins -7

6th                   Evie le Breton               0 wins -8

            The next round of the 2008 Championship is to be held on Saturday 31st May at Carrefour Petanque Club’s premises at Clos Nicolle, St Lawrence. Check in at 1.45pm and all are welcome. Further details are available on the JPA website jpa.org.je or contact Elaine Paisnel on 851580.