Category: News

Suffolk World Championships 2025 Registration

Entry Fee £10 per player, closing date for entries is 29th June 2025.

Electronic payment details are:
Bank - Lloyds Cornhill North Ipswich
Sort Code - 30-99-50
Account No - 67803562
Account Name - Suffolk Coastal Petanque Alliance

EuroCup Update

The PE EuroCup is an annual competition to find the top four Club teams who then play off in a Final to decide who will represent England at the Confédération de Européenne Pétanque (CEP) EuroCup. The runner-up clubs in each semi-final compete in the PE Cup, and teams eliminated in rounds one and two compete for the Plate competition.

In rounds 1.2 and 3, the competition is a best of 5 games format with teams playing Open Triples, Mixed Triples, Mixed Doubles and 2 Open Doubles.

The Suffolk Coastal Region entered two teams in the 2024/25 seasons, Meadlands and Kettleburgh, who were drawn to play each other in the first round, which Kettleburgh won.

Meadlands are currently waiting to see who they will meet in the Plate competition, whilst Kettleburgh played Feering Bell from Eastern Region in Round two on 8th February.

In the Open Triples, Mat Conway, Phil Pearson and Baillie Inglis never looked to be troubled, winning 13-3

In the mixed triples, Deborah Bell, Martin Inglis and Richard Baker looked to have edged ahead after scoring a 5 to go 11-7 up, only for Feering to reply with a 4 the next end to level the game. Some excellent pointing from Kettleburgh saw them holding two for game, and despite a valiant effort, Feering were unable to change this with their last two boule.

In the open doubles Mat and Phil kept the pressure on their opponents to win 13-3, sealing the match for Kettleburgh.

Whilst in the mixed doubles, Deborah and Baillie displayed some good pointing and shooting to score two 5 point ends, running out 13-6 winners.

In the other open doubles, Martin Inglis and Richard Baker started slowly, going 0-9 down, and struggled to get on back on terms, losing 6-13.

A good 4-1 win against an experienced team, the next match will be against Bob Carter Center Pétanque Club, date to be arranged.

Prizegiving and AGM

SCR AGM and SCPA & SCR Annual Prizegiving

The annual AGM for Suffolk Coastal Region will take place on 20th Oct at 1pm Riverside Centre, licence holders are welcome to attend and agenda has already been circulated.

This will be followed by the annual awards for all league cup and plate winners from. 2:15 – please feel free to bring snacks, the bar will be open!

Regional Triples 27th April

Our first tournament as new region will take place at Meadlands on 27th April, please register your team of 3 or 4 via the registration tab

Team Representatives Meeting 2024

The 2024 Summer Team Representatives Meeting is being held at The Riverside Center, STRATFORD ST ANDREW, Suffolk, IP17 1LJ, on Friday 16th February at 7:30pm.

As always, it is a requirement for all teams to send a representative to the meeting, and failure to attend may result in penalty point(s) being deducted from your team.

The Agenda for the meeting is below, please note that in respect of Item 9, we invite teams to notify us by next Wednesday 14th of Any Other Business that they would like brought up and discussed, that hasn’t been covered elsewhere in the meeting.

SUFFOLK COASTAL PETANQUE ALLIANCE

REPS MEETING 16th FEBRUARY 2024, 7:30pm

RIVERSIDE CENTRE, STRATFORD ST ANDREW

  1. Review of 2023 Season - SIMON
  2. Finances & Statement of Account - SIMON
  3. Review of 2024 Summer Registration & League Structure - MARTIN
  4. Updated SCPA Guidance documents - PAUL & RICHARD
    1. Arranging matches and scheduled dates
    2. League match rules
    3. Disputes Panel process
    4. Pool of volunteers for disputes panel - STEPH & PAT
  5. 2024 Summer Knock Out Cup Draw - MARTIN
  6. Dates of 2024 SCPA Events - MARTIN
  7. End of Season Presentation 2024 - RICHARD
  8. Other Trips, Special Events, Suffolk Coastal Region Update - SIMON
  9. Any Other Business

 

Summer 2024 Registration Open

The Summer 2024 Registrations are now open.

Registration closes on 7th February and the Team Representatives Meeting will be held at the Riverside Centre in Stratford St Andrew on Friday 16th February at 7:30pm.

As usual, all teams are required to send a team member to the meeting.

SCR Update 2

A further update on our application to form Suffolk Coastal Region has been posted here.