Secretary Trophy 2018

21 July 2018, Meadows

The Secretary Trophy was won this year by George Plant, on a tie-break.

This is a 14-point, one-day completion, played to advanced rules with bisques. The lift hoops were 3 and 5, as per the SCA adoption. This year there were six entrants so an all-play-all format was possible. The range of handicaps was 4-14. The winner was to be determined by:

  1. The greatest number of wins from five games.
  2. The greatest number of gross points scored.
  3. Who beat whom.

A few players were prepared to go through both lift hoops to peg with their first ball, setting a scatter-ball leave, in the hope that giving a contact would not then afford their opponent too much of an advantage. Sometimes this strategy paid off. Most games went to time or close to it, with only 9 of the 30 games achieving peg-outs.

After five rounds, Roger and George were tied with four wins each. George took the trophy by having scored a greater number of gross points overall.

Janice Duguid, Manager


Results

  GP RB HD JJ JW DH Wins Gross
George Plant   -2t
(10-12)		 +4t
(11-7)		 +6 +6 +8t
(12-4)		 4 61
Roger Binks +2t
(12-10)		   +2t
(11-9)		 +1t
(10-9)		 +4 -10 4 51
Hamish Duguid -4t
(7-11)		 -2t
(9-11)		   +1 +2t
(11-9)		 +11 3 55
Jola Jurasinska -6 -1t
(9-10)		 -1   +5 +13 2 58
Jamieson Walker -6 -4 -2t
(9-11)		 -5   +5 1 50
David Houston -8t
(4-12)		 +10 -11 -13 -5   1 31


Secretary Trophy 2018 players