Scottish Short Croquet Championship 2021

18 July 2021, Balgreen

Kathy Brown won the Scottish Short Croquet Championship defeating Jane Morrison in the final. Kathy took an early lead and used her 4 bisques wisely. Jane, with 2 mandatory peels to make, managed to get ahead and complete one of them but when time was called Kathy drew level and won the “golden hoop”  ending.

Players from Edinburgh, Meadows and Glasgow joined the Balgreen members and enjoyed good weather and short but intense games of croquet on the fast and well maintained lawns. Calum Worsley had tied with Kathy on 4 wins in their block but Kathy had better net points. The other block was clearer with Jane the only player on 4 wins, defeated only by Joe.  Kathy, who had just become a Grandma, took home the trophy and a bottle of the SCA’s finest claret.

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Scottish AC Open 2021

26-27 June 2021, Meadows

Alastair Burn-Murdoch won the Scottish Open at Meadows defeating Stephen Wright 2-0 in the final. Almost all matches went according to the seeding with none of the usual upsets in the first round. Stephen Wright defeating James Hopgood in the semi-final was the only match that went against the seeding and Stephen looked like a strong contender having previously won the event in 1979.

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Middle Bisquers 2021

12-13 June 2021, Balgreen

With only 9 players available for this event at Balgreen it was agreed that the format would be seeded cross-blocks with a block of 5 and a block of 4. The two best players would then play a final (even if they had already played one another).

Block A:- George Plant,  Rosemary Saunders Robertson, Calum Worsley, Roger Binks and Kevin Wright
Block B:- John Owen, Alan Wilson, Bill Strachan, John Campbell

With the odd number of players one player in Block A had a bye in each round.

The weather was mainly dry but windy with Sunday quite sunny. The courts were reasonably fast with newly set hoops causing some problems for players.

After Saturday the leaders were John on 3/3, George 2/2, Rosemary 2/2 and Alan 2/3.  The first round on Sunday saw John beat Rosemary and Alan beat George in the turn when time was called.

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