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Events for 2025
Next Event
Our in-house competitions have finished
for the year.
The next competition is the Winter Challenge which is played in March.
Autumn Doubles Competition (2025)
Sixteen members played in the Autumn doubles at Stonards on
the afternoon of Saturday 18th October.
Kathryn and Jill played Mark C and Andrew for 3rd place with Mark and Andrew winning the game.
Mark T and Rosemary had a very close match with John A and Marion in the final and after playing an extra end,
the winners were Mark and Rosemary
Congratulations to them and well done to all those that took part.
Special thanks to Mandy and Andrew for helping out with the piste.
This completes our in-house competitions for the year.
Epping Ongar Challenge Teams (2025)
The teams playing in the Epping Ongar challenge
2nd leg at Ongar on Saturday 5th October.
George Durno Doubles Competition (2025)
Sixteen members competed on Monday 8th September in the George Durno doubles
competition at Hanbury.
After some close matches, Ashley and Colin won the cup with Andrew and
Chris the runners up and Jill and John P in third place.
Congratulations to you all and
thanks to all those that helped with setting up, scoring etc.
Vintage Pairs On Saturday 30th August ten brave Epping Petanque
souls entered for Petanque England’s - Eastern Counties Region -Vintage Pairs for over 70s.
Ongar hosted and the competition was organized by John Innocent.
Everyone played well and after 3 games Jill and Marion, Ashley and Barry, went on to compete in the
Trophy Section ….whilst Sue and Patricia, Graham and Roger, David and Jane were competing in the Plate Section.
After another 3 games David and Jane went on to win the semi-final but unfortunately in their 8th match,
lost to Sheila and Alan from Ongar in the finals.
Gerry and Tony from Chalkwell emerged as Champions in their 8th match, beating Carolyn and John.
Dee and her dog, John and Rob came to offer encouragement, which they certainly needed as everyone played at
least 6 games!
Thanks go to John Innocent and all the helpers from Ongar, who as usual set up refreshments and ran a
great competition.
Summer Singles Challenge Competition (2025)
We had a good afternoon playing our club summer
singles competition at Stonards.
14 members competed and they all played 4 games each.
Kathryn played the final with Andrew and finished second, while Mandy played Sue finishing in third place.
Congratulations to all.
A special thanks to all those who helped out at the piste and in the kitchen, to those that came along to
support and, of course to Mark and David for running the competitions and scoring.
We also hosted the Town v District Council competition. Epping Town Mayor, Janet Whitehouse and her partner,
Christine Burgess, played against Epping Forest District's Chairman, Louise Mead and her daughter.
It was a hard fought game resulting in another win for Epping Town.
We finished the day with some well deserved tea and cake in the pavilion. Thanks to all those that brought
cakes and biscuits - very much appreciated.
Ted Burton Triples Competition (2025)
We had a great morning of play in the Ted Burton
Triples competition.
12 of us played, making up 4 teams so all teams played each other.
The outright winners were Jill, Mike and Ashley - congratulations.
2nd were Peter, Mark and Graham G.
It was agreed that the team with the most “plus” points would receive
the third place medals as the overall differential points were identical between the remaining 2 teams.
Therefore Patricia, Doreen/Sue and Shirley received third place.
Wooden spoon to Mandy, Marion and myself!!
After the competition we had lunch and medal/trophy presentations in the sunshine.
Well done to everyone involved. And thanks to Captain Mark for the organisation and scoring.
Epping Ongar Challenge Teams (2025)
The teams playing in the Epping Ongar challenge
on Saturday 14th June.
This may change in the next two weeks if there are any drop outs.
Ongar Town Festival
What a very well run festival day!
It was a very interesting and fun festival for everyone. Starting off with a Scottish Pipe Band leading
a fabulous street procession
On the car park area there were numerous WW11 vehicles, Tents, Armoury and memorabilia.
There were food stalls, entertainment for children and a band playing 1940’s music.
The Petanque Competition had invited two triples teams from Epping.
Team one was Jill, John Adams and Chris
and team two was Mandy, Janet and Graham.
The 16 teams were divided into 4 leagues and each league played all the other teams in their league.
During a break, the players were able to wander around the WW11 tents, ammunition displays and the vehicles from
the era.
Mandy, Janet and Graham played another 2 games in the ‘Plate’ section but lost in the semi-finals.
Meanwhile Jill, John and Chris, playing very well, qualified for the ‘Gold’ section and then into the semi-finals.
They were narrowly beaten by the team ‘French Connection’ from Towers Petanque Club, who went on to win.
Many thanks to Carolyn and all her team of helpers at Ongar.
Some photos from this event are in our Photo Album
Our lot are better than your lot cup (not a cup)
Braintree & District Petanque League
V
Essex South Petanque League
The BDPL from the North took on the ESPL of the South in a Ryder cup styled team event for this inaugural match.
All started nice and friendly at 3-3 after round 1, but after rounds 2 & 3 the BDPL went to lunch with a healthy
13 - 7 lead.
After beer and burgers had been consumed the match resumed with the BDPL needing 4.5pts to
claim victory.
The ESPL needing an Easter miracle.... the sun shone down on us and the resurrection at
Rayne began, round 3 finished 7 - 1 to the ESPL leaving the scores level at 14 - 14
Going into the final round,
where the ESPL carried the momentum and surged to a 5 - 1 win, making the final score BDPL 15 ESPL 19.
Thanks to everyone who participated in a thoroughly enjoyable day
Also thanks to the staff at The Swan, Rayne for hosting us.
Winter Challenge Competition (2025)
The sun shone this morning for the Single
competition held at the Gardens of Hanbury.
19 competitors played in 4 divisions and the division winners were Mandy, Ashley, David and Mike
played in the semi finals.
Some very close games took Ashley and David to the finals, with Mandy and Mike playing for third place.
Ashley beat David 5:4 in the finals and Mandy took 3rd place from Mike beating him 6:5
Thanks to all those who organised and helped out, and well done to all the competitors.
A grand first competition of the year.
Congratulations to Ashley, Winter Challenge Singles winner 2025
Epping Ongar Challenge (2024)
A great morning at Ongar piste for the 2nd leg of the Epping Ongar Challenge, playing for the Robert Weston Memorial Trophy.
We put up a good fight with some very close matches but we ended up losing 11/5.
Overall Epping lost the competition this year by 18.5 points to 13.5.
Better luck next year