Preston's TOP GOBBLERS

 

Rom Still was the day's champion player

(Left to Right)

1st place--Rom

2nd place--Mike (only been playing a few weeks!)

3rd place--Terry

4th place--Janet (made a good showing for the ladies!)

5th place--Chris

6th place--Jim 

Preston Myers, Area Coordinator for the Miller Park (Winston-Salem) venue, acted as producer and director for a pre-Thanksgiving meal and panache on Sunday.

Many thanks to all who contributed to the meal. Turkey and fixin's were enjoyed by everyone!

The panache was a simple affair--three timed games with draws for new partners each round, and simplified scoring with number of wins determinant, and point differential (delta) as the tie-breaker.

We had 32(?) players and quite a few family members attending as spectators. We were especially glad to have FPUSA president, Kirk Edwards, and his wife Bo make the drive down the mountains from their Spruce Pine home for the event.

Preston provided unique 3-D printed "medals" to the top six finishers.

Fun-by-the-ton!!! 

 --Gary 

 

 

November 2025--3rd Saturday play at Nevin Park

 

6000 Statesville Rd, Charlotte, NC.

11/12/2025 Greensboro

 

Wednesday play at Tanger Gardens, 1105 Hobbs Rd, Greensboro, NC.

Upcoming changing of the guard--Carolina Petanque

 Carolina Petanque-- 2025 Officers and Board

 

President: Bill Cooke

 

Vice-President: John Wilson

 

Sport Director: Mike House

                             Secretary: Holly Israel  and  Treasurer: Jesse Israel 

 

Past-President & Director: Kirk Edwards

 

  

Director at Large: Shirley Jones

 

 

 Carolina Petanque-- 2026 Officers and Board

President: Kathy Cline

Vice-President: Jesse Israel

Sport Director: Tracie Jeffries

Secretary: Marc Quilici

 

  

Treasurer: Michel Baudouin

Past-President & Director: Bill Cooke

Past-President & Director: Kirk Edwards

Director at Large: Shirley Jones

Thank you to our volunteer officers and board members--current and upcoming!

11/09/2025 Regular Sunday play at Miller Park

Not many pictures, but a good turnout for play. Preston came to help with setup even though he was a little under the weather and left early.

He was scheduled to attend Saturday's panache in Charlotte but had to cancel. Hope he gets to feeling better. 

--Gary 

 

 

11/08/2025, Panache at Nevin Park

Ed Shoaf finished 4th

Mica, Gail, and Stephane

Gail was 1st place

Kathy was 3rd place

 Charlotte area coordinators, Mica Gadhia & Stephane Brico, hosted 30 players for an informal, relaxed-rules panache on Saturday. There were three rounds of randomly drawn triples teams.

Four players won all three games, so the ranking for prizes came down to delta (point differential) scores.

4th place--Ed Shoaf

3rd place--Kathy Cline

2nd place--Shirley Jones

1st place--Gail Dickerson

Though all the winners were Carolina Petanque members, we were very happy to have quite a few players from the Charlotte area who are not currently members and were playing in their first organized tournament.

Congratulations Mica & Stephane for a job well done!