Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Amelia Island, Saturday, 11-13-2010


Susan Steger, Mayor of Fernandina Beach, Florida

Augustin giving Claudy a few tips?..........................Stacy, Claudy, & Marc

White t-shirts in center: Will Grant and David Mason (Amelia Is)........Walt and Khalid

Peggy, Shirley, and Bobby.......................Mario Gagne and Ben Gauthier (Canada)

Jason and James Wright (GA)................................Marc, Stacy, John, & Augustin

Logan, Susanne, Susanne, and Juan.........................Notice the drummer?
The field of 112 doubles teams (224 players!) played five games each on Saturday. CarolinaPetanque teams had won/lost records of:
John/Augustin...5/0. Khalid/Walt...4/1. Gary/Shirley...4/1. Bob/Donna...3/2. Steve/Trey...2/3. Marc/Stacy...0/5. Terry/Sue...0/5.


The won/lost records don't begin to tell the whole story. Since there was no pre-seeding for the draw, some teams were luckier than others regarding the strength of their opponents. Our game scores were 11-2, 11-2, 11-1, 6-11, and 11-0. [Saturday games were shortened to eleven points.] Contrast that with Terry and Sue who lost at least one game 10-11 (maybe two?) and had to play the Canadian Team of Laulhe/St. Croix (who won the Championship and were reigning Champions of Canada!). Or with Steve and Trey who had to play Juan Garcia/Mo Coulibally. And Steve/Trey won! Juan/Mo then went on to beat Claudy Weibel and Jean-Pierre Subrenat on Sunday. Claudy is current world record holder of petanque shooting and a former world champion. Jean-Pierre was this year's team USA captain at the world finals in Turkey!

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