Senior Games

The Gang

With Chuck Vestal, Senior Games Director

Frank was our senior Senior!

Second Place in the Team Finals

Winners in the Team Finals

This year, for the first time, Carolina Petanque chose to push for inclusion of petanque in the Piedmont Plus Senior Games. With the consent and assistance of Senior Games Director Chuck Vestal, we were able to make it happen.

We had a really fun tournament in perfect early-summer Carolina weather. There were 25 players participating along with Chuck and Diana as organizers from the Parks Department. I was the tournament director and umpire.

We played triples wherever possible with some deviations in the first round of play due to the odd number of players. After the first round, using the panache format where players have different partners at random in each round, two more rounds were played. One of our first-time players exited the competition after round one so that 24 players played in rounds two and three-- triples on four courts.

After three rounds of play, Chuck and Diana awarded Senior Games medals by age and gender to the top performers in each bracket.

To conclude the event, we had six of the top qualifiers play one final game to determine the overall team winners. Congratulations to John Wilson, Carol Cearley, and Shirley Jones who played a great game in defeating John Sangimino, Tom Cearley, and Fred Marchant for the 2018 team title.