Short Croquet Match v Lym Valley 04.07.24
Team: Ann Munton H6, Simon Dunk H6, Simon Munton H6, Mo Boys H5
Election day dawned and life went on as usual at Lym Valley when the Short Croquet Team arrived to play the second of our matches this season. The sun was out and the Lym valley team made us very welcome, then explained about their lawns, half of which are on the outfield of the cricket pitch. During the spring this area had been a lake and now was so dry that large cracks were abundant, not to mention some mysterious holes, probably made by the local wild life. It was a challenge to say the least and made for some interesting and frustrating play.
Having decided that each of our team would stay on the same lawn for the whole day, we drew straws resulting in Ann and Mo using the field and Simons D and M the lawns. This may or may not have made a difference to the outcome, but both Simons won all four of their games and Ann won two. We were playing against 3 H10s a H4 and H 3.5.
The result was 10 – 6 to us: 100% wins so far!!
Some interesting distraction while waiting to play was the local primary school children having great fun during their games time and an after school, parent supervised, water battle in the sun. Thankfully it was held well away from our games.
Well done team.
Mo Boys