News Archive


 

16th July 2007

The teams and players representing the EPA at the Home Nations Championship in Inverness on 11th/12th August are:

Head of Delegation: Mike Pegg, National President EPA
Team Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4
EPA1 Colin Gibbs Irene Gibbs Colin Senneck  
EPA2 Rodney Fisher Harrison Ash Ashley Odell  
EPA3 Kevin Moss Lee Moss Richard Marks  
EPA4 Richard Patterson Mark Robertshaw Graham Elcome Jon Inglis
EPA5 Alan Cregeen David Blakely Mark Cooter  
EPA6 Paul Webb Mark Blackall David Winkworth  
EPA7 Andy Rees John Edmondson Paul Brooks  
EPA8 Adrian Emson Steve Zimmerman Alan Newland  
EPA J1 Robert Cooter Philip Jarrett Charles Fribbens Alex Bruce
EPA J2 Stuart Floyd Helen Manley Charlotte Dennis  

21st January 2007

One year on after the Management Committee took the decision that all Regional Coaches and YDO’s as a minimum should be CRB checked, the EPA is pleased to announce that it now has 8 Regional Officers screened. These are from Anglia, Cornwall, East Midlands, Isle of Wight, Kent, Northern and West Midlands Regions. The 4 National Officers - Umpire, Coach, YDO and Director of Playing have also all been screened and cleared. Kent and Southern Counties have also asked for, and work has progressed, on screening all coaches. Kent currently have an additional 5 coaches cleared and Southern have 3.

2nd October 2006

The results of the National Club League are as follows:

    Games Won For Against Diff
1. Plough and Chequers 29 483 270 213
2. Prince of Wales 24 413 341 72
3. Victorians 23 347 331 16
4. Bargemans Rest 22 387 369 18
5. Ventnor RFC PC 21 320 402 -82
6. Half Crown 15 373 481 -108
7. Toville Tornadoes 13 336 465 -129

The teams from position 1 to 6 will represent the EPA in March against the teams from the WPA and SPA.

26th September 2006

Congratulations to Vanessa Webb who won the Bronze Medal at the 2006 World Shooting Championship in Grenoble, France held from the 20th to 24th September.

EPA Members Diz Murray, Kathryn Lewis, Vanessa Webb and Angie Jamieson 5th (equal) Ladies World Championship 2006 Grenoble, France

Results of the Final held at Battersea Park, Saturday, September 2nd.

Over 40s Winners photo
Under 40s Winners photo

7th May 2006

The English Pétanque Association is delighted to announce that in the all English final of the BPF International Qualifier (top 8) on Saturday 6th May between Jenny Cooter, Kim Lachani and Sarah Elliott and Vanessa (Nessy) Webb, Kath Lewis, Angie Jamieson and Diz Murray that the winners were
Vanessa, Kath, Angie and Diz.

3rd April 2006

The EPA is pleased to announce that the winners and runners up of last year's English Triples have been invited to take part in a weekend festival of petanque at the La Tamarissiere Club in AGDE, France. We wish the triples of Kevin Spillet, Pat Dennis, Nic Baxter and David Kimpton, Dave Hancox, Jerome Rousseau the best of luck.

The 2006 English Triples winners will be invited to the US Dunkerque Petanque Club, who are celebrating their 50th Anniversary. This will take place on the weekend of the 19th August 2006. Further details will be sent to the winners in due course.

26th March 2006

The EPA have now received the first batch of CRB Screening forms. Initially these will be for each Regional YDO and Regional Coach and these checks will be paid for by the EPA. Additional checks can be purchased for each region by writing to the National Secretary. Instructions on what to do will be sent to Regional Secretaries and Presidents.

Please let Corinne have all the details of Club and Regional contacts so that the Web database can be updated. Please check it regularly so that we can keep it as up to date as possible.