Xavier Thibaud and Jean-Pierre Subrenat of the New York Petanque Club won the 2009 New York Open petanque tournament, prevailing in the final against Keita Bangaly and Charles Kossi. The highly anticipated match up of different styles and personalities quickly turned into a game of missed shots and miscues. On steady play, Xavier and Jean-Pierre [...]
A chilly day. Perfect marathon weather. Not sure about boules.
But 30 players in 10 melee triples teams braved the weather.
After 3 games, 4 teams qualified to the semifinals. JPS-Gustavo-Chris beat Ernesto-Mick-Bruce, 13-11; Keita-Amy-Michel took revenge for an ealier lost to Steve-Stephen-Martha.
Team JPS made easy work of Team Keita, with experting points and one remarkable shot, [...]
IN A THRILLING GAME, coming down to the last boule, Team Xavier-Eric-JP rallied to win the FPUSA World Championship Qualification Tournament against Team Alec-Ti-PJ after being down 7-12.
The rain and drizzle of Saturday’s qualify rounds turned into rain and heavier rain for most of the finals on Sunday. The eight teams in the finals included [...]
In his Petanque America blog, Philippe has written a fine post on the results of the Europétanque d’Azur 2008, in which our own LBNY team, featuring Jean-Pierre Subrenat, Xavier Thibaud, and Eric Bertin, lasted into the 4th game (32th finals). Quiet a respectable showing.
Petanque America Blog: Europetanque 2008