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 [...]
Steve Ginsberg and Xavier Thibaud quickly overwhelmed Ernesto Santos and Jeanot Ruperti in the final of the doubles carousel, on a fanny, no less.
Forty-seven players signed up to play on Memorial Day Sunday. All were paired with a different players for each game to make 19 doubles teams and the odd triples team. After 3 [...]
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
It’s been one and a half weeks since the conclusion of Marseillaise 2008, which was won by Hernadez, Castano, and Hovaguimian. And it was an exciting few days for our club.
The early morning internet live broadcast from France 3. The anticipation of the day’s result on Boulistenaute. And the hope that our two members survived [...]