Hello Members,

I hope you have all read my previous email, re the upcoming Hi/Lo competition, and have found it easy to follow instructions on the website to a) log in, find the event under "Calendar" and b) follow the prompts and register, I managed it, so it's fairly easy to follow. The website immediately sends you an email confirming your registration. Amazing! so if you do not receive an email, try again!

Our High-Low events are an essential part of the Club's calendar, especially for new members from both the social and competition aspects. Having members involved as players or spectators is important. We do expect participants to be available for the finals on Saturday 19th. If unavoidable for personal reasons, we encourage you to still enter the round robins, but please let Robin know when you register so that he can prepare to find someone to take your place if you make the finals.

SE Metro Competition has not quite been finalised with venues and draws etc, but I can inform you that Sandringham has been granted a Level One and Level Two team to play on Mondays with the first games starting on 21st September. Five teams will play a 10 week season plus two byes, with the last game on 23^rd November.

We have also been granted TWO Advantage teams who will start their campaign on Thursday, 1^st October and the last one on Thursday, 26^th November, a 9-week season.This means that 9 teams will play each other once - 8 games and I bye. The Wind-up Presentation is planned for Monday, 30^th November usually at Monash Croquet Club.

The Teams for each week, will be selected, by the respective Team Captains, from the following nominations:

LEVEL ONE  Play:

David Budge (Captain)        Andrew White             Jan Proudley                Tom Dixon

LEVEL TWO Play:

Tony Brand (Captain)      Rose Inglis          Meg Thorley       Rob Carter       Gerard Connors

ADVANTAGE  PLAY  “SHARKS”

Rob Carter (Captain)    Ian Lacey   Robin Lacey    Jodie Till   Debra Hadaway   Frances Forbes            

ADVANTAGE  PLAY  “DOLPHINS”

Rose Inglis (Captain)     Tony Brand      Anthony Kurth     Meg Thorley      Harry Wyma

 Please inform your respective Captains if you are unavailable for any dates, but please be aware that you may be required to travel to Lilydale, Mornington and clubs in between. If you do not want to travel to other Clubs, you may not beselected for “home” games.

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Please don't forget to nominate for the Hi/Lo, they are always so much fun.

So get out there, practising all that we learnt on Saturday from Tom's session of tips, strategies and playing “tricky” shots! It was a fabulous informative session. (Photo attached)

Many thanks to Tom, Ray, Jan and Andrew for sharing your experience and expertise.

Happy Hooping!

Rose Inglis,

Club Captain