Quarry Hill Croquet Club

3 of our members recently played in the Murray Valley Croquet Association GC singles tournament. It was held at Boort Lakeside Croquet Club on the shores of Little Lake Boort - what a beautiful location.
After 11 games over 2 days Colin Scott was runner up in Div 2 with 7 wins and +16 hoops . Gayle Deary had 6 wins and was level on hoops. Chris Scott had 4 wins and -17 hoops.
Div 2 had 12 competitors with handicaps from 5 to 10. They came from many different parts of Victoria. Thanks for a great tournament Boort.

Two of our members are participating in the Victorian Open Singles - Trevor Ware and Nick Quirk

Trevor Ware and Col Scott represented our club today in the Central Victorian Club Challenge. The Handicap doubles competition was held at Kyneton with 6 clubs taking part: Kyneton, Bendigo, Castlemaine, Maldon, Golden Square and Quarry Hill.
After the fourth round 3 teams had 3 wins and 1 loss and were separated by just a few hoops.
Trevor and Col won the day with 4 wins and 1 loss and plus 12 hoops. Runners up were Maldon with 3 wins and 2 losses and plus 7 hoops from Golden Square with 3 wins, 2 losses and plus 6 hoops.
Congratulations Trevor and Col

Wow, what a fitting finale to the NDCA pennant season.
The Grandfinal was played at Kyneton CC who is celebrating their 150th birthday this year. The weather couldn’t have been better- a lovely sunny winter day.

In Div 1-2 the Quarry Hill Galahs (Colleen Coutts and Barry Lovell) played Golden Maldon (Garry D***s and Allan Breen) it was close all day and at the completion of the doubles and singles it was 3 games all and 35 hoops apiece. They then had to play a 5 hoop doubles to decide the winner- first hoop to the Galahs, second and third to Golden Maldon, fourth hoop to the Galahs and then after a real tussle Golden Maldon got the fifth. Commiserations Colleen and Barry and congratulations to Garry and Allan.

The Div 3 final was between 2 Golden Square teams- Shooters (Lyn Breen and Mark James) and Gold (Nigel Gaul and Kathy Montgomery).
After close games Shooters were victorious winning 4 games to 2.

The matches were followed by presentations to the winners by Pat Fahy of Kyneton representing the NDCA.

A big thank you to Trevor Ware for refereeing for the grand-finals

It was preliminary final day for NDCA pennant at Quarry Hill today. The weather was atrocious, raining for a good part of the day and very cold.

In Div 1-2 two Quarry Hill teams, the Robins and the Galahs, were playing each other. It came down to the last doubles with the Galahs (Colleen Coutts and Barry Lovell) winning it and beating the Robins (Nick Quirk and Trevor Ware) by 1 hoop overall.
Congratulations to the Galahs and commiserations to the Robins.

In Division 3 the Maldon Maples (Ann Metz and Chris Cooper) played Golden Square Gold (Nigel Gaul and Kathy Montgomery) with Gold winning 5 games to 1 and 37 to 26 hoops. Congratulations to Golden Square Gold and commiserations to Maldon Maples.

The autumn pennant season is drawing to a close with the finals getting underway this week.
Our club had 4 teams in the Div 1/2 and 2 in Div 3 . After the home and away we had 3 Div 1/2 teams in the finals and unfortunately a Div 3 team missed out on hoops. Congratulations to all the players who have represented our club

VICTORIAN COUNTRY 2026 ASSOCIATION CROQUET REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
Ballarat & District Croquet Association recently hosted the 46th Country AC Regionals with seven regions competing in four divisions. The event was run over 3 days at Ballarat Western and Ballarat Alexandra Clubs. The team event is decided on the hoop aggregates. Individual division results are decided in the usual manner of games then hoops.
This year the team event result was tied for first with Goulburn Valley and Geelong both accumulating 398 hoops. Northern District came in third with 348. The individual winners were Div. 1 Stephen Forster (Geelong), Div. 2 Damien Hadfield (Northern District), Div. 3 Darren Barnes (Murray Valley), and Div. 4 Darren Lester (Ballarat). The award of player with most potential was Kevin Milner (Goulburn Valley).
The event was enjoyed by participants, both as competitors and socially with attendance at a welcome BBQ at Alexandra CC and a more formal event dinner at the Ballarat Golf Club. VIP guests at the dinner were the Mayor of Ballarat, Cr. Tracey Hargraves and the President of VCA, Kate Patrick.
And as a bonus, the Ballarat weather was ideal with sunny days and moderate temperatures through the tournament.

2 of our club members participating in the AC regional finals held at Ballarat. The competition was played at 2 different clubs and unfortunately photos only available from one club. (sorry Bruce Shaw). Both Lois and Barry were Bronze Medal winners in their respective divisions.

Great results from our Northern District players

In the last week we have had the pleasure of teaching and encouraging Year 9 students from Catherine Macauley college . Thank you to the students for listening, learning and having fun playing our great game. A big thank you to our club members who gave up their time to help.