The second year of the Rochdale Cup organised by Pètanque North West, saw ten teams compete to take home the title and the cup for 2024 at Rochdale Milnrow Boulodrome.
Competitors included:
GB Transplant Team
Bamford BC – Rochdale
Healey Dell Boys – Rochdale
Last Of the Summer Wine – Rochdale Pètanque
Milton – Rochdale Pètanque
Rochdale – Rochdale Pètanque
Trafford
Huddersfield
Ripponden
And a collaboration team from GB Transplant/ Huddersfield/ Trafford and Croston
The morning rounds consisted of teams playing 3 sets of doubles matches with winning teams going through to the next round and bottom 2 teams playing for the plate. Next came a round of singles, doubles and triples with the top 4 going through for the Bronze Silver and Gold placements.
Everybody that took part did so with great spirits and there were lots of laughs and banter, cheers of joy and roars of frustration as teams played off against each other to progress into the finals.
At the end of a long and exciting day it came down to the final four:
In 4th place was one of our home teams Rochdale Pétanque
In 3rd place taking the bronze medals was visitors from over the Yorkshire Border Huddersfield Pétanque Club
In 2nd place taking silver was another home team Rochdale Pètanques Milton – This was a great achievement for the Milton team whose very first competition for most of its players, who had only been playing a few short weeks, was the Rochdale Cup 12 months ago and shows just how much they have progressed over the year.
And huge congratulations to Trafford Petanque for winning 1st Place and taking the gold medals and the Rochdale Cup 2024.
