NZ Open Championship
Hakes vs Bryant game 5 by Dallas Cooke
looks like they are gonna start game 5 tonight!
Greg has put the duffers tice out to Rover from the A baulk, it is about 2 mtrs on the left side past. Aiken into the 2nd cnr, Greg is shooting with the yellow ball..........
Miss, Aiken takes Black to the B baulk. From here there appears to be a gap between the two balls on the side boundary. Hits the Yellow in the middle.
A small croquet shot moving yellow along the north boundry getting a great rush on blue down to red. A croquet shot sending blue back in front of 2, rush to 1, hoop made with red.
2 made with rush to cnr 2 to pick up yellow ball. Blue moved slightly in field, rush yellow towards red, great rush to hoop 3, perfect pioneer ball at 4
3 made. 4. pioneer at 5 is deeper than he would like level with hoop 1
Rushes yellow to west boundary, send to 6 with roll shot into 2 cnr. takes off back to south boundary, get great position on Red to rush to hoop. Not happy with with hoop approach, runs hoop down and hits the yellow at 6 to behind the hoop on the North boundary
Send yellow to 1back, goes to blue, has to take off back to red at five, doesn't get the rush back, Roll to 6 from mtr behind peg to the right, overrolls, attempts hoop, misses. Gregs in..
greg has gotten himself a rush to 1 and is now attempting a 1 yard hoop 1
which he runs to peg high
decided not to hit the return roquet and goes to red on the east boundary, hitting it
now taking off back to blue which is in corner 2
no, pushes red in towards 3 and get onto black back at hoop 1
hits and is nowtaking off to blue ball in corner 4
roquet is too long and decided to head back to behind red which is 3 yards east of 3
yellow finishes on the east boundary behind red and black shoots to corner 4
greg hits yellow onto red
22 Jan 2017 8:27PM (Tournament); 20 Readers
greg doesn't do too well on a series of shots and aiken is back in, red and yellow both at hoop 3 and Aiken firing blue at black in corner 4 which he misses
22 Jan 2017 8:29PM (Tournament); 25 Readers
clip update:
blue, red, and black all for hoop 1 with yellow for hoop 2
22 Jan 2017 8:30PM (Tournament); 25 Readers
greg taps red and takes off to the 2balls in corner, leaving red as pioneer, he get a cannon out of the corner and I lining it all up
22 Jan 2017 8:31PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
greg is distracted by the sprinklers as they burst out of the ground on the opposite lawn right where all his belongings are!
22 Jan 2017 8:32PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
sprints over to move them
22 Jan 2017 8:32PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
the wind is picking up the water and everything is getting wet where game 5 is getting played
22 Jan 2017 8:33PM (Tournament); 25 Readers
greg has decided to wait
22 Jan 2017 8:33PM (Tournament); 25 Readers
people running around not sure what to do
22 Jan 2017 8:34PM (Tournament); 25 Readers
meanwhile greg had just played his cannon which he decided to just focus on his ball to 2 with and now has blue 1 yards nw of his hoop at 2
22 Jan 2017 8:35PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
everyone is still waiting, blue has been left in corner 4 and red is at hoop 3
22 Jan 2017 8:35PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
sprinklers are turned off and greg continues play,greg takes off with yellow and runs his hoop
22 Jan 2017 8:36PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
hits blue and croquets it near blue in corner 4 getting on red at hoop 3
22 Jan 2017 8:37PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
plays a great stroke and gets yellow right in front of his hoop, runs to 1 yards east of read and taps it taking off to blue
22 Jan 2017 8:38PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
blue is in corner 4
22 Jan 2017 8:38PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
taps blue and now stops it infield getting on black
22 Jan 2017 8:40PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
blue 3 yards short of hoop 5
22 Jan 2017 8:40PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
taps black and takes off in front of hoop,
22 Jan 2017 8:41PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
blobs it!
22 Jan 2017 8:41PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
it is now 8:41pm here and things are on the darker side of light so maybe he could put it down to that
22 Jan 2017 8:42PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
we couldn't stop them from playing however as they are eager to finish so we will just have to wait until we can no longer see them
22 Jan 2017 8:42PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
aiken taps yellow back through hoop
22 Jan 2017 8:45PM (Tournament); 27 Readers
sorry folks it is getting so dark I can no longer make out the colour of the balls
22 Jan 2017 8:46PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
clip update:
yellow is for h3
red is for h1
black is on a break and has just made 2b
blue is for h1
22 Jan 2017 8:47PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
black rushes blue I think to hoop 3b where he already has red and is starting to set up his nsl
22 Jan 2017 8:48PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
yellow is out on the west boundary where it should be
22 Jan 2017 8:49PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
black has made hoop 3b and has postioned red to wired postion and now rushes blue out to line
22 Jan 2017 8:49PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
this would be a great place to peg down
22 Jan 2017 8:49PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
street lights have been on for a while
22 Jan 2017 8:50PM (Tournament); 29 Readers
no lighting of the courts here in NZ
22 Jan 2017 8:50PM (Tournament); 30 Readers
GREG IS CHOOSING TO PLAY ON
22 Jan 2017 8:51PM (Tournament); 31 Readers
is shooting yellow at black and blue
22 Jan 2017 8:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers
he would be lucky to even see the balls
22 Jan 2017 8:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers
hits black
22 Jan 2017 8:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers
crazy, from other end of the lawn
22 Jan 2017 8:52PM (Tournament); 31 Readers
greg tries to play croquet stroke but literally cant see a thing so they will have to peg down
22 Jan 2017 8:54PM (Tournament); 31 Readers
1 hour & 5 minutes to play tomorrow
22 Jan 2017 9:04PM (Tournament); 26 Readers
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