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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 7:27PM (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 7:29PM (Tournament); 25 Readers

clip update:
blue, red, and black all for hoop 1 with yellow for hoop 2

22 Jan 2017 7:30PM (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 7:31PM (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 7:32PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

sprints over to move them

22 Jan 2017 7:32PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

the wind is picking up the water and everything is getting wet where game 5 is getting played

22 Jan 2017 7:33PM (Tournament); 25 Readers

greg has decided to wait

22 Jan 2017 7:33PM (Tournament); 25 Readers

people running around not sure what to do

22 Jan 2017 7:34PM (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 7:35PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

everyone is still waiting, blue has been left in corner 4 and red is at hoop 3

22 Jan 2017 7:35PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

sprinklers are turned off and greg continues play,greg takes off with yellow and runs his hoop

22 Jan 2017 7:36PM (Tournament); 27 Readers

hits blue and croquets it near blue in corner 4 getting on red at hoop 3

22 Jan 2017 7:37PM (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 7:38PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

blue is in corner 4

22 Jan 2017 7:38PM (Tournament); 27 Readers

taps blue and now stops it infield getting on black

22 Jan 2017 7:40PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

blue 3 yards short of hoop 5

22 Jan 2017 7:40PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

taps black and takes off in front of hoop,

22 Jan 2017 7:41PM (Tournament); 27 Readers

blobs it!

22 Jan 2017 7:41PM (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 7:42PM (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 7:42PM (Tournament); 27 Readers

aiken taps yellow back through hoop

22 Jan 2017 7:45PM (Tournament); 27 Readers

sorry folks it is getting so dark I can no longer make out the colour of the balls

22 Jan 2017 7:46PM (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 7:47PM (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 7:48PM (Tournament); 30 Readers

yellow is out on the west boundary where it should be

22 Jan 2017 7:49PM (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 7:49PM (Tournament); 30 Readers

this would be a great place to peg down

22 Jan 2017 7:49PM (Tournament); 30 Readers

street lights have been on for a while

22 Jan 2017 7:50PM (Tournament); 29 Readers

no lighting of the courts here in NZ

22 Jan 2017 7:50PM (Tournament); 30 Readers

GREG IS CHOOSING TO PLAY ON

22 Jan 2017 7:51PM (Tournament); 31 Readers

is shooting yellow at black and blue

22 Jan 2017 7:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers

he would be lucky to even see the balls

22 Jan 2017 7:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers

hits black

22 Jan 2017 7:52PM (Tournament); 32 Readers

crazy, from other end of the lawn

22 Jan 2017 7:52PM (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 7:54PM (Tournament); 31 Readers

1 hour & 5 minutes to play tomorrow

22 Jan 2017 8:04PM (Tournament); 26 Readers

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