After a failed start to the championship in Haute-Vienne and Gironde, the Boule d’Or risks relegation. But he can do it again this weekend at the bowling alley where he will face the best opponents.
La Boule d’Or will play an important match on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 November at the Bouzinac indoor bowling alley. Nothing less than his retention at the highest national club level, the Elite First Division championship, which he has never left since the days of the Seine, even winning a national title there. But the first two comparisons went less well than expected.
The first round, in Saint-Yrieix, however, had started well, with a victory over the favorites of the team of Ax-les-Thermes, runner-up of France, who then won the other three matches. But the next day, Boule d’Or lost to Pétanque Pontevaloise, Ain club that lost all their other matches. In the second round, in Bassens (Gironde), the Boule d’Or lost their two matches of the weekend, against a team from Lozère (Rouffiac) then against Angoulème.
I hope anyway
For the players as well as for the president Jean-Pierre Buffel it was a big disappointment. The Boule d’Or has lost all chances to qualify for the finals that will take place in Arras, but if it wants to stay in the Elite, this weekend it will have to beat two teams at the top of the table: Isle (Haute-Vienne) which is third in the provisional standings, and Bassens, who is in second place. If the Gaillacois lost, they would be relegated to National 2 in a championship that includes three national and three regional levels. “We are in bad shape right now, but the players are able to regain their level. They will have to show it on the pitch “, Judge Jean-Pierre Buffel. They will also have to show team spirit, as in the past. William Roger, Charles and Shun Briun, Ludovic Massoutier and their teammates have their cards in hand. No dead end!
