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It was the official West over 35’s touring side taking on the Northern Ireland league champs, the Civil Service (CS) team. Well I say official, but of course it wasn’t official coz Peter O’Harrow would be missing from the official team* of Owen, Logers and me.

So like a crack o’35 side we were in the bar at the airport and discussed beasting another before departure, but being the professional Owen is (lightweight) he talked us out of it. So we were met by the CS No.1 Dave (Ayerst) who picked us up from George Best Airport and was first on court against Owen (Hadden). Great game this one. Dave gave Owen the run around in the 1st (11-5) and it was difficult to see how Owen was going to make any headway here at all. Dave had a great drive that pinned Owen to the back of the court and not only that, but all of Owen’s half-volley-topspun-crosscourt shots (HVTSCC for short!) were going in the tin……….. (press read more to see the full report)

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I spoke to Logie (Iain Logan) earlier this week to organise things for tonight and happened to ask who I was playing. He said it would be Dave Kelly – and he’s been in training all week to play you, by running round large trees and roundabouts!………………………………………………….. Bloody cheek!

Well it was a strange old match last night as a couple of the ties were quite one sided, the first being at No.5. The Western No.5 had told no one that he was away this week, but he must have been as he wasn’t there! So we won 3-0 – well played Jase (Lang).

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Back to normal tonight and a trip to deepest darkest Maryhill for a match against SSRC.

Now the “West Senior Ranking & Junior B” Tournament had been held at the club over the weekend and had produced not only some very interesting results, but had also affected our team order. The event was won by Harrow’s Dougie Kempsell and not only did he beat Chris Fergusson in the final, but he also beat Kev (Moran) in the semi-final with the added spice of having the DLR West League No.1 spot up for grabs! …..Cont’d below

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 The Charity Food4Africa http://food4africauk.org/ (run by a certain Dawn Broadberry – never heard of her!) is joining with the Legends of Squash (Peter Nicol, Jonathon Power etc) to build a new squash court in rural South Africa for the local community.

Dawn (the Charity’s Director pictured left with Squash Legend Jonathon Power) says “People can associate with our charity if it relates to their lives so building a squash court along with our feeding projects, in association with the Legends of Squash seemed like a perfect idea.”

If anyone would like to donate directly they can at www.justgiving.com/legendslegacy or text SQUA04 and your amount (e.g SQUA04£10) to 70070. Alternatively if you’d like to get involved as a squash club then why not hold a fun tournament and if you raise over £500.00 for the charity then we’ll put your club’s name on the “Friends of the Court” board when it’s finished (let us know how you are helping and we can help publicise it and send you information on the charity – e-mail dawn@food4africa.org).

Dawn added “We’re also holding a Spring Gala Ball at the Crowne Plaza in Glasgow on March 17th and there will be ways to help directly with building the “Food Court” via our silent auction including a painting from local artist and squash player Emilio Fazzi a classic signed ‘Nouillan‘ photo of Peter Nicol (in action playing another squash legend Martin Heath – back in the day!) and more!”

If you’d like to come to the Charity Gala Event please contact dawn@food4africa.org or j.broadberry@virgin.net

Well Whitecraigs Rugby tonight and a match we really hoped to win, but they went away with the points.

All three courts were in use, so I didn’t see all the matches. First on was Jason (Lang) v Matt Anderson at No.4. This is one I didn’t see, but Jason won the 1^st game, before Matt came back strongly to win the next three. All the games were 8s and 9s so a tough match, but one up to WC. (Cont’d below)

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So it was all arranged to start early at 6.30pm for the No.3 & 4. The 2 DLR Jason’s were ready and raring to go. At 7pm Hamilton’s No.2  Kenny Boyle was the first to turn up and went straight on.

I was told that Colin McMullan would play either our No.3 or 4 “whoever we wanted.” I thought this was a novel way of picking the order of your team! (cont’d below)

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Tonight’s match had three coaches, the under 19s National Champion and the guy who just took a game off world No.2 James Wilstrop at the British Nationals …………… and a pirate – as the mighty Lloyds matched up against ‘The Gryffe’!

First on was Jason (Lang) v Garry McIlree at No.5. This was a tight match that went one way then the other. Jason took a tight 1^st game, Garry a good 2^nd, tie breaks in the 3^rd and 4^th went both ways – and so to the 5^th!

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To say that Kevin Moran (David Lloyd Renfrew/Scotland) got a tough draw in the British National Championships is putting it mildly as he lined up against No.1 seed (and PSA World No.2) James Wilstrop.

But he fought through two qualifying rounds to get this match, so should have relished the opportunity to play the world’s best. Unfortunately James managed to beat Kev today, but Kev got a game before losing the tie 11-3  9-11  11-4  11-4 so he must have a number of positives to take from that match.

Stuart Crawford (Scotland’s ‘Assistant National Coach’) also fought his way through the qualifying rounds to meet the No.9 seed Robbie Temple in another tough 1st round draw. Again he wasn’t able to progress, as he lost his tie 3-0 (11-5  11-5  11-5).

Congrats to both players for making it through.

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