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Updated date – Match Day 6 November 2nd – RASTA Racketball Saltire Tour @ E.S.C. – Edinburgh
Results for Match Day 5 Oct. 12th – RASTA Racketball Saltire Tour @ Whitecraigs LT&SC – Glasgow Sponsored by Chartermarque (Pension Consultants & Chartered Financial Planners)
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DLWE v Western 1 – Home (Match Report) 9th October 2013
Another tough night in the West 1st Division, as DLWE (sponsored by Paul Hannah Solicitors) lined up against Western 1.
The number 3s played early and I missed this one, but apparently Captain Cantlay had another hum-dinger. He played Andy Phillips at number 3 and just like last week was 2 love up and just like last week got reeled in and eventually lost 3-2. In an inspiring speech Richard declared “It’s easy to get 2 points in this position” and that’s what he expected from the rest of the lads! I’d like to thank Andy for giving him a two game start. The cheque’s in the post Andy!
Sean was on next against a brand new player from Singapore called Earnest. He looked a bit handy to say the least. He’s got a strange game with loads of lobs and drops and he’s also really quick to the front. Sean played into his hands to a certain extent giving him easy volleys, but I think Earnest is going to be a real handful against many players. So 3 love to Western.
Big David Craig went on next against Paul Robson at number 5. David is a different player this season as he is actually warming up before the match and this is proving massively effective as he’s now winning early games. He took the match to Paul and played really well to go 2 love up. But there’s always something to improve on in sport and now Dave needs to be able to finish a match. He started to tire in the third and Paul started to play better and this carried on all the way to the 5th game when a shattered David finally lost to an ever improving Paul. However both players put a good shift in and will sleep well tonight (in fact Paul had a quick kip behind the courts later on, while watching the No.1s!).
As that game was finishing I went on at number 2 against Peter Halliday. Now I knew in my heart of hearts that Peter was too good for me these days, judging by some of his results, however……………
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DLWE v Newlands 1 – Away (Match Report) 2nd October 2013
Well it was tough playing Newlands 2 last week, so it was going to be even tougher playing their 1st time this week. Still we did have our new team shirts sponsored by ‘Paul Hannah Solicitors’ so we looked the part.
Newlands needed help this season with so many teams in the 1st division so they called on the Equalizer – Angus Woodward. Angus went on first tonight against Sean Norris at number 4 and he is making a comeback after sometime away (who know’s where he’s been? Maybe working for the Company?!?!?) and so was keen to prove he still could provide his services as a trouble-shooter. This would be a good test for Sean and we would see if he could start making some in-roads back into division 1 squash. I thought Angus played well and largely controlled the game, Sean lacked his normal sharpness and maybe needs to get a few more games under his belt. Angus hit a much better length and Sean was often left floundering at the back, he was also a bit one paced which played into his opponents hands. So a good 3-0 win for The Equalizer.
Next on at number 1 was Doug Macmillan against Peter O’Hara. Now Peter is a real handful and plays the game like no other person you’ll see. The main thing you’ll have to contend with is the ferocious pace, then there are the excellent angles (where he appears to be able to hit nics at will), after that you have to contend with a very deceptive front court game including drives that look like drops and vice versa. And all that doesn’t even include the bizarre drive boast he seems to play with amazing accuracy and amazing speed. For a first attempt at playing Mr O’Harrow (!) it was a great learning curve for Doug; he was a bit bamboozled after the 1st game, but then he seemed to get to grips much better with a lot of Peter’s shots………………….
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Harrow’s Craig Valente-Wallace Finishes 4th top Junior in the Highland Open
Craig’s first round qualifying match for a place finishing in the top 8 of the Highlands Senior B was against Glasgow’s Dougie Macmillan.
After a slow start to the match (going 2-0) down, Craig managed to regroup and win the tie break in the 3rd. And with momentum now behind him he also won a closely contested 4th game. However Dougie showed great class and managed to close the match out in the 5th.
After this narrow defeat, the man from Fife then went on to win his remaining 3 matches, Beating Martin Ross- 3-1, Dave Ireson 3-1 and in the final playoff match for placings he also beat Glasgow’s Ross Andrew 3-1.
All this meant that Craig finishing 9th overall and top 4 of the Scottish Juniors, which should be excellent preparation for his next tournament which is the Danish Junior Open in Copenhagen at the start of October (tough life as a top junior eh!!)
Congratulations Craig and good luck in Danishland!!
DLWE v Newlands 2 – Home (Match Report) 26th September 2013
So another new season begins and a tough start for us, as one of the newly promoted teams, to face up against Newlands’ second team. But then that’s what Division 1 squash is all about, so we’ll just have to get used to it.
First on tonight for us was Sean (Norris) against James Singh at No:3 – now I’ve seen Sean play better than this, but to be fair I’m not sure it would have made much difference tonight. James moved beautifully around the court, despite a (slightly) injured knee and he was always in charge of this match. This was a typical first game of the season match from Sean and I’m sure he will tighten up and get quicker. So 3-0 to Newlands and we were still looking for our first point of the season.
Next on at number 4 was David (Craig) against Stewart Brumpton. Now this game had a 5 setter written all over it, as it was the battle of the chasers.
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2013 Abercorn Squash Open 21-22 September – Everyone welcome
Abercorn Squash Open 2013 Graded Tournament
21st – 22nd September 2013
A Squash Tournament for Adults of All Abilities!
Results for Match Day 4 September 7th – RASTA Racketball Saltire Tour @ Abercorn – Edinburgh
It was another great RASTA tournament yesterday in sunny Abercorn and we now have 65 different players who have competed in the 2013 Saltire Tour. Everyone has a ranking based on their results at the 4 tournaments so far and you can see the updated ranking list by clicking here.
Thanks to Harrow for their continued sponsorship of the tour and I’m looking forward to the next tournament at Whitecraigs LT&SC for Match Day 5 on October 12th (which is where the 1st ever RASTA tournament was held). To see or download the Poster click here
Photo montage of the day is available by clicking here.
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West K.O. Cup v SSRC (away) 4th Sept 2013
SSRC away tonight and when I arrived I saw John Dunlop (CEO of Scottish Squash) and wondered if he was here to do offer me an international call up!?!?! Unfortunately not!
First on was Jason Grinton v Chris Farrell and Kev Cameron v Steve Carlin at No.3 & 4 respectively. I marked the first of these two and Chris was always in control of this one. He played short really well he caught Jason with this tactic time after time. Jason was always on the back foot because of this and Chris managed to take the game 3-0. A good performance non-the-less by Jase.
I missed most of Kev’s game v Steve C, but I certainly heard it. The shouts of “What are you talking about referee!” and “What the ****!” were easily audible.
KO Cup v Giffnock Young Guns 28th August 2013
The Knockout Cup is a great way to ease yourself into a brand new season – especially as this season will see the best in the Commonwealth Come to our door in 2014.
And talking about the Commonwealth Games, a team from Scotstoun (the new squash venue for The Games) were playing their first ever match against our 4th team. It’s great to see a brand new team join the leagues and the only thing that worried them was that they weren’t 100% sure on the scoring. No matter I thought our No.2 (Sean) has been playing for years and he’s got no idea how to score either! (Pic left is of the Scotstoun team). And to see the 4th team report click here.
In the meantime, the Giffnock Young Gunners came visiting to play out 1st team and with an average age of about 16 they would obviously be easy pickings for us and we’d show them how squash should be really be played. Right?
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