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West Select Team v The South African Knights 8th Jan at Newlands 8pm
Don’t forget that a West Squash Select side are playing the South African Knights on Tuesday 8th January at 8pm at Newlands, so please come along if you want to watch some great squash next Tuesday.
The Knights are having another very successful UK Tour and have won 8 out of their last 11 games in England and Wales (have a look at their Facebook page to see more details by clicking here).
DLWE v Newlands – Home (Match Report) 19th December 2012
As I arrived I saw Alan Susskind watching the match on court. It was Sean (Norris) playing David Fallis early on. I said:
“Hi Alan. It must be you and me at No.1 as you’ve been playing in the first division for the 2nd team at No.5 recently, haven’t you?”
“I have.” Replied Alan “but I’m playing No.4 in the 3rd team tonight”
“Of course you are! Who am I playing then?”
“Oh you’re playing a guy who’s not played for the teams this season.”
“Of course I am.”
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South African Knights Match v West Select @ Newlands 8th January 2013
Come and Support our West Select Team v The South African Knights at Newlands in Glasgow on Tuesday 8th January 2013 (8pm).
The Knights are a 5 man team of under 25 Regional players that are already 11 matches into their 2012/13 tour, with wins against the likes of Roehampton, Wimbledon and Guernsey and losses against clubs like St Georges Hill, Coolhurst & the Jesters. Why not have a look at their results on their Facebook page by clicking here
The Knights v Aberdeen Jan 2011 (including Peter Nicol)
The Knights are a famous touring team that come over ever other year to play throughout the UK and have been doing so for many years. The players in the team fund this fantastic trip themselves and normally win many more matches than they lose in their 35 date tour.Our “West Select” team this year will be Jamie Henderson (Western) – Mark Ford (Newlands) – Stuart George (Giffnock) – Owen Hadden (Giffnock) and Kenny Boyle (Hamilton) – so why not book this date off and come and support the West Team and have a good night out with some excellent squash on view!
DLWE v Craighellen – Away (Match Report) 12th December 2012
I haven’t been to Craighelen to play squash for about 20 years, so the team met at the club at 6.15pm (although Ben turned up 30mins late and Sean went to the wrong club!). Captain Cantlay made his way to Craighelen via Edinburgh – Orkney – Edinburgh – Glasgow and Hellensburgh and he still arrived first. And all on 12-12-12 (it’s the last time we’ll see that numeric novelty again!)
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DLWE v Hamilton – Home (Match Report) 5th December 2012
After coaching at Whitecraigs Dick McClure asked me if I’d give Andrew Murphy a lift to the match tonight as they were playing our 4th team at DLWE so we travelled together across the Arctic Circle to North Glasgow.
When we arrived, Ben (Mazzucco) had already played and won against Mike Tomlinson at his new No.4 position (having beaten DC in the mini-league). He had to play early to nip off to see ‘Mumford & Sons’ at the SECC (Davie McAleese asked later if they were a firm of solicitors! Mind you he is about a million!!).
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DLWE v Cameron House – Home (Match Report) 28h November 2012
David are you OK, are you OK David?
Cameron House came to visit last night and it’s difficult to know who has the better home advantage between our clubs? Us – with the strange glass side wall or them – with their sauna courts.
David (Craig) was on first this evening and he turned up in fancy dress as Michael Jackson (see pic of MJ signature white glove)! He was on against Rolf Harris Hanson at No.3 and after the first rally it seemed like this game could be on for a long time. But looks were deceiving as David (MJ) dominated proceedings and Rolf didgerri-diddn’t get too much of a look in. All the rallies were competitive and often quite long, but David seemed to win most of them. After the first game Rolf said to me that he was knackered and not feeling very fit “Well you picked the wrong opponent tonight then!” I said! As the match wore on Rolf got more into it, but as Rolf couldn’t tie MJ down sport (!) the final result was always going to be a win for MJ…. SHAMONE!
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DLWE v SSRC 2 – Away (Match Report) 21st November 2012
A massive seven min trip for Captain Cantlay and the team this week all the way to Maryhill to face SSRC 2.
I fought my way through the cross town traffic and was on time this week and just as well as Martin Sullivan greeted me wielding a dust pan & brush in his hands and said “Right we’re on court now, as I have to leave early.” I replied “OK. Are you gonna play me with the dust pan or the brush?”
So on we went at No.1 and it was a tough 1st game. Martin volleyed away my serves and anything else that was high and loose, fortunately I just edged the game 15-13. The next two were much more straightforward, as I didn’t give Martin the same opportunities and won reasonably comfortably 15-7 15-2. Good to See Andrew McSherry supporting the team (especially as he was the only one to applaud my best shot of the night – an inch perfect forehand drive – which even Martin was surprised didn’t get more recognition!).
The courts were nice and warm due to the new heating system and the balcony was roasting. In fact Rich said it was so hot Davie C may have to take off his scarf and duffel coat soon! But it was obviously all part of the infamous DC warm up.
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DLWE v Townend 2 – Home (Match Report) 14th November 2012
I arrived (almost) on time this week, however due to an early start Ben had already played! Once again he’d won 3-0 and not only that, but the challenge is also now in against Dave Craig for his team spot – this Monday – high noon! Well 5pm anyway! Ben played well (according to him) and if you look at the results on the web-site Ben seems to have gained an inflated ego, as he’s given himself MOTM every time he puts the scores in! However he was sitting with an ice pack on his leg when I arrived so he must have been pushed around the court a bit.
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DLWE v Broomhill – Home (Match Report) 31st Oct 2012
Broomhill tonight and although we had two courts to fill, the typical squash situation occurred where we had No. 4, 3 & 2 ready to go and they had 1 & 5!
David (Craig) was first up and because of this I can’t comment on David’s warm-up this week, so I’ll have to assume that he did the full DLWE home warm up, which as we know is wearing a scarf whilst holding a Costa coffee cup (an empty one). Still David is obviously getting used to this, as he won the 1st game tonight 15-4 against Jim Paton at No.4. This was all a bit too much for Big Davie and as he was obviously in shock at winning the 1st, he promptly got chopped in the 2nd! But as ever it was the straight length shot that David needed to tighten up and he did just that to win the next 2 games, although the 4th was a bit too close for comfort at 16-14.
Before the match Captain Cantlay asked Sean to do the scoring, but Sean refused saying he can’t mark. Rich did say that Dave never asks for lets or strokes so you don’t need to mark – you just need to be able to count to 15! But Sean was still having none of it.
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2012 West Open
Congratulations to Stuart for winning his first West Open title ths weekend.
The Hamilton audience were treated to a great final with home player Kenny Boyle taking a well deserved 2-0 lead, but being gradually pegged back by some fantastic attacking play from Stuart.
Congratulations also to B event winner David Lindsay, representing Hamilton, and C Event winner James Singh of Giffnock.
West Open 2012-13
West Open Winner – Stuart George (Giffnock)
West Open R/up – Kenny Boyle (Hamilton)
‘B’ event Winner – David Lindsay (Hamilton)
‘B’ event R/up – Chris Farrell (SSRC)
‘C’ event Winner – James Singh (Giffnock) – ‘C’ event R/up – David Archibald (Strathgryffe)
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