Thursday 1 March 2007

Thirds @ Musselburgh (Tue, Feb 27, 07)

In rather typical Musselburgh tradition, at the appointed hour only John Graham and one home player were in attendance. At 7.30, they had their number 5 and their number 4 had just turned up to go on against John G. Chris Molyneaux completed our full complement (having made the trip by bus) just after 7.30pm and took the court against their number 5, Tom (The rest of their guys drifted in right up until 8.40!)

It turned out to be a cracking match with every-one finding their opponent evenly matched and it built up to perhaps the most exciting conclusion we have had to date.

John G did it again - raced in to a 2-0 lead only to lose out in 5 (In absolute fairness John had pulled the first back from 0-8 to win and his opponent only started to suss John's game in the 3rd!) (2-3)
Chris stole the first game against Tom (10-8) but was then edged (almost literally by his opponent constantly calling for lets due to his inability to get around Chris!) in each of the next 3 to lose out (1-3)
Stephen Davey had the marathon match of the evening with stamina a key factor as he went 2-0 up; was pulled back to be levelled at 2-2 and then got the better of Alan (3-2) - to see us quickly turn to Pete Young at 2nd string who had gone from 0-1 to 1-1 to 1-2 to 2-2 to be out-run in the fifth almost to the second that Stephen finished on the other Court (2-3)- both Stephen and Pete putting in sterling performances - (Every tie going to 50 minutes +)
Pete T got on to Court against Grame at 9.35 pm and was outgunned in the first before almost clawing back the 2nd (7-9). He slowed it down and grabbed the 3rd and was 7-7 in the 4th at about 10.15pm) when the staff who were getting extremely grumpy at not having got us out of the Sports Centre by 10.00pm eventually called for the premises to be vacated immediately and the hosts honourably conceded (not having had their team in place at the start time) to give us a 3-2 win at number 1 and a loss but a good point haul! (12-16)

Tweedster

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

UNBELIEVABLE- I've never seen a match conceded due to running out of time in 20 years of team squash! Even if everyone had all been present on time and Musselburgh ran out of court time,that would have been their fault. Well done our guys for turning up within the half hour. Sounds like it was one of those buzzing matches where lots of things are happening at once, it is chaos, it is competitive and everyone enjoys it. First time Tweedster has won on a score of 1-2 I bet ;-)

Anonymous said...

Edinburgh Uni had to concede a tie or two at the Pleasance a few years ago. It was when the Uni were winning the league 2 or 3 times in a row.

They even tried to get matches starting at 6.30 if they thought that things may drag on a bit.

The team weren't happy, as all the spin from the uni was about how performance was such a big thing at the university. But when it came down to a crunch point, the staff at the Pleasance just turned the lights off.

Richard