Braving snow and ice the match kicked off with a full compliment from both Grange and Watsons making it to the starters line at at 7 where upon Messers(sic) Stokes and Forest kicked off proceedings on court 2. Stokesy drove, ducked, dived his way to taking the first two in good style. There was a wobble in the third before Stokesy dug deep and took the 4th for a 3-1 win.
(Congrats Alan, with this appearance he reminded us it has been 27 years playing first team squash. We didn't bother disabusing him of this notion ;-)
Brian, fresh from some big wins on the mini league circuit, had the wind in his sails and made short work of Gordon Fruish coming out 3-0 on top. Chris managed to bend his knees just enough to win the 4th string encounter with Ed Murray 3-0 before Ian took to the court and gave a convincing performance to over come Ally Carruth 3-0.
The real action of the night came with Alan taking on Mike Sinclair with his "ping-pong dropshots". It was a hard hitting affair and Mike twice took the lead with some tight shots and knicked drops. Both players looked like they were getting near the wall but......... at 6-1 down in the 4th, Alan summoned up a last push, took the fourth and ran off with the 5th to complete a fantastic 3-2 comeback victory.
1. Allan Hamer bt Mike Sinclair 1-9 9-2 3-9 9-6 9-0
2. Ian Green bt Ally Carruth 9-0 9-2 9-7
3. Brian Buchanan bt Gordon Fruish 9-1 9-1 9-0
4. Chris Mair bt Ed Murray 9-0 9-7 9-0
5. Alan Stokes bt Andrew Forrest 9-2 9-7 5-9 9-4
So 20-5 the final result and the grangers rock on. Bring on Waverley (report: CM)
I would like to remind Richie Mac that the pizza servings were truly slab-sized as usual at Portgower, eliciting green-eyed comparisons with the Myreside servings from the Watsons contingent. OK, so I just made that part up (CL) ;-)
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I trust the athletes from Myreside just had fruit and water.
None of this pizza rubbish for us.
match report circa 1980
following a chance meeting in the pub with a mr archie watterstone a former team player from the sports club he recalled a match against grange in which he played a stokes esq.
he remembers the match because it was a little one-sided.alan had looked good in the knock up and he won the spin for serve.unknown to alan and fellow players including a young iain sinclair this was to be alans only serve in the match.
alan served out of court and drawing on all his resources lost 9nil.9nil.9nil.i am sure iain sinclair will remember this but he missed a large part of it tying his shoe laces.
alan took this setback with his usual good grace and i am sure it helped mould him into the well rounded character we all know and love
i remember this match
in fairness to alan it was an away game and at 5foot11 archie was more than a foot taller than alan.
alan was not as good at appealling as he is now and went down with a pathetic wimper.
Classic! Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. Sinclair's lace-tying, legend ;-)
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