Monday 2 February 2009

Grange 3 vs Tyne 2 29/02/2008

Another maximum pointer v Tyne 2 sees Grange 3 keep clear blue water between ourselves and Edinburgh Sports and also helps us maintain contact with leaders Inveresk, setting up a great showdown for next weeks top of the table clash. We anticipate that the majority of the world's sporting press will be wanting to attend that one.

The overall result was 20-5. Some good squash played by all but the courts at St George's school are particularly cold and most everybody had at least some periods of difficulty coping with the squash difficulties that presented.

Mike Scott made his third team debut with a solid 3-1 win at No1 over David Ireson. He ran a little hot and cold, but quite a bit more of the former than the latter and ran out a comfortable winner.

At No 4, Pete Cockburn found a tough opponent in Donald Smith who pushed him all the way in each of the three games, taking him to long games in the first two. The third was an equally tight tussle but Pete managed to close it out without (quite) having to go to ten points again.

At no 3 Christy Looby had a comfortable run out against R Jeffries. Brief periods of resistance by his opponent were soon snuffed out and 3-0 was the inevitable result.

At no 2 Patrick Langley was up against S Falconer in the toughest battle of the night. The games swung both ways and it was never clear who would triumph until the fifth game when Patrick pulled away. 3-2.

At No 5 Mark Dutton had a good game against J Ireson and there was never tool much risk to the 3-0 ultimate scoreline. The never-serve-the-same-twice-in-a-row tactic proved his opponent's chief undoing. Having said that, the attempted corkscrew that took a dead nick high up in the front wall corner to travel straight back down the backhand wall at some considerable velocity did cause some amusement to the folks on the balcony.

The off-court events were of the usual Keystone Cops variety with Captain Dutton having driven all the way to the Grange club having entirely forgotten that only two minutes earlier he'd offered a lift to Michael and Patrick. Having finally got the pair to the club via a return journey to the school, Michael announces that he's left his racquet there and Pete C has to take him all the way back.....

1 comment:

al said...

The front wall nick serve surely has potential. Perhaps you could develop the cross court version for Inveresk and the world sporting press next week!