The 3s were at home to the Fifers on Thursday with the Dalgety boys unfortunately 2 men short!! With only one match needed Cockburn, Walker and Sloan went to work.
Pete Cockburn was at number one against Scott Boswell. Scott took the first fairly convincingly 9-2 as Pete got used to the courts (note Dalgety Bay were doing routines when I showed up, they thought it was a 7pm start!!). From 5-2 down Pete decided he could no longer out hit his opponent and started to haul out his legendary dropping and volleying. This worked for a while as a tight game ensued with things getting to 8-8. Scott edged it 10-8 though and by this time the Grange man was buckled! Christy (who came to mark) tried to motivate Pete before the third saying Scott was looking like he was waning but it wasn’t to be. Scott stuck in and made some excellent pick ups in the third to take it 3-0 as Pete ran out of steam.
Retiring to the balcony I caught up with Duncan Walker’s match against Neil Shepard. A match that actually started before mine!! Duncan was 2-1 down and trailing in a match that had been tight all the way! Could the Fifers be about to level the match!!! Some excellent squash was being played with both players chasing and picking up everything! On cold courts!!! Duncan came from behind to level it in the fourth and then powered across the finish line in the last. A superb effort to clinch the match. Man of the Match!
With the pressure off Gordon Sloan was up against Colin Boswell at 3. Colin took the first as Gordon struggled to deal with the courts and Christy’s spare shoes as he had only brought one of his own! Gordon got back into the match in the second and shaded it 9-7 He then took the third with some nice touches at the front and excellent retrieving. Colin was still playing excellent squash himself and managed to match Gordon’s skills with some nice shots of his own to level the tie in the fourth. The fifth was close with Colin keeping his nose in front. Sloan looking a bit broken at this stage! Gordon dug deep though and brought some big shots out at the end to power past his opponent to take the last game 9-7. Another great effort for the Grange.
17-9 Grange in the end. Highly likely to be a different story if they brought more guys. By the sounds of it plenty of fire power over the other side of the bridge!
Beers and pizza down the club. All good!
Cheers to Looby for turning up and supporting/marking and bantering! (Report: Pete Cockburn)
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