First up was Gavin Fulton at no 4 against Norman Murray. Unfortunately this author was unable to see any of that match but the scoresheet shows a very even 9-7, 4-9, 9-6, 6-9, 9-7 struggle that just went Gavin's way right at the death after a number of handouts at 7-7 in the 5th game. A useful result given the closeness of the night by the time the rest of us had finished.
On the court next door, your's truly (Mark Dutton) had the tricky task of Eric Donohoe at no 1. In the end, Eric proved just a little too strong but it was a good close match 5-9, 9-10, 9-7, 4-9. When I was going for my shots I was more than matching Eric and for quite a few sections of the match I was picking up runs of 4 and 5 points at a time, but Eric would always eventually manage to bring the match back round to a rallying duel where he was picking up a greater percentage of the points. Bit of a shame I couldn't take the game point in the 9-10 second cos who knows what might've happened in a 5th game.
Andy Whitelaw at no 5 had a good controlled match against Hamish Williamson. He never really let Hamish get into the match to run out a 9-5, 9-0, 9-6 winner.
The reverse was true for Christy Looby at no 2 against the useful James Burnet. Christy competed well with plenty of hand outs to his credit and all three games pretty even in the early stages, but in every game James pulled away to beat Christy 4-9, 3-9, 5-9.
In the match of the night, Jonathan Frame took on John Hamilton at no 3. Some magnificent squash played by both guys throughout the match with some pretty amazing retrievals and it has to be said on occasions some truly comedy rallies (in it's good sense…ie "did you see that!" sort of stuff..). 9-4, 4-9, 5-9, 9-4 tells the see-saw story of the first four games, with the only real blot being Jonathan's bizarelly high number of high serves out (must've been about a dozen…). In a fantastic final game points and hand outs were traded till it was poised at 8-8 and the match (plust the 3 team match points) were in the balance. Five match points saved between the two players but eventually it was Jonathan who triumphed 10-9. Really good stuff.
Overall 15-12 to us.
Epilogue by Christy: Mention must go to Jonathan Frame as Man of the Match, to Hamish for triple servings of scrumptious chicken canneloni annd Norrie Murray for banter on Z-cars, the trip to Dunbar and how to deal with unsolicited phone calls (Ask them for 2 minutes of their time, first question, what role does Jesus play in your life
1 Mark Dutton 0 1 27 Eric Donohoe 1 3 37
2 Christy Looby 0 0 12 James Burnet 1 3 27
3 Jonathan Frame 1 3 36 John Hamilton 0 2 36
4 Gavin Fulton 1 3 37 Norman Murray 0 2 38
5 Andrew Whitelaw 1 3 27 Hamish Williamson 0 0 11
Total 3 10 139 2 10 149
Competition Points 13 10
2 comments:
Excellent win that - CCS3 are strong. Having hosted them last week at Dunbar I can vouch for Norman's banter - quality on and off court!
Dave Legge
Yeah, we heard about that epic trip to Dunbar - Norman's contention was that he was only selected 'cos he was the only one on the team with a car that night.
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