Christy Looby succeeded in securing more silverware for the Looby trophy cabinet in Friday night's Over 40s Final. In a closely fought contest played in good spirit, he edged out Steve Eyles 3-1 to take the honours.Both players netted off their handicaps to make it a nil nil start. If this was to be a long match they could both do without starting in negative territory. the first game saw lots of tooing and froing as each player tested each other out until the score reached 10 all. Christy then put his foot down to to edge out 15-11.
Set 2 saw Steve starting with a 2 point advantage and he managed to maintain his nose in front throughout. No one dominated and there were enough winning rallies from each payer to take the set to 12-10 before Steve close out 15-12.
With parity of handicaps restored in set 3, Christy came out of traps quicker which saw him establish a lead of 12-8 with a more attacking game. Steve retrieved well but Christy was too good to see him take a 2:1 lead with a 15-10 set win.
Set 4 proved to be the last, but also the most keenly fought as both players began to tire. Despite this, the level of squash remained good with some great rallies. As normal, Christy was attacking with his usual burst of unconventional shot making and indecipherable chat between points. Steve had a chance to take the fourth with two set points. A contentious let call spurred Christy on and he brought the score back to 14 all before finishing the match off 16-14.
Well played both players and thanks to Titan and the squash section for the prizes. Thanks also to Mike Slack (or was it Ali) for sparklingly clean and shiny trophy. (Report & Photo: Pete Young)
2 comments:
Was Christy drinking alcoholic ginger beer out of the sparkingly clean and shiny trophy afterwards?
No, I've knocked that stuff on the head... I had a bad reaction to it one night!
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