Abercorn rocked up with their big guns and the plate they won against us last year.
This year, Ally Mackenzie was playing 3 places lower so we knew this was gonna be tough. Steve Eyles at #5 was freshly back from NZ and playing well to turn and turn Ally... still went to 5 and Steve edged it. Over on ct3, Andy Whitelaw faced Ian Ross with Andy cutting in some great drops and Ian doing some great hold boasts. Again went to 5, this time Ian had more in the tank.
Dougie Brown at #3 took on Gordon Steel who was having none of the quips about looking too young for O-35. Dougie's analysis was that he moved Gordon about well but the guy was so fast that every time it ended in the front court, Gordon won the point: 0-3.
Christy at #2 faced another leftie legend from the Emerald Isle, Brian Montgomery. This too went every-other-game with Monty running away with the fifth.
Stokesy played A B Russell, known to the cricketers as Sprout. Bruce just had too much class and Stokes by his own admission got pumped. 0-3. Overall 4-1 to Abercorn so they retained the plate and we got the Franco's cardboard pizza box. A good competitive tie with guys that enjoy their squash.
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Pizza - everyone's a winner!
Edinburgh Sports Club have finally got past Tyne to set up a final against the Watsonian Squash Rackets Club.
Now, who does the best grub out of those two?
ESC condsistently do good grub
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