Wednesday 8 June 2011

Racketeers home v ESC(Tue, Jun 7)

ESC fronted up with Graeme Hartop, Les, I?, Alastair & John. Guy Tulloch played John at #5 and kept his man on court for the regulation 50 minutes. Jordan was slumming it at #4 as he had cooking duties - he was 2-0 down against Alastair, got it back to the fifth but unlike Lazarus, he went down for good in that game.
Dave Grieve played Les and these guys were really playing squash with a larger ball- lobs, drops, serving out of the hand, asking for second serves after hitting the first one out, this match had it all. Except we lost.
Dean outlasted his opponent I? 3-2 for our only win. Christy blazed his way around the tin (again) to succumb a bit too meekly to Graeme Hartop.
Jordan magicked-up some chicken & veggie fajitas so the food bill was £24 and the bar bill £56! A good night's entertainment, topped by the story of how ESC had bandited against one team whose number 1 fancied himself, fancied himself so much he argued for a silly stroke and then Simon decided he wasn't going to see the ball for the rest of the match.

At this point in the season, halfway, we need to take stock of our leading position... in our own Gratrix... the scores in red are somewhat fictitious as I guessed/made-them-up. If Team 8 hadn't been scared of playing us, we'd have beaten them 18-0 anyway!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's been a while since any matches have been played. Do you only play each team once?

Richard

Loob said...

We reached half-way and with 7 teams in the league, our second bye was last week. So we end up having a 3 week break.
We resume at home to Linlithgow on Tue, with Ali Ross in the mix.
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... that is, the kitchen for you folks not down with the kids ;-)

The league continues until Aug 28.
The Grange Racketball club champs happens around then too.
And the Grange Racketball team night out, around the fleshops of Edinburgh, will probably be early in Sept.