Thursday 22 November 2012

GRG2 Vs Tyne 1 (21 Nov 2012)

And so it was on a cold November night the young guns from Grange 2 headed to Haddington to meet the relatively experienced set-up @ Tyne. Both mid to bottom table and needing the win.




We ran them close and it's fair to say the 16-8 score doesn't do Grange justice on paper. Captain for the evening and starting us off at Position 1, Sloan Ranger couldn't match Colin's deft touches at the front of the court. Gav also finding the going tough but Grange powered back in the form of Messrs Walker (fresh from the Himalayas) and Grinton (fresh from the operating theatre).



Poised 2-2 for the 5th players: Grange's Allan Wallace vs. Tyne's Shane Pressley. This was by far the match of the night with a packed balcony enjoying the long, punishing rallies. Allan ran Shane close in the first two matches but to no avail. The 3rd saw Shane race to a 7-1 lead only for Allan to gather his thoughts and start the comeback. 7-2, 7-3, 7-4, 7-5, 7-6... 7-7! After a few 'handouts', the score-line crawled to 8-8 but despite his best efforts and diving heroics of which Mark Dutton would be proud, Allan couldn't penetrate Shane's defences - finishing 3-0 to Tyne and cementing the win for the home team.



Thoughts turn to the Grange Open this weekend.

Sloan

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Thoughts are indeed turning to this weekend's Grange Open, kindly sponsored once again by Titan Squash.


I've read the preview in yesterday's Edinburgh Evening News (http://www.scotsman.com/edinburgh-evening-news/sport/squash-stars-at-grange-1-2648509). It sounds really good.

How do I know what time all of the matches are being played?

GrangeSquashClub said...

It was emailed to all the entrants. Or download from FaceBook, search for group GrangeSquash there and click on Files.
Or post back on here, with a name other than Anonymous ;-)
Loob

Anonymous said...

Hi Loob,

I'm with Anonymous on this. I'm not able to play this weekend but would be interested in seeing the draws if they're available. I can't access FaceBook just now, and don't really understand it at the best of times.

I'd rather not post my email addresses on this forum. You don't know what sort of people are looking at it!

Thanks,
RKMcIntosh or RichardKMcIntosh

Anonymous said...

Thanks for sending me the draws.
Richard