Wednesday 30 October 2013

Grange 2's

Grange 2's continued their impressive start to the season with a visit to Watsonians 3rd team for week 3. A team consisting Dougie Brown, Forbes, Gorzer, Wallace and Sloaner walked away with 4 wins out of 5 with only The Sloan Ranger struggling to convert with Mike Sinclair proving too much to handle at position 1.

However, overall we've lots of positives going into Week 4 with a visit from Abercorn 1's to look forward to - another tough test at this early stage in the season. Watch this space for more on our results as the season develops.

Sloaner.

Tuesday 29 October 2013

Grange 1 Vs Colinton 2s Tuesday 29 Oct 2013

The ones were at home tonight fresh from a good pummelling by Edinburgh Uni the previous week.
 
Nick got us of to a good start by winning in 4 against Stuart Keane.  Dunc struggled to acclimatise after his holiday to take any games from his opponent.  I broke myself to win one game against Jon Nimmo.  Chased everything but was generally outclassed.  Matt Bain made his Grange comeback at 2.  Close games but lack of match practice meant he couldn't come up with the goods.  Pretty sure he will do later on this season as he will definitely push on from here!
 
Will Kerr was unlucky to get pipped by Mark at 1.  A good dingdong of a match.  Both players at time just going for everything which meant some excellent shot making to wow the gallery.  Equally meant a few too many errors which unfortunately saw Will come in second
 
 
 
Event: East Open 2013/14, Round: 4, Division: 1, Match Date: 29/10/2013
Last Modified: 30/10/2013, By MyMatrix Logon: Pete Cockburn
Home Team: Grange 1Away Team: Colinton Castle 2
PosPlayerRubbersGamesPoints        PlayerRubbersGamesPoints
1Will Kerr0234Mark Lord1338
2Matthew Bain0021Neil Thomson1328
3Pete Cockburn0113Jonathan Nimmo1334
4Duncan Walker0012Adam Lord1327
5Nick Wood1335Stuart Keane0120
Total16115413147

Thursday 24 October 2013

GRG3 v WTN4 , Round: 3, Division: 4, Match Date: 24/10/2013


A maiden victory for the Grange 3 side against Watsonians 4.
First up was Andy Whitelaw at No 5 against Martin Gillie. Andy had been carrying a bad muscle tear injury and had tried to pull out of the match and would have succeeded other than for his captain's cunning expedient of not being at work to pick up any emails that day. Turns out that hanging around the T and trying to make the other guy run instead is actually a pretty good way to play the game (think I read that somewhere once). It was quite a close match with games going turn about but Andy pulled away in the last to win 3-2.
Andrew Beames made his third team debut and gave a creditable performance at No 4 against Iain Clark. Won the first and the remaining three quite close but Iain a bit too strong in the end.
Next up was captain Dutton at No 2 against Andrew Constable. A very hard fought match with every point like pulling teeth. Fortunately Mark proved the slightly better dentist and grabbed the three games, all of them from a good way behind, including a notable clawback from 4-8 in the third.
Richard Nisbet continued his excellent form for the thirds with a 3-1 win against David Hutton. Unfortunately the author was playing while that was happening so no details to report.
Best match of the night was Georgina Jamieson at No 1 against Paul Macari. A high quality and very entertaining match with lots of hard accurate hitting mixed with delicate drops, lobs and boasts. A pleasure to watch. Could have gone either way but Paul was the tighter when it really counted and ran out a 1-3 winner.
16-9 to Grange 3 on the night.
Thanks to Georgina's marathon it was a 10pm finish at the Accies and cold pizzas all round by the time we finally got to the Grange.

Event: East Open 2013/14, Round: 3, Division: 4, Match Date: 24/10/2013
Last Modified: 24/10/2013, By MyMatrix Logon: Mark Dutton
Home Team: Grange 3 Away Team: Watsonians 4
Pos Player        Rubbers   Games    Points    Player       Rubbers   Games    Points
1
Georgina Jamieson 0        1            19      Paul Macari   1              3           31
2
Mark Dutton           1        3            28   Andrew Constable 0         0           20
3
Richard Nisbet        1        3            32   David Hutton    0              1          25
4
Andrew Beames     0        1            24     Ian Clark         1              3           35
5
Andrew Whitelaw  1        3            42   Martin Gillie    0               2           25     

Monday 21 October 2013

Grange Open squash tournament and Exhibition Match

Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th November 2013

Open/Mens grades : A/B/C/D
Ladies event : A

Plate competitions for all events

EXHIBITION MATCH
Two of Scotland’s top professional players will display their skills in an
exhibition match
on the Saturday night of the Grange Open
FREE to all entrants

Complimentary food for competitors on Saturday & Sunday

For more information and an entry form, please click me

Tuesday 8 October 2013

Grange 1 Vs Linlithgow 1s

First home match for the newly promoted Grange first team on Tuesday.

Having had a tough re-introduction to Div 1 from Sports CLub 2 last week (not blog worthy in the Captains opinion!!) we were hopeful we could maybe manage slightly better against Linlithgow who were effectively promoted with us last season.

We did do better, but only very slightly.

Home Team: Grange 1Away Team: Linlithgow 1
PosPlayerRubbersGamesPoints        PlayerRubbersGamesPoints
1Will Kerr0111Richard Northin1332
2Pete Cockburn0121Martin Lamb1335
3Duncan Walker0010Martin Jack1327
4Stuart Moffat0010John Smith1327
5Mike Hall0010Simon Lamb1327
Total0262515148






Monday 7 October 2013

Captain's Curse returns to Haunt 4ths

Aficionados of the former Barbarians blogs will fondly remember the 'Captain's Curse' season. This is where the result obtained by the Captain was reversed by the team. It got so bad, that the Captain had to resort to losing matches, just so that the team could win 4-1.

You get the drift here ...

So, with the Barbarians consigned to be a distant memory, the 4ths took to the field for the first game of the season against Waverley.

Up first was Stephen Davey at 5 who showed no signs of rust as he raced to take the first 9-0. Yvonne looked a little shell shocked, as did Stephen who went on the retain the upper hand and close out the game 9-5, 9-4.

Meanwhile on court 2, Neil Love set about ensuring that the infamous run called 'Neil Love Love' was not repeated as he also got off to a flying start winning 9-2, 9-2, 9-1.

I went on to court with John Allan who played like a revitalised Nadal. The first game edged my way 9-7 and all was going well at 6-1 up in the second, when I noticed Dave Grieve on the balcony. This was strange because he went onto court after me. I heard talk of a sprained ankle, and I thought that 'sicknote' must have succumbed.

How to ensure victory I thought? It came in a flash, if I extended some courtesy to our hosts, we'd be bound to win the game. And so it materialised. The 6-1 lead evaporated into a 7-9 loss which was followed by 4-9 and 7-9 as I proved that being big doesn't mean you can hit a ball past midcourt.

The crowd on the balcony (now joined by Andy 'Tigger' Beames who had also finished) seemed to not get my brave efforts to take one for the team! Surely I had deserved the Victoria Cross?

Turns out Dave Grieve had won 9-4, 9-1, 9-4.

And Tigger had also made light work with a 9-2, 9-5, 9-1 victory.

Ok, so I was rescued by a great team effort. Good start team.

Mike Douglas

Friday 4 October 2013

Grange 2s Vs Bank of Scotland - 03 Oct 2013

20:20 Vision The Grange 2's took the full buna on Thursday night - 20 points from 20, away to newly reported Bank of Scotland.

First mention goes to Angus Macpherson at position 5. A young talent, Angus played exceptionally well to close out his match in four games (9-5;9-7;7-9;9-8) vs the much more experienced Vic Loughlin. Angus played sublime shots from all areas of the court - particularly when given a little space at the front. With more experience, he'll continue moving up the ranks - a huge asset for The Grange in this big season ahead.

Stokesy & Aoife Kerrin at positions 4 and 3 also played well. Aoife dropping a game but winning reasonably comfortably in the end.

Gorzer at 2 had an interesting match - winning the 1st, 3rd & 5th games with ease but slipping up in the 2nd & 4th. And playing at 1,

Captain Sloan Ranger managed to lead by example early in the evening to bag an early lead in the overall match. Following a slow start to last season it's nice to get some early points on the board this year in what will prove another long, challenging season ahead!

Grange 3s Vs Colinton 4s 03 Oct 2013

Folks,

The season opener proved a tough one for Grange 3 with a clean sweep for Colinton Castle 4.

Everybody performed very creditably though against opponents ranked anything from 40 to 95 points higher than them on the matrix.

Best performance of the evening was that of Brian Sloan who had Eric Donohoe (95 matrix points higher!) absolutely on toast with a 5-0 lead in the 5th game when he tore a calf muscle. He tried to carry on after the statutary 3 minute injury break in the hope that he could slam four straight winners into the nick….but he couldn't and chose wisely to retire once Eric had clawed back to 5-7.

Georgina Jamieson had a very close tussle with Mike Brown before succumbing late in the 5th game.

Richard Nisbet recovered from a bit of a nightmare first game (one handout all he had to show for it) to take the second game well. The remaining games were hard fought but Stuart Keane pulled away at the end of each.

Anthony Fitzgerald had a very tough match against the speedy Mark Williamson. The contest was a lot closer than the three 4-9 results would suggest but his opponent always had enough of an edge.

The attempt by the captain Mark Dutton to rescue Grange club honour at the end of the night proved a touch too difficult against the long reach and steady play of Colin Grant. All of the games were close with Mark leading two of them quite a long way in but ultimately Colin had the edge in tightness and asked a few more squash questions than Mark could pose in return.

Not a bad season start against a very strong team who must be amongst the favourites for promotion from this division.

Tuesday 1 October 2013

Squash Calendar

Note that the public calendar

squashcalendar1@gmail.com

now contains all the upcoming Grange Squash events, including all the Men's and Women's team fixtures.

Import it into your own calendar view to keep up to date with Grange events
or nip over to

Grange Squash Open

Kevin is organising this year's Grange Squash Open
Saturday and Sunday 23rd and 24th November.

See the poster for full details.
Please send all replies to Kevin.

Minileague Results

Results of minileagues ending 27th September




League 1








Name123456Total
11Duncan Walker

8
8723
12Will Kerr






13Mike Hall2


6210
14Allan Hamer






15Nick Wood2
4


6
16Peter Cockburn3
8


11









50












League 2








Name123456Total
21Aoife Kerrin
64
2
12
22Ian Forbes4


2612
23Mike Gore6

7
316
24Andy Whitelaw

3

25
25Allan Wallace88


319
26Gordon Sloan
4787
26









90












League 3








Name123456Total
31Dougie Brown
2442416
32Donna Cruikshank8
286226
33Colin Williamson68

7223
34Alan Stokes62

4
12
35Andrew Beames8436
223
36Angus Macpherson688
8
30









130












League 4








Name123456Total
41Doug Sherriffs

243211
42Peter Young

84
416
43Mark Dutton82
62826
44Anthony Fitzgerald664
7225
45Georgina Jamieson7
83
624
46Andrew Claymore86284
28









130












League 5








Name123456Total
51Richard Nisbet
3846
21
52Mike Slack7
323318
53Brian Sloan27
88429
54Mike Douglas 682
7225
55Roger Hamilton4723
319
56Peter Roberts
7687
28









140












League 6








Name123456Total
61Matt Pearson
4
28822
62Rocco Pannozzo6


6719
63David Gibson


2

2
64Nick Guise8
8
8832
65Jon Fraser24
2

8
66Anthony Graham23
2

7









90












League 7








Name123456Total
71Jordan Fleming

48

12
72Brendan Walsh






73Tom McEwan4


8
12
74Dave Jones2


3
5
75Tim Bremner

27

9
76Jonathan Norrie















38












League 8








Name123456Total
81Stewart Arbuckle

777728
82John Ritchie






83Nick Lyth 3

24716
84Neil Love3
8
8726
85Douglas Paul 3
42
312
86Dean Turner3
337
16









98












League 9








Name123456Total
91Anna Gaskell
674

17
92Bill Marshall4

34617
93Gordon Cowie3


3612
94Stuart Coburn67

2722
95Derek Addison5678
834
96Alastair Ross
4432
13









115












League 10








Name123456Total
101Julia Lutte
5443218
102David Gillespie0

03811
103John Donald 4

82317
104Craig Watt652
4724
105Guy Tulloch7786
836
106Doug Wilson82732
22









128












League 11








Name123456Total
111Nigel Kerr
5887836
112Stephen Thomas-2

6

4
113Kieran Smith2

84
14
114Karen Kennedy242


8
115Graeme Thomas3
6

817
116Tim Edward 2


2
4









83












League 12








Name123456Total
121Andrew Jamieson
8
87
23
122Jason Lyons2
473
16
123Tim Fagge
4
83
15
124Steve Rennie232
4
11
125Jim McIntosh3776

23
126Jamie Dalrymple















88












League 13








Name123456Total
131Shafkat Akram
72


9
132Hubert Czaja3
24
817
133Chris Donnelly88
7
326
134Simon Hardy
63
8421
135Ash Jaswal


2

2
136Brian Lauder
276

15









90












League 14








Name123456Total
141Vincenzo Alonzi
8



8
142Chris Waymark2




2
143Nik Scopes


67720
144Nick Borfigat

4
7819
145Will Mair

33

6
146Nick Beattie

32

5









60












League 15








Name123456Total
151Alexander Forrest






152Maggie Harris

84
820
153Richard Hungerford
2


46
154Keith Schorah
6


814
155Gordon Tolland




22
156Judy Scopes
2428
16









58












League 16








Name123456Total
161Colin Forrest
8
38
19
162Rosamund Mills2


4
6
163John Davidson






164Alasdair Sibbald7




7
165Shauna Mitchell24



6
166
















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