Jesters touring side at The Grange(Sat, Nov20,'10)

Jesters are an invitational touring side with a long tradition of taking their brand of squash as far afield as Singapore and Norway. This crew rocked up from the north of England with reputations of players from Div. 1 teams in Cleveland & Durham league, York and District league and Harrogate & District league. Bring 'em on, our 2nd Div team in East of Scotland leagues said!

First off was #7 Brian Sloan against a youthful Ollie Phillips and in a hard hitting and well contested match, Brian took the honours. Simon Phillips took on #6 David Grieve and David also cleaned up. At #5, Christy tried every trick shot in the book and a few out of Mark Dutton's book, they all came off against Chris Williams. Stokesy at #4 was to first to give away games but still got up against the Jester's captain, John Skinner.

At #3 Gordon Sloan floated around court against the sublime skills of Dave Smiley, but he stung like a bee. #2 Patrick Langley was well matched against Giles Bilton but got through 3-1. Match of the day was Grange's northern jester himself Ian Green who succumbed to the real Jester and #1 string John Gedye.
Fair play to Jordan Fleming who had been training with Pearson, Addison et al all morning and still stepped into the breach at #8 for us. He looked out on his feet at 2-2 but still came up with the goods in the fifth.

Pizza and beer was consumed in the bar and a very nice tour plaque was presented by John Skinner to the club. Afterwards everyone cheered on Scotland on the big telly in their win over the Springboks.

Who is up for a trip to Darlington, Dunnington and Bedale at the end of the season? (Report: Loob)