An inauspicious start to the second half of the season for the thirds despite the on-paper strength of the selected team.
Christy Looby at No5 had a slightly shaky start against Colin Boswell to lose the first before a good second game saw him level the scores. Unfortunately he increasingly fell away in the next two as Colin took very firm control and never really gave Christy a look in after that. A 1-3 loss for Christy.
Alan Stokes at No1 was up against the young David Beaumont. David took the first off Alan very comfortably but then Alan dug in and took the next two with increasing dominance. Alan tried to mess with David's mind as befits a wily old stager against a young pup…but David was made of sterner stuff than that and ran out with the last two to leave Alan with a 2-3 loss.
At No2 Mike Gore took on the hard-hitting Scott Boswell. Mike played well in patches, particularly in the third game which he could well have stolen but in the end was well beaten 0-3.
At no 4 Stuart Moffat was given a hard time by the deceptively agile and very wily Gerry Burton in the first two games. In the third game Stuart's identical twin brother came out on court (the one that can really play..) and only conceded a single point in the next two games. An absorbing struggle in the last saw Stuart grab it 9-7 and thus the match 3-2.
The evening ended (rather quickly) with Mark Dutton up against the useful Craig Pounder at No3. The first game went Craig's way after some early resistance from Mark and the second was reasonably close but the third was over in the blinking of an eye with Craig hitting a purple patch and Mark being ..well...distinctly non-purple.
A 7-19 loss overall. Pizzas slightly disappointing….not up to the usual Franco's standard. (Mark reports)
Teams:Grange 3 vs Dalgety Bay 3
| Pos | Player | Rubbers | Games | Points | | | Player | Rubbers | Games | Points | |
| 1 | Alan Stokes | 0 | 2 | 26 | David Beaumont | 1 | 3 | 33 | |||
| 2 | Mike Gore | 0 | 0 | 10 | Scott Boswell | 1 | 3 | 27 | |||
| 3 | Mark Dutton | 0 | 0 | 8 | Craig Pounder | 1 | 3 | 27 | |||
| 4 | Stuart Moffat | 1 | 3 | 36 | Gerry Burton | 0 | 2 | 26 | |||
| 5 | Christy Looby | 0 | 1 | 18 | Colin Boswell | 1 | 3 | 33 | |||
| Total | 1 | 6 | 98 | 4 | 14 | 146 | |||||
| Competition Points | 6 | 17 | |||||||||
2 comments:
The whole of the East of Scotland squash community is worried about the last line of this report. Is there a problem???????
Obviously we're not worried about the match result, but the pizzas.
We need to know what's going on.
The new delivery guy must have turned the boxes, the pizza had slithered sideways and got mangled. Fail.
(but we had to "destroy" the evidence to prevent any lawsuit)
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