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.

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 1					Away Team: Colinton Castle 2
Pos	Player	Rubbers	Games	Points		Player	Rubbers	Games	Points
1	Will Kerr	0	2	34		Mark Lord	1	3	38
2	Matthew Bain	0	0	21		Neil Thomson	1	3	28
3	Pete Cockburn	0	1	13		Jonathan Nimmo	1	3	34
4	Duncan Walker	0	0	12		Adam Lord	1	3	27
5	Nick Wood	1	3	35		Stuart Keane	0	1	20
Total		1	6	115			4	13	147

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     

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

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 1					Away Team: Linlithgow 1
Pos	Player	Rubbers	Games	Points		Player	Rubbers	Games	Points
1	Will Kerr	0	1	11		Richard Northin	1	3	32
2	Pete Cockburn	0	1	21		Martin Lamb	1	3	35
3	Duncan Walker	0	0	10		Martin Jack	1	3	27
4	Stuart Moffat	0	0	10		John Smith	1	3	27
5	Mike Hall	0	0	10		Simon Lamb	1	3	27
Total		0	2	62			5	15	148

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

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.

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

http://grangesquash.co.uk/events.html

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
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
1	1	Duncan Walker			8		8	7	23
1	2	Will Kerr
1	3	Mike Hall	2				6	2	10
1	4	Allan Hamer
1	5	Nick Wood	2		4				6
1	6	Peter Cockburn	3		8				11
									50
		League 2
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
2	1	Aoife Kerrin		6	4		2		12
2	2	Ian Forbes	4				2	6	12
2	3	Mike Gore	6			7		3	16
2	4	Andy Whitelaw			3			2	5
2	5	Allan Wallace	8	8				3	19
2	6	Gordon Sloan		4	7	8	7		26
									90
		League 3
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
3	1	Dougie Brown		2	4	4	2	4	16
3	2	Donna Cruikshank	8		2	8	6	2	26
3	3	Colin Williamson	6	8			7	2	23
3	4	Alan Stokes	6	2			4		12
3	5	Andrew Beames	8	4	3	6		2	23
3	6	Angus Macpherson	6	8	8		8		30
									130
		League 4
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
4	1	Doug Sherriffs			2	4	3	2	11
4	2	Peter Young			8	4		4	16
4	3	Mark Dutton	8	2		6	2	8	26
4	4	Anthony Fitzgerald	6	6	4		7	2	25
4	5	Georgina Jamieson	7		8	3		6	24
4	6	Andrew Claymore	8	6	2	8	4		28
									130
		League 5
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
5	1	Richard Nisbet		3	8	4	6		21
5	2	Mike Slack	7		3	2	3	3	18
5	3	Brian Sloan	2	7		8	8	4	29
5	4	Mike Douglas	6	8	2		7	2	25
5	5	Roger Hamilton	4	7	2	3		3	19
5	6	Peter Roberts		7	6	8	7		28
									140
		League 6
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
6	1	Matt Pearson		4		2	8	8	22
6	2	Rocco Pannozzo	6				6	7	19
6	3	David Gibson				2			2
6	4	Nick Guise	8		8		8	8	32
6	5	Jon Fraser	2	4		2			8
6	6	Anthony Graham	2	3		2			7
									90
		League 7
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
7	1	Jordan Fleming			4	8			12
7	2	Brendan Walsh
7	3	Tom McEwan	4				8		12
7	4	Dave Jones	2				3		5
7	5	Tim Bremner			2	7			9
7	6	Jonathan Norrie
									38
		League 8
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
8	1	Stewart Arbuckle			7	7	7	7	28
8	2	John Ritchie
8	3	Nick Lyth	3			2	4	7	16
8	4	Neil Love	3		8		8	7	26
8	5	Douglas Paul	3		4	2		3	12
8	6	Dean Turner	3		3	3	7		16
									98
		League 9
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
9	1	Anna Gaskell		6	7	4			17
9	2	Bill Marshall	4			3	4	6	17
9	3	Gordon Cowie	3				3	6	12
9	4	Stuart Coburn	6	7			2	7	22
9	5	Derek Addison	5	6	7	8		8	34
9	6	Alastair Ross		4	4	3	2		13
									115
		League 10
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
10	1	Julia Lutte		5	4	4	3	2	18
10	2	David Gillespie	0			0	3	8	11
10	3	John Donald	4			8	2	3	17
10	4	Craig Watt	6	5	2		4	7	24
10	5	Guy Tulloch	7	7	8	6		8	36
10	6	Doug Wilson	8	2	7	3	2		22
									128
		League 11
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
11	1	Nigel Kerr		5	8	8	7	8	36
11	2	Stephen Thomas	-2			6			4
11	3	Kieran Smith	2			8	4		14
11	4	Karen Kennedy	2	4	2				8
11	5	Graeme Thomas	3		6			8	17
11	6	Tim Edward	2				2		4
									83
		League 12
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
12	1	Andrew Jamieson		8		8	7		23
12	2	Jason Lyons	2		4	7	3		16
12	3	Tim Fagge		4		8	3		15
12	4	Steve Rennie	2	3	2		4		11
12	5	Jim McIntosh	3	7	7	6			23
12	6	Jamie Dalrymple
									88
		League 13
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
13	1	Shafkat Akram		7	2				9
13	2	Hubert Czaja	3		2	4		8	17
13	3	Chris Donnelly	8	8		7		3	26
13	4	Simon Hardy		6	3		8	4	21
13	5	Ash Jaswal				2			2
13	6	Brian Lauder		2	7	6			15
									90
		League 14
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
14	1	Vincenzo Alonzi		8					8
14	2	Chris Waymark	2						2
14	3	Nik Scopes				6	7	7	20
14	4	Nick Borfigat			4		7	8	19
14	5	Will Mair			3	3			6
14	6	Nick Beattie			3	2			5
									60
		League 15
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
15	1	Alexander Forrest
15	2	Maggie Harris			8	4		8	20
15	3	Richard Hungerford		2				4	6
15	4	Keith Schorah		6				8	14
15	5	Gordon Tolland						2	2
15	6	Judy Scopes		2	4	2	8		16
									58
		League 16
		Name	1	2	3	4	5	6	Total
16	1	Colin Forrest		8		3	8		19
16	2	Rosamund Mills	2				4		6
16	3	John Davidson
16	4	Alasdair Sibbald	7						7
16	5	Shauna Mitchell	2	4					6
16	6
									38