GRG1 lost 1-4(correction 2-3) and by 11-16. Ian Green won 3-1 against Barry, Brian Buchanan lost against Fraser 2-3, Chris Mair lost to Drew 0-3, Mike Perring won 3-1 against Ian Gray and Mike Hall lost 1-3 to Nicol. ESC looked to have a strong team out with two new faces at 1&2. A disappointing night but looking at the score board I don't think it will sink the ship.
Last match against CC2 next friday with as strong a team as we've had out this half. Should be good for the points. (CM)
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Friday, 6 March 2009
Thirds home v Waverley 3's (Thurs, Mar 5,'09)
Last match this season, we went out on a high.
1 Alan Stokes v Paul Tulloch 3-1
2 Mike Scott v Allan Baird 2-3 (threw a fetlock in the fifth and had to retire)
3 Pete Cockburn v Neil Aitken3-0
4 Christy Looby v John Allan 3-0
5 Mark Dutton v Richard Nettleton 3 - 0
Mark could do little wrong against Richard, with all the tricksy stuff coming off. Christy powered John off the court while Peter was 2-7 down in the third and closed it out without losing anymore points.
Mike Scott is heading back to Orkney, he won't be able to catch many sheep for a while after crocking himself again... taking nothng away from Alan Baird's win. Stokesy and Paul Tulloch had an interesting match, Alan's placement versus Paul's power with a lot of rallies getting bonus points for comic relief.
Overall result 19 - 5 including ref points............... roll on Div 4 next season. Mark counted that the team used 16 players all season, so well done to all our reserves and folk that didn't quite make it but pushed us pretty hard in the mini-leagues.
1 Alan Stokes v Paul Tulloch 3-1
2 Mike Scott v Allan Baird 2-3 (threw a fetlock in the fifth and had to retire)
3 Pete Cockburn v Neil Aitken3-0
4 Christy Looby v John Allan 3-0
5 Mark Dutton v Richard Nettleton 3 - 0
Mark could do little wrong against Richard, with all the tricksy stuff coming off. Christy powered John off the court while Peter was 2-7 down in the third and closed it out without losing anymore points.
Mike Scott is heading back to Orkney, he won't be able to catch many sheep for a while after crocking himself again... taking nothng away from Alan Baird's win. Stokesy and Paul Tulloch had an interesting match, Alan's placement versus Paul's power with a lot of rallies getting bonus points for comic relief.
Overall result 19 - 5 including ref points............... roll on Div 4 next season. Mark counted that the team used 16 players all season, so well done to all our reserves and folk that didn't quite make it but pushed us pretty hard in the mini-leagues.
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Results of the 5th Minileague
Another very busy league with 15 leagues and 94 players involved, and despite a number of injuries, a record equalling 169 games played! Well done to leagues 3 and 4 where all 15 games were played - demonstrating the competition for team places these days!
The results of the league are here ..... 2008 Winter League 5
Unbeaten players this month were Richard Van Lienden, Will Henderson, Mike Slack, Iain Macnab, Chris Braun, Alastair Ross, Mike Dougall and Tim Ferguson. There remains a strong core of players who are consistent in getting all their games played - out of those will shortly be selected a "Minileaguer of the Year" - watch this space!
For those interested, here is the full set of new leagues ..... 2008 Winter League 6
Enjoy this last winter league - there will be summer leagues starting after the court refurbishment - I am hoping for a repeat of the popular leagues last summer.
Enjoy your games
Dougie Brown
The results of the league are here ..... 2008 Winter League 5
Unbeaten players this month were Richard Van Lienden, Will Henderson, Mike Slack, Iain Macnab, Chris Braun, Alastair Ross, Mike Dougall and Tim Ferguson. There remains a strong core of players who are consistent in getting all their games played - out of those will shortly be selected a "Minileaguer of the Year" - watch this space!
For those interested, here is the full set of new leagues ..... 2008 Winter League 6
Enjoy this last winter league - there will be summer leagues starting after the court refurbishment - I am hoping for a repeat of the popular leagues last summer.
Enjoy your games
Dougie Brown
Thursday, 26 February 2009
Firsts @ Tyne (Wed, Feb 25,'09)
Wednesday saw the Grangers take to the road and head south (Ed: south? that knock-off GPS of yours is leading you astray, Chris) to Haddington for the second round against Tyne. The Tyne courts were looking trim and the ball was bouncing big.
Patrick Langley was first up at number 5 against Stuart Falconer. Stuart played some bewitching boasts but ultimately Patrick's steady head and big drives proved too much and Patrick came out on top 3-1. Next up and in the first string match Ian green had a nip and tuck game against Dave Jubb but managed to sneak in his customary blend of lunging drops and rolled backhands to pull away the 3-1 victor.
In the absence of Mike Perring, Will Kerr donned the now legendary number 4's "Bjorn Band" and proceeded to engage in a 5 set epic against Graham Morrison. Initially the play was all Will's way as he strode to a 2-0 lead but Graham dug deep and took a tight 3rd and 4th before Will resurrected his "A" game and took the 5th for a fine 3-2 victory.
Chris Mair was next on against Alan Russell. Some tight nicked drives were being played by both protagonists but under the watchful eye of Ian, Chris managed to steer home a 3-1 victory. Brian Buchanan and Dan McEwen wrapped up the evenings play with the youngster keeping a steady head against Brian's deft touches to take the 2nd string match for Tyne 3-1.
A banterful pie and pint followed at The Tynesider but 18-10 was the final score on the door as the troops slipped off into the Haddington ink and back to Edinburgh ………... things are looking promising for GRG1. (Report:CM)
Patrick Langley was first up at number 5 against Stuart Falconer. Stuart played some bewitching boasts but ultimately Patrick's steady head and big drives proved too much and Patrick came out on top 3-1. Next up and in the first string match Ian green had a nip and tuck game against Dave Jubb but managed to sneak in his customary blend of lunging drops and rolled backhands to pull away the 3-1 victor.
In the absence of Mike Perring, Will Kerr donned the now legendary number 4's "Bjorn Band" and proceeded to engage in a 5 set epic against Graham Morrison. Initially the play was all Will's way as he strode to a 2-0 lead but Graham dug deep and took a tight 3rd and 4th before Will resurrected his "A" game and took the 5th for a fine 3-2 victory.
Chris Mair was next on against Alan Russell. Some tight nicked drives were being played by both protagonists but under the watchful eye of Ian, Chris managed to steer home a 3-1 victory. Brian Buchanan and Dan McEwen wrapped up the evenings play with the youngster keeping a steady head against Brian's deft touches to take the 2nd string match for Tyne 3-1.
A banterful pie and pint followed at The Tynesider but 18-10 was the final score on the door as the troops slipped off into the Haddington ink and back to Edinburgh ………... things are looking promising for GRG1. (Report:CM)
Wednesday, 25 February 2009
Grange 2's home v Waverley 2's (Tue, Feb 24,'09)
Just a quick placeholder. Dougie Brown beat Allan Baird, Robert Pfab beat Alan Ramsay, Ali G lost 1-3 to Mike Read but Tony Gribben brough home the bacon with an impressive 3-0 against young Noakes. Mike Hall lost out to Rob Speight playing some good stuff.
Overall 3-2, 15-8? Talk of the night was the dodgy ball the 6 players put up with.
Overall 3-2, 15-8? Talk of the night was the dodgy ball the 6 players put up with.
Tuesday, 24 February 2009
Grange 3 v Waverley 4 - Monday 23rd Feb 2009
After weeks of humbling all comers, the Grange thirds were put firmly back in their place by a very good Waverley 4 side, to the tune of a 19-7 loss.
The evening started well enough with Mark Dutton at No5 taking on Scary Backhand Man (a.k.a John Usher). This was a very tough struggle for Mark against the only man to beat him in the season to date. An absorbing encounter saw the first four games shared but with John well on top in the fourth and the match seemingly going away. Mark found himself very quicky 2-7 down in the fifth but dug in to stop the rot and over a number of tense hand-out sequences managed to contrive a 9-7 victory. 3-2 match result.
Pete Cockburn made a good start at No4 against the young David Munro and just missed out on the first 8-10. After that though, his week-long cold/flu started to increasingly take its toll and David dominated more and more as Pete weakened and the 0-3 eventual loss was near enough inevitable.
At number 3 the ever-reliable Mike Scott turned out to be not quite so reliable on this one occasion. Mike wasn't particularly happy with his own match, but in fairness he did run into a Damien Noade who was having his own personal match-of-the-season. Mike never really got a foot in the door on the night and was under pressure from Damien at all times for a 0-3 loss.
A very similar story for our other Mr Reliable, Alan Stokes at No 2. On the day, Donald Shearer played some superb squash and Alan was only able to resist the onslaught for brief periods each game. 0-3 on the night.
The night finished up with Patrick Langley at No1 looking to restore some respectability to the scorecard against Allan Ramsay. It looked very much like that would be a formality after two quite comfortable games went Patrick's way and we were all planning an early tuck-in to the soup, pizzas and beer. Trouble is that Allan suddenly started to play squash....and Patrick kinda stopped. Allan took the third and then the fourth was a whitewash (not so much as hand-out) and at 2-8 down in the fifth Patrick was staring down the barrel of a defeat. Patrick, though, is made of sterner stuff than that and instead chose to interpret this position as the opportunity for a heroic comeback. He duly went on to win the eight rallies that he required to close out the match. Trouble was that Allan also won the other eight rallies that went in between those and after some ten minutes the score was still 2-8. The inevitable finally happened and Patrick was unable to save a ninth match point and a 2-3 loss was the result.
The 7-19 result (incl referee bonus points) was a fair reflection of the night and now leaves the Thirds pretty certain to finish in 3rd place behind Inveresk and Waverley 4.
After weeks of humbling all comers, the Grange thirds were put firmly back in their place by a very good Waverley 4 side, to the tune of a 19-7 loss.
The evening started well enough with Mark Dutton at No5 taking on Scary Backhand Man (a.k.a John Usher). This was a very tough struggle for Mark against the only man to beat him in the season to date. An absorbing encounter saw the first four games shared but with John well on top in the fourth and the match seemingly going away. Mark found himself very quicky 2-7 down in the fifth but dug in to stop the rot and over a number of tense hand-out sequences managed to contrive a 9-7 victory. 3-2 match result.
Pete Cockburn made a good start at No4 against the young David Munro and just missed out on the first 8-10. After that though, his week-long cold/flu started to increasingly take its toll and David dominated more and more as Pete weakened and the 0-3 eventual loss was near enough inevitable.
At number 3 the ever-reliable Mike Scott turned out to be not quite so reliable on this one occasion. Mike wasn't particularly happy with his own match, but in fairness he did run into a Damien Noade who was having his own personal match-of-the-season. Mike never really got a foot in the door on the night and was under pressure from Damien at all times for a 0-3 loss.
A very similar story for our other Mr Reliable, Alan Stokes at No 2. On the day, Donald Shearer played some superb squash and Alan was only able to resist the onslaught for brief periods each game. 0-3 on the night.
The night finished up with Patrick Langley at No1 looking to restore some respectability to the scorecard against Allan Ramsay. It looked very much like that would be a formality after two quite comfortable games went Patrick's way and we were all planning an early tuck-in to the soup, pizzas and beer. Trouble is that Allan suddenly started to play squash....and Patrick kinda stopped. Allan took the third and then the fourth was a whitewash (not so much as hand-out) and at 2-8 down in the fifth Patrick was staring down the barrel of a defeat. Patrick, though, is made of sterner stuff than that and instead chose to interpret this position as the opportunity for a heroic comeback. He duly went on to win the eight rallies that he required to close out the match. Trouble was that Allan also won the other eight rallies that went in between those and after some ten minutes the score was still 2-8. The inevitable finally happened and Patrick was unable to save a ninth match point and a 2-3 loss was the result.
The 7-19 result (incl referee bonus points) was a fair reflection of the night and now leaves the Thirds pretty certain to finish in 3rd place behind Inveresk and Waverley 4.
Friday, 20 February 2009
Grange 3 v Dalgety Bay 3 ..Thurday 19th Feb 2009
Another great result for Grange 3, beating Dalgety Bay 3 by 20 points to 5.
In the opener at No 5 Jonathan Frame took on Sandy Lax and comfortably won the first. Jonathan went walkabout a bit in the second but resumed his composure and walked off with the next two being relatively untroubled on the way. 3-1
In the unaccustomed heady heights at No 3, Mark Dutton ran up against a very handy touch player in Graham Small. A hard fought first game went Mark's way 10-8 and he gradually overpowered Graham in the next two to win well, aided in particular by Graham's deep discomfort with the insane mixture of serves coming at him from all angles and all speeds.
At No 4, last week's new recruit Richard Van Lienden gave a near exact replica performance in coming out very slowly but then gradually getting on with it to win easily against the young and quite handy Steven Literacki. The first game was lost 8-10 with the tables being completely turned by the fourth game with a 9-0 finish. 3-1
At No2 Christy Looby was always well in control of the match against Paul Jukes winning the first two games with the loss of only two points. Paul changed racquets and squash brains for the third game and put Christy under a lot of pressure to take one back, but normality returned in the fourth. 3-1
To finish the night at No 1, Dougie Brown took on Ken Clements. Dougie was very much in control throughout and was untroubled to close it out 3-0.
Next week...the big one versus our Waverley competition for second place.
In the opener at No 5 Jonathan Frame took on Sandy Lax and comfortably won the first. Jonathan went walkabout a bit in the second but resumed his composure and walked off with the next two being relatively untroubled on the way. 3-1
In the unaccustomed heady heights at No 3, Mark Dutton ran up against a very handy touch player in Graham Small. A hard fought first game went Mark's way 10-8 and he gradually overpowered Graham in the next two to win well, aided in particular by Graham's deep discomfort with the insane mixture of serves coming at him from all angles and all speeds.
At No 4, last week's new recruit Richard Van Lienden gave a near exact replica performance in coming out very slowly but then gradually getting on with it to win easily against the young and quite handy Steven Literacki. The first game was lost 8-10 with the tables being completely turned by the fourth game with a 9-0 finish. 3-1
At No2 Christy Looby was always well in control of the match against Paul Jukes winning the first two games with the loss of only two points. Paul changed racquets and squash brains for the third game and put Christy under a lot of pressure to take one back, but normality returned in the fourth. 3-1
To finish the night at No 1, Dougie Brown took on Ken Clements. Dougie was very much in control throughout and was untroubled to close it out 3-0.
Next week...the big one versus our Waverley competition for second place.
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