Les, Sue and Iain (Senior, Womens, Junior/Jim Thorburn Champions 2009)
Finals weekend at the Nunholm Squash Club started with the semi-finals of the Club Championships last Friday night. Current Scottish Masters over-45 champion Jim Wells beat Malcolm McCubbin who was hampered by an ankle injury sustained during the week. Les Harkness beat Robin Ridley, the current Scottish Masters over-50 champion, in a close fought contest with some classy squash. Read the rest of this entry »
The annual Dumfries Cricket Club dinner is this Friday at 7pm followed by the Club Awards in the pavilion at 9pm and there is still time to organise your tickets.
Casa Mia Restaurant (across the road from the club)
Friday 27th March 7pm start
£15 a ticket
Book your tickets through a member of the committee or email 
The finals of the Nunholm Squash Club competitions come to a head this Sunday (22nd March). A series of finals will be contested: the Club Championships, the Jim Thorburn Handicap Trophy, the Championship Plate, the Women’s Final and the Junior Final. Matches start at high noon before the Championship final between Jimmy Wells and Les Harkness takes place at 3pm. Presentations to all the winners will take place in the main lounge. Come along and see the action on court.
The Bard Vet group has continued its support of the D&G League Cup competition.
With the final few matches to be played it looks like Finite Engineering and Bard Vet will progress from League One and DC Lindsay Forestry and Peter’s Fish and Chicken Bar from League Two.
The semi-finals and final will be played at the Nunholm courts on March 29 commencing with the semis at 3pm with the final at 5pm.
Dumfries and Galloway Standard
The Cricket Scotland Easter Cricket Camp held last year is to be repeated in Dumfries during the second week of Easter school holidays. Targetted at girls and boys aged 8 to 13 this is open to all ability levels. Basic skills coaching will be provided for new starters whilst more experienced players will be offered key technical skills training. This camp will have a large emphasis on fun and participation.
CLICK HERE for more details.
Alex Sinclair, the President of Scottish Squash, is paying a visit to Nunholm to talk to members about what Scottish Squash can do for the Squash Club should they once again become affiliated to Scottish Squash. This takes place in the Farries Suite at 7pm on Tuesday, the 21st April and is followed by a Q&A session for those attending.
This weekend at Dumfries Sports Club will see the final matches of the Club Championship, Jim Thorburn Trophy and Junior Club Championship all played on a Finals Day on Sunday 22nd March. All club members are urged to come and support the finals weekend on what should be a great advert for squash for our area.
The Junior event will start play on Saturday afternoon where there will be a healthy number of the club’s junior players on show and it will climax with the junior final taking place on the Sunday.
The favourite will be defending Champion Iain Anderson but he is sure to be pushed all the way by last years runner up Douglas Brotherston.
In the main Club Championship event, the semi-finals will take place on Friday night at 7pm with Malcolm McCubbin taking on new Scottish Masters over 45 Champion Jimmy Wells in the first semi. This will be followed by Les Harkness who will look to overcome the new Scottish Masters over 50 Champion Robin Ridley. Two cracking matches are in prospect and a good turnout of spectators is expected.
In the Jim Thorburn trophy, the popular handicap competition, young Iain Anderson takes on the hard hitting Davy Lindsay in the first semi final at 7:15pm. This will be a tough one for Davy as he has a big handicap to turn around so expect a tight game here. The other semi sees Lister McKiddie forget the tennis court for a bit to face hotelier Phil Leek. Phil too has an advantage on the handicap so it will be a stern test for Lister.
Presentation of prizes will follow in the main lounge after ALL finals with Chair of the Squash Committee Sue Strachan.
Dumfries and Galloway Standard.
Try junior tennis at Dumfries Tennis Club
Junior Tennis Club nights commence Thursday, 19 March 2009 and on following Thursdays from 5pm until 6:30pm. Charge – £1.50 per person.
For ages of 10 upwards and will involve singles and doubles play.
The session will be supervised by Daniel McKiddie, qualified coach.
For details please contact Daniel on 01387 256260.
SQUASH: The Junior Club Championship 2009 will be held on Saturday 21st March 2009 with the Final on Sunday 22nd March.
Open to all Junior Club members. All those taking part must wear eye protection (provided). Competition will follow Monrad scoring system (all players will get at least 2 games). Normal scoring to 9 applies, best of 5 games.
PLEASE ADD YOUR NAME TO THE LIST ON THE JUNIOR SECTION NOTICEBOARD. ENTRIES CLOSE ON WEDNESDAY 18TH MARCH 2009.
All other queries to Raymond Currie, Junior Convenor, – 01387 257036 or 07515 994172.
The Nunholm Squash Club contingent had a successful trip to the 2009 Scottish Masters National Championships in Aberdeen at the weekend. They followed up their successes at the Bridge of Allan Championships by coming away clutching yet more ‘silverware’. In total they reached seven finals and plate-finals which resulted in four Scottish titles for the club.
Left to right: Sue Strachan (over-35 runner-up), Davy Rogan (over-70 and 75 champion), Keith Gristwood (over-50 plate runner-up), Jimmy Wells (over-45 champion), Raymond Kirk (over-55 plate runner-up), Robin Ridley (over-50 champion)
Jimmy Wells became Scottish over-45 champion by beating the number two seed, Chris Holt, by three games to one. Robin Ridley won the over-50s competition after his opponent had to retire due to a torn calf muscle when the score was 8-9 in the first game.
Davy Rogan retained his over-70s title and picked up the over-75 one as well for good measure. This meant the redoubtable Rogan played in two round-robin competitions, a total of five hard games.
Sue Strachan was unable to go one further than last year and was again runner-up to her nemesis, Rosie Wilson, in the women’s over-35 competition. She lost to her in two finals at the Nationals last year although Sue was “much closer this year”.
Keith Gristwood was runner-up in the over-50 plate competition as was Raymond Kirk in the over-55 plate.
All the Nunholm team that ventured north are to be congratulated on their performances, and for also battling through snow, sleet, hail and lightning to do so, as is Ronnie Carter from the Lockerbie club who also competed and was also selected for Scotland.
Bridge of Allan Masters Winners 09: (From the top) Davy Rogan, Sue Strachan, Jim Wells
Nunholm Squash Club again boasted an array of players at the recent Bridge of Allan Masters tournament.
The Stirlingshire club was the venue for the penultimate Scottish ranking masters squash tournament of the season. With a large turnout of internationalists and world championship players in the various age groups and competitors travelling from England, Ireland and Belgium the capacity grounds were treated to some exciting squash.
The first Nunholm trophy came in the final of the over 45 event. There Jim Wells from the Dumfries club always maintained control in an entertaining contest to win 3-0 over Chris Holt.
There was a near miss for the team in the over 50’s final where Robin Ridley went two games up against Boyd Kidd. Apparently however, on this the Feb 14th weekend, one of Kidd’s female admirers gave him a Valentine’s kiss and told him he had to go and win “for the girls”. Unfortunately this worked and it was Robin who kissed the title goodbye and lost a cliff-hanger 3-2. Nunholm will need to consider revising their motivational techniques. Read the rest of this entry »
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