Dumfries Sports Club

A reminder that the squash summer leagues start next month. If you wish to be included you need to add your name to the list which is up on the squash leagues noticeboard in the clubhouse.

The 2009 Plate Finalists: Mike Service, Geoff Dean

The delayed Nunholm Squash Club Championship Plate Final was played this week and it turned out to be a cracker. It pitched Mike Service against Geoff Dean in what was a hard hitting and competitive encounter.

Geoff flew to a 6-0 lead in the first game before Mike clawed his way back to 6-8 but it was Geoff who got game ball first. However Geoff lost the point and Mike took the game to 9-9 and had game ball too before Geoff won service back and clinched the first 10-9. Read the rest of this entry »

The April squash leagues are available on the site and can be found here or by following the Quick Link at the top of the right hand column.

The league structure has been revised for this month. The leagues are now numbered 1,2,3 to 16.

The parallel A and B leagues have been merged with players’ final positions interleaved. That merged league of perhaps ten players has then had promotion and relegation of 2 up, 2 down applied to produce the final ordering in the new structure.

Also leagues have been limited to five in a league. So that and the restructuring mean player league positions may have changed but considerable effort has been made to produce, hopefully, a fair result.

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.

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.