The climax to the squash season- the Annual Squash Dance WITH Fantastic Live Band
“FULL TILT”
ON SATURDAY 25TH APRIL
8PM TILL LATE
“By ticket only”
Tickets £5 from the bar.
FREE £50 prize draw!
All Sports Club members invited.
The event will see the full presentation of trophies following another successful John Henderson & Son Dumfries & Galloway Squash Leagues for the 2008-09 season. All team captains are encouraged to get as many of their team at the dance.
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.
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 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.
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 »
The March 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.
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