Concordia Squash Players,
                                     The A and B competition semi finals took place last night (Thursday) 
Dan Cussack put in an excellent performance to beat Graeme Sneddon 3-1 
Steve Goldie beat Andy Lawrence 3-0 however that score line doesn't tell the whole story. Two of the games went to 10
and both players had game ball several times. Steve just managed to see the games out to go through to the B final. 
In the A competition Richard McAllister beat Mark Livingstone 3-0 and Tony Hedley beat Ian Morton 3-0.
Both finals are tonight (Friday 27th) kick off at 6.40pm.
Please come along and support the event.
Ian Mc  

Concordia Squash Players,
                                     The draw for the B competition had to be slightly re-drafted last night after a number of withdrawals.
Six matches were played with the 6 winners going through plus the two highest scoring losers. 
Those eight were then re-drawn for a second round, also played last night.
This was the second round draw and result. 
Graeme Sneddon bt Dave Armstrong   2-1
Dan Cussack bt Roland Smith   2-1
Andy Lawrence bt Peter Edney 2-1
Steve Goldie bt Martin Davison 2-0
All four matches were fiercely fought with much effort, particularly since all 4 players had already played a tough 1st round match.
The semi finals are played tonight. (Thursday) G. Sneddon plays D. Cussack and A. Lawrence plays S. Goldie.
 
In the A competition, Tony Hedley was given a bye (another result of withdrawals) Richard McAllister bt Dave Buckle, Ian Morton bt Robin Ritchie
and Mark Livingstone bt Keith Gray. The A competition semi finals are also being played tonight. 
Please come along and support the event.  6.40pm start. The bar is open.
Ian Mc 

Concordia Squash Players,
                                    Dave Buckle stayed to the end to watch the final match of the A competition when Ian Morton won to put Bruno Gaultier into 
the B competition. Dave also kindly did the draw for that B competition. This is how the names came out of the hat.
 
Rob Owen                     v                             Dave Armstrong
Steve Goldie                  v                             Dave Cummings
Roland Smith                 v                             Bruno Gaultier
BYE                              v                             Daniel Cussack
Peter Edney                   v                             Graeme Sneddon
Andy Pattison                v                             Martin Davison
Dan Pattison                 v                             Chris Brock (withdrew due to work commitments)
Neil Taylor                    v                             Andy Lawrence. 
The winners of these games played tonight (Wednesday) will play each other on the same night to decide the semi finalists to play Thursday.
These B comp' games are best of 3 not 5.
 
The A competition went with the form book and the matches tonight are as follows;
Tony Hedley                  v                         BYE
Robin Ritchie                 v                         Ian Morton
Keith Gray                    v                          Mark Livingstone
Dave Buckle                 v                          Richard McAllister
 
Cheers
Ian Mc       

Concordia Squash Players,
                                    After the preliminary round this is how the first round of the A competition looks.
 
Tony Hedley                      v                    Dave Armstrong
Chris Thompson                 v                    Dan Cussack
Graeme Sneddon               v                     Robin Ritchie
Bruno Gaultier                   v                     Ian Morton
Keith Gray                        v                     Peter Edney
Mark Livingstone               v                     Nick Fecitt
Richard McAllister             v                      Steve Goldie
 
Prompt 6.40pm start on Tuesday please. 
The prelim' losers from tonight go to the B competition draw, those games start 6.40pm Wednesday. Just for clarity they are as follows;
Roland Smith, Andy Lawrence, Chris Brock, Dave Cummings, Steve Lavery, Andy Pattison, Neil Taylor. 
They will be joined by the A competition first round losers. 
Cheers
Ian Mc                     

Concordia Squash Players,
                                    The draw was carried out at the Brockwell Seam Tuesday night, drawn independently by Phil George and Ashley Thompson, overseen 
by scrutineer Bobby Ball. Thank you to them for their assistance. This is how the draw came out.
Preliminary round to be held on Monday 23rd April.  
1. Roland Smith        v         Ian Morton
2. Andy Lawrence     v         Robin Ritchie
3. Bruno Gaultier      v         Chris Brock
4. Graeme Sneddon  v         Dave Cummings
5. Steve Lavery        v         Dave Armstrong
6. Mark Livingstone  v         Andy Pattison
7. Nick Fecitt           v         Martin Davison
8. Neil Taylor          v         Chris Thompson.
The winners go into the main competition on Tuesday 24th April. The losers go into the B competion on Wednesday 25th. 
The losers of the A competition (Tuesday) will also go into the B competition.
Those successful in the B competiton will have to play a second game on that Wednesday night to sort out who goes through 
to the semi's on Thursday. For this reason B competition games will be best of 3 and not best of 5. 
Hope this all makes sense. 
Ian Mc 

Concordia Squash Players,
                                     I have 24 entries for the draw. I will have to have a preliminary round on Monday night.  This will be 16 names out of the hat. The 8 winners will join the first round of the A competition on Tuesday while the losers will join those in the first round of the B competition on Wednesday.The B competition will have 16 players to battle it out for only 4 places to go through to the semi's on Thursday. The winners of the 'B' 1st round will have to play again on the Wednesday night, with this in mind, B competition games will be best of 3 and not best of 5.  I will do the draw over the Easter weekend, not sure where yet since Concordia is shut much of the time. Rest assured it will be carried out independently with others present in the interest of integrity.I will keep you posted.  Those in the draw, in no particular order;Peter Edney, Andy Pattison, Neil Taylor, Steve Lavery, Nick Fecitt, Mark Livingstone, Keith Gray, Dan Cussack, Robin Ritchie, Don Pattison, Martin DavisonIan Morton, Tony Hedley, Graeme Sneddon, Dave Armstrong, Richard McAllister, Dave Cummings, Andy Lawrence, Chris Thompson, Roland Smith,Dave Buckle, Bruno Gaultier, Steve Goldie, Chris Brock. Ian Mc   

The Summer leagues start May 1st. If you want to play in the Summer leagues let me know before the end of April.
Cheers
Roland