Concordia Squash Players,

  The  draw was done Friday night and the teams/players came out of the hat as shown  below.
 
Sally Faulkner         v     Peter Edney
Craig  Tuck             v     Andy Pattison
David  Mcrae          v  Ian McAllister
 
Tony  Hedley          v       Keith Gray   (Never fails to happen eh Keith ?)
Mark  Livingstone   v     Rob Owen
Chris  Brock           v     Bruno Gaultier
 
Andy  Lawrence     v     Michael Jones
Dan  Cussack        v     Neil  Taylor
Mark Knott             v     Peter Mcourt
 
Rory  Whaling       v   
Steve  Goldie        v
Nick  Fecitt            v
As  stated already, the third highest scoring team from the top two matches will  play Rory, Steve and Nick unless we had a last minute entry from another  team.
5.20pm prompt on Sunday 24th March
Ian Mc 
        

Concordia Squash Players,                                     
The final took place last night (Friday 1st March) with Don Pattison putting up a valliant effort against Ian Morton.
With an age difference Don wouldn't  want to mention, he did well to take the first game 21-15, Ian however was  just too strong in the final third of the match and managed to overhaul the -10  to +6 deficit in a measured fashion and won 21-19, 21-16. Match to  Ian 2-1 to take away a trophy and winners prize of £40. 
Thank  you to those who turned out to watch the match, I'm sure the finalists appreciated the support and enjoyed the game all the more playing to a crowd. Thanks to Les Carr who turned out throughout the weeks to mark games during each round of the competition. 
Watch out for the closed competition after Easter. 
Ian Mc 

Concordia Squash Players,
                                    
  The semi finals took place last night (Monday 25th February) Don  Pattison played Keith Gray and Mark Livingstone played Ian
Morton. Don and Keith were closely handicapped at +6 and +4  respectively. As always Keith gave 110% and worked extremely
hard to return many of Don's deceptive and often delayed shots. Don  was just too accurate and showed his experience in mixing things up  throughout the match. Don won 2-1 but truthfully, on another day, it could have gone the other way. A great game to watch.
The other semi was similar  in that both players were closely handicapped. (-8 and -10) Mark  Livingstone has improved massively this season, his introduction to team squash  has seen his game go up to another level in both technical ability  and court movement. Both of these players are fine hitters of the  ball, there is no doubt that Ian has gone through the junior coaching
programme and shows us all how it should be done. This meant for a great  battle with many long rallies to the back of the court as well as  some very hard work by both players retrieving each others drop shots on a  cold court. This also went to the wire with Ian just getting there in the third  game winning 21-17.
There was a good turn out to watch the games  which was great to see. Thank you to Steve Goldie for marking Ian and
Mark's game. 
The final is at 6.40pm on Friday 1st March. Please
come along and watch the match.
Ian Mc      

Concordia Squash Players,
                                     The first of
the knock out rounds were played on Monday (11th February). The 6 match winners  plus the two highest scoring losers went into the draw for the next round. Thank  you to Dave Buckle for hanging back to draw the names out of the hat, he had a
bottle of lager to finish anyway.
This is how the draw came out. 
 
Andy Lawrence (+3)          v             Ian Morton (-10)
Keith Gray    (+4)               v             Mark Knott (+5)
Don Pattison    (+6)           v             Nick Fecitt  (-6)
Mark Livingstone (-8)        v             Chris Brock (+8)

Keith Gray who always gives 110% reaped the rewards of  his hard work by going through as one of the highest scoring losers (33pts).
Nick Fecitt (30pts) was the other after a hard fought battle with Mark Knott who  is much improved this season and who had a 11 point advantage. Mark went through  winning 2-1.
The quarter finals to be played 6.40pm Monday 18th February  2013. Please come along and support the event.
Ian Mc

Concordia Squash Players,
                                    The draw for the knock out stage of the competition was carried out at Concordia bar last night (Friday) with the names drawn by Geoff Armstrong from behind the bar and adjudicated by Jim Bell who used to play squash 50 years ago.
This is how the matches came out. 
Kizer Khan (-8)           v     Andy Lawrence (+3)
Tony Hedley (-19)       v     Ian Morton (-10)
Nick Fecitt (-6)            v      Mark Knott (+5)
Don Pattison (+6)       v     Keith Gray (+4)
Mark Livingstone (-8)  v     Steve Goldie (-8)
Roland Smith (+3)      v     Chris Brock (+8)
 
All the games to be played on Monday 11th February 2013. (6.40pm start) The above list is the order in which the names came out of the hat and not necessarily the order of play.
The six match winners plus the two highest scoring losers go through to the last eight. Same format as before, best of three games to 21, American scoring. 
The quarters are scheduled for Monday 18th February 2013, 6.40pm.
Please come along to support the event.
Ian Mc        

Concordia Squash Players,
       Groups 6 to 10  played their 1st round matches last night (Monday 28th January) and here are the  results.

Group 6 Winner      Tony Hedley
Group 7 Winner      Ian  Morton
Group 8 Winner      Andy Lawrence
Group 9 Winner      Kizer  Khan
Group 10 Winner    Steve Goldie

All 5 group winners went through  having won both their matches scoring the maximum 84pts. Chris Brock joined  Roland Smith and Peter Edney on 80pts as highest scoring runners up however on  count back Roland and Chris go through. Sorry Peter but that single tin at 20-20  in the first game against Mark Livingstone was the clincher. Chris and Roland  managed to take a game (1-2) while beaten by Steve Goldie and Andy Patterson  respectively.
The points tally for the other players were as follows; Dave  Hall 42pts, Findlay Mclean 78pts, Dave Mcrae 74pts, Martin Davison 63pts, Jamie  Morton 72pts, John Ormsby 78pts, Neil Taylor 77pts, Rob Owen 73pts, Peter Irlam  71pts.

Those 12 successful players will play in the knock out stage on Monday  11th February 2013 (6.40pm start) I'll do the draw at Concordia bar on Friday  1st February. All handicaps will stay as they are.
A big thank you to Les  Carr and Graeme Sneddon who came up to watch the games and ended up marking  throughout the evening.
A special mention to Rob Owen and Martin Davison who  stepped in at the last to make the round robin format a success.

Cheers
Ian Mc