Friday 18 January 2008

Firsts away v Colinton Castle 3 (Fri 18.01.08)

A hard-fought match against top team Colinton Castle 3.

Dougie subbed in and won 3-1 against Kim Byers, in a battle of the text books.
Christy lost 0-3 to Stuart Keane, who hadn't forgotten his first half beating.
Al lost 1-3 to Hamish Reid.
Alan Hamer lost a long first game against Mark Lord, then won the next 3 in sensational style 9-4, 9-0, 9-0.
Meanwhile Mike and whippet-like Gary Spiers were still plugging away at no.2, in what turned out to be an epic match and decider of the night. It the end, Gary found the extra energy to bag the last few rallies to win 3-2, and uphold Colinton's unbeaten run.

Overall 2-3, 11-16 on points.

Colinton are clear favourites for the league now. We are the only team close, and this widens their gap. On a positive note, we did better than in the first half, and tonight's score is the best result anyone has had off them yet. And they fed us generous portions of pizza.

Man of the match: A tough call - is it Dougie Brown for subbing in with an hours notice, having already played Pete Cockburn earlier in the evening, or Mike Perring for slogging it out. Click on comments to cast your vote.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Probably give MotM to Perring, he was 2-0 down and then turned it around. Dougie had a more comfortable time

Anonymous said...

It's got to be Dougie, a man of his age perfroming twice in a night is no mean feat!!

Anonymous said...

I vote for the player who was number 4 for the seconds just a couple of days before producing a devastating performance against Kim.

Well played to everyone. It sounds like a top squash evening. And pizza as well.

Richard

GrangeSquashClub said...

Having seen how rough he looked afterwards, I vote for Mike.
Al