Thursday 13 January 2011

Over-50's Cup result


Mike Gore became the second player to win the Grange Over 50's Squash
Tournament last night in a good quality match against Bill Marshall.
Whilst the score was 3-0 this does not do justice to the closely fought
contest. Despite giving away a 7 point handicap to Bill, Mike quickly
pulled ahead in the first set with steady and error free shot making.
He kept Bill on his toes and to his credit Bill kept in a good many
rallies with quality retrieving. Neither player wanted to give away
easy points in the American scoring format which kept the rallies at
times long and conservative.

Bill built up a formidable lead in set 2
but again Mike was able to keep the rallies long and ground Bill down
to bring the score to 14 all. He prevailed to take the set 17-14 and it
was the same story in set 3. Bill had chances but Mike's fitness and
quality shot making enabled him to take the third 17-14 to win the
match in 3.

Mike took the cup and a great Titan Squash bag as the winner with Bill
a bottle of wine as runner up. Congratulations to both players.

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