Sunday 25 September 2011

hosting Lloyds SRC tour of Edinburgh (Sat, Sep 24)

The boys from the City arrived at Grange on Sat morning, fresh from a stern examination by ESC the night before.
The squash at Grange was a bit more hospitable, though first on court Allan Hamer and Christy Looby treated their Lloyds counterparts Simon Engelen(Captaining the tourists) & James Taylor to 3-0 defeats. The pendulum swung the other way as Nick Wood was beaten 3-0 by Kit Welsh who retrieved like his life depended on it. And Andy Whitelaw succumbed to Oli Litterick on the same score.
New Grange member Tom McEwan who was instrumental in the tour coming to Grange took on John Butcher and got us a 3-1 win. Gary Walker lost to Matt Cosby 0-3 so it came down to Gavin Fulton v Bob Sherlock. This duly went to five games, with Bob shading it 3-2 and gaining a close overall win 4-3 for the visiting team.

Allan Hamer v Simon Engelen 3-0
Nick Wood v Kit Welsh 0-3
Gary Walker v Matt Cosby 0-3
Gavin Fulton v Bob Sherlock 2-3
C Looby v Oli Litterick 0-3
Andy Whitelaw v James Taylor 3-0
Tom McEwan v John Butcher 3-1
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Lloyds' win 4-3, very close!

After the match, the touring team enjoyed pizza & a few beers in the Grange Pavilion. The banter was about the squash scene in London and Edinburgh and whether you should be able a certain ale in the french way "Deu-chars" and still get a drink!








Front: Gary Walker, Gavin Fulton, Tom McEwan, Andy Whitelaw, Nick Wood(all Grange SRC), Simon Engelen(Lloyds SRC captain)

Rear: Kit Welsh, Oliver Litterick, John Butcher, Bob Sherlock, Matt Cosby, James Taylor

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

So pre-season training has consisted of pizza and a few beers?


It's looking like another fun season of pizza and beer.


Richard

Loob said...

Can't change a winning formula. Get the pizza and beer ordered, if any squash happens as a result, then that can hardly be helped.