It was never going to be an easy outing against a very good DLN1 side with every one of our players well below his opponent in Matrix rankings (as unreliable a guide as that can be…)
The Grange team started out very promisingly with Mark Dutton taking the 5th string match against Frenchman Gregory Leplatre 3-1. Gregory took the first game but then Mark wisely decided to go the "unorthodox" route with plenty of corkscrew serves and dives. That seemed to unnerve Gregory just enough to give Mark the edge…particularly the two point-winning dives in the last two rallies of the match.
Mike Gore likewise gave the Grange some hope when he was 2 games to 1 up against the useful Taryne Lowe . Taryne pegged him back though in the last two and Mike went down 2-3.
The remaining three matches were all very tough encounters indeed and I don't think any of the Grange players would mind if I just summarised by saying that while they all played very decent squash they were simply outclassed by better players on the night (results below). Each Grange player had periods where they matched their opponents but were never in with a realistic chance of taking a match given the way their respective opponents were playing.
A 7-18 loss for the troops….
| Pos | Player | Rubbers | Games | Points | Player | Rubbers | Games | Points | |||
| 1 | Alan Stokes | 0 | 0 | 5 | Ali Fleming | 1 | 3 | 27 | |||
| 2 | Allan Wallace | 0 | 0 | 9 | Ken Maxwell | 1 | 3 | 27 | |||
| 3 | Gordon Sloan | 0 | 0 | 5 | Charles Robertson | 1 | 3 | 27 | |||
| 4 | Mike Gore | 0 | 2 | 28 | Taryne Lowe | 1 | 3 | 36 | |||
| 5 | Mark Dutton | 1 | 3 | 33 | Gregory Leplatre | 0 | 1 | 21 | |||
| Total | 1 | 5 | 80 | 4 | 13 | 138 | |||||
| Competition Points | 5 | ||||||||||
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