Cambs Squash

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This year’s tournament in memory of Cambridgeshire’s much-missed junior coach Brian Fielding was held at Fenland Squash Club on Saturday 12 December. There was a very good turn-out, especially for the morning section, Group A, which necessitated the re-shuffling of some competitors into the more demanding Group B!

First Half Review and County Closed Call Up

Well the first half seems to have flown by and we are now heading into cup matches; Christmas and then the County Closed –more of which later.
So a few passing thoughts regarding performances and predictions for 2010

Div 1 – With so many players to call upon and with Galen playing again Hunts County look nailed on for the title. With Pete Dickinson and James Berry unbeaten and James Powley looking comfortable at 2 it’s hard to see anyone getting past them on a regular basis.

New Sponsor

Hopefully you will read the reports about the first County weekends and will see the pictures of the squads in the new team shirts.

I’d like to express my thanks to Roel and April Van Es (Martech) who have kindly sponsored the County shirts. Finding sponsorship at any time is difficult but perhaps more so in the current economic climate.

Thanks also to Martyn Dadds ( Dadds Stringing ) for all his help in sourcing the shirts.

Team Sponsor - Martech

Ladies Team

The first stage of the Ladies Inter County took place at Daventry Sports Club in Northamptonshire. The Cambs team of Ann Babtie (1), Julia Dolman (2), Mhairi Dougal (3), Jo Scrivens (4) and Faye Kowalewsky (5) were in good spirits and feeling fresh ready for the weekend.

The first match against Leicestershire was potentially going to be the hardest of the weekend. Captain Faye got the girls off to a flying start with a comfortable 3-1 win over Kim Muttock.

Sponsored by Martech

Mens Team

Report: Inter Counties Stage I Divison 1B.
Location: Hunts County SC, Hemingford.
Date: 14th/15th November 2009.

Match 1: Cambridgeshire v Kent.

The first ever Cambridgeshire Girls U13 County Team gave a great performance in their Stage 1 matches in Leicestershire.

The county was represented by Tayla Mounter, Nadine el Refee, Emily Fuller and Emma Barnard.

They beat Leicestershire 2-1, with only Tayla more than meeting her match in England’s number 3 player, Mari Taylor.

This was followed by a great win over Worcestershire, 3-0, with only one game being dropped.

We just lost to Warwickshire, who were overall winners on the day, 6 games to 5, with the one game making the difference between first and second place.

Senior County Weekend 14-15November

Our senior teams play their first County weekends of the season and will be wearing new strip – sponsored by local company Martech Engineering.

Martech sponsor a number of sporting teams including Sawtry Colts football teams and are best known to the Squash community since the company is owned and run by Roel Van Es.

With Sammy Chambers still injured (get well soon mate) the Men’s squad is
Harry Leitch, Steffan Morgan, Neil Rossin, Dan McGinn, Nick Brown, James Powley, Matt Fielding and Rob Dadds.

Girls Under 19 County Team

This weekend the GU19s County team, Elsje van Es, Nayera el-Refee, Hayley Green, Kate Hendry and Emily Philpott visited New Malden Squash Club for the first fixture in this season’s Harris Cup Championship.

The girls, who have never played together as a team before, were very pleased with their 3rd place. Surrey (1st) and Kent (2nd) played strong teams and the Cambs girls were only able to snatch a few games in the first two rounds with Nayera performing particularly well against Surrey’s Francesca Ritchie who is ranked #20 in England.

Emma Powley - a potential champion of the future.

This weekend saw the restaging of the Cambs Senior Gran prix event where our top players are invited to play a round-robin event, which we hope will help our County Captains with their selections for the season’s upcoming county matches.

In the “Men’s” event we had a number of notable absentees through injury and unavailability. However with the addition of our top lady player Carrie Hastings into their draw there was a real buzz about the 2-group format.