Cambs Squash

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.

Cambridgeshire Junior County Closed Squash Finalists

Hunts County Squash Club in Hemingford Grey was once again the venue for the tournament, held over the weekend of 26/27 September. The overall turn-out was high, and it was particularly encouraging to see some promising young competitors from Abbotsley club this year.

The Grand Prix was held at Comberton SC on Saturday 12 September, and although it did not attract as many players from other clubs as we might have wished (seven of the twelve competitors were from the home club), the afternoon provided some very entertaining squash.

The first three rounds left two “old foes”, Jeremy Harris of Comberton and Gregory Goodwin of Hunts County, battling it out for first place, with Jeremy coming off best on this occasion over two tightly-contested games.

Team Captain Peter Hand is scouring the County for o50 men players who would be interested in representing the Cambridgeshire.

The first match takes place mid October so if you are interested please contact Peter on Peter_Hand@sky.com

Dave Gipson with help from Mark Williams of ES is trying to establish a Racketball league.

Initial concept is 3 players per team. 2 games per month.

So if you or your club are interested then please contact Dave on-
dave_gipson@yahoo.com

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GROUP COACHING SESSIONS

ES Level 3 Regional Academy Coaches Rebecca Moore and Bob Maison are planning to hold a number of group coaching sessions throughout the Summer.
These sessions are aimed specifically at Senior club level players looking to improve on basic techniques, tactical awareness , movement and fitness and will be an ideal way to spice up your Squash and to help provide an improved competitive season for your Cambs league matches or internal box leagues.

Light Blue Cup - Hunts County and Peterborough Town

Portway Perpetual Cup - Fenland and Hunts County

Hereward Cup - Abbotsley and Portugal Place

Cambridgeshire Squash Cup Finals were held this weekend at Hunts County Squash Club with some highly competitive matches to entertain spectators.

The Hereward Cup for Division 3 and 4 players was between Portugal Place and Abbotsley Squash Club. It was always going to be a tough match with Abbotsley, Div 3 winners for the season, going for the double.

This year’s tournament, held at Cambridge Squash Club over the weekend of 28/29 March, attracted over seventy entries - a significant increase on the last few years. Saturday’s events (in the Under 13 and Under 17 age groups) culminated in a U17 final of outstanding quality, with Toby Reeves (St Ivo) just managing to outlast Ben Northfield (Leys School) in a thrilling contest. Jeremy Harris (Comberton) edged out Gregory Goodwin (Hunts County) in a well-fought U13 final.