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Tynemouth teams crash in Racketball comp

Sad to report that Tynemouth could only finish second and third in the racketball team tournament held at the club today ...

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Club Champs Day Six - Finals

Finals day saw some serial winners retain their titles - Paul Millington in the men's, Hannah Cliff in the Women's, and John Thompson in the Vets.

Paul and Hannah both beat debut finalists in Peter Fargher and Sam Ward, no doub it's not the last we've seen of them on finals night. John overcame Colin McNestrie in five, but Colin's consolation is to take the Vintage title at the first attempt.

Biggest effort on finals day was by Jason Follin, who beat Paul Errington 3-2 at lunchtime, then Andy King 3-2 tonight, on his way to collecting the B, O35 and Racketball titles. Having siad that, several had to play two, three or four times today, so well done all of you !

Full results to follow ...

Sam collects a bagful while mum is left to scrabble for scraps

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Don't forget, for all your squash supplies call in at the club shop ...

Club Champs Day Five

As predicted Friday was the busiest day, with doubles, singles, vets vintage, tired bodies and empty glasses a plenty.

The evening kicked off with the women's semis, where Sam Ward beat mum Dawn in three, and Hannah Cliff beat Lucy Beecroft 3-1 in what was by all reports an excellent match. Three teenagers in the semis and two in the final sounds pretty good, doesn't it.

The doubles took its usual course with the mixed group - won by Cliff & Cliff - having fun while the macho men slugged it out in the other groups with hardly a smile between them. Millington and Iredale claimed a controversial victory in group C while the Sam & Lucy superteam dented a few male egos as the walked it in group B.

Yours truly acquited himself well against Mr Thompson considering I couldn't move more than a couple of feet an hour by the time we got on court, and as we speak the much-anticipated Cliff-McNestrie vets semi is still to go on court.

Update ... 10.15 and Colin takes the fifth13/11 to reach the vets final.

Finals start at around 4pm tomorrow ...

Club Champs Day Four

Millington moves into the final

Defending champion Paul Millington was first into the 'A' final, despatching Russell Hunter in straight games. The match started at Paul's favoured  ferocious pace, and Russell was minded to join in. There were some tremendous rallies in the first game, and the 9/2 scoreline scarcely did Russell justice for the effort he'd put in.

One observer (ok, it was me) forecast that the Alnwick man was unlikely to be able to keep that pace up, and so it proved as Paul raced to an 8-0 lead in the second with Russell now well under the cosh. Much to his own annoyance Paul tinned his first game ball opportunity, and Russell took advantage to claw a few points back. 9/4 this time, which on the balance of play was probably more than Russell merited.

He had some momentum now though, and managed to take an early lead in the third. At last managing to dominate some of the exchanges, and extracting a few errors from his opponent, Russell moved to a 7/2 advantage. That was as good as it got though, Paul tightened up, took control of the 'T', and took seven points in a row to clinch the match, 9/7.

"Too fast for me," said Russell afterwards. "I thought I played well in the first and got nowhere, but I got slaughtered in the second. I think he eased off in the third, but when I got to seven I thought I'd take that game. I wouldn't have won the match, but it would have been nice to take a game."

In truth Russell was beaten at his own favourite game - fast, hard, low, giving your opponent no time to think. "That's what I'm going to do to one these on Saturday," threatened the pummelled loser as he watched Ferret Fargher take on Joker Ward for the other place in the final.

Glenn took the first game in that match (which I didn't see as both semis were on at the same time), but thereafter Peter imposed his game to come out the 3/1 winner and set up a final which should be a real clash of styles - it could be a cracker.

John's out of gas

Incident of the night was John Thompson's late arrival. John works at Nissan and took delivery of a new Quaskhai (you know what I mean) today, and naturally assumed there was enough petrol in it to get him from Nissan to Asda in Boldon. Nope ... he didn't even make the A19, sputtering to a halt on the sliproad. A quick call to security brought him a canful, but of course his battery was flat too. To cut a long story short, he got here and won both his matches.

Friday frolics

With the ladies' first team having an away match tonight, their semis are tomorrow, which should be the busiest day of the lot with the doubles event alongside all the tidying-up main draw matches. Action starts at 6pm and it promises to be a late night ...

Steve Cubbins