Holidays affect squash contest

Press, 2 September 1977, Page 22

Holidays affect squash contest

Absences because of the school holidays and because the Canter-, bury junior team is in aucKiaud ■ robneo tne latest rounds 01 the* A grade squasn competition of| a lot oi interest. In tile womens grade. two. teams, Burnside A and High School Old Boys B. were forced to deiauit. Burnside was without Kathy Graham, who was in hospital, and Donna O’Grady, who was In the junior team. The main interest tor rite night was the meeting of the two: Christchurch teams, the A and* the “primadonnas,” as the B side has become known. Although beaten by three matches to one. the B side showed great determination to keep the competition leaders on the court for more than three hours and a half. The highlight of the match! I was Lloyd Williams’s win over Laurie Wilson, which earned him the Fendalton Wine Shop’s player of the week award. Williams played a heady game, mixing the occasional delicate [drop with his usual strong crossI court driving and. with his de- ; termination a little greater than Wilson’s, he was a deserved win,ner in the fifth game. ' Barrie Matthews, after taking the first two games in quick time from Neville [dour, appeared to lease ofl enough to enable Idour to take the third game, 10-9. and push the fourth game to advantage. Bruce Trangmar has been • Placing well for the A team this: year and he bad little trouble in first game with veteran

Roger Monk. But his ascendancy was shortdh ed as he had been : failing to build up a pattern to his game, tending instead, to rely on his speed of shot to win! points. , Monk ran more freely as the (match progressed, reaching many ’of Trangmar’s drives at half-, i court, boasting superbly to draw Trangmar to the front of the court, and then pushing him to ’the back. In the end. Trangmar'won in four High School Old Boys B won well against Linwood in spite of Peter Jellyman having his third i win on end for Linwood. John Oakley joined the list of those who have beaten Mike| • Grant in inter-club this year, although the match failed to' 1 reach any great heights as both! men made too many unforced! errors. John French won comfortably in three games against Allan! Corkin but Ryan McCutcheon • had to recover from two games < down against Howard Marshall,’ Without two of their regulars. 1 High School Old Boys A , struggled to beat Sumner seven games to six. Two lower grade players, Alan Lowe and Matthew! Clements, acted as adequate fill-' ins and showed that the depth of the game in Canterbury is improving. Agnes Huriwai failed to win. a game from Burnside’s Lynj Chamberlain but she certainly • deserved one as she put up a grand fighting performance. This was the Burnside team’s only win on the night. For Christchurch A, Philippa Lush had to stay on the court longer than usual against Cezare Bowen. Joan Terrell made a great come-back from two games