Comfortable wins in squash finals

Press, 1 July 1985, Page 22

Comfortable wins in squash finals

Steven Wren (Sumner) and Dianne Steele (Linwood) were comfortable winners of their finals when the Slazenger Canterbury under-23 squash championships ended at the Bumside club courts yesterday. The best matches were in the men’s semi-finals where both Wren and Michael Allred (Burnside) had closely contested five-set encounters with their opponents. Players had to contend with a slippery floor for most of the week-end. Results: Men.— Semi-finals: Wren beat Sean O’Brien (Burnside), 9-3, 10-9, 5-9, 2-9, 9-0; Allred beat Nigel Lloyd (Burnside), 97, 6-9, 9-5, 3-9, 9-6.

beat Allred, 9-6, 9-2, 9-4. Special plate: Lloyd beat O’Brien, 9-3, 9-7, 9-4. Plate: Michael Penman (Lancaster Park) beat Tristan Franklin (Mount Pleasant), 9-5, 9-1, 4-9, 10-8. Consolation plate: Vaughan Utteridge (Otago) beat Mark Whitaker (Christchurch), 9-2, 5-9, 9-4, 9-5. Women — Semi-finals: Leigh Graham (Bumside) beat Diane Hartland (Suburbs), 4-9, 9-6, 95, 9-3; Steele beat Joanne Turner (Bumside), 9-5, 9-4, 9-2. Final: Steele beat Graham, 9-4, 9-1, 9-7. Plate: Elizabeth Chambers (Burnside) beat Joanne Hopkins (University), 9-1, 9-1, 9-3. Special plate: Turner beat Hartland, 5-9, 5-9, 9-6, 9-4, 9-6.