York & District Squash League

AGM

May 11^th 2018 19:30
Wiggington Squash Club
Secretary : Ian Ball (07793 038 077)   Treasurer : John Fletcher

YDSL AGM 2018 Minutes

To enter the Riley Cup 2018 to be played up to a final in the early part of next season, please contact Ian Ball.

http://yorksquash.co.uk/committee/

Defending Champions Kirkbymoorside 2 are looking forward to defending their title.

ENTRY DEADLINE MAY 31st

The York Open this year will move to a post-season slot in April 2018. The venue will continue to be York Squash Club. Precise dates to follow.

Kirkbymoorside 2 led by John Sugarman travelled the short distance south to Stillington Sports & Social Club to take on a Wigginton 5/6 team captained by Andy Frost.

Andy had been a been a marvellous supporter of the competition agreeing to 3 games in 4 days after early rounds were left too late and their QF opponents were still unknown a week before the final!  The big battle came in the semi final though.  Wigginton 6, currently bottom of the bottom division were away to David Lloyd who are sat at the top of the top division!  An eye watering handicap of 188 saw Wigginton 6 win through with the slim winning margin of 3 points.

KMS2 had an easier route to the final getting past Selby 4 easily in the semi-final.  Not surprisingly the away trip to the far north from the far south didn’t appeal and KMS 2 received the walkover.

Teams on the night:

Kirkbymoorside 2

Allan Bailey (drew)
Darren Kellett (lost by 14)
John Sugarman (c) (lost by 13)
Rick Eve (won by 12)
Steve Leech (won by 23)

Wigginton 5/6

Deborah Harvey (drew 39-39)
Bob Hollingsworth (won by 14)
Rachael Webster (won by 13)
Alan Hancock (lost by 12)
Andy Frost (c) (lost by 23)

Thanks to all the teams and Captains for making the event happen

Look out for the 2018 event starting in March

Many thanks also to Stillington for hosting the event

“England Squash have agreed to run a one day Level 1 course at the Dunnington club.

This will be for both members and attendees from the York and District area. The club is keen to further enhance our coaching capabilities and would like to offer this opportunity to all York & District squash players.

The training will be a full day both on court and in the classroom on :

10th February 2018

This one-day coaching award provides your first steps into coaching and is a pre-requisite for those wishing to take the England Squash Club Coaching Award (Level 2)”.

To register your interest or enquire further, please contact Fraser Anderson or Chris Martin at Dunnington Squash Club
07802 963069
chris ‘at’ martinassociates.com

York & District Veterans & Vintage Championships

2017

The York and District Veterans (o-40) and Vintage (o-50) were held at Wigginton Squash Rackets Club between Sun 19th & Fri 24th November.  There was a disappointing entry in both competitions but that did not detract from the squash played. Both competitions were played in an excellent spirit, with a great attitude on court which is always great to see.  Players came from Wigginton, York RI , York, Stillington, David Lloyd & Pocklington.

If anyone has missed out on the communication and would like to be informed directly next season, instead of failing to see notice on the website or not being passed info by club representatives then please email  Nick Clifford and you will be put on an email list for next season! – nickandsheila@tiscali.co.uk

To the finals night….despite having 12 (some dual members) out of 16 entrants Wiggy came away with two plate final wins and left the titles to go to David Lloyd & Pocklington players.

The Over 40’s Veterans plate was between Wiggy third team players Nick Clifford and Chris Codrai, there was no mercy shown despite a knackered knee as Chris put away Nick 3-0 against the team seeding……!

The Over 50’s – Vintage Plate was again two Wiggy team players Dave Bullivant & Mike Goryl but this time team nominations held true as Mike beat Dave 3-1.

The Y & D Vintage Champion 2017 is Alastair Dick of Pocklington who beat Wiggy’s Rob Cooper 3-0. Rob was getting into the match in the 3rd game as Alastair was beginning to “puff” a little but he held on to win. Alastair has had a season out of squash with an injury believing he would never play again , so it is nice to see him regaining his fitness and back on court playing. Congratulations.

The Y & D Veterans Champion is James Rollinson of David lloyd, despite being run close by Adam Smith (3-2) in round 2 then Mark Thomas (3-1) in the semi he beat Wiggintons Angus Clapham 3-0 in the final. Angus who ran a few miles on court, made too many mistakes to make the match go past 3 games, which a “Point a Rally” to 11 match cannot forgive. Congratulations James.

Chris Codrai & Nick Clifford : Mike Goryl & Dave Bullivant 
Alastair Dick & Rob Cooper : James Rollinson & Angus Clapham

20-03-18

The Entry deadline has passed for the 2017 Riley Cup.  There were 12 entries.  So a draw of 16 has 4 spaces.

The final is to be held at Stillington Sports & Leisure Club on January 27th 2017.

Top team is the home side.

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The squash club at Kirkbymoorside is approaching 35 years old and has a recent upturn in fortune so much so that a 2nd team was requested in the York & District League for the current season.

Sadly, it was too late to avoid major disruption and KMS2 has had to be put on hold for a season.  With a squash of 18 players for one team, the situation was difficult for Club Captain John Marsh and John Sugarman, the 2nd team Captain to be.

In a superb effort, John has set about creating friendly fixtures against the current Division 5 teams. Thank you to the teams already having arranged fixtures.  I will be keeping a track of the results on this website with a percentage table of games won.  If Kirkbymoorside are top of the table at the end of the season, it will be a good indicator that they will be at home in Div 4 not Div 5 next season.

24-10-17