Souters shine in Border Team Champs

Darren Quinn, Iain Laing and Iain Gorman
Borders Team Champions 2025

The Borders Team Championship 2025 was played at Galashiels Squash Club and this pitted some of th ebest Squash players from across the region against each other. Teams Hailed from Galashiels, Melrose and Lauder, Selkirk, Kelso, Defending Champions Peebles and a Rest of Borders Select. The teams were put in two 3-team groups and matches played Monrad system so there was a 1-6 decided.

Group A
Peebles 1-2 Selkirk (Nick Ord 3-11 Darren Quinn, Graham Bensted 3-11 Iain Gorman, Sam Collin 11-5 Iain Laing)
Melrose & Lauder 1-2 Peebles (Jonathan Fletcher 11-3 Nick Ord, Jerry Cooke 9-11 Graham Bensted, Ted Lynch 3-11 Sam Collin)
Selkirk 3-0 Melrose & Lauder (Darren Quinn 11-7 Jonathan Fletcher, Iain Gorman 11-8 Jerry Cooke, Iain Laing 11-7 Ted Lynch).
SELKIRK 5
PEEBLES 3
MELROSE & LAUDER 1

Group B
Galashiels 1-2 Kelso (Dan Gittens 6-11 Phil Andrews, Del Sharratt 11-9 Derek Noffke, Richard Taylor 1-11 Colin Woodward)
Rest of Borders 2-1 Galashiels (Lucy Johnson 11-4 Dan Gittens, Alex Johnson 11-7 Del Sharratt, Alan Jobes 2-11 Richard Taylor)
Kelso 2-1 Rest of Borders (Phil Andrews 11-5 Lucy Johnson, Derek Noffke 11-7 Alex Johnson, Colin Woodward 11-2 Alan Jobes)
KELSO 4
REST of BORDERS 3
GALASHIELS 2

Wooden Spoon Match:
MELROSE & LAUDER 2-0 GALASHIELS (Jonathan Fletcher 11-4 Dan Gittens, Jerry Cooke 11-6 Del Sharratt)

3rd Place Play Off
PEEBLES 2-1 REST of BORDERS (Nick Ord 9-11 Lucy Johnson, Graham Bensted 11-4 Alex Johnson, Sam Collin 11-4 Alan Jobes)

FINAL:
SELKIRK 2-0 KELSO (Darren Quinn 11-7 Phil Andrews, Iain Gorman 14-12 Derek Noffke)