Edinburgh Open 2020

The 2020 Edinburgh squash Open took place at Edinburgh Sports Club over the last few days. Entrants included former World Champion Karim Abdel Gawad (Egypt), former World Championship Runner up Paul Coll from NZ and amongst other Scotlands top 3 players Gregg Lobban, Alan Clyne and Rory Stewart. This event also included Category Draws as …

Charity Event

Over £200 was raised by members and guests of Galashiels Squash Club for the Galashiels Foodbank. CHARITY EVENT TEAMS A1 Iain Laing, Brian Magowan, Anita Laing A2 Graham Bensted, Iain Gorman, Cameron Couper A3 Amir Hosny, John Armitage, Jonathan Fletcher B1 Pat Spence, Darren Quinn, Albin Laing B2 Piers Wilkinson, Jack Neary, Nick Jupp B3  …

Just What the Doctor Ordered

Border Reivers 15-4 NHS Select Tony Elliot 3-0 Dave Shields (15-6, 15-0, 15-1) Pat Spence 3-0 Sandy Morris (15-11, 15-13, 15-13) Del Sharratt 3-1 Paul Neary (15-13, 15-10, 12-15, 15-10) Iain Gorman 3-0 Brian Magowan (15-11, 16-14, 15-11) Darren Quinn 0-3 Sir Andrew (13-15, 10-15, 13-15) As the East of Scotland squash league season fast …

East of Scotland Award for Reivers Captain

At The East of Scotland squash End of Season Presentation dinner several awards were handed out, Edinburgh Sports Club were crowned East League Division 1 Champions and Heriot Watt triumphed in the East of Scotland Cup.  But in the individual awards Gala Squash Club Captain Del Sharratt was awarded the prestigious “Clubperson of the year” …

Docs put to Dock

Border Reivers 12-5 NHS Borders   Iain Gorman 3-0 Vineeth Ravindran The first match of the night, seen The Reivers Gorman, who is vastly improved from last season, against Vineeth Ravindran for the NHS. This match was slow to get going, with the players exchanging points until 7-6 for Gorman, then the Reivers no. 5 …

Festival of Squash

Edinburgh Sports Club hosted the third annual Festival of squash; this was a graded tournament culminating in Scotland v Rest of World featuring Current World No.1 Mohammed El Shorbagy.  In the Graded Tournament, Gala Squash Club Captain Del Sharratt was flying the flag for the Borders. Del lost his qualifier 2-0 to Young Dylan Pearman …

Schools’ squash compeition comes to Gala

On Wednesday 16th June, 2016, several pupils from Jedburgh Grammar School (JGS) and Galashiels Academy S1 and S2 gathered at Gala squash Club for the final of the inaugural Border’s Inter School Squash Championship. The JGS Team was Steven Dawson, James “Veg” Wieczysty, Kerry Munro and Daisy Findlay and representing Gala Academy were Blair Turner, Sean …

New Ladies Night

Thursday is the new ladies club night. Typically from 6.30-9.00. Sandra, the membership secretary, is organising a ladies club night. The ladies meet at the club around 6.30pm and play “round robin” format so that everyone gets lots of court time. Everyone is welcome whether they are club members or not: costs are £2 for …