Lockerbie v Gala Squash

With the East of Scotland Squash League Season fast approaching; Gala Squash Club arranged a pre-season friendly against Lockerbie Squash Club, from the West Leagues, Lockerbie were playing at Home; this would be the first game either team had played since the Return To Squash post-COVID.These teams had never met previously so no players knew …

RETURN TO SQUASH

Dear Member, Upon the release of the Scottish Squash Guidelines for reopening of Squash Clubs (Scottish Squash Guidlines) please find below the measures that will be in place for your safety, and the safe reopening of our squash club.   Del Sharratt, Gala Squash Club TTreasurer, is the respected Covid officer, having run and still …

Scalp for The Reivers

Linlithgow 3s 7-12 Border Reivers Abhishek Kumar 3-0 Del Sharratt Sharratt rued his poor serves in this match. In every game Sharratt gave 3-4 vital points away just from serving out, this gave the momentum to Kumar and meant Sharratt just couldn’t string a run of points together. Once past the serve Sharratt generally gave …

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 …

3-in a row for Reivers

Abercorn 9-12 Border Reivers Nick Burton 1-3 Jordan Reid Jordan got the Reivers off to a victory with a hard fought 3-1. Jordan took the first 15-9 but the Borderer wasn’t going to have it all his own way as Burton fought valiantly in the second for a 15-13 to tie 1-1. But the more …

How Xciting

Border Reivers 15-7 Craigshill Xcite Del Sharratt 3-2 Walid Magby Sharratt started well in this rubber going 5-2 up fairly quickly.  Sharratt’s serves were accurate from the start and several points were won with Aces.  But once Walid got the hand back, Del would find it difficult to get the ball past him and this …

Post Christmas Blues

Dalgety Bay 2s 13-8 Border Reivers   Iain Penman 3-1 Jordan Reid This was Reid’s Debut for the Reivers and the youngster made a good start, Reid rattled off several points off his serves and won the first 15-11.  But that proved to be the only game that Reid won as the Fifer Penman took …