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Summer 2010 BaD League

The Club enters 7 Mixed and 1 Womens teams into the Bad (Bristol and District) Winter League (www.badsquash.co.uk).

The final positions at end of the Summer 2010 season are:

Mixed A 1st in Premier
Mixed B 1st in Division 2A - Promoted
Mixed C 1st in Division 2B - Promoted
Mixed D 2nd in Division 2B - Promoted
Mixed E 3rd in Division 2A
Mixed F 2nd in Division 3B - Promoted
Mixed G 1st in Division 3B - Promoted
Womens 6th in Division 1

Well-done to the Mixed A, B, C, D, F and G teams who all won promotion. The Mixed E and Womens teams also played well in their respective divisions. The summer leagues has been unusual in that most teams were placed in lower divisions than expected, probably as a result of relegations at the end of last summer. This has led to significant success due a combination of more players continuing to play on during the summer, the introduction of new players, and the on-going development of junior players.

The Club has entered 2 Mixed teams into the Bad (Bristol and District) Summer Doubles League
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BLTSC Squash Closed Tournament Results
24th April 2010.

Champions

Mike Martin and Susannah Reynolds

Matt Clarke and Erica Howcroft

Matt Clarke and Adrian Barnes

The final day started with the ladies main event final between Susannah
Reynolds and Rachel Brindley. The first game was close, with Susannah
winning it. In the 2nd game Susannah changed style, and surged forward
after a very hard hit serve, to go 7 points to nil clear. That game was
closed out, and the same tactics proved themselves in the 3rd, with Susannah winning the match 3-0. Rachel had a good tournament, with a notable win against Harriet Minchin in the early rounds.

The men's final was between Will Rogers-Tizzard and Mike Martin. A battle
between youth and "considerable experience" was won by Mike Martin, a
previous winner of the event some 10 years ago. Mike played a controlled
game and did not allow Will many opportunities to use his short game to any great effect. Will still wowed the crowd with some excellent winners, and was pushing in the 3rd game, until some forced errors following accurate shots allowed Mike Martin to win the match 3-0.

The plate finals were much closer. Adrian Barnes, playing in a another
tournament in Exeter on the Saturday, arranged his final on Friday against
Peter Smith. Adrian, playing in his first Redland Squash Closed, was
matched by Peter Smith, with Peter drawing evens at two games all. Adrian forged a big lead in the 5th game, to the relief of his father watching
upstairs, a lead too hard for Peter to chase down.

The ladies plate final was between Erica Howcroft and Sarah Pritchard, an
all Welsh affair. Having gone 2 nil down, Erica staged a huge come back,
clinching the match 3-2. The game was the longest lasting of the finals.

Thankyou to everyone entered. I would also like to thank Richard Tookey and Alice Clark in help marking some of the finals. We hope to look at next
year arrangements asap and come back to you with a date for your calendars.

Matt Clark, BLTSC Squash Tournament Organiser.

Avon County Junior Championships – Redwood Lodge

Avon junior squash players competed in the county Junior Squash Championships at Redwood Lodge Country Club despite this Winters' freeze!

Juniors from 7 to 17yrs old competed for championship age group titles with some hard fought matches to become county champion. The large entries represented the recent upsurge of local participants of all abilities from novices to some elite performers who have National and European rankings. Junior squash is expanding in the area with a good selection of junior clubs and the elite players are reaping the benefits of local Elite Squash coach Hadrian Stiff who has competed at top world class level over the years. Contact Jan Ellis on 07789796282 for details.

Well done to the BLTSC stars who achieved some excellent results with Sam Ellis, Peter Joyce, Roushan, Ewan and Karima all winning their events. Congratulations also go out to Devin Welsh and Adrian Barnes for reaching the finals as well as the others who competed.

Results: Boys Under 17 Sam Ellis; under 15 Peter Joyce; under 13 Roushan Yau; under 11 Ewan Joyce. Girls under 15 Natasha Burrett; under 13 Molly Kendall; under 1 Karima Tyma.

BAD Squash Doubles tournament

The weekend 9th-11th October saw the BAD Squash Doubles tournament held at BLTSC.

The format was best of 5, American scoring, with no strokes being given!
There were 3 formats, Ladies, Men's and Mixed.

BLTSC Results:

Alice Bishop and Jan Ellis played in a left handed/right handed partnership.
The ladies played a league system, with every team playing everyone else.
Jan and Alice played very well, winning half of their matches.

Matthew Clark and Alice Clark played in the mixed tournament, eventually
winning the Mixed Plate tournament against Nigel Tovey and Caroline Moore.

Matthew Clark and Gary Loughran played in the men's plate final, going two
nil down. A quick change of position, with Gary playing against the hard
hitting left handed opponent proved very useful, allowed the BLTSC guys to
draw level at 2 games each. Matt and Gary eventually lost out, losing the
match 2-3.

Annual Club Closed Tournament 2009

Alice Bishop and Barney Elworthy

The annual BLTSC club closed tournament was played over a period of 6 weeks with all Bad League and internal box players being automatically entered and then given the opportunity to opt out. The Men's tournament was broken into A, B and C grades based on league and box positions.

The Ladies final was played on Saturday 25th April between Alice Bishop and Ann Manley. This was a repeat of the 2008 final and resulted in the same victor by an identical score, i.e. Alice beat Ann 3/1. The Mens A was won by Barney Elworthy who repeated his 2007 and 2008 victory by defeating Frank Ellis 3/0. The matches were running late which meant those turning up early for the annual end-of-season dinner and dance were able to watch and support their favourites.

After the prize presentation, 60 members and partners attende the dinner, which this year was a hot buffet. This was followed by the captain's speeches. An excellent local Bristol band, Wired 4 Sound, provided live music late into the night (www.wired4sound.org).

Ladies Squash Success

Ann Manley, played in the Avon over 50's team that has won the county national over 50's championship for the 3rd year in a row!

Alice Bishop and Claire Kedward played in the Avon County first team in March in Thame, Oxfordshire. Although they did not win their matches overall, they were in the potential promotion spot so stay in the same league for next season.

Alice Bishop and Karen de Klerk were chosen to play for the Avon county 2nd team in January in Leeds. We came 2nd out of the 3 teams at the weekend event after winning one match, and losing the other.

BLTSC Ladies A team beat Redwood A in the Prem B play off by 4 matches to 1.

BLTSC Squash Handicap Tournament Final 2009

The 2009 final was contested by Julian Tizianel (-23) and Tim O'Leary (-8). The final was a very close contest with Julian eventually emerging the 2-0 winner, in a match that could easily have gone either way.

The first game saw Julian steadily chip away at his starting deficit to catch Tim just in time to overhaul him 17-15. The second game seemed to be going Tim's way until Julian put together a run of 12 consecutive points to take the lead. Tim fought back valiantly to get himself back in front, only to falter at the final hurdle with Julian putting together another run of points to close the game out 15-13 and take the trophy.

England Squash Inter-County Championships 2007/08

BLTSC are justly proud of being the home of five of the six players successful Avon men's over 45 team. The team came away from Winchester Squash and Tennis club with a resounding success in the England Inter-County Championships scoring an almost perfect 59 out of 60 points. Devon coming second with 31 points shows how strong the Avon performance was which sends them into the premier inter-county division next year to face the squash elites which include teams from Lancashire and Yorkshire.

Thanks must go to Winchester for being such welcoming and perfect hosts. And also to the Devon, Sussex and Hants teams who all took part in the competitive, good spirited and fun weekend (both on court and in the bar) - this all being what makes squash so special.

Well done also Mike Martin, Mark Taylor, Nick Drysdale, Ben Dillistone and Mark Regan for representing Redland and not least to Captain Jeremy Goulding from Lansdown Bath.

England Squash Inter-County Championships 2007/08
Stage Two
Category: Mens O45
South Promotion
Division: 1

National and County Honours

The following Club members represented either their county or country in 2007:

Frank Ellis (Scotland 035 & Avon O35), Ben Dillistone (Avon O45), Mark Taylor (Avon O35 & O45), Mike Martin (Avon O45), Mark Regan (Avon O45), Paul Barham (Avon O45), Nick Drysdale (Avon O45 & O50), Paul Gaffney (Avon O50), Ann Manley (Avon O50), Alice Bishop (Avon 1st), Karen de Klerk (Avon 1st), Ruth Drysdale (Avon 2nd & O40), Claire Kedward (Avon 1st), Peter Joyce (U13), Sam Barham (U18) and Dan Barham (U13).

At the World Championships in Capetown October 2006, Ann Manley won the O60's, Frank Ellis lost in the semi-final of O40's, and Mark Taylor won the O45's plate. Peter Joyce is reigning England U13 Champion.

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