Comberton adult leagues third team ends up third!

After an exciting second half in division four of the Cambridgeshire adult leagues Comberton III have ended up third overall. Although this puts us out of the running for promotion we were only 5 points behind the second placed team Cambridge IV. Perhaps this is fair enough since in the second half they had up-ed their performance turning a 10:18 loss to us in the first half of the season into a 17:8 win this year. But we can take some pride in keeping our play up to standard - we actually beat convincingly the overall winners Crown Lodge II 17:6 this half - inflicting one out of only four defeats on them.

Special mention goes to Steve Swanton who was captain and a regular player for the team with a highly competitive 8 wins out of 11 matches. Our top performing juniors were Andy Hall (5 wins out of 7), Euan Macnamee (8 wins out of 12), Ben Stutchbury (7 wins out of 8) and, in the first half, Nils Downes with 3 wins out of 5. Martyn Symmons played in the most matches with 8 wins out of 15 at number one. Neil Stutchbury (9 wins out of 11) and Mike Macnamee (5 out of 8) put in a number of crucial performances; but most reliable adult players were Julia Dolman and Mike Kenny with a 100% record each with 3 wins out of 3 matches apiece. We were also lucky to have excellent support from Ken Brewer and David Cronk who turned out for a single match each. It says alot for the spirit of the club that over the course of the season we never had less than a full side. Our overall stats were played 17 won 12 - Cambridge IV had the same match tally and the winners, Crown Lodge II, had only one more win to their name.

It was an exciting season and we have had some wonderfully competitive squash on show. As the older juniors, who showed such improvement over the season, move on up to the second and first teams, we will be looking to recruit more juniors to play for us in the new season.

Our pre-season training sessions will be starting over summer so why not come along and improve your game so that we can count on you in September?