B1 Skipper Tim Westall writes:
Kicking off this year’s campaign in the Bucks league…
First up was Trev against Simon, a tricky left-hander. The first rally lasted more than 50 strokes and nearly floored poor Trev who puffed hard and narrowly lost a tightly contested first game. Simon’s error rate crept up in the second for Trev to squeeze back in, sustaining momentum to win the third and fourth. A few unlucky nicks then led Simon to a narrow victory in the 5th. 2-3
Next on was Ches against Craig. We would normally have expected Craig to be playing #1 and he was merciless with our poor Python. Only saw snippets of this game. 0-3
Then Tim played Greg, who did the decent thing by not mentioning his upcoming knee-op. This meant that he could not hop to the front of the court in time to reach any short shots, so the match lasted a brief 14 minutes. 3-0
Dan took on Justin who was all young and fit; a somewhat unfashionable look in the racketball world. Thankfully Dan was on precision form after a weekend’s intense squash and forced his younger quicker oppo into numerous errors. Spanking good win for Dan. 3-1
We then proceeded to the pantomime that is racketball doubles. After intense practice of doubles (hours spent on theory – 0, hours spent on court – 0), we found ourselves somewhat exposed against the Aylesbury boys who are big fans of the foursome format.
First on were Trev and Ches vs. Simon and Craig. Didn’t see this match but apparently reasonably tight, all things considered. 1-2
This left us tied at 9 points apiece with the final doubles match to play. Dan and Tim took on Justin and Greg for a feast of grunting, lets and off-the-ball collisions. Luckily our mix of brute force and front court finesse did just the job. 2-0
So we scraped it at 11 points to 9.
With Ches and Trev away for a large chunk of the next few weeks our cupboard is bare, so if you have a racketball bat and a pulse, please get in touch…
Tim x
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