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A massive 260 entries to the Dunlop National Racketball Championships 2012!!!


North East Regional Racketball Closed

03/03/2012 - 04/03/2012

Chapel Allerton LT & SC
Wensley Ave
Leeds LS7 3QX

Reports

Chapel A hosted the North East Regional Championships 2012 with 66 players from Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland competing in 4 Men’s and 3 Ladies’ graded events.

With last year’s Men’s B and C champions moving up a grade only Dominic Hamilton was defending his A title.

Dominic had a tough 5 games in his semi against David Lord coming back from 2-0 down whereas Neil Guirey had a much easier match against Jim Lord, the 2010 North East Champion.  In the A Final, perhaps not surprisingly, Neil came through in 3 games defeating Dominic 11/9, 11/7, 11/4 with some magnificent skilful racketball.

Men’s B also brought together two Chapel A players in the final – Joe Cybaniak, the recent Chapel A Handicap Champion, and Ian Cawthorne, a semi-finalist in the Yorkshire O45 Championships.  Ian looked like he was down and out after 2 games but brought all his years of guile and experience to the fore with a spirited fightback.  At 13 all in the 4th game a 5th game seemed on the cards but Joe’s youthful legs eventually carried him through.

Men’s C saw some amazing matches in both semis and final thanks to Barnsley’s Darren Wilson.  Running is clearly Darren’s forte getting to balls that most people would have given up on.  In the semi he came through 3-2 against Ladies’ A Champion Julie Lawton (Phoenix) after being 2-0 down and in a repeat of the Yorkshire Closed C Final gained revenge on Stephen Widdison (Collingham) with another great fightback from 10-6 down in the fifth game.

Men’s D was more straightforward with Peter Fielding (Barnsley) coming through in 3 games against Ken Buckley (Collingham).

Congratulations also to the three new Ladies’ Champions – Julie Lawton (A), Becky Rushby (B) and Beverley Munro (C).  Becky (Hallamshire) was involved in a very tight 5 game final against Alison Graham (Huddersfield).  Beverley, the only Ladies’ Chapel A champion this weekend, played Audrey Coulson winning in 4 games.

The tournament received many complements about the weekend and particularly how enjoyable it was.  The atmosphere around the club was really friendly and supportive, the quality of the matches was superb to play and to watch and everything ran so smoothly.  Many thanks go to Sue Stent for the many hours putting together the program, to Michele Stallworthy and to Sally Merchant for making the event run so efficiently and to Julie and Bernard from Raquette Bistro who kept us very well fed throughout the weekend.

Results

Mens A 
1
Neil Guirey
2
Dominic Hamilton
3
Jim Lord
4
David Lord
5
Neil Baldwin
6
Dave Allen
7
Matt Rushby
8
Tom Murton

 

Mens B 
1
Joe Cybaniak
2
Ian Cawthorne
3
John Riley
4
Janak Malkani
5
James Tomlinson
6
Ash Johal
7
Alex Musselwhite
8
Prem Sispal
9
Mark Burnley
10
Nick Bond
11
Colin Berry

 

C Event
1
Darren Wilson
2
Stephen Widdison
3
Julie Lawton
4
Nick Marriott
5
Gabriel Utterley
6
Jas Panesar
7
Ian Prescott
8
Nigel Stallworthy

 

D Event
1
Peter Fielding
2
Ken Buckley
3
Colin Mylette
4
Ian Coulson
5
Matilda Parslow
6
Cath Limb  
7
Dean Taylor
8
Dan Colbeck
9
Bally Notay  
10
David Keogh
11
Oliver Hinchcliffe
12
Stephen Utterley
13
Peter Smith   
14
Steve Bairstow 
15
Ian Milner 
16
Oli Davidson
17
Phil Hopps
18
Iwan Williams

 

Ladies A
1
Julie Lawton
2
Matilda Parslow
3
Cath Limb  

 

Ladies B
1
Becky Rushby
2
Alison Graham
3
Anna Brown 
4
Jayne Dixon
5
Joanne Bowman
6
Sue Cole
7
Emma Stallworthy
8
Sue Stent

 

Ladies C
1
Bev Munro
2
Audrey Coulson
3
Juliana Caines
4
Christine Baldwin
5
Sally Merchant
6
Ros Francis
7
Linda Rosen
8
Sylvia Blainey
9
Anne Scott
10
Gill Wagner

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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