Chapel Allerton LT & SC
Wensley Ave
Leeds LS7 3QX

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Results
Mens A 1
Neil Guirey2
Dominic Hamilton3
Jim Lord4
David Lord5
Neil Baldwin6
Dave Allen7
Matt Rushby8
Tom Murton
Mens B 1
Joe Cybaniak2
Ian Cawthorne3
John Riley4
Janak Malkani5
James Tomlinson6
Ash Johal7
Alex Musselwhite8
Prem Sispal9
Mark Burnley10
Nick Bond11
Colin Berry
C Event1
Darren Wilson2
Stephen Widdison3
Julie Lawton4
Nick Marriott5
Gabriel Utterley6
Jas Panesar7
Ian Prescott8
Nigel Stallworthy
D Event1
Peter Fielding2
Ken Buckley3
Colin Mylette4
Ian Coulson5
Matilda Parslow6
Cath Limb  7
Dean Taylor8
Dan Colbeck9
Bally Notay  10
David Keogh11
Oliver Hinchcliffe12
Stephen Utterley13
Peter Smith   14
Steve Bairstow 15
Ian Milner 16
Oli Davidson17
Phil Hopps18
Iwan Williams
Ladies A1
Julie Lawton2
Matilda Parslow3
Cath Limb  
Ladies B1
Becky Rushby2
Alison Graham3
Anna Brown 4
Jayne Dixon5
Joanne Bowman6
Sue Cole7
Emma Stallworthy8
Sue Stent
Ladies C1
Bev Munro2
Audrey Coulson3
Juliana Caines4
Christine Baldwin5
Sally Merchant6
Ros Francis7
Linda Rosen8
Sylvia Blainey9
Anne Scott10
Gill Wagner