Cambridgeshire hosted the first County weekend of the 2011/2012 season at Hunts County SC. A team consisting of Galen Le Chemiant, Dan Soar, Robert Dadds, Neil Rossin and Steffan Morgan were hopeful of finishing in the top to places to gain a spot in the ‘promotion’ weekend.

Match 1 (Cambridgeshire v Norfolk).

Unfortunately Norfolk could not attend this annual event due to a clash of local events, but the Herts organiser Julian Craxton was able to play enough of the Herts Junior Players to give ours a good mornings outing.

Our squad comprised:-
U13
• Harry Hennessy
• Simon Carter
• Adam Peer
• Angus Gostick
U11
• Joseph Cox
• Matt Peer
• Jake Joyce
• George Hennessy

The Cambridge Ladies O50 squad of Sarah Howlett, Nicky Hastings, Rebecca Moore and Lynne Hayes travelled to Colchester to play Stage 1 of the competition.

Cambridge played Essex in the first match with Rebecca Moore and Sarah Howlett both having positive 3-0 wins. No 2 string, Nicky Hastings, sadly had to withdraw in the 3rd game injured. Cambridge beat Essex 2-1.

Cambs v Norfolk

A new season, a new division and a new line-up for the Cambridgeshire Ladies to kick off their 2011 Inter County campaign. Having gained promotion in the previous season the ladies were expecting some tough matches ahead in their first taste of Division 1 for some time.

The minutes from the Cambs Squash AGM 2011 are now available to download on the downloads page or you can download the minutes directly.

One couldn’t have asked for a more positive response to being relegated last season. As I planned the weekend, I was expecting the best result we could expect would be 3rd place. We were fortunate to have a change in venue that gave us a home advantage. The group consisted:

Cambridgeshire
Gloucestershire
Northamptonshire
Suffolk

Our first opponents were Suffolk who had previously beaten us comfortably and as we were a weaker than that previous encounter, defeat was on the cards. Well, I was wrong thanks to some superb squash from lower down the order. The result:

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What a great day for Cambridgeshire squash! We hosted matches with neighbouring counties Herts and Essex at Cambridge Squash club. Not an auspicious start with a back injury in the knock-up to Anne but she stayed on court and competed to at least give us all a chance. A team effort was of course needed more than ever and thankfully Nikki, Julie and I managed impressive (dare I say!) 3-0 wins to leave Julia the luxury of losing 1-3 to a very tough opponent but not without quite a battle. So a 3-2 win to start the day – not bad!