Thurles Squash Club Notes

Thurles Squash for the first time, are delighted to be fielding two teams in the Munster Squash Men’s Division 2 League which commences this week. Team A which consists of Ciaran Maher, Tony Maher, Karl McLoughney, Darragh Butler and Kevin Moloney (Captain), are away this week to Sundays Well in Cork. Team B consists of John O’Donnell (Captain), Micheál Hassett, Martin Gleeson, Darragh O’Donnell and Pat O’Donnell are home to Celtic Squash Club of Waterford. Best of luck to all the lads in the coming weeks which will hopefully see a Thurles team put a Division 2 League Cup alongside the Division 3 one that was won earlier this season.

Munster League Division 4

Our Division 4 men’s team commence their Division 4 Munster League, which Thurles last year won, on Thursday night away to Sundays Well of Cork. The team is Luke Tough, Gerry Connaughton (Captain), Adrian Cleere, Kieran Slattery and Rory McLoughney. Best of luck to the lads.

Squash Blitz

The Squash club is running a blitz on Friday 15th of January. Matches start at 7.30PM promptly.This is a team event, open to ladies and men, with every entrant getting to play three short matches “against the clock” over the course of the evening.
Contact Gerry on 087 2634313 to enter.This is a great opportunity to meet up with other members of the club.
This should be a fun night for all players no matter what their standard!.

The Munster Closed in Dunhill, Co Waterford on Sat/ Sun 23/24 January. Entries on line now through Tournament Software with the deadline next weekend. If anybody encounters any difficulty with this system please contact the Tournament director, Mary on 0868875759. This is always a fun event in a very friendly club and well worth the effort

Leinster Junior Open
Sarah, Philip and Eoin O Connell were the Club representatives at the Leinster Junior Open in Dublin over the weekend. Played at 2 venues with a massive entry it turned into quite a marathon with the last match on Saturday evening coming off court at 9.10pm despite a 9 am start. When the dust settled on Sunday at 4 pmour best result was 3 rd place for Eoin in the boys u11 completion. He actually beat the no1 seed in round 2 and the eventual winner beat him in a really tough semi final. This represents a terrific result for Eoin as this was by far the best competition of the year with all our top juniors in attendance. Philip was unfortunate to meet a really fine English player in the first round and had to be content with a supporting role for a change. Sarah played well in all her games to finish 8 th overall