Carlisle squash veteran Ronnie Bell broke through his seeding to reach the national over 60’s final. Ronnie started the draw as the three/four seed and was expected to reach the semi finals of the National Squash Championships last weekend. However, he defied the odds and upped his game to knock out the number two seed Stephen […]
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Paul Bell won his sixth county championship title in a thrilling match beating clubmate Simon Gray 3-0, who produced a valiant display in pursuit of Cumbria’s top title. The men’s B competiton produced arguably the match of the night when Carlisle players Damien Whealam and Michael Bell clashed. In a high quality and very close
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Workington Leisure Centre will play host to an all new initiative to introduce potential players to the growing sport of Racketball. Racketball is one of the UK’s fastest growing sports. The sport is played on regular squash courts and is very similar to squash but is much easier to start-up than squash, and is a
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Report of the finals submitted by Ronnie Bell: The team played in stage one of the inter county in November and beat Cheshire 3-0 and Surrey 3-0 to reach the National Finals weekend . Thevenue was Coolhurst Squash Club London 11th and 12th January. Cumbria had to play Lancashire in the semis Final and won
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The team of Ronnie Bell, Derek Leaver, Trevor Musson and Terry Belshaw will be heading down to the Coolhurst Club in London this weekend to compete against Lancashire, Yorkshire and hosts Surrey in the national inter county finals. They will be competing to be known as the best Masters team in the country. Cumbria Squash wish
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Cumbrian juniors registered a fantastic performance in the British Junior Open – the world’s biggest junior squash competition. There were a host of impressive performances from the county’s junior who faced of some of the world’s top squash talent from Egypt, Malaysia and France. There was one top 20 finish, a host of top 30’s
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Carlisle Squash Club hosted this year’s competition with the winner of the O45 category being Dave Box beating Dave (Digger) Gray 3-2 in a great match. The Plate winner was Dave Lawson (Carlisle) beating Bruce Kemp (Wigton) 3-1. The winner of the O55 comp was Ronnie Bell beating Derrick Leaver 3-0. The plate was wonby
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The second round of the junior inter-counties saw Cumbria’s squash teams rise to the challenge to make three national finals. The U15 Boys have made the Trophy Final, which will be played on Saturday January 18. They will take on Buckinghamshire, Devon and Avon in matches. The girls were not to be outdone however, as
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The following message is from Cumbria Squash Chairman Tom Armstrong: “It is with sadness that I once again have to inform you of the passing away of another of our squash colleagues – Derek (Pym) Sharpe of Kendal Squash Club who died peacefully on 9 November 2013 aged 80, after having spent 15 years fighting
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Cumbria Squash’s county coach Paul Bell was honoured for his hard work and success at an awards ceremony last week. Paul is currently the head coach at Carlisle Squash Club, Cumbria County coach, assistant national coach to Irish Squash and current county champion. He has also previously won England Squash’s Young Coach of the Year
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