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Entries close 12 January 2008

From Tina:

Wow school starts late. Here is the deal. They will have to download the application and give it to me at the time with entry fee otherwise they have to pay $5 late fee (GCSG rules not mine)but I will need to know that they are playing for sure

Anyone who wants to play in the GCSG at the end of the month should sign up soon, or at least make sure that you get your applications downloaded.

It would be really helpful if anyone is going to use the “downloaded application” method (to save the late fee) would let us know in advance that they plan to enter.

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GCSG Winter Games – Squash

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Tucson resident and AZSRA member Bart McGuire won the United States squash doubles championship at the beginning of April in the 65-and-over age group. McGuire and his Canadian partner won four matches at the tournament, which was held in Philadelphia. Their last three matches, including decisive 3-0 wins in the semifinals and finals, were all against players who had won national championships in prior years. Read the rest of this entry »

The weekend of February 10-11th, 2007 saw some great squash. 25 players participated in the 3rd Tucson Grand Canyon States Games Squash Event. Read the rest of this entry »

Winners and Powerplay recipient, squash

A event Gold Darin Randles Silver OV Singh Bronze Larry Kaye

B event Gold Jason Newport Silver Manuel Gadea Bronze Weston Montrose

C event Gold Andrew Mclaren Silver Dan Huebner Bronze Gary Reed

Powerplay award This was a hard decision this year as we had 3 candidates. One player had to overcome major age differential to get to the semi finals where he only just lost to the eventual winner. The combined age of the 3 other semi-finalists equaled his! Read the rest of this entry »

Round robin 3 games

Still to be played Velu vs Kaye and Velu vs Reinthal

2007 GCSG Tucson schedule (and results)

All events being held at the Tucson Jewish Community Center.

The first B match was held on February 3, 2007. Manek defeated Zara – 3-1.

Saturday – Feb 10, 2007

Sunday – Feb 11, 2007

Hi all and Happy New Year

This year the Tucson squash tournament is going to be held February 10-11th (with the possibility of early rounds played the week-end/week earlier.This will allow us to have more than 8 per group, although I suspect it will be B and C events that this will apply to)

Entry books have been mailed out but you can also go to www.gcsg.org then go to events and registration, winter games and then squash

Hope to see you all again

Tina

Note – the direct link is Winter Games – Squash

June saw the second annual Tucson Grand Canyon States Games Squash Competition held at the Tucson Jewish Community Center.

There were 22 players in all out of which 7 players were from Phoenix the other 15 from Tucson.

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GCSG Tucson Schedule

Saturday

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Squash in Tucson

The Tucson games are fast approaching June 3rd and 4th. There are 3 divisions A players for the 4.5+ , B event for the 3.5-4.5 and C event for the 3.5-. We only have room for 8 players per group single entry only. All matches to be held at the JCC

Saturday matches will start at 1pm and semi’s, finals and consolation Sunday (if time allows we will try and play semi’s on Saturday)

To register go to http://www.gcsg.org/

Please support this tournament

Thank you

Tournament organizers

The first ever Tucson Games (part of the Grand Canyon Summer games) were held the week-end of June 4-5th. The event had a very international flavor and should have almost been called Tucson International games as the Arizona residents hailed orignally from Pakistan, India, Peru, Canada, England, Israel, Mexico and of course the USA taking part.

There was an A, B and C event with 8 players per catagory (maximum entry) . For a city with just 3 squash court, 2 at the JCC (venue for the Tucson Games) and 1 at the U of A, there was a fantastic level of play. Phoenix look out the boys from Tucson are coming!

The highly entertaining A event was anybody’s for the taking. A very strong 8 played , 4 local players and 4 Phoenix players. In his first round #1 seed and local Larry Kaye narrowly deafeated Darin Randles (Phoenix) in 5 games but then played #4 seed Alan Knobloch (Phoenix) in another 5 set thriller losing this time ofter being 2 games up. The 1 hour 20 minutes match against Darin surely had a say in the result. Alan having had a comfortable win over local Peter Reinthal. In Peter’s defence he was also the tournament coordinator.

The other half of the draw also had some great matches. #3 seed O.V Singh (Tucson) taking Marwan Maalouf (Phoenix) in 4 hard games. kaleem Beg (Phoenix) #2 seed and youngest player in the A event beat local player Peter Ryan the oldest A player in straight games. Age surely has something to do with this one. Kaleem then went on to beat O.V Singh in the much awaited Pakistan vs India match with Kaleem winning in straight games.

In the finals Kaleem beat Alan in straight games and thus taking the first Tucson Games title to Phoenix. O.V Singh then beat Larry Kaye in 4 games to take 3rd place. Larry’s 2 and half hours matches had taking their toll.

Gold winner Kaleem Beg (Phoenix) Silver Alan Knobloch (Phoenix) Bronze O.V Singh (Tucson)

The B event proved what a great talent Tucson has. Jay Gould #1 seed from Phoenix only just won his fist match in 5 games against Ron Ben-Dov (Tucson) but then lost his semi-final match in straight games to Joe Schmeider (Tucson), who in his previous round beat Kenny laguna(Tucson) in 3. Tina Fuselli (Phoenix) #2 seed also won her first match but then lost to Peruvian Manuel Gadea(Tucson) in straight games, who beat Weston Montrose (Phoenix) in the previous round also in straight games. In the finals Manuel came back from 2 games down to win in 5.

Gold winner Manuel Gadea (Tucson) Silver Joe Schmeider (Tucson) Bronze Jay Gould (Phoenix)

C event also had some great results. #1 seed Lee Hilton (Tucson) losing to late entry Richardo Ruiz in 3. John Evans (Tucson)the oldest player in the whole tournament beat Lance Labun (Phoenix) in straight games. In the other half of the draw another upset was had with #2 seed Chris Janton (Tucson) losing in 4 to Mike Evans(Tucson) the son of John. Joey Schmeider (Tucson) (the son of B Silver medalist Joe Schmeider and the second father and son entry)had a bye in his first round after his opponent had to forfeit and unfortuanetly no replacement could be found at short notice. In the semi- finals Richardo progressed beating John Evans but Mike made up for a non father and son finals by just beating Joey in straight games 9-6, 9-7, 10-8. In the finals Mike put up a great fight but Richardo took the title in 3 but the scorelines show either could have won 9-7, 10-8, 10-8. Mike’s earlier soccer match may have taken its toll. John Evans then took on Joey for bronze and again only just won 9-6, 10-9, 10-8.

Gold winner Richardo Ruiz Silver Mike Evans Bronze John Evans

A consolation event was also held for all forst round losers Marwan Maalouf beat Darin Randles in 5 ( maybe Darin should not have had a bet with O.V one game loser buys the drinks) to win the A’s Ron Ben-Dov beat Weston Montrose in 4 for the B’s Chris Janton beat Lee Hilton in 3 for the C event

Congratualtions to all players and thenk you to the JCC for making the first Tucson Games a great success.

See you all next year!

GCSG Tucson Schedule and Results

A – Beg, B – Gadea, C – Ruiz

Photos of the medalists