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EMC Squash Club is now in its 22nd year. We started playing in The Mardyke for a number of years in ‘93, then moved to the Barrs in ’98 but found our home in HF around 2001 and have never looked back since.

On Friday 27th March we held an Easter Blitz in the Highfield courts. It was well attended with 14 members participating in a fun blitz. Everyone was scheduled to play each other in a normal game to 11 par (so 13 games each) with some of the more experienced players starting on a negative handicap score-line of -7 to give the new beginners a fighting chance.

The night kicked off at 7.30 and was fast and furious with everyone getting on/off court without any time wasting, everyone determined to get as much squash in as they could, and everyone thoroughly enjoying the banter and good craic both on and off the courts.

By 10.00 everyone had about 9/10 games played and had enough squash so we decided to call and end to this portion of the night – but as usual it’s hard to get people off the courts and Don & Philip stayed playing ‘til after 10.30, they have the bug – true squash nuts. We all moved into the HF bar for some well-earned pizza and a few pints. The points were tallied from all the games and the top three were Eoghan (3), Eduardo (2) and Ginta (1) and they will each receive light tokens to award their endeavours. All in attendance also took away some Easter Eggs and a few squash balls.

Thanks to the HF Squash Committee for allowing us block book the entire facility for this EMC night – we definitely needed the 3 x courts. Thanks to Nathalie for organising the blitz and getting such a great number out for this night. Thanks to Bryan for organising the Eggs, lights, balls, pizza and bar. The night was a great success with some of the more experienced players taking time to give valuable squash advice to the new beginners. Everyone is asking for another night to be organised so we’ll be sure to do more of these during the quieter summer months. Anyone from EMC interested in trying out squash pls contact Bryan Aherne (Dept – VMAX Test).

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