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The 2018/2019 ODSA Open City League season came to a close on April 17, 2019. This year saw 1886 individual matches involving 290 different players. Congratulations to this year’s league champions: OAC2. While standings were very close each session, OAC2 managed to narrow out the competition each session for 5 consecutive first place finishes. Congratulations to all of the divisional…
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Between March 22 and 24, close to 60 junior players congregated at La Sportheque to compete in the 9 Boys and Girls age categories, and in two Mixed Novice events, at the Quebec Junior Championships. Several players competed in more than one event, with Marat Sargsyan, of Montreal, beating Romain Salmon 12-10,12-10,4-11,11-4 for the BU17 title, and Robert de la…
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Results from the 2019 Cascades Winter Open that took place the weekend of March 15-17. Division A David Guest (OAC) Dan Julien (Goodlife Queensview) Stephane Lussier (RA Centre) Nicolas Dupont (OAC) Division B Pierre-Vincent Daigle (NDHQ) Dale Poirier (OAC) Felix Scholberg (Cascades) Stephane Dubytz (Orleans) Division C Stephane Carini (Cascades) Kurt Rausch
On short notice, the Gloucester Squash Club, of the Orleans Recreational Centre, stepped in to fill a void in the schedule, when another club was forced to postpone it’s event. On February 15 – 17, players from seven different clubs took part in A, B and C events, with competitors from the host club victorious in two finals. In the…
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On February 9-10, 2019, just under 70 junior players converged on the Goodlife-Queensview club in Ottawa, for the playing of the Jesters Harrow Junior Silver #6 event. Separate Gold, Silver, and Bronze events are played in different Ontario cities, leading up to the finals in Toronto in April. The hosts really appreciated the efforts of all the out-of-towners to get…
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Congratulations to John Larabie who is a 2019 recipient of the ODSA’s Volunteer Commendation award. For more than 25 years, John has energized in turn Carleton University Squash teams and the Nepean and Barrhaven Squash Clubs, provided dedicated coaching for budding junior players, developed comprehensive developmental training programs for Club players and has been a cohesive, organizational and social element for Nepean…
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This post comes as a result of a number of complaints I have received this year and not from one single incident and is not directed towards any individual team or club, but at the league as a whole. Also, this is not relevant when league nights coincide with an incident regarding personal safety (e.g. inclement weather that is preventing…
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Sixty players, including visitors from Montreal, Kingston, and Stratford, took part in the RA Squash Club’s Winter Open, January 24-27, in -20 degree temperatures (outside!!!). Alan Smith, a past Executive Director of Squash Canada, ran a well organized event, as he has done on so many previous occasions. In the Men’s Open “A”, David Guest forced the teenaged winner, Dominic…
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