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NMSA newsletter #6 – NMSA Closed tournament

The NMSA Closed was held at PHSOB from 7-12 August 2017. This was used by many as a last minute qualifying event for IPT selection.

–      There were 44 entrants. Six Ladies competed (1 invitational).

–      Round Robins were played in 8 sections. It was possible to schedule at least one Round Robin in each age group (except for 35-39 & 40-44 which were combined into one group, since only 2 entries were received in the first group). Read more

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Junior IPT results and SA rankings

During the school holidays the Northerns juniors participated in the Inter provincial tournaments all over the country. Northerns had decent results and brought home 5 medals in total of which 1 was gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze. The u13 group did very well and won 3 of the medals.

The final positions of the Northerns teams can be seen in the table below and the full IPT results are available on the Squash SA website under Tournament results 2017.

Team Boys Girls
u19A 5 5
u19B 7 6
u16A 4 3
u16B 7 n/a
u14A 6 1
u14B 6 n/a
u13A 2 2
u13B 3 5

A number of players also made the top 10 SA rankings. Here is the full list of Northerns players below and the national list is available on the Squash SA website.

Age Nr Boys
u14 4 Gareth Craigen
u14 5 Brett McLachlan
u16 3 Reece McLachlan
u16 10 Joha vd Merwe
u19 1 Mikael Clayton
u19 3 Blaine Verhage
Age Nr Girls
u14 2 Awande Malinga
u14 6 Catelin Robson
u14 8 Zene Fourie
u19 2 Helena Coetzee