The Northerns Junior Squash Association Closed tournament is compulsory for selection to an IPT team to represent the province.
- Closing date for entries: SUNDAY 14 MAY 2017 at MIDNIGHT
- No late entries will be accepted. Entries must be made online.
- Entry fee: R240 (non-refundable / includes a R15.00 SA Schools Squash levy)
Click here to enter.
Here are the NJSA High Schools league results to date. Another round of matches takes place today. Theses results don’t include today’s round: NJSA HS league results 21 April 2017.
This past weekend saw the second qualifying tournament for 2017 SA Top 10 rankings for the u14, u16 and u19 age groups – the SA Schools Closed that took place at the Parkview Squash Centre in Johannesburg. Northerns were well represented with 4 players per gender per age group participating.
The following players achieved exceptional results:
- Awande Malinga, 2nd girls u14
- Damian Groenewald, 2nd boys u14
- Reece McLachlan, 3rd boys u16, Valme Webster 1st girls u16B
- Helena Coetzee, 2nd girls u19, Mikael Clayton 3rd boys u19, Blaine Verhage 4th boys u19, Sascha Steyn 2nd girls u19B
Congratulations to all our players who participated – don’t forget it’s already a great achievement just to be there.
Here are the final results from this weekend’s tournament: NJSA Graded 2017 RESULTS.
As you can gather there was lots of fierce battles on court and the Graded Format seemed to have worked out well for all.
To the outside players, thank you for the time, effort and cost to visit Blue Bull Country and join us this weekend – Central Gauteng, KZN, Mpumalanga and Free State were represented. It is always a pleasure hosting you and please spread the word.
Below is the link to the NJSA section on the Northerns Squash Website. Please set this as a quick link as all information is posted on this website from (including the SA School Squash Calendar) https://www.northerns.co.za/njsa-documents/.
Below are potential tournaments (including the COMPULSORY NORTHERNS CLOSED) for the rest of the season prior to IPT’s.
We also have our SA Country Festival Tournament end April, targeting the fringe IPT players. Please keep an eye out for emails and information.
March
| 10-12 | U11/13/14/16/19 | Central Gauteng Open Graded Event
– Western Rackets Squash Club |
Irene Maxton
072 296 5611 |
| Tba | U14/16/19 | Kwa-Zulu Natal Junior Open
– Pietermaritzburg |
Sally White
079 695 6702 |
April
| 28-30 | U11/13/14/16/19 | Alan Stapleton Eastern Province Open
– Port Elizabeth |
Verity Loftie-Eaton
083 366 4329 |
| 28-1 May | U13/14/16/19 | SA COUNTRY SCHOOLS FESTIVAL
– BLOEMFONTEIN |
MARGO MORGAN
082 337 0478 |
May
| 12-14 | U11/13/14/16/19 | Easterns Dunlop Open
– Boksburg |
Grant Robinson
082 413 2444 |
| 19-21 | U11/13/14/16/19 | Northerns Closed
– Pretoria |
NJSA |
Thank again all, have a wonderful week, and keep the kids on the court with this brilliant game, a game that our Springboks and Proteas play to keep fit.
The Bloemfontein Junior Open is the first qualifying tournament of the year and it’s here that the players get a chance to put up their hands for SA Top 10 positions in the u14, u16 & u19 age groups. A number of Northerns Juniors did just that and although there are no SA rankings for u11 & u13, Northerns did well in these age groups too.
Here are the top 10 results:
- U19: Mikael Clayton (2nd), Helena Coetzee (3rd), Blaine Verhage (4th), Bronwyn Doeg (10th)
- U16: Reece McLachlan (5th), Joha van der Merwe (10th)
- U14: Damian Groenewald (2nd), Gareth Craigen (4th), Catelin Robson (5th), Brett McLachlan (6th), Zené Fourie (8th)
- U13: Luhann Groenewald (1st), Liam van der Merwe (4th), Jarrod Cousins (5th), Deneil Beukes (6th), Hubert van Eck (7th), Ashton Weir (10th)
- U11: Patrick Weir (1st), Juan-Corné Brand (8th)
Attached is the UPDATED draw – NJSA Graded 2017 DRAW, formats and Friday time slots. Saturday will be released tomorrow BUT please check at the venues as those will be taken as the correct draw times.
Most of the draws follow:
- Swiss Pairing for Rd 1-2 and Round Robin for Rd 3-5
- Boys A is only Swiss Pairing
- Girls A is also only Swiss Pairing however I will revert with the changes
- Boys C & D are 8 players in a section broken 2 Pools of 4 with Cross Pool.
Venues
Harlequins Club Pretoria
- -25.768905, 28.220824
- Totius Street, Groenkloof
- Friday will be busy in the parking lot due to a road race registration. Please be wary of the public
C B C Old Boys Club
- -25.771396, 28.220788
- George Storrar Drive, Groenkloof (next to Virgin Active)
- CBC night market will take place on Friday night, so parking might be a problem. However players and parents are welcome to have a look around and grab some food at the market.
Pretoria High School Old Boys (PHSOB)
- -25.760996, 28.254384
- Queens Crescent, Lynwood
Each venue will have a court organiser who will act on the tournament referee’s behalf and thus hold the same authority with regards to decisions.
Please report to them upon arrival to the courts. Venues will also have a facility to sell refreshments
Playing Times
- Friday: 17h00 to 20h30
- Saturday: 08h00 to 18h30
- Sunday: 08h00 to 12h00
Prize Giving
Sunday +- 12h30 at PHSOB. Prize Winners must be present to claim prize.
Lucky draw for attendee’s at Prize Giving … we giving away a phone value R3,000
Regards, Brett Cousins – organiser
Here is the information on the 2017 NJSA High Schools league:
The Northerns Junior Open Round Robin lived up to expectations of high quality squash over the past weekend. With 150 entries the players were grouped in 26 sections and spread over 4 venues. It was a mammoth task to get the draws done but the tournament ran like clockwork.
A much anticipated all Northerns boys u19 final saw Mikael Clayton, fresh from a plate win in the US Junior Open take on Blaine Verhage whose squash has taken another step up since last season. The massive crowd that gathered – the biggest ever at a Northerns Junior tournament – was not disappointed. The match went to 5 sets with Mikael clinching it 11-9 in the end, after coming back from a set down twice in the match. Zian de Swardt was 3rd.
In the girls u19 final Charlotta Loggenberg from Free State took on Shanel Potgieter from Northwest. Both are SA Top 10 players from 2016 who are vying for top honours again in 2017. A tightly contested match saw Charlotta come out as 3-1 winner but not before both players had shown total commitment in diving to pick up balls and even playing shots while laying on the ground in one instance. Northerns’ Helena Coetzee was 3rd on points despite earlier beating Charlotta Loggenberg 3-2 in the cross-pool playoffs.
In the boys u16 final Damian Groenewald who is still u14 took on the big boys to win the section against Brett McLachlan who made the final despite being still u13. Earlier Brett ousted Gareth Craigen, another top u14 player who joined Northerns this year courtesy of attending Pretoria Boys High and ended 3rd. Some of the u16 boys played in the u19 section, which opened up the section considerably.
In the girls u16 section Almari Claassen won, with Valme Webster in second place and Jeanemie Vorster 3rd.
All the sections offered exciting squash throughout the weekend and there is much to look forward to for the rest of the season.
Here are the full results:
All the prize winners at the weekend’s tournament.
Draws at the various venues:
PLEASE NOTE:
- Venue addresses and GPS co-ordinates have been included
- Court Stewards and contact numbers have been included
- Girls u11 / u13 has been combined
- Draws must be checked for final venues and times AT the start of the tournament.
- Players must be available to start matches from 17h00 on Friday
- Play will end around 21h00 on Friday, 19h00 on Saturday and 14h00 on Sunday
- Players NOT attending the prize giving will forfeit their prize
- Players must be available for the entire duration of the tournament. No reschedules will be allowed.
- Players are to ensure they ready to play 30 MINUTES before the scheduled time of their match.
- Arriving later than 10 minutes after the scheduled time may result in the player conceding the match.
- FOLLOW-ON system Players must go onto court immediately after the match prior to their scheduled match.
