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Our junior county champions were crowned last weekend, as over 50 juniors joined us at Northern Squash to play for the titles. BU111st – Freddie Gilberg2nd – Harry McBride3rd – Rory Pearsall It was a welcome return for the BU11 event, which wasn’t held last year. Freddie and Harry topped […]

Congratulations to all the medalists from The Northumberland Club Summer Open that took place from 6th – 8th September. Ben Gibson took the top spot in the A event beating Dave Barnett 3-1 in the final, while Waqas Gul won the 3rd/4th playoff v Hashir Kifayat. In the B event, […]

The 1st England Squash silver event took place in Doncaster last weekend and we had 10 juniors representing Northumbria. BU13William Brocklehurst finished an impressive 8th after winning his 2 matches before losing to the top seed in the QF. Huey Lamb placed 15th, exceeding his 17/25 seeding. GU13Emma Little won […]

The Northumbria Squash Summer League 2024 Play-offs took place at Tynemouth on Saturday 14th September. The top four from division one were invited to the play-offs with Eldon 1 winning the league overall. Unfortunately Northern Juniors 1 could not take part so Nothern 1 stepped in to take their place. […]

Emma Turnbull (Newcastle Uni/Northumberland) represented the Cayman Islands at the recent CASA 2024 Championships in Guyana. Emma led the women’s team to bronze, winning 2 of her 4 matches at #1. In the individual women’s event, Emma won her opening 2 matches but lost in the QF to the eventual […]

Congratulations to Ken Johnson, who finished an excellent 4th in the MO80s at the World Squash Federation World Masters 2024. The biennial event, held in Amsterdam for this year’s edition, hosted the best men’s and women’s players from around the world in categories from O35s to O80s. Ken was seeded […]

The Sarah Jones Doubles Tournament was held on Saturday 20th July at Northern. This was the 2nd edition of the event and commemorates Sarah Jones, a charismatic Northern Squash player and county committee member who we sadly lost in 2023. This year’s event saw 20 players, including Sarah’s children Sophie, […]

The inaugural MatchPoint tournament, the Northern Summer Open, was full of great quality, exciting squash across all 5 grades. 56 players from all across the North East were competing to win, with close to 100 matches played over just 1 day. The main A event final was contested by 2-time […]