The Clare Squash Club held its annual junior squash tournament on the weekend, where young squash enthusiasts from around South Australia turned up for 2 days of exciting and high quality squash. 38 players entered the tournament with 14 travelling up from Adelaide, 7 from Burra, 2 from Ceduna, 1 from both Roxby Downs and Tanunda joining 13 from Clare.In Division 1, top seeded Andrew Wise (Campbelltown) progressed through to this year’s final to face second seeded David Fumpson (PAOC). The final was of an extremely high standard with David triumphing 3-1. Lucas Norman (Norwood) defeated Matt Lokan (Karadinga) in the playoff for third.
Division 2 saw the two top seeds in Alyssa McInerney (Karadinga) and Zac Robertson (Adelaide Malibu) reach the final with Alyssa victorious 3-1. Tyler Goldstone (Adelaide Malibu) defeated Oliver Norman (Adelaide Malibu) in the playoff for third.
Top seeded Oliver Pearson (Clare) and his younger brother William contested this year’s Division 3 final. With two proud parents looking on, Oliver was able to hold out his brother to win 3-1. In the playoff for third, Trent Noble (Clare) defeated Sam Haydon (Clare).
Divisions 4 and 5 were contested by some of the tournaments younger players, but there was certainly a lot of potential seen in the matches.
Joe Wiblin (Clare) and Will Sumner (Burra) progressed to the Division 4 final, where Joe ran out the winner. Lauren Thomson (Clare) defeated Tayla Scholefield (Roxy Downs) in the playoff for third.
Division 5 was won by Sarah Thomson (Clare) who defeated Lauren McInerney (Clare) in the final with Sarah Salter finishing in third place.
Squash South Australia’s head coach travelled up to Clare in the weekend and said that he was very impressed with the standard of junior squash in Clare and would be coming back on a regular basis to keep an eye on the progress of the local players.
