With only three rounds remaining of the Parkes Services Squash Centre B grade competition, Collins have the lead on 304 with Popes closing in on 301.
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Burkes are in third with 293 and Maddisons round out the top four on 274.
Fifth place is held by Van Der Merwes on 270, followed by Baxters on 259 with Pyes not far behind on 251.
Coming in the final place at the moment is Paradowskis on 247.
Brett Davies performed very well last week with a convincing win over Monika Parry.
Brett started well by taking the first game 15-4 before Monika evened things up in the second 15-11.
Brett proved too strong, taking the match in four 15-5 and 15-8.
Ali Creith has taken up one of the vacant spots to finish out this comp.
She took to squash quite naturally when she played another relatively newcomer last week in Laura O’Shannessy.
Laura took the first game 15-10 and the second 15-12. Another close game in the third saw Laura take the match in a long game 17-16 with both players showing promise.
Rachael Whiting and Liam Pope played a hard fought five set match.
Despite winning more individual points 64-60, Rachael could not grab the win.
Rachael took the first 15-4 before dropping the second 15-8. A win in the third saw her take the third 15-11.
Liam took the fourth to even the scores 15-12.
A fortunate short call in the fifth saw Liam grab victory 15-14 in the decider.
Team scores were as follows:
Collins 36 def Pyes 14; Popes 26 def Baxters 24; Van der Merwes 31 def Burkes 19; Paradowskis 30 def Maddisons 20.
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A Grade
Kross’ hold on to a good lead with 313 in the A grade competition.
Second place is just held by Poons on 303, with Kings one point behind on 302.
Rounding out the top four is B.Nightingales on 295.
Swindles are in fifth on 288, followed by K.Nightingales on 263.
The bottom two spots are held by Smarts on 226 and Williams on 210.
Last week saw lots of players out due to injury and holidays. Katie Healey was ably replaced by older brother Justin last week and he scored a 3-1 win over Shanna Nock 15-14, 11-15, 15-14, 15-11.
With the Nightingale family away, Mitch Helm stepped in for Kristen Nightingale.
Mitch has moved to Newcastle and been playing in competition.
Richard King was in fine form though, beating Mitch 3-0, keeping him to 16 points 15-8, 15-4, 15-4.
Despite winning in three, the game scores between Ron Jackson and Greg Buckley were very close.
Ron took the game by only eight points 15-13, 15-13, 15-11.
Team scores were as follows:
B.Nightingales 33 def Smarts 17; Kings 29 def K.Nightingales 21; Swindles 27 def Kross’ 23; Poons 29 def Williams 21/
Nominations are now being taken for the next competition starting at the end of May.
Players of all abilities can be catered for, including beginners. Contact the centre on 6862 4555 for further information.
