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_First round Playoff Matches – the week of the 5th of March onwards

Second Playoff Matches (finals week) – the week of the 12th of March onwards

As the end of Winter League season approaches, please find below the playoff rules for clarification for all the matches to be played. These are designed to be fair to all clubs so no ringers can be drafted in to strengthen teams as stated at the beginning of the season.

·         For all leagues of 7 teams (Super League and Division 1) - Players who play in the playoff matches have to have played for that team a minimum of 4 times during the League season up until the last match.

·         For leagues of 6 teams (Division 2, 3 and 4) - The minimum amount a player has to have played is 3 times as there are less matches through the season.

·         If there is any doubt over the players who have played and the amount they have played, the decision will be made by the Norfolk Squash committee after looking back at the seasons records/ matches.

·         All league matches have to be played and completed before the week of the 5th of March (some exclusions allowed).

·         Playoff places – the team finishing higher in the league has the Home advantage –e.g. 2nd will be at home and 3rd will visit the 2nd placed team. The same goes for 5th and 6th positions - The chosen night is also favourable to the home team but if it cannot be made a 2nd alternative date must be arranged to which the away team must accept. Failure to do so will forfeit the match.

To clarify the Playoff rules.

If teams are positions 2nd and 3rd in each division - The winner goes through to the next playoff week to play the loser from the division above (finals week - 12th March onwards). The loser is out and will not get another chance to be promoted or win the title in the Super League. Their season is effectively over.

If teams are positions 5th and 6th (or 4th and 5th for Divisions of 6 teams only) – The winner will survive the seasons relegation and will have no more matches to play – their season is effectively over. The loser however then goes into the playoff finals week the week after to play the winner of the above (2nd vs 3rd winner).
 
Second Round Playoffs (Finals Night!) – The loser of 5th and 6th (or 4th and 5th for Divisions of 6 teams only) will then play the winner of the Division below (2nd or 3rd) with the team in the Division above having Home advantage. This will decide who stays up and who goes down. Normal league match rules apply, the team who wins plays in the Division above, the loser the Division below. The night is also favourable to the home team but if it cannot happen a 2nd alternative date must be arranged.

The Final for the Super League (Grand Final) - the 1st placed team in the Super league has Home advantage - the night is also favourable to the home team but if it cannot happen a 2nd alternative date must be arranged and must be accepted.

For example. If it finished below:

Super League
5th – Broadlands
6th – Potters

Division 1
2nd – EATSC 3rds
3rd – North Norfolk

Broadland vs Potters – First round Playoff match - Broadland at home and chose night(s). The winner survives season. Loser plays winner of Division below. Eg. If Broadland win (see below)

EATSC 3rds vs Norfolk Norfolk – First round Playoff match  - EATSC at home and chose night(s). The winner plays loser of Division above. The losers season effectively over. E.g if Norfolk Win (see below)

Broadland vs North Norfolk (Finals week) - Broadland at home and chose night(s) as in Division above. The winner plays in the Super League the next season. The loser plays in Division 1.

We hope this clarifies everything, it is promising to be an extremely exciting finish to the season in every Division and the best for a long time.

_Racketball Grand Prix – February 12th – 10am – 5pm - Diss (Heywood Sports)

Calver stakes his claim to lead Racketball charge before County Closed

In dominant style, Heywood Sports club's own Dan Calver, who was seeded one, won the first ever open Racketball competition to be held in Norfolk, this past weekend at the Heywood Sports club in Diss. Calver won the event - Event 1 of the Norfolk Squash and Racketball association Grand Prix series, without the loss of a game and in doing so staked his claim as a serious contender for the first ever County closed Championships which will be held at Broadland Sports club later this month on the 25th and 26th of February.

Other participants who will be eagerly looking forward to the County Closed are the Heywood Sports Club resident professional Jack Bell, Potters and Broadland Sports Club member Rob Hambrook, former county squash champion Richard Millman, runner up in this years county women's squash championship Nicky Green and Diss junior Thomas Hunt, all of whom gave creditable performance in this first ever Racketball event.

Paul and Ryan Harris of both Diss and Bury turned in fine performances also with Paul Harris's secret training regime of pre, mid and post match red wine seeming to only improve his vintage performances.

For full results see the draws on the Racketball button.

To enter the County Racketball closed, download a copy of the entry form on the Norfolk Squash website www.norfolksquash.com and also email your interest to millmansquash@gmail.com

_ Date: FEB 25TH/26TH (Friday night the 24th if numbers demand) | Broadland Sports Club

Venue:
Broadland Sports Club | Main road | Fleggburgh | Gt Yarmouth | NR29 3AE | Tel 01493 369 651

Come and win yourself a county title and/or have a great time trying – 3 matches guaranteed in draws of 3 or more!

In the event of there being any doubt as to the category a player may enter, the final decision will rest with the organisers.  Competitors may only enter a maximum of two events.

An entry fee of £14 (additional event -  additional £5) which includes a free Tecnifibre Squash Shirt, and snack food throughout the weekend, must accompany this entry form with cheques being made payable to ‘Norfolk Squash Rackets Association’.

Event organiser:  Richard Millman | Racketball Event | Broadlands Sports Club | Main rd | Fleggburgh | NR29 3AE

Closing Date for entries: 12 noon Monday the 20th of  February 2012

Forms can also be submitted by email to Richard Millman at millmansquash@gmail.com. Monies paid by CHEQUE and once received, guarantee entry.

The 11th to the 15th of January 2012 will be the official dates for the up and coming 2012 NORFOLK SQUASH CLOSED CHAMPIONSHIPS!

ENTRY FORM NOW AVAILABLE ON THE HOMEPAGE

You can now email it and pay one the day!

For a limited time Norfolk Squash and Norfolk Junior Squash will offer free entry into all events and coaching in exchange for a copy of a Business Landline phone bill that the business is willing to let our sponsors Comm-Tech Voice and Data review.

In other words if your entry fee or county coaching fee is £12 or £17 for 2 events, you can save yourself that money by scanning and sending ( with the permission of the business owner) a copy of the Business phone bill to me: Richard Millman (Managing Director Norfolk Squash) at millmansquash@gmail.com.

Alternatively you can mail it to me, Richard Millman (Managing Director Norfolk Squash), c/o Broadland Sports Club, Main Rd, Fleggburgh, Nr 29 3AE. Your entry will be free if Comm-Tech have reviewed the bill before the events - or if they get it after the event, we will refund the fee as soon as they have received the bill for review.

Get money back! If you have paid an entry fee in the last 6 months and can send us a Business phone bill now - we will give you that entry fee back once Comm-Tech have had the opportunity to review the bill and talk to the business.  

Club teams - if you have a five man team - send us five Business phone bills and we will refund your league entry fee (four person teams - four bills). Even the summer one. As soon as Comm-Tech gets the bill to review. Don't forget the club phone bill - that's one!

County coaching - send us a business phone bill for each of the last few County coaching sessions you have come to and we will refund you your county coaching fees - as soon as Comm-Tech gets the bill to review.

In addition submit a business mobile bill,  if the account is switched to Comm-Tech, you will receive your FREE Tournament or County Coaching entry, and NJS will receive £50 from our Sponsors Comm-Tech

This really is money for nothing. £12 or even more for a piece of paper!

Act now, get your refund or free entry and help Norfolk Squash and our sponsors Comm-Tech!'

Click here to take you to all the reports and full information on this years winter leagues.

A big well done to the U15’s Boys who played Stage 1of their  Inter County Championship held at EAT&SC. Results attached.
Held on the Sunday the 9th October and the team photo.

GRAND PRIX RESULTS!

Series 5 - Rossis North Walsham

Congratulations to Jamie Goodrich again of Potters who has now won 3 Grand Prixs out of the 5 so far. He was winner in the final against Ian Cox of Broadlands in the top division. Phillip Slack won his first Grand Prix in Division 2 after a close game with Jason Gollaglee.

For full results click on this link here!!

Full official Standings

1. Jamie Goodrich
2. Ian Cox
3. David Goulby
4. Matthew Bolt
5. Adam Sinkins
6. Steve Moxey
7. Jack Bell
8. Phillip Slack
9. Nick Toddhunter
10. Jason Gollaglee
11. Martin Dack
    
12. Drew Butchart
13. Martin Jolley
    

Having played throughout the 1980s and 1990s without ever winning a summer league title East Anglia’s strength in depth has been rewarded since the millennium and they have now added the 2011 Premier League Title to their successes in 2001, 2006 and 2009.

East Anglia went into their final match without David Youngs who is in plaster after tearing tendons in his arm and Liam Nolan who was suffering with an ankle injury but they were still able to put out a strong line up. Gareth Joubert won the opening fourth string match against Andy Wright 3-2 and Ashley Briggs had a comfortable straight game victory over Liam Baines at No.3. Both teams then got the points they were looking for when John Cordeaux beat Richard Hunt 3-1 in  the second string match which was closer than the score might suggest and then in the final match of the evening and also the summer Potters’ Dave Gouldby beat Tim Allenden, who was making a welcome return after injury, 3-1.

Barnham Broom II clinched the Division One title by winning 14-8 at North Norfolk. Devendra Mahatme did beat Pete Blackmore 3-1 but Adam Goodson won 3-1 against Tim Perry while Adie Martin came from 0-2 down to beat Kevin Blake 7-9 2-9 9-0 9-0 9-5 and Luke Plumridge did the same as he beat Martin Guppy 2-9 4-9 9-1 9-4 9-7 in the first string match.

Wensum Lodge have taken the Division Two title despite losing their last match 12-7 to Fakenham. Marco Valori and Steve Cunningham both won their matches 3-1 but for Fakenham young Martin Jolley had an excellent 3-1 victory over veteran Graham Woodford while Adam Sinkins won the first string match against Ian Pearson in straight games

A big congratulations go to the divisional winners - East Anglia, Barnham Broom II and Wensum Lodge, a big "thank-you" to Tim for running the leagues for us and to our Sponsors for the whole of the Summer Season - ANACO Air Conditioning from Norwich, we really do appreciate all the support that you give us!

All FINAL tables, Reports and Division title winners can all be found by CLICKING HERE - Enjoy!

Many Thanks

Please note that due to a clash of dates with another Squash event being held on the same date as the 4th of September 2011, we have now moved the date to the 2nd of October 2011 to cater for all.

Please can all Squash club, pro and players post on your club notice boards and promote by any means necessary. If you would like to enter now, just fill in the form attached and send back by email and send a cheque too the address provided or pay on the day. The entry form is attached.

The entry form can also be found on the Norfolk Squash website by clicking here http://www.norfolksquash.com/series-5---4th-september---north-walsham.html.

In the last Series 4 at Fakenham, Jamie Goodrich, Adam Sinkins and Nicky Greene all won their respective groups. If you fancy your chances against them then get your forms in earlier than later. For full results of the Series 4 and rankings , you can click here to read them http://www.norfolksquash.com/series-4---7th-august---fakenham.html.

The Grand Prix’s are a great chance for everybody to try themselves against other similar standards of Squash players around the County! It works by dividing players up into Groups of their rough ability, where they then play either a cup or round robin format depending on the amount of entrants in their range. So it therefore caters for all standards – from the top Norfolk Players, the up and coming youngsters, the club and league player, women and ladies team players and even other counties and players if they wish! To see all results of winners of the previous Grand Prixs, you can read them here http://www.norfolksquash.com/nsra-grand-prix-series-2011.html

5th June 2011 - 2nd Series of 5 - Oasis Sport & Leisure

Quick Report

SERIES 2 - OASIS Grand Prix RESULTS! A big congratulations to Jamie Goodrich of Potters who won the second series Grand Prix today by beating off stiff competition from Liam Nolan and Matthew Bolt in the final round robin! A great days squash was on show again. Also a huge well done to our other group winners Adam Sinkins of Fakenham who beat Tony Gay in the final group and Nicky Green of Kings Lynn who comfortably won Group 3!

A great first few weeks of the Summer season.. For full report, writeup, and tables just click here

All new "NSRA GRAND PRIX SUPER SERIES 2011"

1st Series of 5 - April 24th 2011 - Entry Deadline 22nd April (Entry Form below)

2 Venues - Broadland Sport Centre and Rossis Leisure - Depending on amount of entrants

The time has come to now announce details of the rumour of the extremely popular Norfolk Squash Juniors Grand Prix being copied to the Norfolk Squash men’s circuit.

Well, we have been working on this for a while and are now pleased to announce the new "NSRA Grand Prix Super Series 2011"!!

The Grand Prix super series is (as of today) now open to all Norfolk Squash players of all levels and abilities (from the top England players right down to the very beginners, juniors and ladies) as a way to test themselves on a regular monthly basis to determine the overall Norfolk ranking. 

1st Series of 5 - April 24th 2011 - Entry Deadline 22nd April (Entry Form below)

2 Venues - Broadland Sport Centre and Rossis Leisure - Depending on amount of entrants

The idea for the Grand Prix is to familiarise Norfolk players with more competitions so that other competitions on a regional and National level become a lot more familiar for players who would like to progress. Currently there is only 1 Competition per year, the Norfolk County Closed. By having 5 highly competitive, very fun, fast paced and quality events, this will increase players standards as well as introduce them to a system where they can see where exactly they are in the Norfolk Squash rankings and pecking order and then know where to improve and what they have to do.

So moving on to the details!

• The Grand Prix Super Series will run over the Summer months to co-incide with this years new Summer leagues, over a course of 5 months with 1 tournament each month lasting 1 day on a weekend - starting from April and running until August 2011.
• The series will be held over 5 different zones around the county - North (TBA), East (Broadlands), South (TBA), West (TBA) and Central (TBA) to promote equal opportunities for everyone around the County.
• Each player will also represent their designated zone by the club they play for (this is just to help us gauge where to develop the lesser areas of Squash too and for future plans).
• Entrants will need to attend at least 2 events out of the 5 to determine their Norfolk Ranking.

THE RULES - How it works??

Tony Henden (Organiser of the extremely popular Junior Grand Prix) explains how it works. The NSRA Grand Prix ranking system is designed to help players monitor their progress, to reward their achievements and also to assist organisers with seeding players for the tournaments and coaches in the selection of Norfolk county squads.

Each player's participation in a grand prix is awarded percentage ranking points depending on their final finishing position in the individual tournament. These are spread equally from 100 to the person finishing first in the top group, down to between 2 - 3 points for the person finishing last in the bottom group.

In addition any person winning a group (other than group 1), will be awarded the finishing position of the person finishing last in the group above them, and vice versa. This gives one position bonus points to each player winning a group.

After each Grand Prix, every player's percentage points are averaged out to give their new Grand Prix Points figure.

To encourage and reward participation, any player missing a Grand Prix will be deducted one percentage point from their points' total.

To qualify for a valid ranking position, a player must play in a minimum of one in the first three Grand Prix, and a minimum of two over the five month season. Anyone falling below this appearance level will continue to be shown on the Rankings, but with an invalid attendance.

At the end of the season, awards will be presented in various categories including: overall winners, most group wins and participation awards.

The rankings will be shown on the Grand Prix page of the Norfolk Squash website and will be updated after each Grand Prix. They also show each player's finishing position for every Grand Prix, club, group wins and number of tournaments entered.

Summary

To kick it off, the Entry Form is available to download from today (below) which can be sent in with the appropriate payment. So Download now, check which dates you are free and enter now! Once entered you will then be graded by the organisers and then placed in the appropriate group! Details of groups and seedings will be emailed out 1 week before the event.

We look forward to your registration and seeing you all at the first big event!!

We are happy to announce this years Sponsors for the NSRA Summer Leagues -Anaco Air Conditioning and thank them for all there support of Norfolk Squash! Please feel free to contact them for any business needs and don't forget to mention through Norfolk Squash!

Anaco Air Conditioning
Fiat House
Norwich Road
Barford
NR9 4BD
Contact: Adam Goodson
Telephone: 01603 757 800
Email  adam@anaco.ac
Website www.anaco.ac

2 Captains - Ian Cox and Martin Pearse

Ian Cox (035) Capt
Jamie Goodrich (035)
David Youngs (040)
Richard Millman (050)
Martin Pearse (060) Capt
Pat Millman (050 Ladies)

This proves that there are great opportunities for other Norfolk Players to try their hand at Nationals Squash and join the Masters circuit to try and qualify for and England place in their respective age groups!!

More an more Norfolk players are attending these events every year which is fantastic and is not only great Squash but great fun as well. If you would like to join the Masters circuit next year, go to ENGLAND SQUASH MASTERS website and contact them now!

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