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HAPPY TO BE BACK – Daniel Buckler and Karen Larkin are all smiles before doing battle in Division 2 play.
Yukon Squash League in full swing again
The Yukon Squash League is in full swing again.
The Yukon Squash League is in full swing again.
The action takes place at Better Bodies courts with seven teams in two divisions challenging each other for local squash supremacy every Tuesday and Thursday evening.
In league play, five to six players per team battle one-on-one with their adversaries on other teams.
Matches are best-of-five games, and players earn team points for games and matches won.
In Division 1 play last Tuesday night:
– Stantec engineered a 17-14 take down of The Electrical Shop on the strength of wins by Ehsan Idrees (subbing for Jeff Muirhead), Jon Weller and Terry Cairns.
– Chilkoot Chiropractic racked up a 19-14 victory over Ecological Logistics & Research with wins by Lia Johnson, Coleman Newell and Gurmaan Rai (subbing for Andrew Brown).
– Grizzly Electric shocked Landed Bakehouse 22-13, winning four out of five matches (courtesy of Rannon Johnson, Alex Jobin, Stu Macmillan and Charles Gagne).
– Yukon Tree Services had the bye this week.
Division 2 play takes place Thursday evenings. This past week:
In the Match of the Week, Arctic Training schooled MEADIAsolutions 30-11, winning all six matches. This rarely happens. Congratulations to Lara Rae Trotter, Jason Pedlar, Inga Petri, Karen Larken, Asad Chisti, and Antoinette Greenoliph.
– Northern Futures handled PR Services 23-18, with wins by Tristan Rentmeister, Stephanie Boulet and Melanie Fortunato.
– Silver Ghost Contracting bested **Precision North Mechanical 26-14, with wins by Daniel Sokolov, Mark Tinana, Lindsay Knezevich, Harrison Brady and Keely Kovac.
– Steadfast Electric had the bye this week.
Squash League is brought to you by Squash Yukon and our generous team sponsors.
If you are interested in learning more about the league or other Squash Yukon programming (box ladder, tournaments, clinics and lessons) please contact our coach, Gyanendra Singh, at coach@squashyukon.yk.ca.
We’re also on the web https://www.squashyukon.yk.ca, Facebook https://www.facebook.com/squashyukon and Instagram (squash_yukon).
– Submitted by Squash Yukon President Stu Macmillan
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