Buccaneers club champs again!

The 2007 edition of the Squash Club Championships took place at the Klein Windhoek Squash Club on Friday 22 and Saturday February 23.

Kicking off on Friday, it featured the three biggest squash clubs in Namibia – Klein Windhoek and Wanderers Squash Club from Windhoek and Buccaneers Squash Club from Walvis Bay. The tournament was a good opportunity for players to get out of the holiday mood and back onto the courts under competitive conditions.Surprisingly enough, even at this time of year the level of squash was pretty high with some excellent performances by the players.The tournament was divided into two categories for ladies and men.The games were played using American scoring of a point a rally and the first player to 11 winning the game.The men’s teams comprised five players ranked one to five according to ability, one being the strongest and five the weakest on the team.The ladies teams comprised three ladies per team also according to rank.The games got underway on Friday night with the visitors from the coast taking on Wanderers.In the men’s section it was a clean sweep as Buccaneers thrashed Wanderers 15 -3.The ladies section however was another story with Wanderers ladies managing to out muscle the visitors 6 – 4.Saturday morning saw last year’s runners up Klein Windhoek Squash Club take on Wanderers in a thrilling encounter.Klein Windhoek used the home advantage factor to beat their neighbours Wanderers comprehensively 12 -5.The ladies section saw Wanderers turn in another superior performance beating the home side Klein Windhoek 9 -2 to assert their dominance as the best ladies team at the event.The afternoon session was a thrilling finale with men’s section between Buccaneers and Klein Windhoek in a winner takes all situation.The teams were: Buccaneers: 1.Tyc Kahengo, 2.Angelo Titus, 3.Jaques Steenkamp, 4.Emmanuel Erongo, 5.Michael Grauhn Klein Windhoek: 1 John Lingashi, 2 Nelson Herunga, 3 Erik Bruys, 4 Richard Luyt , 5 Brian Kahengombe Home ground advantage and the leadership and experience of veteran John Lingashi were not enough to see off a determined Buccaneers side.The visitors dug their claws deeper into the trophy they won last year by beating Klein Windhoek 9 -8.The Buccaneers ladies insured the outcome of the tournament with a 7 -3 victory over Klein Windhoek.The overall results were: 1.Buccaneers 37, 2.Klein Windhoek 25 and 3.Wanderers 23 The event ended with a braai and a speech by The Namibian Squash Association chairman Gerdus Louwrens thanking the players for their attendance and promising them bigger and better things to come for the upcoming 2008 Club Championships in November in Walvis Bay.The tournament was a good opportunity for players to get out of the holiday mood and back onto the courts under competitive conditions.Surprisingly enough, even at this time of year the level of squash was pretty high with some excellent performances by the players.The tournament was divided into two categories for ladies and men.The games were played using American scoring of a point a rally and the first player to 11 winning the game.The men’s teams comprised five players ranked one to five according to ability, one being the strongest and five the weakest on the team.The ladies teams comprised three ladies per team also according to rank.The games got underway on Friday night with the visitors from the coast taking on Wanderers.In the men’s section it was a clean sweep as Buccaneers thrashed Wanderers 15 -3.The ladies section however was another story with Wanderers ladies managing to out muscle the visitors 6 – 4.Saturday morning saw last year’s runners up Klein Windhoek Squash Club take on Wanderers in a thrilling encounter.Klein Windhoek used the home advantage factor to beat their neighbours Wanderers comprehensively 12 -5.The ladies section saw Wanderers turn in another superior performance beating the home side Klein Windhoek 9 -2 to assert their dominance as the best ladies team at the event.The afternoon session was a thrilling finale with men’s section between Buccaneers and Klein Windhoek in a winner takes all situation.The teams were: Buccaneers: 1.Tyc Kahengo, 2.Angelo Titus, 3.Jaques Steenkamp, 4.Emmanuel Erongo, 5.Michael Grauhn Klein Windhoek: 1 John Lingashi, 2 Nelson Herunga, 3 Erik Bruys, 4 Richard Luyt , 5 Brian Kahengombe Home ground advantage and the leadership and experience of veteran John Lingashi were not enough to see off a determined Buccaneers side.The visitors dug their claws deeper into the trophy they won last year by beating Klein Windhoek 9 -8.The Buccaneers ladies insured the outcome of the tournament with a 7 -3 victory over Klein Windhoek.The overall results were: 1.Buccaneers 37, 2.Klein Windhoek 25 and 3.Wanderers 23 The event ended with a braai and a speech by The Namibian Squash Association chairman Gerdus Louwrens thanking the players for their attendance and promising them bigger and better things to come for the upcoming 2008 Club Championships in November in Walvis Bay.