Essex Junior Open winners are simply GR-EIGHT

by Lee Horton | Mar 7, 2017

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LEE HORTON REPORTS

SILVERWARE from last weekend’s outstanding Essex Junior Open held at the Colchester Garrison was spread far and wide with no less than EIGHT different counties putting their name on the honours board..

As hosts, Essex bagged the majority of the trophies with 14 of the 26 gongs up for grabs remaining on home soil. But the strength of the field was testimony to the popularity of the event which once again ran like clockwork thanks to our brilliant volunteer committee spearheaded by EJS secretary Karen Selby and chairman David Harris.

The two-day event saw over 250 matches on court featuring an entry of more than 120 players. It was also our first event under the banner of new sponsors Miles Smith Insurance who have agreed to back our junior country programme in 2017. And we were delighted the Matt Cosby, Associate Director at Miles Smith Insurance was able to join us on Sunday to watch the action and hand out the trophies to all our winners. Matt, himself a keen squash player, was full of praise for the quality of squash and hopefully will return to his offices in central London with a glowing report from the event. Thanks for all your support Miles Smith.

All match scores will be posted shortly once they have been validated and sent to England Squash. In the mean time, here is the list of all our trophy winners. Also check out our Facebook page where you’ll find an amazing gallery of action photographs from the weekend’s action.

TROPHY WINNERS

G11 R/Up Amelie Brooke – Essex

G11 Winner Renitha Srindran – Essex

B11 Plate R/Up Matthew Salmon – Essex

B11 Plate Winner Joel Boy – Kent

B11R/Up Edward Mason- Essex

B11 Winner Alex Banhidai – Essex

G13 R/up Natalie Main – Beds

G13 Winner Hannah Morley – Essex

B13 Plate R/up Armaan Sattar – Essex

B13 Plate Winner Jamie Brown – Essex

B13 R/up Thomas Greengrass – Sussex