Andy D'Alessandro, club coach writes: Boys U15 National Schools Team The boys U15 national schools team have had their first term together. Hopefully it's the first of many. As a new team in every sense of the word (bar Malik the streetwise and robust senior team player that he is) they [...]
After only 18 months of development we have a team going to a final of The National Schools competition. Ok so it's the plate but what an opportunity! Our girls have worked sooo hard this past year. They are a credit to our club and they are Charlotte Davies yr9 [...]
Cambs Junior League Division IV held their play-off day at two venues on March 3rd, but all the Comberton teams (three of them, including a specially assembled "reserve" team!) were in action at Fenland SC. Comberton 5A had only one team match to play - against the home club - [...]
Comberton 3rd Team ended their Cambs Junior League season at home, up against Abbotsley 2 and Ramsey Abbey. Our two opponents turned out to be quite a contrast in strength. Ramsey Abbey School have only three players in the County leagues, but they are all strong competitors in this [...]
Comberton had two teams in action for our home fixture on February 24: 4A comprising three boys, and 4B comprising four girls, with two girls sharing the no. 1 spot. In the head-to-head our girls came out on top, only Orlando Hodgson flying the flag for the lads with a [...]
Our Second Team enjoyed very mixed fortunes playing at Abbotsley. With Hunts County unable to raise a team it was left to ourselves and our hosts to play a league fixture followed by a succession of ladder challenges. Harvey Jacklin, one of our most rapidly improving players, disposed of [...]
The difficulties involved in finding a suitable time for our top juniors to play County Junior League matches meant that we eventually settled on a Thursday afternoon in Half Term to play the second and last Premier Division fixture at Cambridge Squash Club. Comberton had a slight lead over [...]
February 3rd saw our youngest junior team making their first trip to Peterborough, where we were playing the host team and Abbotsley in a Division IV fixture. Peterborough, who have only rejoined the Cambs Junior Leagues this season after some years without a junior section, proved to have some useful [...]
Our Division III fixture on 27 January was on the smart new courts at King's College School in Cambridge, where we were up against the host club and divisional leaders Fenland. Against Fenland our no. 3, debutant Sam Pritchard, struggled to get into his match against the Girls' [...]
Comberton's Third Team headed to Hunts County on 27 January with a last-minute promotion to the team of Adam Peer, replacing an injured Sam Hicks. What's more, Adam was playing at no. 1, the position he'd been due to play in that day for the Fourth Team! Not surprisingly, [...]