{"id":850,"date":"2011-12-14T09:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T09:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=850"},"modified":"2012-01-10T08:12:27","modified_gmt":"2012-01-10T08:12:27","slug":"teams-2011-12-08","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/teams-2011-12-08\/","title":{"rendered":"teams 2011-12-08"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"single_col\">\n<strong>08\/12\/11<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Henley 4ths go down fighting<\/h2>\n<p>In Division 7 bottom-of-the table Henley 4ths were host to top-of-the table Drifters. <!--more-->On paper this was a one-sided fixture, but some spirited play from Henley saw them take two of the matches and keep the tie open until the final match of the night.<\/p>\n<p>The most heroic performance was at fifth string, which saw Matt Blagg fight back from 1\/0 and 2\/1 down to take the match in the final game 10\/8 after his opponent, Pat O&#8217; Reagan, held match point. Blagg was really battling fatigue in the final game, but his power enabled him to win out, even though his puff was failing!<\/p>\n<p>At 4th string Duncan Nightingale had a rare 3-0 victory over a wily Kevin Edwards who pushed him hard in the third game before succumbing 9\/7, 9\/3, 10\/8. Nightingale was taking some stick for his &#8216;Rafe Nadal&#8217; shorts before the match, but afterwards his team-mates were queuing up to touch them and absorb their magical properties!<\/p>\n<p>At 3rd string Henley junior Jonathan Betts fought well to take a game off the very fit Drifters skipper, Alex Wales &#8211; but eventually lost out 3\/9, 6\/9, 9\/7, 5\/9.<\/p>\n<p>At 2nd string James Gildersleve, despite making a big effort in the third game, couldn&#8217;t trouble Paul Jewitt who ran out a comfortable winner in straight games.<\/p>\n<p>At 1st string Simon Stone pushed Mike Stepney hard and reached 8-all in the third game, before losing out.<\/p>\n<p>Henley 4ths look set for demotion, but this performance shows they should be very competitive in the division below.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The final League Tables for the 1st half of the Winter season can be seen <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxfordshire-squash.com\/documents\/Winter12011.htm\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" class=\"inlinelink\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 1st team finished a very creditable 3rd in the top division.<\/p>\n<p>In division 2, Henley 2nds consolidated their position in this division, also finishing 3rd.<\/p>\n<p>Henley 3rds avoided demotion and will remain in division 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08\/12\/11 Henley 4ths go down fighting In Division 7 bottom-of-the table Henley 4ths were host to top-of-the table Drifters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":890,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henleysquash.co.uk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}