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La Sportheque hosted the 2017 Quebec Junior Open Championships, for the fourth time in the last 5 years. Forty four players competed in nine championship events, with 25% playing in more than one age group. Defending champion, Dominic Wren, held off Tommy Scott, 16-14 in the final game, to retain his BU19 title, while Gabrielle Renaud (OAC) defeated clubmate, Catherine Giachino,…
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The recently completed March 2017 Cascades Club Squash Open saw plenty of intense action across 3 divisions of play. Competitors finishing off in significant positions are listed below. Division 1 Winner – Dominic Wren (Sportheque) Runner Up – Fernando Hernandez (MAA) Cons – Patrick Duquette (RA Centre) Division 2 Winner – Khaled El Ghayesh (UOttawa) Runner Up – Edouard Poitras…
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Newly crowned US Open Masters Men’s 50+ Champion, Steve Wren (Sportheque), provided an excellent personal account of his experience at this years tournament. Steve outlasted Anders Wahlstedt winning 3-2 (11-5, 10-12, 8-11, 11-8, 11-7). With this win, Steve completed a triple-crown of championships in the last 12 months, winning the Canadian, British and US Open Masters championships in the 50+ division….
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Enjoying its 40th anniversary, the Ottawa Athletic Club hosted 48 players in 4 events on February 17-19. Rudy Rodriguez, who lead OAC 1 to the ODSA City League title last year, was a comfortable winner of the “A” event over club mate Michael Carneiro. The 16 year-old, 6′ 2″, Thomas Porter won the “B” over club mate Ryan Rourke, while…
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Goodlife Queensview hosted 48 players in five draws, with competitors from Toronto and Sudbury each capturing two titles. Three players from Montreal also took home prizes. Eleven year old Iman Shaheen took the remaining title (GU 17), while other ODSA juniors placed highly in all events. Iman, a product of the Walter Baker Sports Centre’s training program, is currently 9th in the…
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Over the weekend of January 27 to 29, 59 men and 13 women took part in the RA Centre’s Winter Open tournament. Out-of-towners took the Men’s Open, A and C crowns. David Baillargeon (PSA #139), of the Club Sportif MAA defeated fellow Montrealer Pranav Sharma (PSA #405) 3-0 in the Open final. Mario Gagnon, from Quebec City won the A division…
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Squash Ontario is hosting a Masters Team Tourney during the weekend of Feb 24-26, at The White Oaks Squash Club in Niagara on the Lake. New this year is that Squash Ontario is allowing us, as the ODSA, to enter a team comprised of players from the Ottawa and Outaouais side of our region. With that in mind ODSA would…
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Between January 13 and 15, 2017, Smiths Falls Squash Club hosted their annual tournament. In addition to locals, the exhibition match between Shady Elkamhawy and David Guest, and the five other events attracted players from Brockville, Gananoque, Kingston, Ottawa, and Timmins to this most enjoyable weekend. Exhibition Shady Elkamhawy (OAC) def. David Guest (OAC) 3-2 A Division Clark Johnston (RA…
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