UBS too deadly for KPMG Kobras

Round 5 of The Security Centre Squash League showed some positive moves from both Walkers and UBS.  

UBS started with a cracker of a match, pitching Riyaz Nooruddin against Paul Smith of KPMG Kobras at D string at the South Sound Squash Club.  

Nooruddin was 2-0 up with both games going his way in the tie break 12/10. The fortune did not carry on in his favor for the next two though, and he narrowly lost the third game 9/11 and fourth 4/11.  

Nooruddin began the fifth with renewed vigor and pulled out the win 11/6 in the fifth. UBS’s team captain Corbus Pietersen was next up, and he rose to the occasion, dispatching the Kobras Johann Fourie 3-1.  

The B string was a decisive match with KPMG’s Tony Riker cleaning up Vimbai Gurure 3-0. The A string left KPMG’s captain Samantha Hennings with a lot to do to keep her team in the running. Hennings faced the speedy Cory Scruggs and started remarkably well taking the first two games 11/7, 11/8. 

Scruggs picked up the pace, and now Hennings struggled, which led to him taking the third and fourth games and entering into a fifth and final game. Hennings gave it all she had, but the extra level of speed and fitness Scruggs had was enough to hold her at bay for a UBS victory. 

Walkers managed to gain nine points from a total of 13 even though KPMG Racketeers won the tie. Walkers’s Claire Kluyver grabbed a game from Eric Fell, and Patrick McConvey took out Jarydd Moore 3-0. The C string was a much closer affair between Steven Rabey of Walkers and Wilky Miller. Rabey took the first two games and set himself up for the third, but it was Miller’s night, and at 9-9 he pulled off two incredible shots to take the game and keep himself in the running.  

This shifted the momentum in his favor and he ran with it, eventually tiring Rabey out and taking the fourth and fifth games for KPMG Racketeers.  

Andrew Barker of Walkers proved too strong for Tina Dobbin in the D string match, which gave Walkers a further three points. 

DMS increased their lead in the table as they dispatched SIR AXISS. Aon narrowly beat Digicel Diehards but gained few points, leaving Aon five points adrift. 

Security Centre Squash League after Round 5 

1. DMS 52 points 
2. AON 47 
3. TSCL Sheriffs 42 
4. Walkers 41 
5. SIR AXISS 38 
6. UBS 36 
7. Digicel Diehards 34 
8. KPMG Racketeers 32 
9. SSSC All Stars 29 
10. KPMG Kobras 23