The South Africa Knights 25th touring team

l to r. Alan Mc Guigan, Justin Gouweloos (Captain), Brett van Rensburg, Jean-Pierre Brits

Windscale once again had the honour of hosting the touring S A Knights, and fielded a strong quartet this year in the hope of beating the tourists for the first time ever. The Windscale select team consisted of:

Paul Bell (Carlisle), Gavin Scott (Windscale), Gary Thwaite (Wigton), and Andrew Kelly (Windscale)

Gary Thwaite was the only winner for the Windscale select team with a 3-0 win over Alan Mc Guigan, with the other three losing to varying degrees against their quality opponents. An appreciative, enthusiastic crowd were treated to some excellent squash throughout the evening, and were witness to another great evenings entertainment. Windscale Squash v S A Knights report

On the Thursday evening, following their day in the Lakes and a trip go-karting, they enthralled Windscales juniors by providing coaching sessions, before taking part in a fundraising competition. This year club members were able to challenge any of the Knights in a 'one game to nine points' event where to even things up a little, the Knights were asked to use old wooden rackets. This made little difference to any of the challenge results, as the Knights swept all aside before them, remaining unbeaten throughout the competition. The wooden rackets have now beeng retired until the next event in two years time (2013) when the S A Knights hopefully next return.