Queens maintain flying start as rivals make the early running
Dunnington and Queens continued their early domination of squash's Yorkshire Premier League as both made it three wins from three.
Despite being without their world-beating youngsters Finnlay Withington and Jonah Bryant, who will surely now be dreaming of a place in the Great Britain squash squad at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, Queens maintained their 100 percent record with a tight win at winless Woodfield.
Lowri Roberts got Queens started by defeating Polly Clark in three tight games, only for Alec Tomlinson to level matters for the home side. Stephen Hearst and Bader Almaghrebi then grabbed wins to get the Halifax side over the line.
The top string match, although irrelevant to the result, was a cracker, with Commonwealth Games gold medallist Declan James returning from a long injury to overcome veteran James Earles in five.
York club Dunnington have lost just one individual match out of 15 thus far and recorded their second successive clean sweep this week by demolishing Pontefract 2 by 20-0.
Ponte were without several key players but Dunnington were also without new signing Owain Taylor as they flexed their title muscles by going eight points clear at the top of the table.
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Heikal gave Dunnington a quickfire start, Prithvi Singh, a product of the excellent Scarborough Squash Academy led by Lewin Marsden, and Michael Andrews swept to straight-games victories of their own and number one Chris Simpson finished the job by dispatching New Zealander Mason Smales.
Newcomers Ferriby Hall are still seeking their first win – but they came pretty close at third-placed Doncaster on Wednesday night.
Paul Norton defeated the highly talented Asia Harris, who is another dreaming of LA, in a five-setter, but Donny roared back with brisk victories by Brett Schille, Lewis Doughty and Toby Ponting.
Youngster Ben Smith kept up his 100 per-cent YPL record this season by seeing off Kiwi Joel Arscott at top string to reduce the home side’s winning margin to 16-6.
Defending champions Hallamshire slumped to their second whitewash defeat of the season, crashing 20-2 at Harrogate, who move stealthily up to fourth.