Only ECSC1 played on the 16th with a convincing 3-1 win against Castle Reflet Nature to go top of the league.
Markus, Enrique and Mitch all had good wins, with Fred unluckily having to stop with a pulled muscle in the 2nd game when leading 1-0.
The next matches are:
| Thu 1/23/2014 8:00 PM | Ecsc 1 | – | Otan (Nato) |
| Thu 1/23/2014 8:00 PM | Ecsc 2 | – | Lasne 2 |
For its 1st match of the play-off, ECSC 1 had a draw against Namur 1. John and Pedro won agaisnt higher ranked opponents, while Fred and Enrique lost in hard fought matches.
ECSC 2 won 4-0 against Winner’s Ken sous-doués, to go to the top of the league. Mitch, Artur, Rob and Jean-Luc all winning, with Artur and Rob showing true grit to come back from being behind to win 3-2.
There is normally no match on the 16th Jan due to the Belgium Juniors, but ECSC1 will use the opportunity play their home match from the 30th January ahead of schedule.
ECSC2 cruised to an easy victory against Symbio 4 with Mitch and Kevin winning in straight sets and John and Artur losing 1 set against probably the tougher opponents of the evening.
This win should ensure that ECSC2 will compete in the play-offs for a place in the upper division.
So we approach the end of the Year and the end of the first half of the season.
On Sunday 15 December, ECSC1 has a great win in Liege, 1-3 against Squash 22, which has squeeze them into the promotion play-offs by the skin of their teeth (# games won).
Last Thursday 12 December, ECSC2 decided they wanted to keep the excitement going to the last match losing 3-1 at Mons Aramis. So they will need a good win this week to guarantee a promotion play-off place.
Last week ECSC1 lost 1-3 against a very strong Castle team to stay just outside the promotion zone in League 4, and ECSC2 had a fine 4-0 win against the league leaders to move into joint 2nd place in League 7.
Then next matches are:
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ECSC1 won 3-1 last week against Abbaye Recocars-Ice Watch, but unfortunately as neither team was complete for the start of the match, and Fred at the last minute couldn’t make it to Winners, we were penalized by the Federation, and so the team lost 0-4.
On the positive side, the 3 individual match wins still count for the players ranking points.
ECSC1- Abbaye Recocars-Ice Watch: 0-4
No matches this week due to the Belgium Championship.
Both teams had good wins again this week, ECSC1 winning 1-3 against Castle Boys, and ECSC2 an excellent win 4-0 against Symbio Squash 3.
This leaves ECSC1 in 3rd place just inside the promotion zone in Fédérale 4, and ECSC2 move up to 2nd place in Fédérale 7, consolidating their place inside the promotion zone but having played more games than the opposition.
The next matches are:
Both teams had good wins this week, ECSC1 winning 3-1 against Aramis 2, and ECSC2 won 1-3 at Argayon.
This leaves ECSC1 in 4th place just outside the promotion zone in Fédérale 4, and ECSC2 move up to 3rd place in Fédérale 7, just inside the promotion zone.
The next matches are:
Both teams played at home this week, ECSC1 had a good evening winning 3-1 against Squash 22 , with only Fred losing in a hard fought 5 setter. ECSC2 had a tough evening against a re-inforced Castle Pink and lost 0-4.
This leaves ECSC1 just outside to promotion zone in Fédérale 4, and ECSC2 drop into 4th place in Fédérale 7, also just outside the promotion zone.
We have a break next week, and restart in November:
So good wins should see us move in the promotion zone…
This week both teams have had tough matches.
Without 4 of its best players ECSC1 lost all 4 matches against the current leader Castle Gocan, only getting 2 games.
A slightly de-forced ECSC2 only managed a draw, 8 games to 8, against bottom of the league Symbio 4.
This takes ECSC2 into 2nd place equality in points with Symbio 3 in Fédérale 7, and leaves ECSC1 just outside to promotion zone in Fédérale 4.
Next matches: