Delaware just had a pretty good weekend. 

The 2012 CSC Delaware State Open ran at Vicmead Hunt Club. Some very good matches of interest, including Pakistani sensation Maria Toor Pakay who played three matches in twenty-four hours; Aisling Blake who read my history of U.S. squash book by day and reached the finals by night; and Latasha Khan who after a nice run in New York look set to upset Delia Arnold and just couldn’t push it past the wire in a fifty-minute three-gamer. Arnold beat Blake in the finals.

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Around the corner, Wilmington Country Club hosted the 38th annual Commissioner’s Trophy, a doubles tournament with great history: previous winners include Harry the Horse Anderson, Helmut Meertz and Gretchen Spruance. A winner from 1979, Jim Dawson, was there (as was his wife, Wallflower Eileen). My partner Steve Casey and I won our last two matches to grab the consolation tourney. 

And down at St. Andrews, with their new coach Mark Allen and new nine-court facility, they did fine at the national high school championships. The boy’s team qualified in for Division II, after being in Division IV the previous year, and beat Groton 4-3, proving that they belonged. The girls also won a match in their Division II tournament, beating Nichols 7-0 before losing to Irwins in the finals of the plate.