CROSS-BORDER BEATING

Update - Date Change!!
The Cross-Border Challenge has been moved to SATURDAY, APRIL 17. This is so we can avoid the doubles-whammy of the Frozen Four and Tiger's opening weekend on April 10. It would have made traveling through the tunnel and parking a nightmare for the visitors... hang on... on second thoughts... anything to give us an advantage...

Take… nine.

Yes, yes, it’s that time of year when we let our very good friends from that country that won the Olympic ice-hockey gold medal grace our squash courts and beat us into submission. (With friends like these, who needs enemies?) Seven times in a row we have managed to drive home trophy-less. In fact, I bet most of you don’t even know what the Cross Border Trophy looks like.

On Saturday, April 17 we are going at it yet again. Trying to stop the rot… turn the tables… reverse the trend… Our losing streak is turning rather cliché. Since nothing else has worked, including conspiring with my counterpart in Windsor to try to ‘fix’ the matches in order for us to win, I figure I may as well steal somebody else’s ideas rather than using my own for this article…

I will not beat around the bush. Against insurmountable odds, we need players who are willing to spill their guts on the court for us. I have a real axe to grind, a bee in my bonnet, when those Canadians tell me that Hell will freeze over, that pigs will fly, before the DAC can pull a win out of the bag. I need singles players of all levels to put up their hands, and sweat blood for the team. We also need 3 doubles pairs, preferably at the A, B and C levels, but at this stage, I’ll take what I can get! We are stuck in a rut. They say ‘great things happen to those who wait’ – well, we’ve waited long enough! We need to pull our heads out of the sand, treat the past losses as water under the bridge, and if we can turn over a new leaf, maybe, just maybe, we will be walking on cloud nine, breaking new ground, and we can take home the hardware!

Matches start at 2pm at the DAC. We will do our best to match you up against a player from Windsor similar to your own level. Registration deadline is Monday, April 12. Simply e-mail me your registration. As always, we will be providing a keg for your thirsty needs.

And, if we happen to bite the dust, if we can’t bring them down to earth, make them stop believing they are the cat’s meow, then all I can say is… “Sh*t happens!”