By Sean Devers

Watched by a fair-sized gathering at the Georgetown Club on Camp Street, competitive Squash highlighted the opening night of Guinness Senior National Championships on Tuesday with Brian Young and Brian Edwards matching racquets in the longest game of an entertaining evening.
With the not so young Brian Young jumping out to an 11-3, 11-7 lead, the third game tested the stamina of the over-50 veterans as both players refused to lose.
Edwards took an early lead in the third set but Young got back into the contest with some excellent squash to level the scores at 10-10.

But everytime Edwards was on game point Young would win the next point until an exhausted Edwards finally managed to take the game 19-17.
However, that was the only game Edwards won as Young took the fourth stanza 11-2 to win the match 3-1.
Rob Edwards beat Dennis Dias in another energy-sapping match-up between the pair as Dias looked to turn back the clock before Edwards eventually took the over-50 match 12-10, 5-11, 11-7, 12-10 while Narendra Singh defeated Lloyd Fung-a-Fat 11-7, 11-7, 11-13, in the other over-50 contest.

In the Women’s National draw, Kirsten Gomes beat Malia Maikoo 11-1, 11-1, 11, while Larissa Wiltshire got past Safirah Summer 11-2.11-2, 11-6 in the other Women’s match of the Evening.
In the Men’s draw, Ben Mekdeci beat Josh Verwey 11-1, 11-4, 11-4, Jason Van Dijk beat Chad De Abreu 11-7, 11-3, 11-4, Steven Xavier got the better of Andrew Peroune 11-4, 11-4, 11-5, Peter de Groot beat Richard Rodrigues 11-3,11-1, 11-3, Samuel Ince-Carvalhal defeated Justin Ten-Pow 11-3, 11-4, 11-5, Jerazeno Bell beat Lee Fung-a-Fat 11-2, 11-6, 11-1, Jonathan Antczak defeated Dane Pereira 11-2, 11-8, 11-7 and Michael Alphonso beat Miguel Wong 11-0, 11-2, 11-6.
The action was scheduled to continue last evening.