IOMSRA's Spring Junior Grading tournament took place at the NSC on Sun 20 March. By Dave Griffiths There was an excellent turn out for Group 6 so the players were split into 2 Groups of six followed by play-offs. In 6b Jack Rowlands was in fine form winning all 5 of his matches to win the Group by 7 clear points. Meanwhile there was a real battle for second between Amaline Batty, Isabel Joubert and Finn Ledwidge. Each won 3 matches but Isabel only lost by 1 point to Amaline which narrowly put Isabel through to the semi-final. In Group 6a twins George and Laura Dickinson were battling it out with Matthew Peach. George eventually came first with Matthew second and Laura third. George and Matthew then beat Isabel and Jack in the semi-finals. The final was a classic with Matthew reversing a 10-11 loss in the round robin by winning 11-10. Jack beat Isabel for 3rd. Amaline won the play-off with Laura for 5th. Group 5 was decided by the match between Ahmad Anwar and Courtney Gilardoni, which Ahmad won 15-10. Courtney won her other 4 matches to finish 2nd. Leena Anwar and Walid Anwar finished on the same number of points but Leena took 3rd as she won the game between the two of them. Group 4 was also a close run thing with Scott Jones and Harry Douthwaite both winning 4 matches and losing 1. However, Harry, in losing 13-15 to Oliver Dickinson, accumulated enough points to finish first. Scott came second and Oliver, who won 3 matches, came third. Group 3 was a tense battle between Edward Batty, Ben Peach, Peter Baker and Sam Wilson. All 5 of Peter's matches were incredibly close and although he only won 2, Peter accumulated enough points to finish 3rd. Sam won 3 matches but had an off-day against Edward and finished 4th. Ben beat Peter and Edward but lost to Sam to narrowly finish behind Edward, who beat everyone apart from Ben 14-15 and therefore only dropped 1 point. Fraser Dorling made a welcome return to Group 2 and took it by storm winning all his matches. However he was pushed all the way by Peter Naylor who only lost 1 match 15-13 to Fraser. Oscar Hill beat Sidney Batty 15-11 but Sidney's other results were good enough to clinch 3rd by 1 point from Oscar Hill with Dewald Joubert only 2 points further back. Owing to a variety of reasons, there was a small entry for Group 1 so Grading "Graduates" Chris Moore and Ben Atkinson guested. There was some excellent Squash in this Group with Patrick Fizpatrick beating both the Graduates and Liam beating Ben. The Group was decided by another close match with Patrick beating Liam 15-13. There was also a creditable performance from Aareez Khan in his first Group 1 tournament. Patrick now just needs 1 more trophy to Graduate. The trophies were presented by IOMSRA President, Les Callow. Ends