It was only three points the difference and a count-back situation separating the top three placegetters in last week’s five-day Australian Masters Squash Championships in Canberra, in the 80-84 age group.
Yarrawonga’s golden oldie Brian Lyons almost made it a hat trick of wins in this age group. He finished third.
The 82-year-old didn’t lose a match after day one and that included beating the eventual winner, 82-year-old eventual winner Frank Bujara from Poona, Victoria in four sets.
Unfortunately it was the first day’s loss, in four sets, to Melbourne’s 83-year-old Tom Slattery that cost Lyons the top prize.
“He was too good,” Lyons commented to the Yarrawonga Chronicle about Slattery. “I was in pretty good form and I played pretty well.”
Winning four of his five matches, Lyons loved the big championships at the Woden Squash Centre which attracted a total of 322 entries in the various age categories starting at 35. Eleven players competed in the 80-84 group.
“We played one match a day and the event was well conducted,” Brian said.