Dulmage/DiMauro Capture Canadian Mixed Doubles Title
by Rob Dinerman, for DailySquashReport.com
Dateline March 6th, 2012 --- Unseeded Scott Dulmage and Jessica DiMauro emerged victorious over a strong seven-team field at the Toronto Cricket Club this past weekend and regained the Canadian Mixed Doubles title that they had earned during the four-year period from 2005-08. Dulmage, a standout pro during the 1990’s who partnered Gary Waite to the 1994 North American Open Doubles crown, and DiMauro, a frequent women’s Canadian National Doubles title-holder throughout the mid-2000’s before back injuries frequently sidelined her in recent years, defeated second seeds Seanna Keating and Eric Baldwin in four games in the semis and then triumphed by a 15-9 15-11 16-13 tally over Chris Deratnay and Stephanie Edmison in the final. Deratnay and Edmison had rallied to an exciting route-going (15-8 10-15 12-15 18-15 15-13) victory in their semi over the top-seeded three-time defending champions James and Steph Hewitt.
In addition to the Open draw, there were four age-group tournaments, with Michele Ramsey and Scott Dormer fulfilling their top seeding in the 40’s, but only barely, by first rallying from two-games-to-one down in their semifinal match with Tom Hayes and Laurie Krol and then winning the final, 18-16 in the fourth, over Jeff Anderson and Kirsteen Burton, who themselves had been pushed to a fifth game in their semifinal against Carol Stewart and Peter Naughton, 16-15 fifth-game quarterfinal winners over John Hall and Tammie Sangster.
The 50’s flight similarly saw the top seeds challenged throughout but ultimately coming through, as Jim Paton and Leslie Freeman survived first a semifinal fifth-set tiebreaker (16-14) against Pat Richardson and Susan Douglas and then a final with Al Hunt and Jann Taylor whose 15-11 18-15 13-15 17-16 stat line speaks for itself. The 55’s flight, in which Lolly Gillen and Jay Gillespie took both matches of their three-team round-robin in straight games, was a little more routine, as was the four-team 60’s round-robin, in which Brian Murray and Jean DeMarco lost but a single game in their trio of matches. Next up is the Canadian National Doubles Championships, scheduled for the weekend of April 13-15 in downtown Toronto.
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