Five-Man Finals night, and a chance to avenge grievances built up during the long, cold weeks of the league campaign. To Harrogate Squash Club we ventured, with the season's first available silverware glittering tantalisingly within touching distance.

The Division One trophy was claimed quite comfortably 4-1 by Otley against fellow mid-table dwellers Adel. Matt Wood and Richard Greenhalgh began with a 12/10 first game before Wood claimed the second and third much more easily.

That set the tone for Otley further up the order as Rick Saunders, Phil Davies and Mark Swift also won in straight games, meaning Kieran Wardman's win over Otley's Simon Gittins at No.1 was irrelevant to the destination of the trophy.

It was more dramatic in the Division Two showpiece. Division leaders Collingham 2 were 2-1 up after the first three matches as the final two rubbers began concurrently.

Raj Achuthan managed to pip Myles Hartley 3-1 to take it two rubbers each, leaving Dave Hendry and James Rollinson to contest a straight shootout for the trophy.

Hendry took the first and then seemingly fell apart to trail 2-1, before falling behind in the fourth. He saved a match ball in the process of levelling at 2-2 then took the decider 9-4, and with it, the cup.

Adel took the honours in Division Three as well, but the final tally of 3-2 is slightly misleading as they had victory over hosts Harrogate sewn up early doors.

Max Cawthra and David Gifford gave the north Leeds club a flying start with 3-0 wins and No.1 Jonty Hodgson completed the job with a straight-games win over Lee Scott. Nicky Horne and Dave Mann offered some belated cheer for the partisan home fans.

One of the finest matches over the two nights was in the Division Four final, in which Harrogate 4 thumped Chapel Allerton 7.

Harrogate's Chris Wilde took the first game against Sarah Wood, then went 2-1 down before claiming the fourth. Into the fifth it went and Wilde was 8-3 up before being clawed back to 8-8. Wilde lived up to his name by calling 'set one' and after a couple of match balls each, he nicked it 9-8.

After that humdinger of an opener, there was an air of anti-climax as Chapel A's John Kay injured himself in the warm-up and lost 27-1 to Alex Hope, while Harrogate's Marcus Lynn thrashed Owen Burke.

It fell to Dan Greengrass and Simon Child to salvage some pride. Greengrass went down 3-1 to Ian Cooksley (who’d forgotten he was due to play and was summoned to the club midway through his dinner!).

Child went two down to Tony Norwood before fighting back to parity. In the fifth, Norwood took an early 5-1 lead before Child clawed it back to go 8-6 up. He choked on two match balls, then it went to 8-8 set two. Child went 9-8, but blew two more match balls, allowing Norwood to complete the 5-0 rout, triumphing 10-9 in the fifth.