Martensville\u2019s Graham Frattinger has long wanted to be at the big(gest) kids\u2019 event of junior racquetball. He\u2019s there now and big surprise \u2013 he digs it.<\/p>\n
At the Canadian Junior Racquetball Championships in Kelowna, BC last week, he got his first taste of the highest age class \u2013 the 18 and under event.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt feels good to be at the top of the class finally,\u201d Graham said. \u201cYou look up to the players in that group as you come up through juniors.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham, 17, finished second overall in his first season of U18 action mirroring his finish last year in the U16 competition.<\/p>\n
In the 18 and under doubles event, Graham and his younger brother Ian, 14, went undefeated and took home the gold. The regular doubles partners have a relationship that could be called dysfunctional were they not brothers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t really want to, we always argue,\u201d Graham said of playing on a team with his younger sibling, before admitting: \u201cBut I know he\u2019s always going to hit the right shot back there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Graham also confesses his brother \u2013 who won the 14 and under event of the second straight year \u2013 is \u201ca lot better than he was at that age.\u201d<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan\u2019s lone female representative was Cassie Prentice of Macrorie. Like Ian, Prentice cleaned up her 14 and under girl\u2019s event for the second consecutive year. She also finished second in the 16 and under girl\u2019s doubles.<\/p>\n
Junior nationals also helps determine the members of Canada\u2019s team for the 2016 World Junior Racquetball Championships in November in Mexico. The team will be announced in the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Martensville\u2019s Graham Frattinger has long wanted to be at the big(gest) kids\u2019 event of junior racquetball. He\u2019s there now and big surprise \u2013 he digs it. At the Canadian Junior Racquetball Championships in Kelowna, BC last week, he got his first taste of the highest age class \u2013 the 18 and under event. \u201cIt feels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":391,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racquetballsask.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}