By SAM DEBENHAM

THE Bathurst duo of Dave Fuller and Simon Hine had plenty of success at the Australian Masters Squash Championships in Adelaide which concluded last week.

Fuller walked away with the plate trophy from the men's 50-54 years individual tournament before going on to win the division two teams title with the NSW side.

On top of that, he backed up to play a part in the winning division one side which beat Hine's team in the decider.

Earlier in the tournament Hine and his team-mates were able to win their regular round tie against the other NSW team but in the final the result was reversed, giving Fuller, Craig Bran, Troy Northey and Gary Piggott a victory.

In the individual tournament which started two weeks ago, Fuller ran into number two seed Dale Robbins in the opening round, an opponent he had never beaten.

Though he was competitive leading by two points in each set at some stage Fuller was vanquished 3-0 by the man who would eventually go on to win the event.

The loss put Fuller into the plate division and he did well enough to claim that crown, effectively meaning he finished fifth overall.

"If I didn't win the plate I probably would have been disappointed, I feel like I can beat the three and four seeds and maybe if I could have drawn one of them, I may have gone a bit further," he said.

"I was actually up in every game against Dale, but against someone at that level you put the hard yards in, and you knock up for a while and they are just at that level above and that's when they hurt you."

Hine was his team's number one alongside number two Jonathon Cook and number three Troy Mountford.

The other NSW team had included Matt White but he pulled out with injury, meaning his spot was shared between Piggott and Fuller.

After playing in the round robin clash against Hine's team, Fuller's place was taken by Piggott in the decider but it mattered little.

Piggott was beaten 3-0 by Mountford, who had inflicted the same result on Fuller.

Hine lost 3-0 to Bran, leaving Northey and Cook to battle it out in the deciding match.

Northey was good enough to reverse his earlier result against the same opponent, winning 3-0 and clinching he and his team the title.

"Simon's team had a lot of depth hence we struggled a bit against their number three, but our one and two were quite strong and the Northey-Cooke match was always likely to decide it," Fuller said.

For his part, Hine enjoyed every minute of the event despite the final result.

"I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was a well run event and the standard of squash was very high," he said.

"Even though we lost in the end, it was a great standard and I still had a good time.

"The standard of guys I played was exceptional, Craig Bran is one of the leading players in NSW and it is great to get on the court with someone at that level, I don't get to do it very often.

"It is a good litmus test to just see where your own level is at."