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PENRITH JUNIOR CRICKET ASSOCIATION The spirit of club cricket … Colyton St Clair Cranebrook Emu Plains Glenbrook Blaxland Glenmore Park Penrith RSL Springwood St Clair North Penrith U16 Premiers: Colyton St Clair / Emu Plains DISTRICT YEARBOOK 2018/19 2 018/19 District Yearbook 1 SHIRT SPONSORS 2 018/19 District Yearbook 2 2 018/19 District Yearbook 3 CONTENTS COMMITTEE 4 PRESIDENT’S REPORT 5 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP 7 PREMIERS 8 UNDER 10 - PENRITH LEAGUES CLUB SHIELD UNDER 11 - N RANCE TROPHY UNDER 12 – DAVID RISTAU MEMORIAL TROPHY UNDER 13 – SOPER FAMILY TROPHY UNDER 14 – NA HUNTER TROPHY UNDER 15 – PHILLIP MANNING MEMORIAL TROPHY UNDER 16 – CONNELL MEMORIAL TROPHY THUNDER GIRLS CRICKET LEAGUE 24 SEASON AWARD WINNERS 26 BATTING AGGREGATE BATTING AVERAGE BOWLING AGGREGATE BOWLING AVERAGE WICKETKEEPING SEASON OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCES 27 BATTING – CENTURIES BATTING - PARTNERSHIPS BOWLING – HAT TRICKS BOWLING – FIVE WICKETS IN AN INNINGS HISTORICAL DISTRICT RECORDS 33 PREMIERSHIP WINNERS HONOUR ROLL 40 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP HONOUR ROLL 44 VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR AWARD 45 OFFICE BEARERS – TERM OF OFFICE 47 Cover Page: This season’s U16 Premiers, Glenmore Park typify what club cricket represents, a team of young players, playing for each other and the love of the game! Their season was highlighted by a truly team effort with every player contributing in significant ways throughout the season. After 9 years of junior cricket, for all but two players (including the coach), the greatest team reward was achieved on their final day of junior cricket – a first and final junior Premiership! Congratulations U16 Glenmore Park Redbacks!! 2 018/19 District Yearbook 4 COMMITTEE PRESIDENT Grant Kean VICE PRESIDENT Craig Batty SECRETARY Rebecca Nicholls TREASURER John Jennings REGISTRAR Rebecca Nicholls COMPETITION SECRETARY Craig Batty REPRESENTATIVE COORDINATOR Rick Lennox GIRLS COORDINATOR David Williams UMPIRES COORDINATOR Michael Drum REPRESENTATIVE DEVELOPMENT Grant Kean OFFICER 2 018/19 District Yearbook 5 PRESIDENT’S REPORT Season 2018/19 was again another year of change and transition as Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW continue to strive for the formula to ensure cricket remains a leading sport in our community. Firstly, I would like to take this opportunity to give special thanks to the tireless efforts of our Executive volunteers who dedicate countless hours to ensure we have a local cricket competition in Penrith that is largely a great experience for our participants. These people include Craig Batty our Vice President and Competition Secretary, Rebecca N icholls our Secretary, John Jennings the Treasurer and Rick Lennox our Representative Program Coordinator. For most your efforts go unnoticed and unrecognised but for me it is your work that means we have a local cricket and representative program for all our boys and girls. On behalf of our cricketing community I thank you sincerely. On the field this season has provided some great success stories again. Although declining we still had 58 teams take the field from nine different clubs across U10s to U16s. Seven out of our nine clubs participated in finals cricket, with six clubs winning at least one premiership title. There were 456 games of junior cricket. 93,052 runs scored, 5,721 wicket taken, 12 centuries and 21 five wicket hauls. On the Representative front we had some great success once again this season but none more significant than the U16s Watson Shield team coached by Peter Tracey and Brendan Vella bringing home the trophy, the first one in 9 years. Congratulations to all involved. We also had some other notable performance from the U15s DCA making the Semi Finals which is a fantastic achievement and our U10s PC team finishing on top of the table in their development competition. For the DCA boys and girls competitions we won 53% of our games up from 29% the prior season which is almost double the wins, an outstanding outcome, while the PC’s did extremely well winning 40% of their games which was exactly in line with last season. Off the field there was also a significant amount of progression and change. In June 2018 prior to season commencement at the AGM a new Constitution was endorsed by all clubs, a largely new and first time Executive was elected by you the members and our clubs, which meant we could continue to pave the way for the future of Penrith Junior cricket at that we have done more so than ever in a time of change by Cricket Australia and Cricket NSW. With this I ask that you remain positive and open to change as we continue to look to ensure Cricket remains one of Australia’s no.1 sports. Over the past 12 months we have seen some notable advancements and achievements for our Association. Some of these include: further implementation of Cricket Australia’s new formats, centralised junior blasters programs, continued promotion of our Girls only Thunder League, more regular and collaborative communication with Cricket NSW and NSWDCA leading to more aligned strategies and objectives with our governing bodies for both local and representative cricket, the formation of the Penrith Cricket Council involving Cricket NSW/PJCA/NDCA/Penrith Grade Club. Presentations with the Cricket NSW Talent Identification and Academy Representatives to ensure our selection criteria align with their pathway programs, this ultimately lead to the PJCA being invited to attend NSW Academy trials as observers thus provider insights never available before, which hopefully will only create greater opportunities for our players within the talent identification processes into the future. It was also very pleasing to see that our new selection criteria implemented before last rep trials already very much aligns to that of these elite pathway programs. 2 018/19 District Yearbook 6 We have continued to advance our relationship with the Penrith Grade Club via greater access to their resources which were highlighted this year by more than ever before, with grade players offering their volunteer time as coaches and assistant coaches in our program. If you have seen the appointments for this season’s teams you will see we have again made some exciting announcements here with four of our premiership winning 1st grade team committing to the PJCA rep system. Discussions continue on a regular basis with Penrith Council in order to foster and advocate future cricket needs in the region with a focus on better facilities, ground maintenance and hopefully access to turf wickets for our local competition. This season has seen upgrade nets at Jamison Park with new nets going up as we speak at Ched Towns and Knapsack. We have opened the door with face to face meetings with our state and federal members of parliament to assist with achieving positive outcomes in achieving some key objectives with Council and Cricket NSW this includes the Minister for Sport. Overall, I think it is fair to say the picture for Penrith Junior Cricket is positive and exciting and I trust we can all band together to build for the years ahead. Grant Kean PJCA President 2 018/19 District Yearbook 7 CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP Ray Jordan Club Championship Trophy Glenmore Park 94 Penrith RSL 90 Emu Plains 88 Springwood 86 Glenbrook-Blaxland 86 St Clair 80 Colyton St Clair 59 Cranebrook 53 North Penrith 46 Congratulations to the Glenmore Park Cricket Club on achieving this season’s Club Championship! 2 018/19 District Yearbook 8 PREMIERS UNDER 10 – PENRITH LEAGUES CLUB SHIELD GLENBROOK-BLAXLAND - WARNER What a fabulous season for our U10 Glenbrook-Blaxland Warner team. First of all I would like to start by thanking our manager Cate. Her efforts were amazing, guaranteeing our team was always well organised and maintaining a wonderful positive culture within our team. Thanks to both the GBCC & PJCA committees for giving all their time in organizing such a great competition. It was such an entertaining season with the competition being very close. On behalf of all the players, I would like to thank our trainers, James and Rob who have encouraged and provided an environment that the boys have thrived in. Thank you to our scorers - Val, Dom, Cate and Rob - for all their skill, time and efforts. 2 018/19 District Yearbook 9 Thank you to all of the parents who have shared in our “competitive” morning tea roster and giving our boys enough energy every week at the games. Finally, to all the parents, families and friends who support the players. Thank you for your attendance at games and training and congratulations on a fulfilling season. I look forward to seeing you all back for the 2019/20 season. Gregory Walker Coach 2 018/19 District Yearbook 10 UNDER 11 – N RANCE TROPHY EMU PLAINS We started the season with 10 players in our team. A mixture of 6 kids returning from last year with 4 new players to our team, most of them playing their first season of weekend cricket. We also had a mixture of ages ranging from 9 to 11. Having 10 players and only being able to bat and bowl 8 each week created some challenges but we settled on a system where our 2 subs would keep wicket each week. The kids were fantastic despite occasionally not getting to bat and bowl there were never any complaints and everyone showed great team spirit and gave their all no matter which part they had to play that week. We started the season with some up and down performances. When we were good we were great, but we let ourselves down in a few games early in the season with some sloppy fielding and some crazy running between the wickets. This saw us lose 3 of our first 6 games. By the mid-point of the season the team had begun to show some real improvement with their skills.