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WALKERVILLE CATS NEWSLETTER TEST MATCH EDITION17 Thursday 17th January 2008 website www.walkervillecc.com.au WALKERVILLE CRICKET NEWS Friday night the Cricket and Softball club had a fundraiser through a movie night at Piccadilly cinemas. The film ‘The Golden Compass’ left some of the AROUND THE GROUNDS viewers spell bound. Matho was like a giddy school boy Round 7 brought little joy for the Walkerville cricket and Mal can’t wait for the sequels. Many thanks to Tam club. The A’s went down defending a small total of for the organizing of the event. 141, with Woodville Recabites passing the score 9 This Monday night the club has the annual Night at the down. The stand out performers were Mark ‘Scooter’ Dogs. This is where the club heads down to the Angle Reid who made a fighting 49 and Iggy Mareolas who Park Dog track to enjoy the dog racing, punting and a bowled cleverly to take 5 wickets in a marathon spell. great food package. The B’s went down against the good blokes of Many thanks to Shaun Mathieson for organising this Athelstone. The team also struggled to post a event through his work contacts at Angle Park. competitive total with Rohan Bishop scoring 38 and the If your keen then see Shaun to sign up. crafty Darcy Wright taking 6 wickets were the best performers for their team. PAST PLAYERS DAY The C grade packed their swags and traveled down to It was good to see players from the past gather together Reynella. The opposition made 207 but the boys fell for a few beers and a chin wag. It was a very hot day short by 10 runs in their chase. S.Callary 37 n.o, and the cricket wasn’t that entertaining but all the lads S.Hinksman 35 and old man Fricky 61 were the stand seemed to enjoy themselves. Even Brett Weinert came outs with the bat, while MG turned back the clock to down from the Northern Territory to be part of this take 4 scalps. prestigious gathering! The D grade lost to Woodville South unable to chase Special thanks has to go to Bruce “Magnum”Mayberry down the total. N.Powell struck with the ball taking who not only organised and hosted the day but prepared 4/22 and Luke Robertson made 44. 23 years worth of past and current players stats for their The LOC’s were unable to get themselves a win against viewing. Hopefully event this can become one of the Gepps Cross. S.Laube top scored with 32. many highlights on the Walkerville Cricket Club Social With the Test Match and long weekend programmed in calendar for many years to come. Great job Magnum!!! this round it may prove to be a challenge to find player “Go the Cats!” numbers for all of the teams. Leo Panzarino Past player Brett Weinert and father Neil arriving for Past Players Day. Don’t know who looks in better “George” Forman in hair raising form at training shape??? tonight ROUND 6 A1 PREMIER – ROUND 7 VS WOODVILLE RECHABITES AT WALKERVILLE This week saw the A1 team take on last year’s depleted premiership side Woodville Rech. The warm ups went to schedule with another very highly contested game of soccer. The skip one the toss again and decided to bat. From there the day went down hill with Walkerville losing three quick wickets to be 3 for 15 it was time for the batters to dig in and make the most of their time at Matho sweetly times yet another ball to the boundary. the wicket which was keeping slow and low and making it very difficult to score. After a partnership getting the side to 92 and Walkerville some what back into the game we again lost quick wickets to be all out for 140. Chop again the only shining light with the bat, scoring a very gritty and well fought out 49. Day two saw a determined cats line up take to the field ready to defend their 140 runs. Starting up was Johny Walker and Iggy Pop for the cats before deciding to switch ends. Enter Joe (wish I could play like my dad) Frick given one over to change the ends for the opening bowlers. Joe wasted no time and snared his first A Mark ‘Scooter’ Reid in action on his way to 49. grade wicket with his 4th ball with the celebrations done it was back to business. The cats taking steady wickets and right in the game with one man standing out, getting a little to close to the umpires for anyones liking. Iggy performed wonderfully throughout the day and ended up with 5 wickets and a new found fan. Fielding efforts this week that stood out were Panzes roll over the boundary line and the 3 man relay from the boundary. Next round see’s the A1’s take on Gepps Cross in a Michael Sifkus takes a break from modeling duties as must win match. he shows a solid defence. Scores: Walkerville 141 (M Reid 49) and 0/17 lost to Woodville Rechabites 169 (Mareolas 5/41). Iggy not only bowls but bat’s as he dispatches a ball through the covers A3– ROUND 7 VS ATHELSTONE AT ATHELSTONE Will Walker looking to add to his impressive average The A3 `s traveled to Athelstone to take on a team that with the bat. are just a few points above us and if last year was anything to go by it would be played more like a football or soccer game than a cricket match. Well they certainly didn’t let us down and keeping with the current theme in the media at the moment let me just say ONLY ONE TEAM WAS PLAYING CRICKET!!! It was a stinking hot day and Mal won the toss and he’d previously hit the worst ball for 4. Magoo was elected to bat with a new opening combination of Bish replaced by his namesake and we progressed steadily, and Nelson and the objective of having wickets in hand although the run rate was beginning to mount. Once at tea batting 80 overs and building partnerships of 25 Fricky was sure he had Joe well and truly covered in the and more. We were going along nicely at 2 for 70 odd BOG Award he threw it away and, despite the odd when the wheels fell off and went to tea at 7 for 90 odd. flurry of runs we just couldn’t get the couple of big After tea I said to the guys that we need to make as overs required to rein in Reynella’s total. In the end it many as we can and give our bowlers as many runs to was a disappointing loss in very good game of cricket play with as possible, we were all out for 111 and had played in great spirit. Unfortunately we won’t be able to to bowl 28 overs at them. They finished the day at 3 for put that side on the park again this season. 70 odd a couple of more wickets and we might have been in it. Scores: Walkerville 7/199 (G Frick 61, S Callary 37 no, S Hinksman 35, B Mayberry 20) lost to Reynella The next week was a much better day to play, they 9/207 (Grantham 4/55, Fullarton 2/33) batted on and declared at 9 for 219, with Darcy taking 6 for 46, meant we had to bat a minimum of 45 overs. C2– ROUND 7 VS WOODVILLE SOUTH AT Bish and Nelson put on over 50 for the first wicket then WAITE OVAL a number of guys got starts but couldn`t go on with it. The return of experienced players Barney Russack and Bish made 37 to go with his 38 from the first innings, Luke Robertson gave the D grade a much needed boost Nelson made a very determind 26, Hutchy 21, Ben for this clash with the unbeaten league leaders. Nicol 28 and we finished 5 for 144 off 50 overs and We won the toss for the first time and asked the was much better the second time around. We just need opposition to bat on the usual bouncing and seaming to make more runs in our first innings to give our Waite deck. Our opening attack of Luke Robertson (6ov bowlers a chance. Here`s hoping we can turn it around 1/18) and Sam Bentley (8ov 1/20) bowled a great line in the next few games and get out of the relegation and length. The ground fielding was excellent, zone. COME ON BOYS WE CAN DO IT?? particularly from Adam Rutherford and George Vass, while the catching was exceptional, including a beauty Scores: Walkerville 111 (R Bishop 38, J Hutchinson from Sam Bentley in the deep. The spin of Jacob Leak 22) and 5/144 (N Ruiz 26, R Bishop 37, B Nicol 28, J (8ov 2/33) and then the captain cleaned up the late order Hutchinson 24) lost to Athelstone 9/219 (D Wright with 4 after a middle order partnership. Woodville 6/47) South all out 169. A top effort by the Cats. B2– ROUND 7 VS REYNELLA AT REYNELLA Unfortunately, our batting was still found wanting apart With a weeks notice of my elevation to captaincy duties from a terrific innings from Luke Robertson, who for round 7 I had time to do a bit of extra scouting for made 44.