WALKERVILLE CATS NEWSLETTER th EDITION 51 February 17 2011 website www.walkervillecc.com.au SMARTLINE PERSONAL MORTGAGE ADVISERS T 08 8363 7584 | M 0402 118 034 | F 08 8363 9462 | E [email protected] 12 The Parade | Norwood | SA | 5067 www.smartline.com.au In the C1’s round 9 loss to Unley Bruce Wedding WALKERVILLE CRICKET CLUB NEWS played his 150th game for the club in his 13th season since transferring from Uni SA. He has SEAFOOD NIGHT played 17 games in the 2nd XI, 82 games in the The Walkerville Cricket Club Seafood Night is on 3rd XI, 27 games in the 4th XI and 24 games in again thanks to the generous sponsorship of the One Day XI. Oyster Bob. · In the same match Peter Hewish played his 75th game for the club in his 7th season and by The night kicks off at 7:30pm on Saturday 19th doing so became eligible for Player Life February at the Walkerville Sports Club. Membership. He has played 5 games in the 2nd XI, 39 games in the 3rd XI, 12 games in the 4th XI Tickets are a bargain at $40/head or $375 for a and 19 games in the One Day XI. table of 10, which gets you all the seafood you can eat. Of course we also cater for those who · In his 100th club game in round 8 Leo aren't seafood eaters. Panzarino also notched up his 2000th run for the club and has now scored 2030runs at an average CLUB MILESTONES of 22.81 with a highest score of 110. Club legend Darcy Wright played his 150 th · In the LOC’s round 13 win over Adelaide game for Walkerville. Darcy has spun his web Uni, Rohan Bishops 54 took him past 1000 club of straight breaks claiming many a wicket over runs. He has made 1011 runs at an average of the years. A club legend and a great player for 17.14 with a highest score of 81. the Cats. · Andrew Lee claimed his 50th club wicket in the A1’s valiant attempt to claim outright points against top side Payneham in round 9. He has taken 50 wickets at an average of 21.10 with best bowling figures of 5/65. · LOC’s skipper John Lamp continued his stellar season with a century against Adelaide Uni and in doing so passed 1000 runs for the One Day XI. He has scored 1013 runs at an average of 59.59 and a highest score of 114. Darcy with the look of steel!!! CLUB CONGRATULATIONS Well it’s been a while since my last report and Congratulations to the following players who have but don’t worry you haven’t missed much at all recently become engaged. since round one when we beat the premiers we Ben Nicol and Tegan have not been successful since. With the ins David Stobbe and Tasnim and outs every week we have been unable to Andrew Lee and Merron have a full strength team until this round. ROUND 8 – REVIEW Once again the toss of the coin started just like every game this season with me losing but this Seniors: 5 th February and 12 th February was a good one too loose with the deck looking LOC: Round 13 vs. ADELAIDE UNI at like having a bit in it and with Will and the rig HARRIS OVAL both in the team we didn’t mind having a bowl Walkerville 6/216 (cc) first. It soon turned out as a good loss with (Lamp 101, Bishop 54, Fuller 26) Will bowling an exceptional opening spell of 9 defeated Adelaide Uni overs 2-18 which the rig followed up with 11 (Mareloas 3/27, Lamp 2/19, Gunning 2/31) overs 3-37 this put us in a strong position and with some good fielding and catches being held Round 14 vs. MAWSON LAKE at UNI SA we had them 7-111 at tea from here we should Walkerville 3/179 (cc) have bowled them out for under 150 but old (Lamp and Fuller 50’s) habits crept in with a couple of dropped defeated by Mawson Lakes 6/183 catches and some bad misfields they were able (Broomhead 4 wickets) to get to 172 all out. C GRADE With 19 overs in the days play still left we Round 9 vs. UNLEY at HOOPER OVAL knew we must work hard and be at a minimum Walkerville 9/81 2 down with all of day two to play it didn’t (Hewish 20no) start great with Sarson out in the first over and Defeated by Unley 9/256 (cc) JB in the 3rd this brought leading run scorer (Elkins 4/78, Plaistow 2/41) Lee to the crease and with Chopper they went about reducing the runs with a couple of big B GRADE overs and not losing another wicket we went to Round 9 vs. PAYNEHAM at PAYNEHAM stumps 2-79 with Leesy just passing his 50. OVAL Walkerville 140 With Day two arriving and the rain floating (Rutherford 43, Cheary 37) around the wicket was in need of some quick defeated by Payneham 155 work Saturday morning which Graham done (Panzarino 3/10, Cowland 2/16, Callary 2/31) swiftly and we were away only 5 mins late. We had 80 overs to make roughly 90 runs and we A GRADE started well with Leesy finding the boundary Round 9 vs. PAYNEHAM at again with no problems. Chopper WALKERVILLE OVAL (22) dug deep but fell just after we reached the Walkerville 6/197 dec and 6/104 3 figures. Peppers (5) batted time and put (Lee 92) (P Sarson 35, Manno 32) together a small partnership with Leesy. We Defeated by Payneham 172 and 9/133 dec then loss Leesy for a well-made (92) and this (Knowles 3/37)(Knowles 4/34, Miller 3/42) made it 5-153 and the nerves started setting in as we had have some serious loss of wickets. We sent the two big boys in to try and finish ROUND 8 – WRITE UP’S within a couple of overs so Peppers would relax in the stand and this is exactly what they A GRADE did with the rig smashing a quick fire 29 with two consecutive sixes. Carlo and Woolly finished off to tea with Carlo 22 NO and Let’s not leave it there and everyone must Wooly well made 2 no. continue to get to training and work hard for an hour and bit there is only four weeks to go and At tea we discussed a declaration and setting would be nice to end with three good wins up outright opportunity in the format of playing which starts this week against SPOC. Hasn’t T20 with roughly 40 overs to remain in the day been the season we wanted to but if we can just which took place. We declared at 6-197. stick together and ensure we are still in premier grade next year and recruit hard with some fine With Will a bit tender the rig took the new ball young lads coming through it looks positive for and soon had them in trouble with another fine Walkerville in the future. performance with the ball bowling an exceptional spell of 11 overs straight 4-34. It B Grade made it hard for Payneham to be able to score Round 9 saw the last chance for the Walkerville B runs and set us a total but they soon declared Grade Cats to stay alive in the finals race for their innings closed at 9-133 which meant we 2011. A win against the top side Payneham would required 108 runs off what we thought would still give a slim hope to the lads after two be 17 overs but the umpires soon changed that disappointing losses against beatable sides. we had 14 overs. On arrival at Payneham Oval which is normally a road and quick outfield there was grass on the pitch with a lush green outfield and overcast 108 off 14 was the situation so the boys went conditions. As we know Matho doesn’t need much out to have a real crack at pulling off out right assistance to send the opposition in so when points again didn’t start to plan with JB bowled winning the toss (7 out of 8) he sent Payneham in the 3rd over. Things then soon turned with in. Our opening combination of Sam “Bucko” the introduction of Carlo and the license to Buckley and Craig “Chainsaw” Cowland started well with a little bit of assistance in the deck swing together with Sarson they found the however for Chainsaw’s first 2 overs he wouldn’t boundary and also found the old guys on the know as he couldn’t hit the pitch. A confident bowling green Carlo fell for 32 and Sars soon LBW shout followed by an unfamiliar dropped followed for 35 which caused a minor collapse catch by keeper Browny off Bucko forecast a grim with leesy (1) and Chopper a duck and Woolly outlook for the Cats however another edge of fired for 1 this left Peppers the first game hero Bucko and this time Craig “are there other positions on the field other than first slip” Jervies and the rig who had a great game to try and took the catch to send us on our way. Young bring us home needing 28 off the last two overs Adam “The Rash” Rutherford was introduced into peppers had a real crack and suddenly it was 10 the attack and bowled tight however their off two balls and he found the boundary number 3 took to the young fella in his 6th over needing six off one ball and the one win we so Darcy “The Grasshopper” Wright was called had this season he was our man but he was into the attack to get the breakthrough.