WALKERVILLE CATS NEWSLETTER th EDITION 43 Thursday 18 March 2010 website www.walkervillecc.com.au Shop 5, 117 Walkerville Tce, Walkerville, SA 5081 Phone:(08) 8269 2840 WALKERVILLE CRICKET CLUB NEWS All three awards are named after revered past and present players who have given tireless service over many years to the Walkerville MEDAL COUNT NIGHT Cricket Club and I’m sure it was a very proud Last Saturday night the Walkerville Cricket Club moment for each individual winner to receive celebrated their Players Player night at the such a prestigious award. Sussex Hotel. The prestigious awards were awarded for A, B and C grade voted by their team mates in what was a gala evening. The Sussex Hotel was the new venue for the night which is hoped will be a long standing tradition where the guys looked dapper in their best attire but easily out done by their beautiful wives, girlfriends and dates. Special mention to Craig Jervies for is colouful MC’ing of the evening and powerpoint display, Mick Sarson with his tireless work behind the camera during the year to provide special images on the night and Ian “McLovin” Mazure- Johnstone for his assistance behind the scenes. The 3 Walkerville Medal winners for 2009/10 The A Grade Kym Reid Medal Winner – The night would not have been such a success Mark Reid without the vision of Craig Cowland for the The B Grade Bruce Mayberry Medal Winner – organizing and promotion of the night Shaun Mathieson unfortunately he was unable to attend due to a The C grade Andrew Russack Medal Winner – small car race being conducted on that day. Bruce Wedding Shaun Mathieson proudly accepts the B Grade It came down to the final round for Mark Reid medal and trophy from Bruce Mayberry to claim the A grade medal just ahead of Nick Cheary and Club Captain Damian Miller. Shaun had a break through season in B grade this season who seemed to relish the extra responsibility of captaincy which brought about some of his best personal performances. Shaun in his 7 B Grade matches made 251 runs at an average of 50.20 which included is two highest scores ever of 97 & 95. Shaun also took 13 wickets at an average of 18.80 with best figures of 4/43. Last years Kym Reid Medal winner Ben Duncan presents Mark Reid with the traditional Club Champion jacket Bruce Wedding is presented with the C Grade Andrew Russack medal and trophy. In a difficult year for our C Grade Bruce was a consistent performer and was a valuable contributor throughout the season. Bruce made 126 runs in his 8 C Grade games averaging 14.00 with a top score of 37. Bruce took 4 wickets with the ball and chipped in with 3 catches and 1 stumping. Kym Reid presents Mark Reid with the 2009/10 SEMI FINALS A grade medal and trophy. It’s an exciting time for the Walkerville Cricket Club with two teams making it through to the It was a proud moment for the Reid family with finals. The A grade finished second in a great Mark taking out the Kym Reid Medal named in year for skipper Damian Miller and the boys and honour of his father. Mark had an outstanding play Para Hills at Walkerville this weekend on year in A Grade making 672 runs at an average of Saturday and Sunday for a chance at Grand Final 84.00 with a highest score of 126 in 9 matches. glory and promotion to Premier grade. The game Mark also was outstanding with the gloves taking starts at 12.30pm on each day. 17 catches and 3 stumpings. The LOD one day side finished a stellar year as we would have liked with catches being put down Minor Premiers and play Golden Grove FC on and the Ingle Farm openers getting off to a flyer. Saturday at Cane Reserve (Prospect) starting at First gamer Elkins battled hard but let himself 12.30pm. John Lamp has done a great job with down with caught and bowled opportunities. If he the side and has really led from the front. had grabbed one of them who knows what could The players really appreciate the support from have been for his first game. The ball was thrown the sidelines so if you can get out to either game around but it took until 10 overs before tea and show your Walkerville colours help cheer on before we could get a break through which the guys towards their season goals. caused a small collapse having Ingle Farm 3 for 132. At this stage the dark clouds started to roll PRESENTATION NIGHT in and the heavens started to slowly open. The Senior Presentation night will be on Friday 9th April held at the Walkerville Sports Club. It will We eventually got back on and the ball didn’t start at 7pm so make sure you advise your team take long to become a cake of soap and captain or Panz in regard to attending the extremely hard to deliver down the track. We evening. With some luck we could be celebrating turned to Panz and Duncs to try and keep it tight not only a great year of the field but also a until the umpires finally decided to remove us fantastic year on the field hopefully including from the ground calling it a day at 4 for 196. It two Premierships. The U17’S will also have their was then decided Ingle Farm would have 7 overs presentations on the night with bthe senior sides. next week and it would be a 70 over match. Hope to see you there. (turn to the juniors corner for their big Week 2, the challenge for us was to keep the runs presentation night) down and pick up as many wickets as possible. Panz bowled exceptionally well in conjunction AGM with myself along with some outstanding fielding The Cricket Club AGM will be held on Sunday 11th efforts. We kept them to 8 for 222 and at this April 2010 in the Sports Club starting at 10.00am. stage we thought if we batted the 70 overs we The AGM is open to all supporters and interested would get to the required score. parties of the WCC. It started out badly with Boy Scout Cheary (2) SUPER COACH shouldering arms only to here the noise of his off stump cartwheeling. CJ (15)and Sarson then worked together in getting us back on track until STOP PRESS CJ was fired LBW AGAIN, maybe you go out The Walkerville Cricket Club has put together a without ya pads mate then you wont wanna get SuperCoach league through the Adelaide Now hit. In form Chopper along with Sarson got us website where you can win prizes during the year through to tea being 2-72 as they had bowled for a small out lay and ultimately be awarded the well. At this stage we still were confident but best Supercoach in the land. To register go to once again Sarson(35) fell soon after tea ( this Adelaide Now / Supercoach and create your week Sars is not allowed to come in before tea, team. Our league is 526655 and there are only 16 he is to shadow bat at tea time). spots available. See CJ Craig Jervies for further details in regard to conditions and good luck, we Duncs arrived at the crease and with a bit of luck hope you come second!!!!!!! for the first time this year he and Chopper started to really put the pressure back on Ingle REVIEW - ROUND 11 Farm and the game looked over but cricket is a funny game and its not over until that final run or wicket is scored. We suddenly lost Chopper (77) A2 – ROUND 11 VS INGLE FARM AT INGLE FARM – with a good run out and this caused a mini collapse losing Wooly (3) and Matho (0) quickly With the last minor round arriving it was very with only 33 runs to get off 9 overs suddenly the tight at the top of the table with a win the only target looked along way away and McArthy was way to secure the home final and top spot. With bowling balls our boys couldn’t get bat on. a lot of chat on what we would do if winning the toss it didn’t matter with Ingle Farm winning the It only turned for the worse when Duncs was toss and electing to bat. caught for well made 54, this left Powell and Panz 4 overs to get 22 runs and Ingle Farm just With Walker and Knowles out this gave Dan Elkins bowled too well and we fell 6 runs short. a shot at his first A grade game which was thoroughly deserved. Things didn’t start the way A loss saw us waiting and see what happened at other grounds to whether we would stay top or drop down and with Flinders Park wining they jumped to top spot and we finished second which sees us taking on Para Hills this week at home. Being washed out against these boys earlier in the season it is the unknown, they have played well in the second half of the season so they will be tough opposition. I’m sure with inclusions of Knowles and Walker and the determination of 13 guys that want to win a flag will help us work hard to get through. Boy Scout Nick Cheary hits a sweet cover drive Just would like to take this opportunity to thank against Ingle Farm.